“ He wrapped himself in quotations — as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. ”
- Rudyard Kipling- Copy
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“ By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. ”
- William Feather- Copy
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“ Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote. ”
- Edward Young- Copy
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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- Copy
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“ 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- Copy
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“ Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara… are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport. ”
- Saul Alinsky- Copy
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“ I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. ”
- Clifton Fadiman- Copy
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“ Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely. ”
- Hesketh Pearson- Copy
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“ In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse. ”
- Evelyn Waugh- Copy
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“ Sanity: that which is within the frame of reference of conventional thought. ”
- Erich Fromm- Copy
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“ Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Every man is a borrower and a mimic; life is theatrical and literature a quotation. ”
- Ralph Waldo Emerson- Copy
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“ Sometimes we need to remind ourselves that thankfulness is indeed a virtue. ”
- William John Bennett- Copy
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“ Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do. ”
- Shaquille O’Neal- Copy
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“ When I give this talk to a physics audience, I remove the quotes from my Theorem. ”
- Brian Greene- Copy
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“ I regard Christian and Jewish fundamentalism, and all other forms of fundamentalism, as the enemies of God - and I hope you'll quote me on that. ”
- Arthur Hertzberg- Copy
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“ I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence. ”
- Robert Burns- Copy
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“ The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying. ”
- John Morely- Copy
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“ There are two kinds of marriages — where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband. ”
- Clifford Odets- Copy
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“ You have got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because when you quote him accurately it is called mudslinging. ”
- Fritz Mondale- Copy
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“ A great many complimentary things have been said about the faculty of memory, and if you look in a good quotation book you will find them neatly arranged. ”
- Robertson Davies- Copy
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