英语格言警句_Quotations_(Q2)

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!

- Anna Garlin Spencer

Our lack of passion stems from our inability to see deeply into the nature of things.

- Lama Surya Das

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

- Joseph Roux

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

- W. Somerset Maugham

But theological change happens though selective quoting. Every religious person does it: You quote those verses that resonate with your own religious insights and ignore or reinterpret those that undermine your certainties. Selective quoting isn't just legitimate, but essential: Religions evolve through shifts in selective quoting.

- Yossi Klein Halevi

A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.

- Talmud

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.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Stay at home in your mind. Don't recite other people's opinions. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. Journals, 1843

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment. There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external.

- Louise Guiney

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.

- Marlene Dietrich

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

- George Bernard Shaw

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Reading any collection of a man's quotations is like eating the ingredients that go into a stew instead of cooking them together in the pot. You eat all the carrots, then all the potatoes, then the meat. You won't go away hungry, but it's not quite satisfying. Only a biography, or autobiography, gives you the hot meal.

- Christopher Buckley

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

- W. Somerset Maugham

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

- Groucho Marx

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

- Sophocles

The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote someone who is.

- Mary Pettibone Poole

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

- George Santayana

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

- Winston Churchill

I quote others only in order the better to express myself.

- Michel de Montaigne

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

- Robert Burns

When, however, one reads of a witch being ducked, of a woman possessed by devils, of a wise woman selling herbs, or even a very remarkable man who had a mother, then I think we are on the track of a lost novelist, a suppressed poet. . . indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

- Virginia Woolf

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

- Marlene Dietrich

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

- Isaac D'Israeli

A witty saying proves nothing.

- Voltaire

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson