Quotations proverbs

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◆ A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.

- Talmud98

◆ For men are prone to go it blind along the calf-paths of the mind To do what other men have done. They follow in the beaten track, and out and in, and forth and back, and still their devious course pursue, to keep the path that others do.

- Sam Walter Foss98

◆ Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses

- Isaac Disraeli98

◆ Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.

- Barbara Pym98

◆ Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson98

◆ Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language

- Samuel Johnson98

◆ The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceived who could see nothing more in a quotation than an extract

- Benjamin Disraeli98

◆ I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul

- Max Beerbohm98

◆ With all deference to Chairman Mao and other authors whose quotations derive from longer works, it seemed that I was becoming the world's first writer of self-contained ready-made quotations

- Ashleigh Brilliant98

◆ A good quotation gets out the mental screwdriver and adjusts the setscrew

- Joan Larsen98

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

- Samuel Johnson98

◆ By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson98

◆ Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author

- Samuel Johnson98

◆ Certain brief sentences are peerless in their ability to give one the feeling that nothing remains to be said

- Jean Rostand98