Best Quotations Proverbs
428 Quotations quotes by 258 unique authors
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[A]s if it were not the masterful will which subjugates the forces of nature to be the genii of the lamp... that forces a life-thought…
— William Matthews
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Books of quotation are not only of importance to the reader for what they contain of matured thought, but also for what they suggest. Our…
— Maturin Murray Ballou
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Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and…
— Louise Imogen Guiney
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The charm of the words of great men, those grand sayings which are recognized as true as soon as heard, is this, that you recognize…
— Frederick William Robertson
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You can find that sort of regularity in Stock Exchange quotations.
— Robert Bunsen
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The Quantum Universe has a quotation from me in every chapter - but it's a damn good book anyway.
— Richard P. Feynman
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Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal.
— Peg Bracken
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If you take my sayings and explode them in the air, they remain only sayings. But if you fit them together in their correct places,…
— Pablo Picasso
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A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find…
— Robertson Davies
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Life cannot be captured in a few axioms. And that is just what I keep trying to do. But it won't work, for life is…
— Etty Hillesum
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Authors hide their big thefts by putting small ones between quotation marks.
— Paul Eldridge
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You can always find some expert who will say something hopelessly hopeless about anything.
— Peter McWilliams
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The borrowers of America and all the world turn to New York....It is to the quotations on the New York Stock Exchange that men of…
— Charles A. Beard
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Reading inspirational and motivational quotes daily is like taking my vitamins.
— Rosanne Cash
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There are few writers of note, of any country or of any age, from whom quotations might not be made in proof of the love…
— Jacques-Henri Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
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You can always find an evolutionary quotation for anything. But the question is whether it's functional, which is not the same as being evolutionary.
— Daniel Kahneman
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Part book about creativity, part compendium of useful tidbits, quotations and research results, and part annotated bibliography, this is a wildly useful and highly entertaining…
— Stephanie S. Tolan
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I say quotations are literary. They are good only when dealing with ideas, not with experience. Experience should be pure, unique.
— Anais Nin
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When the modern scholar cites from a classic text, the quotation seems to burn a hole in his own drab page.
— George Steiner
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Let's have some new cliches.
— Samuel Goldwyn
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In order to succeed, your desire for success should be greater than your fear of failure.
— Bill Cosby
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Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
— Guy Debord
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I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
— Marlene Dietrich
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The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
— Bob Dylan
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