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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

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To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.

—C. E. Montague

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

—Brendan Francis

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

—Benjamin Disraeli

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It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

—Aristotle

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Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

—Unknown

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Be careful -- with quotations, you can damn anything.

—Andre Malraux

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

—Amos Bronson Alcott

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Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

—Ambrose Bierce

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I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning , or destroyed it altogether.

—Alfred North Whitehead

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Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

—Alfred North Whitehead

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Each painting has its own way of evolving...When the painting is finished, the subject reaveals itself.

—William Baziotes

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Painting is silent poetry, and poetry is painting with the gift of speech.

—Simonides

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I say that good painters imitated nature; but that bad ones vomited it.

—Miguel de Cervantes

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A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.

—Michelangelo Buonarroti

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