Quotations

(31 votes)   Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.

Louise Imogen Guiney

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(253 votes)   Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.

William R. Alger
1822-1905, American Writer

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(231 votes)   The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.

John Morely

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(210 votes)   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
1909-1972, American Radical Activist

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(194 votes)   Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor means to get more.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1772-1834, British Poet, Critic, Philosopher

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(190 votes)   One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

Amos Bronson Alcott
1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformer

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(182 votes)   After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

H. L. Mencken
1880-1956, American Editor, Author, Critic, Humorist

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(177 votes)   Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

Christian Nevell Bovee
1820-1904, American Author, Lawyer

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(164 votes)   Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

Samuel Johnson
1709-1784, British Author

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(160 votes)   Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
1749-1832, German Poet, Dramatist, Novelist

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(156 votes)   I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(152 votes)   A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.

The Talmud
BC 500?-400? AD, Jewish Archive of Oral Tradition

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(151 votes)   The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

W. Somerset Maugham
1874-1965, British Novelist, Playwright

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(136 votes)   Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.

Andre Malraux
1901-1976, French Statesman, Novelist

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(135 votes)   Life itself is a quotation.

Jorge Luis Borges
1899-1986, Argentinean Author

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