Quotations Quotes

428 Quotations quotes by 258 unique authors

Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when… — Alfred North Whitehead
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn’t make any sense if quoted as… — Robert Benchley
The best aphorisms are.... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the… — William Rounseville Alger
Indeed a good quotation hardly ever comes amiss. It is a pleasing break in the thread of a speech or writing, allowing the speaker or… — William Francis Henry King
Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial Seasonings boxes. Only certain sorts… — Gary Saul Morson
Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them. — Gary Saul Morson
Anatole France frankly advised, "When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it." Yes, indeed, but do… — Gary Saul Morson
A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom. — Gary Saul Morson
Unless created as freestanding works, quotations resemble "found" art. They are analogous, say, to a piece of driftwood identified as formally interesting enough to be… — Gary Saul Morson
I wonder if "an" ever occurs before "haughty" except in a quotation, or whether you can make anything sound like a quotation by adding a… — Gary Saul Morson
The attribution of a speaker is in fact a part of the quotation. Some statements simply are better if a certain famous person said them. — Gary Saul Morson
Reframing an extract as a quotation constitutes a kind of coauthorship. With no change in wording, the cited passage becomes different. I imagine that the… — Gary Saul Morson
An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances. — Gary Saul Morson
We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves. — Gary Saul Morson
Books are the beehives of thought; laconics, the honey taken from them. — James Ellis
A knowledge of general literature is one of the evidences of an enlightened mind; and to give an apt quotation at a fitting time, proves… — James Ellis
A wise word is not a substitute for a piece of herring. — Sholom Aleichem
The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid. — Akkineni Nagarjuna
I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most intimate, anguished, socially inadmissible emotions and desires are known to… — Yi-Fu Tuan
The quotation-business is booming. No subdivision of the culture seems too narrow to have a quotation book of its own.... It would be an understatement… — James Gleick
Clichés are static, the emotion behind them long spent. If you are tempted to use them, here is a saying of my mother’s: Fang pi… — Amy Tan
Aphorisms are essentially an aristocratic genre of writing. The aphorist does not argue or explain, he asserts; and implicit in his assertion is a conviction… — Wystan Hugh Auden
A thought embodied and embrained in fit words walks the earth a living being. — Edwin Percy Whipple
There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them. — Blaise Pascal
Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff… — Robertson Davies

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