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One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats -- and one always secretes too much jelly.

Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile.

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.

For many men that stumble at the threshold are well foretold that danger lurks within.

Have a care, therefore, where there is more sail than ballast.

In baiting a mouse trap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.

We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... Though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some we quote not at all, offering them our scrupulous avoidance, and so make them part of our "white mythology." Other authors we constantly invoke, chanting their names in cerebral rituals of propitiation or ancestor worship.

Most people who put together verses or quotes are like people who eat cherries and oysters: they start with the best, and end up eating everything.

Ah, yes, I wrote the ''Purple Cow'' -- I'm sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you, anyhow, I'll kill you if you quote it.

It is a good thing for the uneducated man to read books of quotations.