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They are the abridgments of wisdom sumner
They are the abridgments of wisdom. ~Sumner Ellis, Hints on Preaching: A Cloud of Witnesses,…
It is a rich storehouse for those
It is a rich storehouse for those who love quotations. It is as full of…
A man of maxims only is like
A man of maxims only is like a Cyclops with one eye, and that in…
You could compile i should think the
You could compile, I should think, the worst book in the world entirely out of…
I swim across a sea of quotes
I swim across a sea of quotes, splashing in the words and riding the waves…
A mans life is often builded on
A man’s life is often builded on a proverb. ~Hebrew Proverb
A proper collection of quotations is the
A proper collection of quotations is the whole world digested. ~Terri Guillemets
But perhaps the excellence of aphorisms consists
But, perhaps, the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some…
Unraveling proverbs is a suitable puzzle for
Unraveling proverbs is a suitable puzzle for an old man. I put pieces in order…
Attend to me sancho i do not
Attend to me, Sancho, I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and…
Euphonic and harmonious expressions forcible just profound
Euphonic and harmonious expressions, forcible and just expressions, profound and comprehensive expressions, and especially apt…
One is more apt to become wise
One is more apt to become wise by doing fool things than by reading wise…
A beautiful verse an apt remark or
A beautiful verse, an apt remark, or a well-turned phrase, appropriately quoted, is always effective…
A case which commonly happens with us
A case which commonly happens with us in London, as well as our Neighbours in…
I protest for about the hundredth time
I protest, for about the hundredth time, against the slipshod method of quoting a mere…
The grecians maxim would indeed be a
The Grecian’s maxim would indeed be a sweeping clause in Literature; it would reduce many…
What is all wisdom save a collection
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial…
People who rarely read long books or
People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples…
In ancient days tradition says when knowledge
In ancient days, tradition says, When knowledge was much stinted
The obscurest sayings of the truly great
The obscurest sayings of the truly great are often those which contain the germ of…
Proverbs accordingly are somewhat analogous to those
Proverbs accordingly are somewhat analogous to those medical Formulas which, being in frequent use, are…
Collect as precious pearls the words of
Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous. ~El Amir Abdelkaderquoted in…
Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament
Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil…
As the highly colored birds do not
As the highly colored birds do not fly around in the dull, leaden plains of…
Life itself is a quotation jorge luis
Life itself is a quotation. ~Jorge Luis Borgesquoted in Cool Memories by Jean Baudrillard, 1987
That part of a work one author
That part of a work of one author found in another is not of itself…
The art of quotation requires more delicacy
The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can…
Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the
Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired. ~Attributed to Richard Kemph
A learned historian declared to me of
A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the latter had appropriated his…
The surest way to make a monkey
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. That…
Thus have i as well i could
Thus have I, as well as I could, gathered a posey of observations as they…
It is a good thing for an
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett’s…
Luminous quotations also atone by their interest
Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and…
We prefer to think that the absence
We prefer to think that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the originality of a…
A knowledge of general literature is one
A knowledge of general literature is one of the evidences of an enlightened mind; and…
Many useful and valuable books lie buried
Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless…
A quotation at the right moment is
A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Yiddish Proverb
Language would be tolerable without spicy epigrammatic
Language would be tolerable without spicy, epigrammatic sayings, and life could no doubt be carried…
Take my advice dear reader dont talk
Take my advice, dear reader, don’t talk epigrams even if you have the gift. I…
The multiplicity of facts and writings is
The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon…
Its such a pleasure to write down
It’s such a pleasure to write down splendid words
I feel a reassuring oneness with other
I feel a reassuring oneness with other people when I find that even my most…
In places this book is a little
In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able…
But proverbs are always platitudes until you
But proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them. ~Aldous…
This is one of the results that
This is one of the results of that adventurous spirit which is now stalking forth…
The great writers of aphorisms read as
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well….
