Cunning authors cut to be quoted. – Willis Goth Regier, Quotology, 2010

For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase… – William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet

There is a homely directness about these rustic apothegms which makes them far more palatable than the strained and sophisticated epigrams of the characters of Oscar Wilde’s plays, who are ever striving strenuously to dazzle us with verbal pyrotechnics. – Brander Matthews, “American Aphorisms,” Harper’s Magazine, November 1915,