Quotations

A Round of Quotations

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. [George Santayana]

Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding. [Peg Bracken]

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool. [Joseph Roux]

There is nothing so ridiculous but some philosopher has said it. [Cicero]

Quotations help us remember the simple yet profound truths that give life perspective and meaning. [Chriswell Freeman]

One good quote may be worth a book. [With Unknown]

The Gist of this Quotations Collection

Prefer correct thinking to catchy phrases or demagogy. Here I have boiled down, toned down and reassembled many sayings and present such trimmed ideas along with straight quotations.

Keys

More on the use of abbreviations like with, mod, hum and cf: [LINK]
Numbers in square brackets [ ] refer to page numbers.
Text in square brackets [ ] is supplied for this edition.
Round brackets ( ) are used where brackets are found in the cited material.

Sources

The material is culled from a number of Internet sources besides quotation collections and proverb collections in book form.




Literature  

Dh: Sherrin. Ned, ed. The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations. Paperback ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996.

Dq: Cohen, J. M., and M. J. Cohen. The New Penguin Dictionary of Quotations. Rev. ed. London: Viking, 1992.

Em: Atkinson, Brooks, ed. Selected Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson. New York: Modern Library, 1950.

Oq: Ratcliffe, Susan, ed. The Oxford Dictionary of Thematic Quotations. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

Ph: Ayer, A., and Jane O'Grady. A Dictionary of Philosophical Quotations. Oxford: Blackwell, 1994.

Qu: Cohen, J. M., and M. J. Cohen. The Penguin Dictionary of Quotations. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1960.

Sju: Andreæ, D., m.fl. Citatboken. Stockholm: Natur och Kultur, 1986.

Tq: Cohen, M. J., ed. The Penguin Thesaurus of Quotations. London: Penguin Books, 1999.



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