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- He was as fresh as is the month of May.
- Geoffrey Chaucer (1342 - 1400), The Canterbury Tales, 1390
- It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Roving Commission: My Early Life, 1930, Chapter 9
- Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Journal (May 1849)
- Procrastination is the thief of time.
- Edward Young (1683 - 1765)
- I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.'
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), quoted in Rudolf Flesch, ed., "The New Book of Unusual Quotations" (NY: Harper & Row, 1966), p. 311
- Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium.
- Henry W. Fowler (1858 - 1933), A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926)
- One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.
- Amos Bronson Alcott (1799 - 1888), "Table Talk"
- Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882), Letters and Social Aims (Quotation and Originality)
- There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.
- Pierre Bayle (1647 - 1706), Dictionairre Historique et Critique
- Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
- Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), as quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson (May 8th, 1781)
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