Quote Quotes

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

In fact it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.

I am just too much.

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one.

To be is to do.

Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

In the highest civilization, the book is still the highest delight.

He who has once known its satisfactions is provided with a resource against calamity.

There is a misleading, unwritten rule that states if a quote giving advice comes from someone famous, very old, or Greek, then it must be good advice.

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

I quote others in order to better express myself.

We'll do it, we'll do it.

I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him.

If you really want to get along with somebody, let them be themselves.

It's not the having, it's the getting.

Music hath charms to soothe a savage breast, To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.N.B.: This quote is commonly misquoted as savage beast.

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

If you don't like what you're doing, then don't do it.

A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle...

The lord is wonderfully good to those who wait for him and seek him.

N.B.: From this quote is derived the proverb, Good things come to those who wait.

Circumstantial evidence is occasionally very convincing, as when you find a trout in the milk, to quote Thoreau's example.

It wouldn't be fair to cast aspersions on an entire cultural movement based on the actions of a few. To quote my grandfather, 'One bad apple don't spoil the whole bunch.'

You can't always say what you'd like to say.

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

You don't know what you can get away with until you try.

I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn't know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of soft drink.

Often times I'm confronted with a quote that I don't remember saying.

So, on one hand it's very flattering, it is just so surreal.

Can we all get along?

When you have given nothing, ask for nothing.

By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. -this quote is actually found in Carl Sagan's book The Demon Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark, where he attributes it to engineer James Oberg, who says he stole it from someone else.

My new favorite quote is, Feed kids Cokes and french fries and you get an obesity crisis. Feed them mental junk food and you get non-readers and poor thinkers.

Let go of everything. That is how you get everything; you let go of everything.

Some people, no matter how old they get, never lose their beauty—they merely move it from their faces into their hearts.end quote

Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why?' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not?'NB: This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw.

You have got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because when you quote him accurately it is called mudslinging.

I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.N. B.: This quote is commonly attributed to Voltaire, but it is not found in his writing.

Ah, yes, I wrote the Purple Cow -- I'm sorry, now, I wrote it! But I can tell you, anyhow, I'll kill you if you quote it.

I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority.

.. though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some we quote not at all, offering them our scrupulous avoidance, and so make them part of our white mythology. Other authors we constantly invoke, chanting their names in cerebral rituals of propitiation or ancestor worship.

In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read;

others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.

Some, for renown, on scraps of learning dote, and think they grow immortal as they quote.

I asked him on whom or what he had based his oratorical style.

Churchill replied, It was an American statesman who inspired me and taught me how to use every note of the human voice like an organ. Winston then to my amazement started to quote long excerpts from Bourke Cockran's speeches of 60 years before. He was my model, Churchill said. I learned from him how to hold thousands in thrall.

How can we have critical thinking without being able to quote and being able to compare what happened in the past? Television is dreadfully unrecorded and unquotable.

Obama likes to quote great men but will never be a great man himself.

I can't stand it when our leader goes around apologizing for who we are.

You don't try to do more than you should.

Who's next?

I'm always going to be just me.

I've watched 'Clueless' as many times as humanly possible.

Like, I would run home from school to watch it. Like, I can quote it backwards.