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Top 10 Quotations on Quotes and Quotations

By Simran Khurana, About.com Guide

After having read quotations on almost every topic, how would you like to read quotations about quotations? That's right; there are famous quotations by famous people on the subject of quotations. Intrigued? Read on.

1. Philip G. Hamerton

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?

2. Groucho Marx

Quote me as saying I was mis-quoted.

3. Isaac Disraeli

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

4. Henry Louis Mencken, on Shakespeare

After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations.

5. Sir Winston Churchill

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

6. George Bernard Shaw

I often quote myself, it adds spice to my conversation.

7. Ralph Waldo Emerson

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

8. W. Somerset Maugham

The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

9. Hesketh Pearson

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

10. Fred Allen

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

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