To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.

War hath no fury like a non-combatant.

A lie will easily get you out of a scrape, and yet, strangely and beautifully, rapture possesses you when you have taken the scrape and left out the lie.

The number of medals on an officer's breast varies in inverse proportion to the square of the distance of his duties from the front line.

There is no limit to what a man can do so long as he does not care a straw who gets the credit for it.

Patriotism has served, at different times, as widely different ends as a razor, which ought to be used in keeping your face clean and yet may be used to cut your own throat or that of an innocent person.

To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.

Take delight in a thing, or rather in anything, not as a means to some other end, but just because it is what it is. A child in the full health of his mind will put his hand flat on the summer lawn, feel it, and give a little shiver of private glee at the elastic firmness of the globe.

Life itself is a quotation.

I caution against beginning or ending a quotation with ellipses.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

We are cooling. We are not warming. The warming you see out there, the supposed warming, and I use my finger quotation marks here, is part of the cooling process.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

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

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

She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all forests, and mines, and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

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

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.

An apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

It is an old error of man to forget to put quotation marks where he borrows from a woman's brain!

To be amused at what you read - that is the great spring of quotation.

Every man is a quotation from all his ancestors.

Fidelity to the subject's thought and to his characteristic way of expressing himself is the sine qua non of journalistic quotation.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

I like commas. I detest semi-colons - I don't think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn't need them, they were fly-specks on the page.

I'm a great believer in the direct quote in quotation marks and the hard fact.

Selective Biblical quotation is a favorite of leftists who interpret the Bible the same way they do the Constitution: as a Chinese menu designed to allow picking and choosing. That's because when many Democrats take the Bible as a whole, they realize how much they despise it.

The Bible... provides no guide to reading the Bible. In fact, it is full of such inconsistencies, contradictions, lacunae, obscurities, baffling tales, and poetic imagery that to quote it at all is to select from conflicting alternative passages. Every quotation is therefore necessarily an interpretation.

Vladimir Putin was awarded an advanced degree by the St. Petersburg Mining Institute with the help of a dissertation that, as two Brookings researchers discovered, included sixteen stolen pages - and, remarkably, not a single set of quotation marks.

We have a queen-size bed and the dog sleeps in the middle. John and I are sort of these little quotation marks on either corner.

From heav'nly thoughts all true delight doth spring.

After the navy, I transferred to Harvard and finished there. I was there the spring term of 1951 and I stayed through the summer term and a whole other year, so I was able to do two years in a little less than a year and a half.

Just able barely to mount a horse and ride about a little in the spring of 1866, my life was threatened daily, and I was forced to go heavily armed. The whole country was then full of militia, robbing, plundering and killing.

We would load up the yellow Cutlass Supreme station wagon and pick blackberries during blackberry season or spring onions during spring onion season. For us, food was part of the fabric of our day.

Spring beckons! All things to the call respond; the trees are leaving and cashiers abscond.

Lucas attended a conference on rational expectations at the University of Minnesota in the spring of 1973. The day after the conference, I received a call from Pittsburgh.

You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street.

Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path.

Fantastic! Right in the middle of that long stretch between Christmas and Spring Break, your coats are getting dirty, everything's dark, dingy - what a great time for a movie!

Almost all of our sorrows spring out of our relations with other people.

One swallow does not make a summer, but one skein of geese, cleaving the murk of March thaw, is the Spring.

Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.