Random Quotes
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A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.Miguel De Cervantes
When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.Benjamin Disraeli
The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.Ralph Waldo Emerson
The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.Samuel Johnson
I quote others only in order the better to express myself.Michel de Montaigne
Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.James Ramsey
The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air.Simms
Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.Jonathan Swift