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Category: Quotations

Posted on June 6, 2025June 6, 2025

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”—Cicero (Marcus Tullius Cicero), Roman philosopher, 106-43 BC

Posted on November 18, 2024November 18, 2024

“In quoting others, we cite ourselves.”—Julio Cortázar, Argentine-French author, 1914-1984

Posted on August 27, 2024November 18, 2024

“IN QUOTING OTHERS, WE CITE OURSELVES.”—Cortázar

Posted on January 23, 2022

“That’s what I do. I drink and I know things.”—Tyrion Lannister, character in “Game of Thrones”

Posted on January 5, 2022

“I may be sick and I may seem dumb. That don’t mean you know where I’m coming from.”—Lyric from “Qualified”, by Dr. John (Malcolm John Rebennack, Jr.), American songwriter, 1941-2019

Posted on August 6, 2021August 7, 2021

“Success is an accident—well placed.”—John M. Shanahan, American entrepreneur, 1928-2005

Posted on July 31, 2021

“We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.”—Thucydides, Athenian historian, c. 460 — c. 400 BC

Posted on July 26, 2021July 26, 2021

“Anything we haven’t seen before is marvelous.”—Tacitus, Roman senator, 56-117 AD

Posted on July 24, 2021July 24, 2021

“Time discovers truth.”—Seneca the Younger (Lucius Annaeus Seneca), Roman Stoic philosopher, c. 4 BC – 65 AD

Posted on July 21, 2021July 21, 2021

“I love everything that’s old—old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.”—Oliver Goldsmith, Irish playwright, 1730-1774

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