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When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.

Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Life itself is a quotation.

I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.

It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.