The use of famous quotations in news stories elicits different views from reporters and editors.
Writers often believe clever quotes and quips dress up an otherwise pedestrian story.
Editors grumble that writers sometimes carelessly misattribute famous quotations, making the paper look foolish, and causing the city desk's telephone to ring. Fortunately, both camps can now use a well-established famous quotation resource on the Internet. The site, called The Quotations Page, operated by Utah-based computer book author Michael Moncur, has dozens of uses in a busy newsroom. With the site, you verify your suspicion that it actually originates with Shakespeare. You use the site to determine the speaker was Woodrow Wilson at the turn of the century.