The words erroneously repeated. Goldwyn A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience. Robert M. Hamilton One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. Tell me what you know.
Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more. I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own. The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.