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«Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses»
Author: Isaac Disraeli | About: Quotations | Keywords: quotations
«Proverbs often contradict one another, as any reader soon discovers. The sagacity that advises us to look before we leap promptly warns us that if we hesitate we are lost; that absence makes the heart grow fonder, but out of sight, out of mind.»
«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»
Author: Louise Imogen Guiney | About: Quotations | Keywords: triteness
«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.»
«I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul»
Author: Max Beerbohm (Wit, Writer) | About: Quotations | Keywords: dictionary, quotations
«I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.»
«Pay attention and listen to the sayings of the wise; apply your heart to what I teach, for it is pleasing when you keep them in your heart and have all of them ready on your lips»
Author: Bible | About: Quotations | Keywords: apply, pay attention, pleasing, sayings
«Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.»
«Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.»
«Most of the time I quote myself. It's not arrogance, it's a writer's job.»

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