It is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed by someone wiser than oneself.

The best quotes don't speak to one particular truth, but rather to universal truths that resonate — across time, culture, gender, generation, and situation — in our own hearts and minds. They guide, motivate, validate, challenge, and comfort us in our own lives. They reiterate what we've figured out and remind us how much there is yet to learn. Pithily and succinctly, they lift us momentarily out of the confused and conflicted human muddle. Most of all, they tell us we're not alone. Their existence is proof that others have questioned, grappled with, and come to know the same truths we question and grapple with, too.

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

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of the writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one.

I think of quotes as mini–instruction manuals for the soul.

By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote.

Maybe our favorite quotations say more about us than about the stories and people we're quoting.

Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay an author.

When we can't think for ourselves, we can always quote

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

"[A] quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business."

(<i>The Record Lie</i>)

I adore adverbs; they are the only qualifications I really much respect.

Ever day someone somewhere in the world is quoting me.