{"id":3555,"date":"2012-10-11T09:29:14","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T13:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=3555"},"modified":"2012-10-11T09:29:47","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T13:29:47","slug":"quotes-on-the-use-of-quotes-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=3555","title":{"rendered":"Quotes on the use of quotes"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\u00a0An apt quotation is as good as an original remark. &#8211;\u00a0Proverb<\/li>\n<li>The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. \u2013 Benjamin Disraeli<\/li>\n<li>I quote others only the better to express myself. &#8211;\u00a0Michel de Montaigne<\/li>\n<li>I hate quotations, tell me what you know. \u2013 Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/li>\n<li>Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language. &#8211;\u00a0Johnson<\/li>\n<li>A thing is never too often repeated which is never sufficiently learned. \u2013 Seneca<\/li>\n<li>A good conversationalist is not one who remembers what was said, but says what someone wants to remember. \u2013 Jason Mason Brown<\/li>\n<li>A proverb is the child of experience. \u2013 Anon.<\/li>\n<li>Proverbs are the sanctuary of the intuitions. \u2013 Ralph Waldo Emerson<\/li>\n<li>The wise make proverbs and fools repeat them. \u2013 Isaac D\u2019Israeli<\/li>\n<li>Democracy will not be salvaged by men who talk fluently, debate forcefully, and quote aptly. \u2013 Lancelot Hogben<\/li>\n<li>It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. \u2013 Sir Winston Churchill<\/li>\n<li>I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. \u2013 George Bernard Shaw<\/li>\n<li>The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him. \u2013 Robert Benchley<\/li>\n<li>Most anthologists of quotations are like those who eat cherries\u2026 first picking the best ones and winding up by eating everything. \u2013 Nicolas Chamfort<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>(ed. &#8211; This is a re-post, originally appearing in the pages of <em>By George Journal<\/em> in July 2009 \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/?p=145\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0An apt quotation is as good as an original remark. &#8211;\u00a0Proverb The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. \u2013 Benjamin Disraeli I quote others only the better to express myself. &#8211;\u00a0Michel de Montaigne I hate quotations, tell me what you know. \u2013 Ralph Waldo Emerson Every quotation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[23,22],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3555"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3557,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555\/revisions\/3557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bygeorgejournal.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}