History Quotes / QuotesWiki

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->'""Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.”''
-->--'''Michel de Montaigne'''

->''""Quotation is an acceptable substitute for wit."''
-->--'''Creator/OscarWilde'''

->''"Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote,''
->''and think they grow immortal as they quote."''
->-- '''Edward Young'''

-->-- Simeon Strunsky, ''No Mean City'' (1944)

->''Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.''
-->-- Hesketh Pearson, ''Common Misquotations'', Introduction

->''Ah, yes! I wrote "The Purple Cow" --\\

I'll kill you if you quote it!''
-->-- Gelett Burgess

->''I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.''
-->-- Creator/RalphWaldoEmerson

->'"Ben Franklin:''' Treason is a word invented by winners as an excuse for hanging the losers.
->'''John Adams:''' I have better things to do than stand here listening to you quote yourself.
->'''Ben Franklin:''' No, that was a new one!
->-- from ''[[SeventeenSeventySix 1776]]''

->''A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought.''
-->'''Creator/DorothyLSayers''', ''[[LordPeterWimsey Gaudy Night]]''

->'"'Ben Franklin:''' Treason is a word invented by winners as an excuse for hanging the losers.

->'"Ben Franklin:''' Treason is a word invented by winners as an excuse for hanging the losers.

->'''Ben Franklin:''' Treason is a word invented by winners as an excuse for hanging the losers.

->''"Off I go, rummaging about in books for sayings which please me.”''

->-- '''Karl Marx''''s last words.

->-- Simeon Strunsky, ''No Mean City'' (1944)

->-- Hesketh Pearson, ''Common Misquotations'', Introduction

->-- Gelett Burgess

->-- Creator/RalphWaldoEmerson

->''By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.''
->-- Creator/RalphWaldoEmerson

->''You've got to be careful quoting RonaldReagan, because when you quote him accurately it's called mudslinging.''
->-- Walter Mondale

->''"[[NakedPeopleAreFunny I'M NAKED!]]"''
->-- '''[[Webcomic/BoyMeetsBoy Harlequinn "Harley" Goldman]]

->''"Why is there a quotes page for the QuotesWiki? [[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment Isn't that a tad redundant?]]"''
->-- '''[[Tropers.ReikoKazama Me]]''', after [[MustHaveCaffeine having downed the last of a 1.25 litre bottle of Pepsi MAX]] and finished off the last of my chocolate supply for the day. Guess a mixture of sugar and caffeine gets you in the mood for questioning these things.

->''"Only damn fools quote themselves."''
->-- Me

->''Note that at least half of all QuotesWiki entries seemingly have one or more quotes from TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}.''
->-- Andrew J on the ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' page example for TropeOverdosed.

-->'''I love dicks!'''
-->--'''Spidey 3000 on his gay blow-job activities.

-->'''DorothyLSayers''', ''[[LordPeterWimsey Gaudy Night]]''

->-- '''[[Tropers.ReikoKazama Me]]''', after [[MustHaveCaffeine having downed the last of a 1.25 litre bottle of Pepsi MAX]] and [[EverythingsBetterWithChocolate finished off the last of my chocolate supply for the day]]. Guess a mixture of sugar and caffeine gets you in the mood for questioning these things.

->-- RalphWaldoEmerson

->-- RalphWaldoEmerson

->-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

->-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

->''Note that at least half of all QuotesWiki entries seemingly have one or more quotes from Warhammer40K.''
->-- Andrew J on the ''{{Warhammer40000}}'' page example for TropeOverdosed.

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->''You've got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because when you quote him accurately it's called mudslinging.''

->'''Ben Franklin:''' Treason is word invented by winners as an excuse for hanging the losers.

->-- '''[[Tropers.ReikoKazama Me]]''', after [[MustHaveCaffeine having downed the last of a 1.25 litre bottle of Pepsi MAX]] and [[EverythingsBetterWithChocolate finished off the last of my chocolate supply]]. Guess a mixture of sugar and caffeine gets you in the mood for questioning these things.

->''Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.''

->''I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.''

->''By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.''

->'''[[Tropers.ReikoKazama Me]]''', after [[MustHaveCaffeine having downed the last of a 1.25 litre bottle of Pepsi MAX]] and [[EverythingsBetterWithChocolate finished off the last of my chocolate supply]]. Guess a mixture of sugar and caffeine gets you in the mood for questioning these things.

->''Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.''

->''I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.''

->''By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.''