Great quotes on quotations, best aphorisms or ideas by famous authors, artists and writers on the shortest and wittiest philosophical form of literary expression.
Since brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief …
William Shakespeare
A few lines of certain books are worth more than entire libraries.
Voltaire
The aphorism condenses the maximum of meaning into the minimum of content, expresses in a synthetic manner the prolixity of many rhetorical and useless speeches.
Carl William Brown
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin Disraeli
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
Brendan Behan
Life itself is a quotation.
Jorge Luis Borges
Show me a man’s favorite quote, and I will tell you who he is.
Guy Kawasaki
An aphorism is a sentence, a maxim, a proposition that expresses with concise accuracy the result of a long experience of life, observation, analysis, suffering, forbearance, etc, etc…!
Carl William Brown
Tell me your favorite quote, and I’ll tell you who you are.
Anonymous
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Sophocles
Aphorisms are diamonds set in the jewels of literature.
Carl William Brown
The aphorism in which I am the first master among Germans, are the forms of ‘eternity’; my ambition is to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book – what everyone else does not say in a book.
Friedrich Nietzsche
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a witty person, but a pebble in the hands of a fool.
John Roux
An aphorism is nothing else but the slightest form of writing raised to the highest level of expressive communication.
Carl William Brown
An aphorism is the last link in a long chain of thought.
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Ambrose Bierce
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I pick my favourite quotations and store them in my mind as ready armour, offensive or defensive, amid the struggle of this turbulent existence.
Robert Burns
An aphorism is a mental, psychic, logical, linguistic, spiritual, emotional and rational exercise; it is a primary conceptual and literary activity, a mixture of prose and poetry which conveys, in addition to ideology, sympathy or antipathy.
Carl William Brown
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Isaac D’Israeli
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Samuel Johnson
Quotes help us understand, inspire, motivate, clarify and show our approach to things around, this is why people and I love quotes.
Takyou Allah Cheikh Malaynine
Old words are reborn with new faces.
Criss Jami
In quoting others, we cite ourselves.
Julio Cortazar
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
Immanuel Kant
Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
Guy Debord
Aphorisms, representing a knowledge broken, do invite men to enquire farther.
Francis Bacon
Man is a dwarf of himself, a caricature of his own nature, and quotes are a phalanx of truth arrayed against him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A quotation is a synthesis between poetry and prose, it is a narrative precipitate, it is a didactic parable, it is an ideological concept, in practice it is compressed, zipped philosophy.
Carl William Brown
A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
A.A. Milne
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Joseph Roux
I quote others only in order to better express myself.
Michel de Montaigne
Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs.
Guy Debord
Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author.
André-Marie Ampère
I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.
Abraham Lincoln
Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.
Orson Welles
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
Marlene Dietrich
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Isaac D’Israeli
Good quotes help to tell a story and enhance the credibility of a press release, news story, or speech. Words that are crafted well can leave a lasting impact on the world.
Holly Zuluaga
A quote can associate your brand with good feelings and create a deeper connection with your market on Facebook.
Krista Bunskoek
A good quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Anonymous
I have gathered a posy of other men’s flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.
Michel Eyquem de Montaigne
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
Brendan Francis
A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished.
The Talmud
Quotations, like much better things, has its abuses.
Isaac D’Israeli
When you visually tell your story with social media graphic quotes that are interesting and compelling, you can connect quickly and reach more people. This helps you to engage with your audience on a personal level so they understand you better.
Maren Inzer
Aphorisms are intimate encounters between two minds. If they don’t give you a little shock, something isn’t right.
James Geary
A quote is but the minimum form of writing elevated to the maximum degree of communicative expressiveness.
Carl William Brown
It is in the quotations of so many incredible people that I am able to find succinct clarity about life’s infinite challenges.
Peter Begley
Quotes are everywhere because they work. They motivate, encourage, and inspire.
Melissa Eshleman
According to my dad, a quotable quotation has to pass several tests. Is it memorable? Do you want to share it with others? Does it stand on its own? Is it interesting in itself? And, if it’s intended to be a humorous quotation, is it funny?
Gyles Brandreth
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Winston S. Churchill
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
Brendan Behan
You will die but the words you speak or spoke, will live forever.
Auliq Ice
Minds of people need a good revolution and great quotations are good revolutionists!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
Quotations have made a positive difference in my life, in some cases they have changed the way I think about a situation.
Catherine Pulsifer
The beauty of quotes is that they allow us to glimpse into another minds and understand how they think and look at the world.
Joseph Geran III
A quote is a powerful tool for our mind, our soul, our spirit. A quote can sharpen your mind and give you an instant and rapid relief if your soul is down, in a dark time.
