Quotes about Quotations

There is nothing so ridiculous but some philosopher has said it.

One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats—and one always secretes too much jelly.

I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

The reputations of the nineteenth century will one day be quoted to prove its barbarism.

Romans contains some seventy-four references to the Old Testament (mostly from Psalms and Isaiah). "It is written" occurs nineteen times in this book, more than half of all the times Paul uses the phrase.

it began with a prayer built from the ground up of solid courses of Scriptural quotations, welded together with a thin mortar of originality; and from the summit of this she delivered a grim chapter of the Mosaic Law, as from Sinai.

I never said most of the things attributed to me. Always check with the Quote Investigator website before posting, like I did when I was alive.