“A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.”
Joseph Roux
“Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“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”
“It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.”
Winston Churchill
“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 superior man acquaints himself with many sayings of antiquity and many deeds of the past, in order to strengthen his character thereby.”
John Milton
“The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.”
William Somerset Maugham
