These are days youll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10000 Maniacs.
There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book than in being the first author of that thought. Cardinal du Perron has been heard to say that the happy application of a verse of Virgil has deserved a talent.
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.
Perhaps the reader may ask of what consequence is it whether the authors exact language is preserved or not provided we have his thought? The answer is that inaccurate quotation is a sin against truth. It may appear in any particular instance to be a trifle but perfection consists in small things and perfection is no trifle.
Its better to be quotable than to be honest.
Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.
These are days youll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10000 Maniacs.
The point of quotations is that one can use anothers words to be insulting.
She had a pretty gift for quotation which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom Any price will be paid.
A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
Faith thats as well said as if I had said it myself.
Some for renown on scraps of learning dote And think they grow immortal as they quote.
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
Aphorisms are portable wisdom the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling.
There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book than in being the first author of that thought. Cardinal du Perron has been heard to say that the happy application of a verse of Virgil has deserved a talent.
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.
QUOTATION n. The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. The words erroneously repeated.
Ah yes I wrote the Purple Cow Im sorry now I wrote it! But I can tell you anyhow Ill kill you if you quote it.
With just enough of learning to misquote.
A quotation like a pun should come unsought and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.
You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.
Minds are like parachutes: they only function when they are open.
In spite of his practical ability some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
We are as much informed of a writers genius by what he selects as by what he originates.
I think we must … quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.
I improve on misquotation.
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.
The passages of Shakespeare that we most prize were never quoted until within this century.
He wrapped himself in quotations as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Though old the thought and oft exprest T is his at last who says it best.
After all all he did was string together a lot of old well-known quotations.
I have here only made a nosegay of culled flowers and have brought nothing of my own but the thread that ties them together.
There are two kinds of marriages where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.
If with the literate I am Impelled to try an epigram I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it.
Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said.
A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
Perhaps the reader may ask of what consequence is it whether the authors exact language is preserved or not provided we have his thought? The answer is that inaccurate quotation is a sin against truth. It may appear in any particular instance to be a trifle but perfection consists in small things and perfection is no trifle.
It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation played with confidence stands a good chance to deceive.
Life is like quotations. Sometimes it makes you laugh. Sometimes it makes you cry. Most of the time you dont get it.
The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted…. Some have passed over from literature into speech.
Few maxims are true from every point of view.
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Whats the use of a good quotation if you cant change it?
I am but a gatherer and disposer of other mens stuff at my best value.