Pastoral Resources

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.

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.

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.

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.

Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning - that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks.

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting.

He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.