“Books of quotations are an elemental model of how culture is perpetuated, the wisdom of the trite passed on to posterity, to be added to, edited, and modified by subsequent generations.”
Robert Andrews
“Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests and mines and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.”
Winston Churchill
“Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.”
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. The quotations, when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.”
“The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages, may be preserved through quotations”
Benjamin Disraeli
“A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.”
Brendan Francis
