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All of us encounter, at least once in our life, some individual who utters words that make us think forever. There are men whose phrases are oracles; who can condense in one sentence the secrets of life; who blurt out an aphorism that forms a character, or illustrates an existence.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
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The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceive who can see nothing more in a quotation than an extract.
Author: Benjamin Disraeli
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That which distinguishes us from the other animals is our ability to quote.
Author: C. Astrid Weber, a little fun based on the Pierre Beaumarchais quotation ‘Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love at any time, madam, is all that distinguishes us from the other animals.’
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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.
Author: Dorothy Parker
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The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words.
Author: E.M. Cioran
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Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, And think they grow immortal as they quote.
Author: Edward Young, Love of Fame
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The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.
Author: Elias Canetti
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I am fully conscious of the fact, that aphorisms are like wandering Gypsies. They must always be published without guarantee of the authenticity.
Author: Erkki Melartin
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In the dying world I come from quotation is a national vice. It used to be the classics, now it’s lyric verse.
Author: Evelyn Waugh, The Loved One, 1948
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Our live experiences, fixed in aphorisms, stiffen into cold epigram. Our heart’s blood, as we write with it, turns to mere dull ink.
Author: F.H. Bradley
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But as young men, when they knit and shape perfectly, do seldom grow to a further stature, so knowledge, while it is in aphorisms and observations, it is in growth; but when it once is comprehended in exact methods, it may, perchance, be further polished, and illustrate and accommodated for use and practice, but it increaseth no more in bulk and substance.
Author: Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
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The hunter for aphorisms on human nature has to fish in muddy water, and he is even condemned to find much of his own mind.
Author: Francis H. Bradley
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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.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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In the mountains the shortest route is from peak to peak but for that you must have long legs. Aphorisms should be peaks, and those to whom they are addressed should be big and tall of stature.
Author: Friedrich Nietzsche
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In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
Author: George Eliot
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I can only write in ounces Not novels by the pound Epigram and aphorism Mine efficiently profound.
Author: Grey Livingston
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Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
Author: H.L. Mencken
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It is the little writer rather than the great writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really doing anything else.
Author: Havelock Ellis
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Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Author: Hesketh Pearson
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Aphorism, n.: A concise, clever statement you don’t think of until too late.
Author: James Alexander Thom
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