Quotes About Quotation

When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote

Anyone that would letterspace blackletter would steal sheep.

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Well, she doesn't have anything to do with it, Richard, you're just like that guy in 'Dragnet' that always wants the facts.

Life is like a quotation. Sometimes, it makes you laugh. Sometimes, it makes you cry. Most of the time, you don't get it.

Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation

Why would a comediotic guy like Buzz Aldrin worry about who said what first? He was on the %$#@!+-oon!

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign' have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?

Always verify quotations!

The greatest tragedy for a good quotation is to be anonymous; and for the bad one, is to be known and famous!

I quote others only in order to better express myself.

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.

Americans might ponder two quotations. One is the much-cited, self-congratulatory saying attributed to Tocqueville (but whose source no one has so far been able to show me): "America is great because America is good." The other is the very real saying of Samuel Johnson, attacking the similar self-congratulatory "greatness" of the English: "We continue every day to show by new proofs, that no people can be great who have ceased to be virtuous.

I mention this only to shew that the citations of the most judicious authors frequently deceive us, and consequently that prudence obliges us to examine quotations, by whomsoever alleged.