A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.

If you have a talent, use it in every which way possible. Don't hoard it. Don't dole it out like a miser. Spend it lavishly like a millionaire intent on going broke.

—Brendan Francis

If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.

—Brendan Francis

People who ask our advice almost never take it. Yet we should never refuse to give it, upon request, for it often helps us to see our own way more clearly.

—Brendan Francis

A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.

—Brendan Francis

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

—Benjamin Disraeli

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

—Aristotle

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

—Unknown

Be careful—with quotations, you can damn anything.

—Andre Malraux

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

—Amos Bronson Alcott