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- A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
- Joseph Roux
- A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
- Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC)
- What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 - 1834)
- Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body.
- Sir Richard Steele
- The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.
- Amanda Cross (1926 - )
- A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.
- Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957), Lord Peter Wimsey in "Gaudy Night"
- The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.
- Andre Malraux (1901 - 1976)
- An epigram often flashes light into regions where reason shines but dimly.
- Edwin P. Whipple
- The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881)
- I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
- Seneca (5 BC - 65 AD)
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