Quotes About Quotations

on the one hand there's mansplaining, and on the other, there's the sound of a woman quoting the mansplaining to another woman.

There is nothing but quotations left for us. Our language is a system of quotations.

I...confirm the fact - with a certain bittersweet melancholy - that everything in the world brings me back to a quotation or a book.

Setiap buku adalah kutipan; setiap rumah adalah kutipan seluruh rimba raya dan tambang-tambang dan bebatuan; setiap manusia adalah kutipan dari semua leluhurnya

comma: John, you are a good man. In numeration, commas are used to express periods of three figures: Mountains 25,000 feet high; 1,000,000 dollars. The Semicolon marks a slighter connection than the

Quotations will tell the full measure of meaning, if you have enough of them.

They spoke in Latin, so that all might understand; but the quotations they flung at each other were Greek and Hebrew, Turkish, Persian.

I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.

On Oscar Wilde:] If, with the literate, I am Impelled to try an epigram, I never seek to take the credit; We all assume that Oscar said it. [ Life Magazine, June 2, 1927]

Most of the classical citations you shall hear or read in the current journals or speeches were not drawn from the originals, but from previous quotations in English books...

I quote my father to people almost every day. Part of that is because if you dispense your own wisdom, others often dismiss it; if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable. Of course, when you have someone like my dad in your back pocket, you can't help yourself. You quote him every chance you get.

I quote my father to people almost every day. Part of that is because if you dispense your own wisdom, others often dismiss it; if you offer wisdom from a third party, it seems less arrogant and more acceptable.

Chumaka ended with a quotation from a play that Jiro favored. " 'Small acts partner small houses and small minds'.

For entertainment there were only Mao Thought Propaganda Teams, who sang Mao's quotations set to raucous music.

We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That remark in itself wouldn't make any sense if quoted as it stands.

At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets.

Most anthologists of poetry or quotations are like those who eat cherries or oysters, first picking the best and ending by eating everything.

Take all of your wasted honorEvery little past frustrationTake all of your so-called problems, Better put 'em in quotations

Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

People will accept your idea more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.

To be amused by what you read - that is the great spring of happy quotations.