Dotchamou Zakari
When we are searching for that spark of encouragement, a quote that resonates somewhere deep within us can be just the motivation we need to shift our perception of life. It can be the spark that ignites the courage to pursue a new direction in work, health, leisure.
Dave Farnham
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
George Bernard Shaw
The quotations when engraved upon the memory, give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
Winston Churchill
I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good.
Seneca
Reading quotations, remembering and repeating the well honored words of the great people; makes us wiser, helps us to make our utterances more authentic, our writings more meaningful.
R. P. Suri
A quotation represents a condensation of the spirit, a condensation of the philosophy and attitude adopted and applied by the author in his thoughts, speeches and actions.
Frederic Deltour
Quotes can get into your mind and change how you feel, think, or see a circumstance.
Sam McKenzie Jr.
It has occurred to me on many occasions that there can be a potentially concentrated amount of wisdom stored up in a very few words in the form of a Quote.
Barry Howard Begley
Inspirational quotes are so effective because they are isolated pieces of information, not muddied or diluted by surrounding words or sentences. There is no context to the quote, other than the context of your life.
Joe Tichio
The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.
Karl Kraus
The idea of “climate” in quotation marks is never going to be the issue. It’s always going to be a local, human issue. And so to the extent that you put ‘climate’ on the ballot, that’s never going to move the needle.
Tom Steyer
My job involves searching for ‘lost’ quotations that is, trying to find out who came up with a quotable saying that lingers in someone’s mind and which they wish to use for their own purpose and which they cannot find in conventional dictionaries of quotation.
Nigel Rees
Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do the Constitution: as a Chinese menu designed to allow picking and choosing. That’s because when many Democrats take the Bible as a whole, they realize how much they despise it.
Ben Shapiro
I love reference books, especially collections of memorable quotations, world almanacs, and atlases. Facts to me are like candy or popcorn, small, tasty delights, and I like to gorge on them now and then.
Walter Kirn
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation’s proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
William Feather
An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
An aphorism is an extreme synthesis of thesis and antithesis, of theory and practice, of intuition and observation, of hypotheses and illusions, of certainties and probabilities, of history and stupidity.
Carl William Brown
A humorous quotation is a little window on the world that gives life a comic twist.
Gyles Brandreth
Those quotations were really quite obscure. Anyone can see that he is a very well read man.
Barbara Pym
A few simple words can change your life. They may motivate, inspire and instil confidence in a person.
Hammad Farooqui
In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.
Bob Dylan
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation’s proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.
William Feather
I never have found the perfect quote. At best I have been able to find a string of quotations which merely circle the ineffable idea I seek to express.
Caldwell O’Keefe
An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.
Letitia Landon
You can read motivational quotes to increase your motivation.
Chris Johnston
It is often not the words but the message behind the words that makes a quote so meaningful. Even the shortest of quotations can convey the most powerful of messages, provide meaningful perspective, and impart hard-won wisdom.
Paul Ayoub
A very wise quote is a spectacular waterfall! When you see it, you feel its power!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
Marlene Dietrich
Quotations in my work are like wayside robbers who leap out armed and relieve the stroller of his conviction.
Walter Benjamin
It is usual that people who met success think differently and the quotes of those who think different makes an average person open their thought process in divergent angles.
Sreechinth C.
When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.
James Baldwin
They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies… the medium doesn’t matter, so long as it inspires you.
Aaron Koblin
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Benjamin Disraeli
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
Brendan Francis
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.
Winston Churchill
Quotations have many purposes. By reading them, they can change your outlook on a situation. They can inspire you to take action. They are also great to use to inspire and motivate others when you are giving a speech.
Catherine Pulsifer
The best way to let quotes speak to your life is to take a moment after reading each one and meditate upon what the author is trying to say. Hear their passion.
Pastor Duke Taber
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.
Marlene Dietrich
It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.
Mark Twain
Affirmations and quotes are a great way to rewire your thoughts.
Scott Allan
You could probably find one quotation to explain most of the political speeches that abound and you could save a lot of time by reading it and not the long speech.
Pardu Ponnapalli
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Joseph Roux
One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people’s throats and one always secretes too much jelly.
Virginia Woolf
The aphorism can safely be regarded as a delicate suppository, excellent for the reader therapy. Also because it is notoriously known for most of the people that it’s easier to put it in that place rather than in the brain.
Carl William Brown
It is always the same: women bedeck themselves with jewels and furs, and men with wit and quotations.
Maurice Chevalier
The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.
Susan Sontag
Try scrolling through a regular teenager’s Facebook or Instagram posts, everything is captioned with borrowed words or lyrics from songs, without any filters whatsoever and many times without quotation marks, because we all know what the millenials have done with punctuation.
