Wednesday, July 24, 2013

Quotations on quotations






Like your body your mind also gets tired so refresh it by wise sayings. 
Hazrat Ali

he only way to read a book of aphorisms without being bored is to open it at random and, having found something that interests you, close the book and meditate. 
Prince Charles-Joseph de Ligne, 1796


I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

Marlene Dietrich

In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink.~George Orwell, review of Cricket Country 

 Edmund Blunden, in Manchester Evening News

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted, than when we read it in the original author? 

Philip Gilbert Hamerton, The Intellectual Life, 1873


                                 Life itself is a quotation. 
                                      Jorge Luis Borge

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