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- Yesterday is but today's memory, tomorrow is today's dream.
- Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931)
- Only the weak are cruel. Gentleness can only be expected from the strong.
- Leo Buscaglia (1925 - 1998)
- Truth is eternal, knowledge is changeable. It is disastrous to confuse them.
- Madeleine L'Engle (1918 - ), An Acceptable Time
- 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)
- 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)
- 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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