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"Why is there a quotes page for the Quotes Wiki? Isn't that a tad redundant?"
— Me, after 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.
"Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough."
— Karl Marx's last words.
"Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote,
and think they grow immortal as they quote."
— Edward Young
"Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly."
— Simeon Strunsky, No Mean City (1944)
"Only damn fools quote themselves."
— Me
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'm sorry now I wrote it! But I can tell you anyhow, I'll kill you if you quote it! — Gelett Burgess
I hate quotation. Tell me what you know.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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 1776
You've got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because when you quote him accurately it's called mudslinging.
— Walter Mondale
Note that at least half of all Quotes Wiki entries seemingly have one or more quotes from Warhammer 40,000.
— Andrew J on the Warhammer40000 page example for Trope Overdosed.
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