QUOTATIONS

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

Winston Churchill

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Benjamin Disraeli

I hate quotations.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotations are useful, ingenious, and excellent, when not overdone, and aptly applied.

Edouard Fournier

Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.

André Gide

I quote others only the better to express myself.

Montaigne

To make good use of a thought found in a book requires almost as much cleverness as to originate it. Cardinal du Perron said that the apt quotation of a line of Virgil was worthy of the highest talent.

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