Inspirational Quotations, Page 2

He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind. Samuel Johnson

When we would prepare the mind by a forcible appeal, an opening quotation is a symphony preluding on the chords those tones we are about to harmonize. Benjamin Disraeli

Good sayings are like pearls strung together. Chinese Proverb

Time is of of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their authors' minds ages ago. Samuel Smiles

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

A collection of quotes and sayings can be "described as a distillation of the best that has been said and written on the most important subjects - from the earliers times to our own day." Lewis C. Henry

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. Amos Bronson Alcott

A quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished. The Talmud

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations. Sir J. Mackintosh

Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs. Guy Debord

Reading a quotation can change the way we think about things, it can make us stop and question our current beliefs. Catherine Puslifer

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

Our best thoughts come from others. Ralph Waldo Emerson

The point of quotations is that one can use another's words to be insulting. Amanda Cross

A short saying oft contains much wisdom. Sophocles