"An analogous process I shall call Churchillian Drift ... Whereas quotations with an apothegmatic feel are normally ascribed to Shaw, those with a more grandiose or belligerent tone are, as if by osmosis, credited to Churchill. All humorous remarks obviously made by a female originated, of course, with Dorothy Parker. All quotations in translation, on the other hand, should be attributed to Goethe (with "I think" obligatory)."

"Stop quoting laws, we carry weapons!"

"The next best thing to being clever is being able to quote someone who is."

"It seems simple: a quotation is a repetition of a saying : But leading language philosophers — Frege, Tarski, Geach, Quine, Searle — recognized that quotations are trouble. Donald Davidson was taught that quotation is “a somewhat shady device” and an “invitation to sin.”"

"Nor suffers Horace more in wrong translations By wits, than critics in as wrong quotations."

"I ask for your indulgence when I march out quotations. This is the double syndrome of men who write for a living and men who are over forty. The young smoke pot — we inhale from our Bartlett's."

"All those who listen to me shall pass on my words to others and those to others again; and may the last ones understand my words better than those who listen to me directly."

"I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if i can remember any of the damn things."

"We are what we have deitalicized."

"The undigested is quoted, the assimilated is not."

"Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely."

"… I have seen books made of things neither studied nor ever understood … the author contenting himself for his own part, to have cast the plot and projected the design of it, and by his industry to have bound up the fagot of unknown provisions; at least the ink and paper his own. This may be said to be a buying or borrowing, and not a making or compiling of a book."

"Quando mi viene in mente un bell'aforisma, lo metto in conto a Montesquieu, od a La Rochefoucauld. Non si sono mai lamentati."

"I've always felt that if a thing had been said in the best way, how can you say it better? … If you are charmed by an author, I think it's a very strange and invalid imagination that doesn't long to share it. Somebody else should read it."

"Je ne dis les autres, sinon pour d'autant plus me dire."

"When you see yourself quoted in print and you're sorry you said it, it suddenly becomes a misquotation."

"I got $25 from Reader's Digest last week for something I never said. I get credit all the time for things I never said."

"What lunkhead said, "there's no such thing as a free lunch"? According to the Columbia World of Quotations, no one is exactly sure."

"She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit…"

"The French public seem to estimate the master pieces of their favorite tragic poets chiefly by the number of fine quotable passages they supply; while their critics estimate their worth by their conformity with certain purely artificial rules."

"It is a sure sign of troubled minds, the habit of quotation."

"Anyone can tell the truth, but only very few of us can make epigrams."

"They had been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps."

"Comme quelqu'un pourroit dire de moy, que j'ay seulement faict icy un amas de fleurs estrangieres, n'y ayant fourny du mien que le filet à les lier."

"Though old the thought and oft exprest, 'Tis his at last who says it best."

"The poem, although widely differing in subject from any of Mrs. Lewis' prior compositions, and far superior to any of them in general vigor, artistic skill, and assured certainty of purpose, is nevertheless easily recognizable as the production of the same mind which originated "Florence" and "The Forsaken." We perceive, throughout, the same passion, the same enthusiasm, and the same seemingly reckless abandon of thought and manner which we have already mentioned as characterizing the writer. We should have spoken also, of a fastidious yet most sensitive and almost voluptuous sense of Beauty. These are the general traits of "The Child of the Sea:" but undoubtedly the chief value of the poem, to ordinary readers, will be found to lie in the aggregation of its imaginative passages—its quotable points."

"Truth is not something in the distance; there is no path to it, there is neither your path nor my path; there is no devotional path, there is no path of knowledge or path of action, because truth has no path to it. The moment you have a path to truth, you divide it, because the path is exclusive; and what is exclusive at the very beginning will end in exclusiveness. The man who is following a path can never know truth because he is living in exclusiveness; his means are exclusive, and the means are the end, are not separate from the end. If the means are exclusive, the end is also exclusive. So there is no path to truth, and there are not two truths. Truth is not of the past or the present, it is timeless; the man who quotes the truth of the Buddha, of Shankara, of Christ, or who merely repeats what I am saying, will not find truth, because repetition is not truth. Repetition is a lie."

"I don't like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what's even worse, of being quoted exactly."

"C'est souvent hasarder un bon mot et vouloir le perdre quo de le donner pour sien."

":: Corollary 2F: In a pinch, any orphan quote can be called a Chinese proverb."

":: Corollary 2C: Comments made about someone might as well have been said by that person."

":: Corollary 2D: Who you think said something may depend on where you live."

":: Corollary 2E: Vintage quotes are considered to be in the public domain."

"'Twas not an Age ago since most of our Books were nothing but Collections of Latin Quotations; there was not above a line or two of French in a Page."

":: Corollary 2B: Particularly quotable figures receive more than their share of quotable quotes."

":: Corollary 1E: Journalists are a less than dependable source of accurate quotes."

":: Corollary 1F: Famous dead people make excellent commentators on current events."

":: Corollary 1C: Small changes can have a big impact (or: what a difference an a makes)."

":: Corollary 1D: If noted figures don't say what needs to be said, we'll say it for them."

": Axiom 2. Famous quotes need famous mouths."

": Axiom 1. Any quotation that can be altered will be."

"The Rules of Misquotation:"

":: Corollary 1A: Vivid words hook misquotes in the mind."

":: Corollary 2A: Well-known messengers get credit for clever comments they report from less celebrated mouths."

":: Corollary 1B: Numbers are hard to keep straight."

"An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence."

"People who like quotations love meaningless generalizations."

"But quotations and aphorisms are generally just verbal Christmas presents; enticingly done up in pretty paper and ribbons, but once you get them open they generally turn out to be just socks."

"When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it. Give references? Why should you? Either your readers know where you have taken the passage and the precaution is needless, or they do not know and you humiliate them."

"Stronger than an army is a quotation whose time has come and which is true."