Gnomic wisdom however is notoriously polychrome and
Gnomic wisdom, however, is notoriously polychrome, and proverbs depend for their truth entirely on the…
What is an epigram a dwarfish whole
What is an Epigram? A dwarfish Whole, Its Body brevity, and wit its Soul. ~Samuel…
Now we sit through shakespeare in order
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. ~Orson Welles, attributed
The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as
The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and…
And if these little sparks of holy
And if these little sparks of holy fire, which I have heaped together, do not…
They never get ahead an inch because
They never get ahead an inch, because they are always hugging some coward maxim, which…
You will find professed quotations from authors
You will find professed quotations from authors, of the correctness of which you will not…
As a good housewife out of divers
As a good housewife out of divers fleeces weaves one piece of cloth, a bee…
In literary composition a well chosen quotation lights
In literary composition a well-chosen quotation lights up the page like a fine engraving… ~William…
Every so often a quotation sweeps through
Every so often, a quotation sweeps through the world like an epidemic. Hemingway must have…
Hush little bright line dont you cry
Hush, little bright line, don’t you cry You’ll be a clich
An apt quotation is as good an
An apt quotation is as good as an original remark. ~Proverb
All quotation dictionaries stand on the shoulders
All quotation dictionaries stand on the shoulders of their predecessors, which must be consulted as…
Dr richard bentley 1662 1742 is said one
Dr. Richard Bentley (1662-1742)… is said one day, on finding his son reading a novel,…
Some for renown on scraps of learning
Some for renown on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they…
A common place book is what a provident poet
A Common-place-Book is what a provident Poet cannot subsist without, for this proverbial Reason, that…
Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience
Proverbs are the daughters of daily experience. ~Dutch Proverb
These fruit thoughts of a students learned leisure
These fruit-thoughts of a student’s learned leisure, may aptly become the seed-thoughts for many vacant…
Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds
Apothegms to thinking minds are the seeds from which spring vast fields of new thought,…
Someone cyril connolly ezra pound once
Someone – Cyril Connolly? Ezra Pound? – once said that anything that can be read…
How many of us have been first
How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to…
The man who writes a single line
The man who writes a single line, And hears it often quoted, Will in his…
This little book is not put forth
This little book is not put forth to supply an imperative demand, but rather with…
The wise men of old have sent
The wise men of old have sent most of their morality down the stream of…
The ancients who in these matters were
The ancients, who in these matters were not perhaps such blockheads as some may conceive,…
Epigrams succeed where epics fail persian proverb
Epigrams succeed where epics fail. ~Persian Proverb
The governess looked upon him mr swiveller
[T]he governess… looked upon him [Mr. Swiveller] as a literary gentleman of eccentric habits, and…
Besides it happens how i cannot tell
Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in…
Nothing ever becomes real till it is
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced
The lips of the wise are as
The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are…
A vast meaning is unfolded in each
A vast meaning is unfolded in each line, with such power that a sentence only…
What flowers are to gardens spices food
What flowers are to gardens, spices to food, gems to a garment, and stars to…
To select well among old things is
To select well among old things is almost equal to inventing new ones. ~Nicolas Charles…
They have written volumes out of which
They have written volumes out of which a couplet of verse, a period in prose,…
A fine quotation is a diamond on
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and…
Whatever we may say against collections which
Whatever we may say against collections, which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless…
Proverbs embrace the wide sphere of human
Proverbs embrace the wide sphere of human existence, they take all the colours of life,…
The only way to read a book
The only way to read a book of aphorisms without being bored is to open…
I didnt do anything that can properly
…I didn’t do anything that can properly be called research; rather, I proceeded by the…
I believe it was gayelord hauser the
I believe it was Gayelord Hauser, the nutritionist, who said that “you are what you…
A good aphorism is too hard for
A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn…
What remains therefore but that our last
What remains therefore, but that our last Recourse must be had to large Indexes, and…