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  • 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 that the mind is stored with sentential lore that can always be used to great advantage by its possessor.

  • Every great quotation carries the power to shape the world like a river.

    Rivers   World   Shapes  
  • An aphorism is the last link in a long chain of thought.

    Long   Links   Lasts  
    "Aphorisms". Book by Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880-1893.
  • We built [socialistic society] for the sake of real personal liberty, liberty without quotation marks.

    Real   Liberty   Sake  
    Joseph Stalin (1978). “1934-1940”
  • We have in my country (Russia) a quotation: "It is impossible to make out of apology a fur coat.

  • In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

    George Eliot (2016). “Complete Works Of George Eliot”, p.3874, ShandonPress
  • One of my favorite times was sitting reading quote books, which I did for hours on end.

    Book   Reading   Sitting  
  • The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract. Whenever the mind of a writer is saturated with the full inspiration of a great author, a quotation gives completeness to the whole; it seals his feelings with undisputed authority.

    "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 653-54, Curiosities of Literature, 1922.
  • Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal.

    Eye   Iron   Pudding  
    Peg Bracken (1969). “I Didn't Come Here to Argue”
  • In the museums, everything is in quotation marks.

  • Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.

  • I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

    Max Beerbohm (2010). “Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story”, p.51, The Floating Press
  • Quotation is a method of appropriation which is invincible, I think. It's not a procedure which displeases me, contrary to recycling.

    Source: ctheory.net
  • I never said half the crap people said I did.

    People   Half   Said  
  • All this is labour which never meets the eye.... But too open and generous a revelation of the chapter and the page of the original quoted, has often proved detrimental to the legitimate honours of the quoter. They are unfairly appropriated by the next comer; the quoter is never quoted, but the authority he has afforded is produced by his successor with the air of an original research.

    Eye   Air   Research  
  • I respect a man who can recognize a quotation. It's a dying art.

    Art   Men   Dying  
    David Lodge (2011). “The Campus Trilogy: Changing Places; Small World; Nice Work”, p.433, Penguin
  • The text is a tissue of quotations drawn from the innumerable centres of culture.

  • [On her use of quotations:] When a thing has been said so well that it could not be said better, why paraphrase it? Hence my writing, is, if not a cabinet of fossils, a kind of collection of flies in amber.

    Writing   Amber   Use  
  • Quotation, like much better things, has its abuses. One may quote till one compiles. The ancient lawyers used to quote at the bar till they had stagnated their own cause.

    Abuse   Bars   May  
  • You said, 'I love you.' Why is it that the most unoriginal thing we can say to one another is still the thing we long to hear? 'I love you' is always a quotation. You did not say it first and neither did I, yet when you say it and when I say it we speak like savages who have found three words and worship them. I did worship them but now I am alone on a rock hewn out of my own body.

    Love You   Rocks   Long  
  • I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.

    Finals   Hours   Pupils  
    Wolfgang Mieder, Winston Churchill (1995). “The Proverbial Winston S. Churchill: An Index to Proverbs in the Works of Sir Winston Churchill”, Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press
  • APHORISM, n. Predigested wisdom. The flabby wine-skin of his brain Yields to some pathologic strain, And voids from its unstored abysm The driblet of an aphorism. "The Mad Philosopher," 1697

    Wine   Yield   Mad  
    Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2356, Delphi Classics
  • Many moons ago dictionaries of quotations may have been less needed than they are today. In those good/bad old days, people walked around with entire poems and all the Shakespearean soliloquies in their heads.

    Moon   People   May  
  • I quote another man's saying; unluckily, that other withdraws himself in the same way, and quotes me.

    Men   Way   Another Man  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.438, Рипол Классик
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  • Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them.

    Lines   Born   Made  
  • Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late.

  • The habit some writers indulge in of perpetual quotation is one it behooves lovers of good literature to protest against, for it is an insidious habit which in the end must cloud the stream of thought, or at least check spontaneity. If it be true that le style c'est l homme, what is likely to happen if l homme is for ever eking out his own personality with that of some other individual?

    Ethel Smyth (1922). “Streaks of life”
  • Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English literature; it is an occupational hazard.

    Dirty   Smoking   Hazards  
  • In my town we studied the five Books of Moses, but rarely the prophets. We studied the Talmud so much that I sometimes knew the prophets because of the prophetic quotations in the Talmud. We almost never studied the prophets themselves.

    Book   Towns   Sometimes  
    Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org
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