Shweta Bachchan Nanda
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Hesketh Pearson
To be amused at what you read that is the great spring of quotation.
Charles Edward Montague
I’d lived by quotations, practically all my life.
Loretta Young
I like commas. I detest semi-colons I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn’t need them, they were fly-specks on the page.
E. L. Doctorow
Hipster Sexism consists of the objectification of women but in a manner that uses mockery, quotation marks, and paradox: the stuff you learned about in literature class. As funny as Dunham’s ‘Girls’ is, it can definitely border on Hipster Sexism.
Alissa Quart
We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quotation marks on either corner.
Rachael Ray
I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.
Bill F. Walsh
Let me just say something that I forgot, I also hoped and this was very true in the beginning that this would also be a place that people would be able to walk in to the fountain and use it in a nice way of reading and examining the quotations on the blocks.
Lawrence Halprin
I challenge the homes of Israel to display on their walls great quotations and scenes from the Book of Mormon.
Ezra Taft Benson
The Bible… provides no guide to reading the Bible. In fact, it is full of such inconsistencies, contradictions, lacunae, obscurities, baffling tales, and poetic imagery that to quote it at all is to select from conflicting alternative passages. Every quotation is therefore necessarily an interpretation.
James P. Carse
A lot of Christmas episodes feel like stories in quotation marks. Uh, a homeless guy comes to live with them and they all learn a lesson. That didn’t come from an organic place.
Raphael Bob-Waksberg
The more fluent the experience of reading a quote or the easier it is to grasp, the smoother it sounds, the more readily it comes to mind–the less likely we are to question the actual quotation.
Maria Konnikova
Like Hipster Racism, Hipster Sexism is a distancing gesture, a belief that, simply by applying quotations, uncool, questionable, and even offensive material about women can be alchemically transformed.
Alissa Quart
Vladimir Putin was awarded an advanced degree by the St. Petersburg Mining Institute with the help of a dissertation that, as two Brookings researchers discovered, included sixteen stolen pages and, remarkably, not a single set of quotation marks.
Evan Osnos
Some of the tactics that are used by Foxconn and other companies throughout China is, if you are late, if you violate one of the small rules, some of the punishment is that you have to copy down quotations from the chairman of Foxconn: you have to write out confessions explaining why you were late and promising never to do it again.
Charles Duhigg
I get asked to read new works a lot, in the hope that I will give a quotation and I will only give a ‘puff’ for a book I truly love.
Peter James
The point of quotations is that one can use another’s words to be insulting.
Carolyn Gold Heilbrun
A book that furnishes no quotations is no book it is a plaything.
Thomas Love Peacock
In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.
Arthur Miller
I fell upon Jenny Saville’s work and loved these great big pieces she was painting, celebrating all things flesh and woman, and with great big Simone Beauvoir quotations written in mirror writing so you had to look at yourself in the pictures to read them.
Rachael Stirling
It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman’s brain!
Anna Garlin Spencer
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.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.
Evelyn Waugh
I’m a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact.
Andrew Marr
Fidelity to the subject’s thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.
Janet Malcolm
I need no dictionary of quotations to remind me that the eyes are the windows of the soul.
Max Beerbohm
We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process.
Michael Steele
He wrapped himself in quotations as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Rudyard Kipling
I love powerful quotes because they can influence your life and give you something to reflect on with just a few words of wisdom at a time.
Kim Burke
Thomas Jefferson is probably the most quoted writer in American history, as the ringing words of the preamble to the Declaration of Independence are familiar to most Americans.
Alex Ayres
Or if you find yourself in a motivational dry spell, indulge yourself by binge reading the quotes until you feel the inspiration coming back.
Kent Rogerson
I always have a quotation for everything it saves original thinking.
Dorothy L. Sayers
As I continue to practice my passion of writing, I try to learn from every great quote that comes my way.
Dale Roberts
Through quotes, both simple yet powerful, my life has expanded to extraordinary heights in health, love, success and happiness.
Crystal Mavis
Jesus Christ is almost certainly the single most quoted – and most influential – individual in the recorded history of the human race.
Alex Ayres
The rich deposits of inspiration left by preceding generations take on a new vital significance. There never was a time when millions of people were more desperately in need of faith, hope and courage and peace of mind, of standards and ideals by which to live and above all an abiding belief in the future and in the progress of mankind.
Lester J. Bradshaw, Jr.
A funny, profound, inspiring quote is a quick way to spice up material.
Sam Horn
Let the words of the people that have gone before you help you as you go along into your own journey towards success and personal greatness in your life.
Julia Norton
In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.
George Eliot
