Quotations Quotes

428 Quotations quotes by 258 unique authors

The problem with letting kids on Facebook is that they'll learn all kinds of false quotations. — Thomas Jefferson
The photograph is like a quotation, or a maxim or proverb. Each of us mentally stocks hundreds of photographs, subject to instant recall. — Susan Sontag
Quotation confesses inferiority. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I was the type who looked at discussions of What Is Truth only with a view toward correcting the manuscript. If you were to quote… — Umberto Eco
There ought to be something about computers and artificial intelligence [in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations]. Surely somebody somewhere said something memorable. — Justin Kaplan
Isn't it somewhat remarkable that we can go back a a few hundred years and find no shortage of quotations from our founding fathers warning… — Neal Boortz
Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you. — Aaron Koblin
Most of all I like "bad" lines, that is those considered bad, in my opinion unjustly, by theory. The reason for the last quotation marks… — Bent Larsen
The main objects of all science, the freedom and happiness of man. . . . [are] the sole objects of all legitimate government. A plaque… — Thomas Jefferson
With its shrewd analysis and its knowledgeable reflections on the state of the arts, as well as a rich array of anecdotes and quotations about… — Jonathan Culler
On the analogy of 'Dictionary Johnson,' we call Fred R. Shapiro, editor of the just-published Yale Book of Quotations (well worth the $50 price), 'Quotationeer… — William Safire
I have rarely read anything which has interested me more, though I have not read as yet more than a quarter of the book proper.… — Charles Darwin
A reflection of my feelings about the space program is found in a quotation from Charles A. Lindbergh's "Autobiography of Values." It reads, "Whether outwardly… — Robert Wise
The investor with a portfolio of sound stocks should expect their prices to fluctuate and should neither be concerned by sizable declines nor become excited… — Benjamin Graham
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we… — Seneca the Younger
A profusion of fancies and quotations is out of place in a love-letter. True feeling is always direct, and never deviates into by-ways to cull… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the… — Christian Nestell Bovee
To quote copiously and well, requires taste, judgment, and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the… — Christian Nestell Bovee
It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing… — Havelock Ellis
Quotation mistakes, inadvertency, expedition, and human lapses, may make not only moles but warts in learned authors... — Thomas Browne
In such a case the writer is apt to have recourse to epigrams. Somewhere in this world there is an epigram for every dilemma. — Hendrik Willem van Loon
Is all literature eavesdropping, and all art Chinese imitation? our life a custom, and our body borrowed, like a beggar’s dinner, from a hundred charities? — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late. — James Alexander Thom

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