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.
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