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On
the importance of quotes....
In
reading authors, when you find
Bright passages that strike your mind,
And which perhaps you may have reason
To think on at another season;
Be not contented with the sight,
But jot them down in black and white;
Such respect is wisely shown
As makes another's thought your own.
- Lord Byron
Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay
an author.
- Samuel Johnson
Anecdotes
and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the
world, for he knows how to introduce the former
at fit places in conversation, and to recollect
the latter on proper occasions.
- Johann Wolfgang von
Goethe
I
said that I loved the wise proverb,
Brief, simple, and deep;
For it I'd exchange the great poem
That sends us to sleep.
- Bryan Waller Procter
Laying
aside all serious labours, and indulging in a
more dainty kind of study, I strolled through
the gardens provided by various authors, culling
as I went the adages most remarkable for their
antiquity and excellence, like so many flowers
of various sorts, of which I have made a nosegay.
- Erasmus
An
apt quotation is as good as an original remark.
- Proverb
Next to the originator of a good sentence is the
first quoter of it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Proverbs
are the wisdom of the street.
- English Proverb
To
appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim
requires a genius; a vital appropriating exercise
of mind closely allied to that which first created
it.
- W. R. Alger
I
quote others only better express myself.
- Michel de Montaigne
The
multiplicity of facts and writings is become so
great that everything must now be reduced to extracts.
- Voltaire
I
have somewhere seen it observed that we should
make the same use of a book that the bee does
of a flower; she steals sweets from it, but does
not injure it.
- Charles Caleb Colton
I
have only made a nosegay of culled flowers, and
have brought nothing of my own but the thread
that ties them together.
.- Michel de Montaigne
Our
best thoughts come from others.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Proverbs
may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.
- Joseph Joubert
Quotation,
sir, is a good thing; there is a community of
mind in it; classical quotation is the parole
of literary men all over the world.
- Samuel Johnson
There
is no less invention in aptly applying a thought
found in a book than in being the first author
of the thought.
- Pierre Bayle
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