A Quote by Vicesimus Knox

It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book.

Vicesimus Knox

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Vicesimus Knox
English - Essayist
1752 - 1821

Part book about creativity, part compendium of useful tidbits, quotations and research results, and part annotated bibliography, this is a wildly useful and highly entertaining resource.

Stephanie S. Tolan

I've compiled a book from the Internet. It's a book of quotations attributed to the wrong people.

Jerry Seinfeld

A book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book, — it is a plaything.

Thomas Love Peacock

Creators of content on the Internet are very commonly creators of community. Often times, this community is the most interesting and the most valuable part of making stuff, and many creators require that relationship to inspire them to make stuff.

Hank Green

My quarrel with him is, that his works contain nothing worth quoting; and a book that furnishes no quotations, is me judice, no book,—it is a plaything.

Thomas Love Peacock

Quotations can be valuable, like raisins in the rice pudding, for adding iron as well as eye appeal.

Peg Bracken

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.

Thomas Love Peacock

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more.

Winston Churchill

For some Church members the Book of Mormon remains unread. Others use it occasionally as if it were merely a handy book of quotations. Still others accept and read it but do not really explore and ponder it. The book is to be feasted upon, not nibbled (see 2 Nephi 31:20).

Neal A. Maxwell

It isn't much of a book of quotations if I am not in it.

Ernie J Zelinski

Part of my plan was not only to introduce all useful animals that I possibly could into this part of Australia, but also the most valuable plants of every description.

George Grey

Rees's First Law of Quotations: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to George Bernard Shaw.

Nigel Rees

Prayers out of, very often, not the most religious part of me, but the most anxious part of me, the most desperately loving, fearing part of me.

Frederick Buechner

Experience is often the most valuable thing you have to offer.

Randy Pausch

We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves.

Gary Saul Morson

Inspiration comes whenever it wants, even at the most unlikely times and in the most inappropriate situations. Often it arrives bit by bit. Therefore it must be anchored, and this is where a most valuable item makes its appearance: the notebook.

Piero Ferrucci

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