10. Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
-Fred Allen
9. Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
-Hesketh Pearson
8. The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-W. Somerset Maugham
7. I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
6. I often quote myself, it adds spice to my conversation.
-George Bernard Shaw
5. It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
-Sir Winston Churchill
4. After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
-Henry Louis Mencken, on Shakespeare
3. The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.
-Isaac Disraeli
2. Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
-Groucho Marx
1. 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 G. Hamerton
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