[Q]uotations, like the words of our language itself, change in relevance and currency. – Robert Irvine Fitzhenry (1918–2008), The Harper Book of Quotations

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

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