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

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

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