Quotes on Quotes
Quotations made us think. When we think, we analyse the truth contain therein and we learn the wisdom.
A collection of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasure for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A collection of rare thoughts is nothing less than a cabinet of intellectual gems. - William B. Sprague
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit. - Joseph Roux
A great man quotes bravely and will not draw on his invention when his memory serves him with a word as good. What he quotes, he fills with his own voice and humour. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
A short saying oft contains much wisdom. - Sophocles
Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. - William Rounseville Alger
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
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said. - Jean Rostand
Exclusively of the abstract sciences, the largest and worthiest portion of our knowledge consists of aphorisms, and the greatest and best of men is but an aphorism. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Good sayings are like pearls strung together. - Chinese Proverb
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized as wiser than oneself. - Marlene Dietrich
I quote others only in order the better to express myself. - Michel de Montaigne
Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations. - James Mackintosh
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography. - William Ellery Channing
Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find. - Seneca
Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come. - W. I. E. Gates
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. - W. Somerset Maugham
The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote someone who is. - Mary Pettibone Poole
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. - Benjamin Disraeli
There are but few proverbial sayings that are not true, for they are all drawn from experience itself, which is the mother of all sciences. - Miguel de Cervantes
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