[B]ut in literature, it should be remembered, a thing always becomes his at last who says it best, and thus makes it his own. – James Russell Lowell Category: Quotations
At all events, the next best thing to being witty one’s self, is to be able to quote another’s wit. – Christian Nestell Bovee, “Quoters and Quoting,” Institutions and Summaries of Th Category: Quotations
Perish the men who said our good things before us! – Aelius Donatus, quoted in Edge-Tools of Speech by Maturin M. Ballou, 1886 Category: Quotations
Patch grief with proverbs; make misfortune drunk… – William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, c.1598 Category: Quotations
Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah. – Thomas Huxley Category: Science
Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title. – Virginia Woolf Category: Past
