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Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure. – Agnes Sybil Thorndike (1882–1976)

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Dr. [Richard] Bentley’s son reading a novel, the Doctor said, “Why read a book which you cannot quote?” – Walpoliana (Horace Walpole, John Pinkerton), “Useless Reading,” January 1800

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What gems of painting or statuary are in the world of art, or what flowers are in the world of nature, are gems of thought to the cultivated and thinking. – Attributed to Oliver Wendell Holmes in Excellent Quotations for Home and School

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He repeated to himself an old French proverb that he had made up that morning. – F. Scott Fitzgerald

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One whom it is easier to hate, but still easier to quote–Alexander Pope. – Augustine Birrell

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