(70 quotes found)
“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
“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognizably wiser than oneself.”
Marlene Dietrich
“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
“Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.”
“I hate quotations.”
“He that tries to recommend (Shakespeare) by select quotations, will succeed like the pedant in "Hierocles", who, when he offered his house to sale, carried a brick in his pocket as a specimen”
Samuel Johnson
“Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation”
