Quotation Search
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- Whoever in discussion adduces authority uses not intellect but memory.
- Leonardo da Vinci (1452 - 1519)
- The test of an author is not to be found merely in the number of his phrases that pass current in the corner of newspapers...but in the number of passages that have really taken root in younger minds.
- Thomas Higginson
- Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.
- Louise Guiney
- Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- With just enough of learning to misquote.
- Lord Byron (1788 - 1824)
- The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
- W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965)
- Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- We gladly feast on those who would subdue us ... not just pretty words, Fester.
- Morticia Addams - from the Addams Family movie
- I once complained to my father that I didn't seem to be able to do things the same way other people did. Dad's advice? 'Margo, don't be a sheep. People hate sheep. They eat sheep.'
- Margo Kaufman
- Reality's failure rate is similar to [that of] other barrier contraceptives.
- Science News
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