Talk:Quotations

"You make Your own history." - Anonymous

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Why are some quotes in bold lettering?

This shows the writers intention to make the readers see them and think for a second.

No, it shows that some editor has made the decision to highlight a particular quote at the expense of others. Ed Fitzgerald 09:21, 18 May 2007 (UTC)

commented out part

"QUOTES POSTED HERE THAT HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH QUOTATIONS -- NEED TO BE RELOCATED"

• Ask anything to the right person, and you will get the correct answer.
  • Alex Grigorijevic - Melbourne Australia March 2006

• Labels are the little boxes that SOCIETY forces us into, so that IT can make sense of this thing we call life.
  • Tamryn Hunter

• Play your life like a game of chess... With strategy and forethought.
  • Tamryn Hunter, February 2007

• History belongs to those who dare to write it.
  • Steven Wang, 2005

Retrieved by Aphaia 19:11, 17 May 2007 (UTC)

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• A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
  • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

• Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning ... and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
  • Bergen Evens

• And yes the reason I love quotes— it gets us back to the way life used to be and should be ... and we must be reminded as life is becoming very stressful, very busy, families are no longer what they used to be and I love to be reminded to slow down and smell the roses. Think about where you are going and what you are doing. They truly give life perspective.
  • Bobbi Fillmore

• Quotations help us remember the simple yet profound truths that give life perspective and meaning. When it comes to life's most important lessons, we can all use gentle reminders.
  • Chriswell Freeman

• Stop quoting me!
  • Jimmy Henderson

• What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?
  • Doctor Who

• Quotation is the highest compliment you can pay to an author.
  • Samuel Johnson

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

• A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself.
  • A. A. Milne

• Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them.
  • Samuel Palmer

• Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
  • Hesketh Pearson
    • Nigel Rees implies in his Quote... Unquote Newsletter (Vol. 26, No 2, April 2017) that this quote appears in Pearson's Common Misquotations (1937). Unfortunately, I have not been able to verify this since I don't have access to the book. --Hughh (talk) 15:40, 1 April 2017 (UTC)

• A witty quotation only makes the obvious less so, but it can also make the painfully obvious less painfully so.
  • R. G. Shemeley

• If a man throws peaches at another man...he wants to fight!
  • Shawn Baker

• Hush, little bright line, don't you cry,
  You'll be a clieché by and by.
  • Fred Allen

• To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I hope for.
  • Alexander Smith

• The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them.
  • Issac D'Israeli (1766-1848)