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Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings. -
William R Alger
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He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind. -
Samuel Johnson
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I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing. -
Cliff Fadiman
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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. -
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Quotations offer one kind of break in what the eye can see, the ear can hear. -
Ihab Hassan
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We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some we quote not at all, offering them our scrupulous avoidance, and so make them part of our ''white mythology.'' Other authors we constantly invoke, chanting their names in cerebral rituals of propitiation or ancestor worship. -
Ihab Hassan
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Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language. -
Samuel Johnson
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The 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
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He wrapped himself in quotations -- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors. -
Rudyard Kipling
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Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation. -
Janet Malcolm
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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything. -
Andre Malraux
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After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. -
H L Mencken
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The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying. -
John Morely
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Great speeches have always had great soundbites. The problem now is that the young technicians who put together speeches are paying attention only to the soundbite, not to the text as a whole, not realizing that all great soundbites happen by accident, which is to say, all great soundbites are yielded up inevitably, as part of the natural expression of the text. They are part of the tapestry, they aren't a little flower somebody sewed on. -
Peggy Noonan
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Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. -
Samuel Johnson
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Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who have not the time nor means to get more. -
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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