More Famous Quotes
ne must be a wise reader to quote
wisely and well.
Amos Bronson Alcott
1799-1888, American Educator, Social Reformeryer
pick my favorite quotation and
store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid
the struggle of this turbulent existence.
Robert Burns
1759-1796, Scottish Poet
he adventitious beauty of poetry
may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy
quotation than in the poem.
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
hough collecting quotations could
be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless
collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its way to
becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in
a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having
already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in
which precious objects once found their place, the collector may
now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more
emblematic fragments.
Susan
Sontag
1933-, American Essayist
oung people do not perceive at
once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle
merely the arrow.
Source Unknown
itticism. A sharp and clever
remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is
pleased to call a ''joke.''
Ambrose Bierce
1842-1914, American Author, Editor, Journalist, ''The Devil's
Dictionary''
y 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
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
tay at home in your mind.
Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me
what you know.
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
n spite of his practical
ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and
quotations.
George Eliot
1819-1880, British Novelist
uotes 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
hen one begins to live by
habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
James
Baldwin
1924-1987, American Author
uotations in my work are like
wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his
conviction.
Walter Benjamin
1982-1940, German Critic, Philosopher
ife itself is a quotation.
Jorge
Luis Borges
1899-1986, Argentinean Author
quotation, like a pun, should
come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of
felicity justifying the intrusion.
Robert Chapman
t is a good thing for an
uneducated man to read a book of quotations.
Winston Churchill
1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister
oo much traffic with a
quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive
reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never
quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard.
Robertson Davies
1913-, Canadian Novelist, Journalist
he adventitious beauty of
poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a
happy quotation than in the poem.
Ralph
Waldo Emerson
1803-1882, American Poet, Essayist
often quote myself. It adds
spice to my conversation.
George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist
