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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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Life itself is a quotation.
Jorge Luis Borges
She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.
W. Somerset Maugham
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Samuel Johnson
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Ambrose Bierce
I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.
Dorothy L. Sayers
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
Samuel Johnson
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
In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.
Evelyn Waugh
Immortality. I notice that as soon as writers broach this question they begin to quote. I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man's speech with other men's jewels; dangerous, for the same reason.
Robertson Davies
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Isaac D'Israeli
Beware of thinkers whose minds function only when they are fueled by a quotation.
Emil Cioran
You know what my favourite quotation is? [...] It's from Chaucer [...] Criseyde says it, "I am myne owene woman, wel at ese."
Mary McCarthy
The investor has the benefit of the stock market's daily and changing appraisal of his holdings, 'for whatever that appraisal may be worth', and, second, that the investor is able to increase or decrease his investment at the market's daily figure - 'if he chooses'. Thus the existence of a quoted market gives the investor certain options which he does not have if his security is unquoted. But it does not impose the current quotation on an investor who prefers to take his idea of value from some other source.
Benjamin Graham
The true investor scarcely ever has to sell his shares, and at all other times he is free di disregard the current price quotation. He need pay attention to it and act upon it only to the extent that it suits his book, and no more. Thus the investor who permits himself to be stampeded or unduly worried by unjustified market declines in his holdings is perversely transforming his basic advantage into a basic disadvantage. That man would be better off if his stocks had no market quotation at all, for he would then be spared the mental anguish caused him by other persons mistakes of judgement.
Benjamin Graham
Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.
Oscar Wilde
I respect a man who can recognize a quotation. It's a dying art.
David Lodge
The most superficial fact regarding the Discourses, the fact that the number of its chapters equals the number of books of Livy's History, compelled us to start a chain of tentative reasoning which brings us suddenly face to face with the only New Testament quotation that ever appears in Machiavelli's two books and with an enormous blasphemy.
Leo Strauss
When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, and opening quotation is a symphony precluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize.
Benjamin Disraeli
My impression of the American people can be summarized by a quotation from Benjamin Franklin, "Those things that hurt instruct!" I realised that people in this part of the world meet their problems head on. They attempt to get out of them rather than suffer them.
Abdul Kalam
I get asked to read new works a lot, in the hope that I will give a quotation and I will only give a 'puff' for a book I truly love.
Peter James
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