Ambrose Bierce on quotations

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

Ocean: A body of water occupying 2/3 of a world made for man…who has no gills.

All are lunatics, but he who can analyze his delusions is called a philosopher.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Oscar Wilde1854–1900De Profundis (1897)

A witty saying proves nothing.

Voltaire1694–1778Le dîner du comte de Boulainvilliers (1767): Deuxième Entretien

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882May 1849