Old words are reborn with new faces.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.

Speaking one’s mind once is more honorable than quoting a thousand men.

You can tell a really wonderful quote by the fact that it’s attributed to a whole raft of wits.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.”(The Record Lie)

Perhaps the most powerful and appealing aspect of another’s words, however, is simply their convenience. Whether distilled in the briefest apophthegm, or spread out across some voluminous tome, the thought is ready-made, the heavy lifting...

The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

Quotations express your life experience.

Our best thoughts come from others.

Fifteen feet away, the wide River Thames rolled past, dark and deep and mysterious is the sullen-not-quite sunrise.

What we are trying to do is to understand this confusion and not cover it up with quotations.

The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.

If you can’t make ends meet, meet them in the middle instead

I’d lived by quotations, practically all my life.

In our country religion is not different from philosophy and religion & philosophy don’t differ from science.

[T]he wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile.

It does not manifest so that you can believe in it. You believe in it so that it can manifest.

In more ancient times the life was simpler, but now the discovery of all these different medicines for curing dyspepsia shows that people are suffering from this disease. In this country we know that there...

You will die but the words you speak or spoke, will live forever.

You do not exist to serve the illusion. The illusion exists to serve you.

It’s easy to get caught up in where the world is going and lose sight of the direction we were headed.

When you broadcast your book reading voluntarily, it creates moments of fascinating serendipity.

Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

A revolution in the eyes of man carries purpose.A revolution in the eyes of the awakened carries bliss.

A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.

Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

For an apple you can’t reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won’t bend down for you!