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Post by Tamrin on Aug 2, 2010 7:06:14 GMT 10
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living
James Baldwin (Born this day 1924)
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 11, 2010 7:00:35 GMT 10
Being a collector of insights is not sufficient; utilizing insights for the betterment of self and humanity are more worthwhile projects
José Silva (Born this day 1914)
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 22, 2010 11:32:06 GMT 10
I might repeat to myself slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound -- if I can remember any of the damn things
Dorothy Parker (Born this day 1893)
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Post by Tamrin on Aug 28, 2010 11:18:21 GMT 10
Too much traffic with a quotation book begets a conviction of ignorance in a sensitive reader. Not only is there a mass of quotable stuff he never quotes, but an even vaster realm of which he has never heard
One of the most difficult tasks for the educated and sophisticated mind is to recognize that some clichés are also important truths
Robertson Davies (Born this day 1913)
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 13, 2010 7:14:56 GMT 10
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better
Michel de Montaigne (Died this day 1592)
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 15, 2010 7:30:41 GMT 10
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him
Robert Benchley (Born this day 1889)
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Post by Tamrin on Sept 29, 2010 7:05:47 GMT 10
I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences
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)
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 5, 2010 6:05:11 GMT 10
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory
Bro. Denis Diderot (Born this day 1713)
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 18, 2010 12:45:01 GMT 10
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book — it is a plaything
Thomas Love Peacock (Born this day 1785)
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Post by Tamrin on Oct 28, 2010 6:25:47 GMT 10
In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice
I think to be oversensitive about clichés is like being oversensitive about table manners
Evelyn Waugh (Born this day 1903)
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