Quotations Quotes
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
The point of quotations is that one can use another''s words to be insulting.
I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.