Ralph Keyes calls quotation collectors "quotographers," the men and women who gather catchwords, watchwords, war words, winged words, maxims, mottos, sayings, and quips into books of a thousand pages. Through the centuries quotation collectors have saved quotations that would otherwise be lost.
Misquotation is quotology’s swamp. Amateur quoters mix and mangle Shakespeare and Scripture. Professors gaffe and printers bungle. It’s a mess we mus… - Willis Regier
Misquotation is quotology’s swamp. Amateur quoters mix and mangle Shakespeare and Scripture. Professors gaffe and printers bungle. It’s a mess we mus…
- Willis Regier
If you flatter yourself properly you will be better able to enjoy yourself. Stretch your joy so that others enjoy you too. - Willis Regier
If you flatter yourself properly you will be better able to enjoy yourself. Stretch your joy so that others enjoy you too.
Quotation lovers love rare words. - Willis Regier
Quotation lovers love rare words.
Great quotation collections glean the millennia, distill essences, and battle for bragging rights about who’s bigger, who’s smarter, who’s best. Who-… - Willis Regier
Great quotation collections glean the millennia, distill essences, and battle for bragging rights about who’s bigger, who’s smarter, who’s best. Who-…
At its best, flattery is truth well dressed, and it is best dressed with fine see-through fabrics. Honest flattery can caress a lover, cover up a gaf… - Willis Regier
At its best, flattery is truth well dressed, and it is best dressed with fine see-through fabrics. Honest flattery can caress a lover, cover up a gaf…
In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates. - Willis Regier
In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates.
Flattery works like a drug. - Willis Regier
Flattery works like a drug.
Quotologists encounter happy surprises, bright books by faded authors, treasures hidden under dust. - Willis Regier
Quotologists encounter happy surprises, bright books by faded authors, treasures hidden under dust.
Excellent flatterers welcome attentive audiences; mighty potentates enjoy public praise. In the most pleasing situation, a flatterer would genuinely … - Willis Regier
Excellent flatterers welcome attentive audiences; mighty potentates enjoy public praise. In the most pleasing situation, a flatterer would genuinely …
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