From Denny: Since I just found out that Blogger only backs up posts and not the links in the sidebar or anything else on the blog... figured it was a great idea to put all my quotes lists into category posts. The blog should load faster too as it will reduce the number of links on the sidebar. Have fun chuckling!
Quotes
* A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a witty person, but a pebble in the hands of a fool. - Anonymous
* A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away with the centuries, although it serves as food for every speech. - Friedrich Nietzsche
* A proper collection of quotations is the whole world digested. - Emma Racine deFleur
* A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. - Miguel de Cervantes
* A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one. - Lord John Russell
* All maxims have their antagonist maxims; proverbs should be sold in pairs, a single one being but a half truth. - William Mathews
* An aphorism is never exactly true. It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half. - Karl Kraus, Sprüche und Widersprüche, 1909
* An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played Carnegie Hall. - Oscar Levant
* Aphorism, n.: Predigested wisdom. - Ambrose Bierce
* Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don't think of until too late. - James Alexander Thom
* Collecting quotations is an insidious, even embarrassing habit, like ragpicking or hoarding rocks or trying on other people's laundry. I got into it originally while trying to break an addiction to candy. I kicked candy and now seem to be stuck with quotations, which are attacking my brain instead of my teeth. - Robert Byrne, The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said, "Sources, References, and Notes," 1984
* Epigram and truth are rarely commensurate. Truth has to get somewhat chiseled, as it were, before it will fit into an epigram. - Joseph Farrell
* Epigrams succeed where epics fail. - Anonymous
* I am fully conscious of the fact, that aphorisms are like wandering Gypsies. They must always be published without guarantee of the authenticity. - Erkki Melartin
* I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damned things. - Dorothy Parker
* I swim across a sea of quotes, splashing in the words and riding the waves of wisdom. - T. Guillemets
* It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive. - Mark Twain, Following the Equator
* It's a strange world of language in which skating on thin ice can get you into hot water. - Franklin P. Jones
* It's such a pleasure to write down splendid words - almost as though one were inventing them. - Rupert Hart-Davis
* Laying in bed this morning contemplating how amazing it would be if somehow Oscar Wilde and Mae West could twitter from the grave... - Dita Von Teese
* Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted. - Hesketh Pearson
* Most collectors collect tangibles. As a quotation collector, I collect wisdom, life, invisible beauty, souls alive in ink. - T. Guillemets
* One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats and one always secretes too much jelly. - Virginia Woolf
* People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first. - David H. Comins
* Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true. - H.L. Mencken
* Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind. - William R. Alger
* 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. - Leo Rosten
* Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired. - Richard Kemph
* Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma. - Hendrik Willem van Loon
* The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. - Somerset Maugham
* The quoting of an aphorism, like the angry barking of a dog or the smell of overcooked broccoli, rarely indicates that something helpful is about to happen. - Lemony Snicket
* To me, novels are just quotations with a bunch of filler. - T. Guillemets
* What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense. - Mark Twain
* What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? Take fifty of our current proverbial sayings - they are so trite, so threadbare, that we can hardly bring our lips to utter them. Nonetheless they embody the concentrated experience of the human race. - Norman Douglas
* When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. - Anatole France
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