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"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."
W. Somerset Maugham
"Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?"
Philip Hamerton
"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought."
Peter Wimsey
"Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them."
Aldous Huxley
"He wrapped himself in quotations--as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors."
Rudyard Kipling
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
Oscar Wilde
"Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before him."
Mark Twain
"Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted."
Groucho Marx
"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."
Winston Churchill
"Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said."
Author Unknown
"The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations."
Isaac Disraeli
"I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound - if I can remember any of the damn things."
Dorothy Parker
"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims."
Aristotle
"A witty saying proves nothing."
Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)
"A book of quotations...can never be complete."
Robert M. Hamilton
"Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly."
Simeon Strunsky
"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations."
Benjamin Disraeli
"I have gathered a posie of other men’s flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own."
John Bartlett
"The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them."
Isaac Disraeli
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