Voltaire on quotations

If God has created us in His image, we have more than returned the compliment.

Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing: It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

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)

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882May 1849

Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before him.

Mark Twain1835–1910