Top 10 Quotations on Quotes and Quotations

1. Philip G. Hamerton

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?

2. Groucho Marx

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

3. Isaac Disraeli

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

4. Henry Louis Mencken, on Shakespeare

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

5. Sir Winston Churchill

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

6. George Bernard Shaw

I often quote myself, it adds spice to my conversation.

7. Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

8. W. Somerset Maugham

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

9. Hesketh Pearson

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

10. Fred Allen

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.

FAMOUS QUOTES

1. Mark Twain

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

2. Luigi Pirandello

In bed my real love has always been the sleep that rescued me by allowing me to dream.

3. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Take the first step in faith. You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step.

4. Zig Ziglar

People often say that motivation doesn't last. Well, neither does bathing - that's why we recommend it daily.

5. T. S. Elliot

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

6. Buddha

All that we are is the result of what we have thought.

7. Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

8. Peter F. Drucker

We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.

9. Nora Roberts

If you don't go after what you want, you'll never have it. If you don't ask, the answer is always no. If you don't step forward, you're always in the same place.

10. Stephen Covey

Begin with the end in mind.