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Post by Tamrin on Apr 11, 2010 9:55:17 GMT 10
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 Calvin Rosten (Born this day 1908)
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 16, 2010 10:21:50 GMT 10
When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it
Anatole France (Born this day 1844)
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 19, 2010 8:03:27 GMT 10
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations
Benjamin Disraeli (Died this day 1881)
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 23, 2010 9:53:54 GMT 10
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar
Miguel de Cervantes (Born this day 1547 / Died this day 1616)
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Post by Tamrin on Apr 27, 2010 8:45:05 GMT 10
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
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know
Ralph Waldo Emerson (Died this day 1882)
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 13, 2010 13:08:27 GMT 10
I always have a quotation for everything — it saves original thinking
Dorothy L Sayers (Born this day 1893)
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Post by Tamrin on Jun 14, 2010 7:42:50 GMT 10
I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own
John Bartlett, compiled Familiar Quotations (Born this day 1820)
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 4, 2010 10:51:21 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. Robert Burns (Made a Mason this day 1781)
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 26, 2010 6:57:54 GMT 10
Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them
Aldous Huxley (Born this day 1894)
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Post by Tamrin on Jul 29, 2010 7:14:31 GMT 10
The art of newspaper paragraphing is to stroke a platitude until it purrs like an epigram
Don Marquis (Born this day 1878)
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