A half truth is a whole lie.

-- Yiddish Proverb, Unknown , Unknown

A witty saying proves nothing.

-- Voltaire, Unknown , Unknown

Actions speak louder than words.

-- Theodore Roosevelt, Unknown , Unknown

As I think back and look forward, I see how nothing is unambiguous; nothing is without risk. Salvation does not come through simplicities.

-- A. Bartlett Giam[m]ati, Unknown , 1986

Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.

-- Wilson Mizner, Unknown , 1876-1933

General notions are generally wrong.

-- Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, letter, March 1710

Godwin's Law: As an online discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.

-- Mike Godwin, Unknown , Unknown

He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know.

-- Abraham Lincoln, Unknown , Unknown

He who trains his tongue to quote the learned sages, will be known far and wide as a smart ass.

-- Howard Kandel, Unknown , Unknown

He who would pun would pick a pocket.

-- Dr. Maturin, Master and Commander, Unknown

I got so tired of hearing those proverbs when I was a child. Now I use them all the time. Sometimes they are the best way to say what needs to be said. I teach them to my students. I have a collection of proverbs for class discussion and writing assignments.

-- Marva Collins, Unknown , Unknown

I have gathered a posie of other men’s flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is mine own.

-- John Bartlett (of Bartlett's Familar Quotations), Unknown , Unknown

I might repeat to myself, slowly and soothingly, a list of quotations beautiful from minds profound; if I can remember any of the damn things.

-- Dorothy Parker, Unknown , Unknown

I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed; and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.

-- James Boswell, Unknown , born October 29, 1740

If a student submits a paper that is good enough to be published, maybe it has.

-- Dr. Jefferson D. Caskey, Unknown , c.1977-8

If you don't open your mouth, you don't get fed.

-- Old Saying, Unknown , Unknown

If you have anything to tell me of importance, for God's sake begin at the end.

-- Sara Jeannette Duncan, Unknown , 1861-1922

In places, this book is a little over-written because Mr. Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink.

-- George Orwell, on Edmund Blunden, Unknown , Unknown

In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man. If you want anything done, ask a woman.

-- Margaret Thatcher, b. 1925, Unknown , 1970

In the matter of soliloquies we cannot accept Hamlet as an unbiased authority. We merely find in him the possible origin of the belief that talking to oneself is a bad sign.

-- Max Beerbohm, Unknown , Unknown

Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.

-- Ronald Reagan, Unknown , Unknown

It is a good thing for an educated man to read books of quotations.

-- Winston Churchill, Unknown , 1874-1965

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

-- Tom Stoppard, Unknown , born July 3, 1937

It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However important the thing you say, what's the good of it if not heard or, being heard, not felt?

-- Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Unknown , Unknown

Light travels faster than sound--isn't that why some people appear bright until you hear them speak?

-- Steven Wright, Unknown , Unknown

Misquotation is the pride and privilege of the learned.

-- Hesketh Pearson, Unknown , Unknown

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

-- Hesketh Pearson, Unknown , Unknown

Nothing is so useless as a general maxim.

-- Thomas Babington Macaulay, Unknown , born October 25, 1800

Originality is the art of concealing your sources.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

Our minorities alone are in a position to know what the fathers of our democracy were talking about.

-- Sarah Patton Boyle, Unknown , Unknown

Plato used the dialogue format because the exchange of views, the posing and answering of questions, showed that understanding is a living, dynamic process. He distrusted writing because the settled character of the written word makes it look as if truth can be fixed and made to stand still. It is worth remembering that this greatest advocate of the objective reality of truth also believed that our access to that truth was sustained in reasoned discussion.

-- John Churchill, From the Secretary: Inspiring Conversations in The Key Reporter. Vol 67, Number 4. P. 2., Summer 2002

Quoting: the act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

-- Ambrose Bierce, Unknown , Unknown

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider

-- Francis Bacon, Of Studies, 1605

The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.

-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, Unknown , born September 24, 1896.

The cruelest lies are often told in silence.

-- Adlai Stevenson, Unknown , Unknown

The man who doesn't read has no advantage over the man who can't read.

-- Mark Twain, Unknown , Unknown

The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.

-- Thomas Jefferson, Unknown , Unknown

The rest is silence.

-- William Shakespeare, Hamlet, V. 2., Unknown

The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.

-- Robert Benchley, Unknown , born September 15, 1889

The text is a machine for producing meaning.

-- Octavio Paz, Unknown , Unknown

The written word endures. Litera scripta manet.

-- unknown, Unknown , Unknown

There's a difference between philosophy and a bumper sticker.

-- Charles Schulz, Unknown , born November 26, 1922

This website snared me!

-- Kenneth Kuehn, personal communication w/regard to the quotation website., June 2006

To generalize is to be an idiot.

-- William Blake, Unknown , Unknown

Truth fears no questions.

-- Unknown, Unknown , Unknown

We cannot learn from one another until we stop shouting at each other; until we speak quietly enough so that our words can be heard as well as our voices.

-- Richard M. Nixon, Unknown , Unknown

Well done is better than well said.

-- Benjamin Franklin, Unknown , Unknown

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.

-- Samuel Palmer, Unknown , 1805-1880

You ain't learnin' nothin' when you're talkin'.

-- Lyndon B. Johnson, Unknown , Unknown

You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted, then used against you.

-- Unknown , Unknown , Unknown

…one of the great ironies of Western philosophy. Its founding practitioner, Socrates, wrote nothing down--no philosophy, anyway; and his greatest pupil so distrusted writing that he wrote dialogues, a form that mimics the life of the spoken word.

-- John Churchill, From the Secretary: Inspiring Conversations in The Key Reporter. Vol 67, Number 4. P. 2., Summer 2002