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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
“One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.” -
Amos Bronson Alcott (1799 - 1888)
“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages,
may be preserved by quotation.” - Benjamin Disraeli
(1804 - 1881)
“People will accept your ideas much more readily if you
tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.” - David H.
Comins
“A facility for quotation covers the absence of original
thought. “ - Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957)
“A short saying oft contains much wisdom.” - Sophocles
“I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.” -
George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
"A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of
wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.” - Joseph Roux
“What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing
he knew nobody had said it before.” - Mark Twain (1835 -
1910), Notebooks (1935)
“Have you ever observed that we pay much more
attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when
we read it in the original author?” - Philip G. Hamerton
“He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would
enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.” - Rudyard
Kipling (1865 - 1936)
“I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line
is good.” - Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
“A short saying oft contains much wisdom.” - Sophocles
(496 BC - 406 BC)
“I didn't really say everything I said.” - Yogi Berra (1925 - )
"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of
quotations." - Winston Churchill
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