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Post by Tamrin on Dec 28, 2009 7:29:35 GMT 10
Few of the many wise apothegms, which have been uttered from the time of the seven sages of Greece to that of poor Richard, have prevented a single foolish action
Thomas Babington Macaulay (Died this day 1859)
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs
Guy Debord (Born this day 1931)
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Post by Tamrin on Dec 30, 2009 7:35:42 GMT 10
He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors
Bro. Rudyard Kipling (Born this day 1865)
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 1, 2010 9:34:47 GMT 10
To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation
Charles Edward Montague (Born this day 1867)
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 2, 2010 7:07:05 GMT 10
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 10, 2010 6:45:14 GMT 10
The greatest men, you can quote for everything
John Acton (Born this day 1834)
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 14, 2010 8:57:33 GMT 10
Somewhere in the world there is an epigram for every dilemma
Hendrik Willem Van Loon (Born this day 1882)
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 16, 2010 13:49:05 GMT 10
It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making
Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism-victimless collecting, as it were... in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage. The course of modern history having already sapped the traditions and shattered the living wholes in which precious objects once found their place, the collector may now in good conscience go about excavating the choicer, more emblematic fragments
Susan Sontag (Born this day 1933)
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Post by Tamrin on Jan 25, 2010 8:27:49 GMT 10
I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence
Bro. Robbie Burns (Born this day 1759)
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit
Somerset Maugham (Born this day 1874)
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 9, 2010 5:56:08 GMT 10
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? But the man who orders his life according to their teachings cannot go far wrong
Norman Douglas (Died this day 1952)
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Post by Tamrin on Feb 11, 2010 20:14:23 GMT 10
It is an unscrupulous intellect that does not pay to antiquity its due reverence
Desiderius Erasmus (1466/1469 - 1536)
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