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June 7, 2003



QUOTES



By Malik Uzair Ashraf


* I often quote myself, it adds spice to my conversation.
— George Bernard Shaw

* Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.
— Groucho Marx

* It’s a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
— Sir Winston Churchill

* Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn’t have said.
— Unknown

* The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
— W. Somerset Maugham

* Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
— Fred Allen

* I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

* Please note that “quotes” is a verb and “quotations” is the noun. One quotes someone and in doing so makes a quotation.
— Susan T. Case

* The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.
— Isaac Disraeli

* After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.
— Henry Louis Mencken, on Shakespeare

* A book of quotations . . . can never be complete.
— Robert M. Hamilton



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