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"The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them."
Isaac Disraeli
"Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses."
Isaac Disraeli
"Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before him."
Mark Twain
"He wrapped himself in quotations--as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors."
Rudyard Kipling
"Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them."
Aldous Huxley
"I have gathered a posie of other men’s flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own."
John Bartlett
"A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought."
Peter Wimsey
"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
"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations."
Benjamin Disraeli
"It is better to be quotable than to be honest."
Tom Stoppard
"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims."
Aristotle
"A witty saying proves nothing."
Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire)
"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
"Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted."
Groucho Marx
"The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations."
Isaac Disraeli
"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."
W. Somerset Maugham
"Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said."
Author Unknown
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
Oscar Wilde
"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly."
Simeon Strunsky
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