It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
— Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.
— Benjamin Disraeli
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first.
— Unknown
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
— Mark Twain (1835-1910)
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
— René Descartes, (1596-1650)
I hate quotations
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
2007-07-07 11:10:39 · 10 answers · asked by HawaiianBrian 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
To Mr. Lucky: Uhh, thanks?
2007-07-07 11:29:41 · update #1
I use quotes because usually someone else has already said what I want to say, only they said it more articulately than I can.
2007-07-07 11:14:35 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
A Witty Saying Proves Nothing
2016-11-16 05:36:38 · answer #2 · answered by matushevskiy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Witty Saying
2016-12-16 04:37:10 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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Was Voltaire right? "A witty saying proves nothing."?
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.
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2015-08-18 11:16:09 · answer #4 · answered by Roxane 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps its the gulf between saying and doing. Voltaire (love that guy) was French. It's understood there that so much hot wind being spoken ammounts to nothing when actions is required. Maybe he meant the cliche's people use. He's trying to talk serious philosophy and someone pipes in with 'look on the bright side of life' by Monty Python.(song at end of Life of Brian)
2007-07-07 11:15:54 · answer #5 · answered by St. Toad 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
The poetics of clever words or mere existential. WE are becoming more and more a world of empirical experiences rather than reason. The age of reason is over... it is all about the illusion. The illusion created from words are left to the connection and references of the reader to recreate for themself. But, it is better to reflect upon life... than death.
2007-07-07 11:20:02 · answer #6 · answered by polity 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Quote shoud be catchy, precise and true. Quote has to corrosponse to reality to make more sense.
2007-07-07 11:13:24 · answer #7 · answered by hpathik 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
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Truth will always be truth, regardless of lack of understanding, disbelief or ignorance.
2016-04-07 02:24:43 · answer #8 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would just say that witty sayings are funny anyway.
2016-03-13 22:27:13 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Voltaire also famously said,'If God did not exist man would have to invent him',which is a sad comment on us.
2007-07-07 11:18:32 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