Positive Quotes on Quotations

A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
Brendan Francis

Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.
Samuel Johnson

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
Author Unknown

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

People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
David H. Comins

Life itself is a quotation.
Jorge Luis Borges

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
Benjamin Disraeli

A book of quotations - can never be complete.
Robert M. Hamilton