“Next to being witty yourself, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.”
“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.”
“Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.”
“Apothegms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feelings.”
“Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.”
“Some, for renown, on scraps of learning dote, and think they grow immortal as they quote.”
“A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.”
“I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.”
“He wrapped himself in quotations -- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.”
“The essence of a quote is the compression of a mass of thought and observation into a single saying.”
“There are two kinds of marriages -- where the husband quotes the wife and where the wife quotes the husband.”
“The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.”
“Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.”
“In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it's lyric verse.”
“One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats --and one always secretes too much jelly.”
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
“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.”
“The adventitious beauty of poetry may be felt in the greater delight with a verse given in a happy quotation than in the poem.”
“In quoting of books, quote such authors as are usually read; others you may read for your own satisfaction, but not name them.”
“A quotation, like a pun, should come unsought, and then be welcomed only for some propriety of felicity justifying the intrusion.”
“Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.”
“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.”
“I pick my favorite quotation and store them in my mind as ready armor, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.”
“Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought, that may be further cultivated, beautified, and enlarged.”
“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.”
“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.”
“He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.”
“Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.”
“Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.”
“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.”