The American people would not want to know of any misquotes that Dan Quayle may or may not make. •Vice President Dan Quayle Quoting: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another. •Ambrose Bierce You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writes in the world.
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He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily read more
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.
Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the read more
Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.
Human success is a quotation from overhead.
Human success is a quotation from overhead.
