On the subject of quotes and proverbs..... One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

Amos Bronson Alcott To select well among old things, is almost equal to inventing new ones. Nicholas Charles Trublet I have gathered a posie of other men's flowers, and nothing but the thread that binds them is my own. Michel de Montaigne Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind. William R. Alger

I am but a gatherer and disposer of other men's stuff. - Sir Henry Wotton

tealing someone else's words frequently spares the embarrassment of eating your own. Peter Anderson ! short saying oft contains much wisdom. Sophocles It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a boo". icesimus !no" ! collection of rare thoughts is nothing less than a cabinet of intellectual gems. William B. Sprague #revity is the soul of wit. William Sha#espeare$ Hamlet $ood sayings are li"e pearls strung together. Chinese Pro%erb

! proverb is to speech what salt is to food. Arabic Pro%erb #etter one line that will survive the author than a hundred boo"s outlived. Anonymous Proverbs are the cream of a nation's thought. &n#no'n There is not less wit, not less invention, in applying rightly a thought one finds in a boo", than in being the first author of that boo". Pierre Boyle ! proverb is much matter decocted into few words. Thomas (uller ! ma%im is the e%act and noble e%pression of an important and indisputable truth. $ood ma%ims are the germs of all e%cellence& when firmly fi%ed on the memory, they nourish the will. )oseph )oubert 'hy aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country( $reat boo"s aren't within everybody's reach. S. T. Coleridge )othing gives an author so much pleasure as to find his wor"s respectfully quoted by other learned authors. Ben*amin (ran#lin It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what glorious height we have at last reached. )ohann Wol+gang %on ,oethe *now the great men of your age. Baltasar ,raci-n ! thing is never too often repeated which is never sufficiently learned. Seneca

Time is of of no account with great thoughts, which are as fresh today as when they first passed through their authors' minds ages ago. Samuel Smiles The diamond may adorn royalty, regardless of personal worth& but +ewels of thought render even poverty illustrious and sublime. Gems for the Fireside Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom. )oseph )oubert There is only one categorical imperative, !ct only according to that ma%im by which you can at the same time will that it should become universal law. .mmanuel !ant ! proverb is much light condensed in one flash. Simmons