Quotes About Quotes

He who trains his tongue to quote the learned sages, will be known far and wide as a smart *ss. -Howard Kandel

I have gathered a posie of other men’s flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own. -John Bartlett

Quotations will tell the full measure of meaning, if you have enough of them. -James Murray

It’s such a pleasure to write down splendid words – almost as though one were inventing them. -Rupert Hart-Davis

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive. -Mark Twain

Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma. -Hendrik Willem van Loon

Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired. -Richard Kemph

A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. -Talmud

People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first. -David H. Comins

Every son quotes his father, in words and in deeds. -Terri Guillemets

A proper collection of quotations is the whole world digested. -Terri Guillemets

The power of quotation is as dreadful a weapon as any which the human intellect can forge. -John Jay Chapman

It’s a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. -Franklin P. Jones

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 anything else. -Havelock Ellis

An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject. -Robert Brault

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted. -Hesketh Pearson

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

There are aphorisms that, like air planes, stay up only while they are in motion. -Vladimir Nabokov

Have any other quotes about quotes that you could share below?

I know there are MANY more great quotes about quotes out there, because I’ve read them!  I just need to go digging through my collection.  I’ll try to do it soon.