Nothing is so useless as a general maxim. Thomas Babington Macaulay
I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. Ralph Waldo Emerson
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit. W. Somerset Maugham
The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. Robert Benchley
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. Aristotle.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted. Hesketh Pearson
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Winston Churchill.
It is better to be quotable than to be honest. Tom Stoppard
Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely. Hesketh Pearson
To be amused by what you read – that is the great spring of happy quotations. C. E. Montague
To quote copiously and well requires taste, judgement and erudition, a feeling for the beautiful, an appreciation of the noble, and a sense of the profound. Christian Nestell Bovee
To be apt in quotation is a splendid and dangerous gift. Splendid, because it ornaments a man’s speech with other men’s jewels; dangerous, for the same reason. Robertson Davies
One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. Amos Bronson Alcott
A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool. Joseph Roux
I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him. Studs Terkel