Logo
A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the lat

A learned historian declared to me of a contemporary, that the latter had appropriated his researches; he might, indeed, and he had a right to refer to the same originals; but if his predecessor had opened the sources for him, gratitude is not a silent virtue. – Isaac D’Israeli, “Quotation,” A Second Series of Curiosities of Literature

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Quotations
category

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words. – E.M. Cioran, “Atrophy of Utterance,” All Gall Is Divided: Gnomes and Apothegms,

Category:
Quotations

Proverbs are in the world of thought what gold coin is in the world of business—great value in small compass, and equally current among all people. Sometimes the proverb may be false, the coin counterfeit, but in both cases the false proves the value of the true. – Attributed to D. March in A Dictionary of Thoughts: A Cyclopedia of Laconic Quot

Category:
Quotations

To be amused by what you read — that is the great spring of happy quotations. – C.E. Montague (1867–1928), “Quotation”

Category:
Quotations

A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. – Yiddish Proverb

Category:
Quotations

Random Quotes

Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof. – Ashley Montagu

Category:
Science

Telephone, n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance. – Ambrose Bierce

Category:
Telephones

Willful waste brings woeful want. – Thomas Fuller

Category:
Excess

Proverbs are potted wisdom. – Charles Buxton

Category:
Quotations