Quotes/Quotes

""Why is there a quotes page for Category:Quotes? Isn't that a tad redundant?""

- Reiko Kazama, after having downed the last of a 1.25 litre bottle of Pepsi MAX and finished off the last of my chocolate supply for the day. Guess a mixture of sugar and caffeine gets you in the mood for questioning these things.

""Go on, get out! Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.""

- Karl Marx's last words.

""Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote, and think they grow immortal as they quote.""

- Edward Young

""Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.""

- Simeon Strunsky, No Mean City (1944)

""Only damn fools quote themselves.""

- Me

"Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely."

- Hesketh Pearson, Common Misquotations, Introduction

"Ah, yes! I wrote "The Purple Cow" -- I'm sorry now I wrote it! ''But I can tell you anyhow, I'll kill you if you quote it!"

- Gelett Burgess

"I hate quotation. Tell me what you know."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Ben Franklin: Treason is a word invented by winners as an excuse for hanging the losers. John Adams: I have better things to do than stand here listening to you quote yourself. Ben Franklin: No, that was a new one!"

- from 1776

"You've got to be careful quoting Ronald Reagan, because when you quote him accurately it's called mudslinging."

- Walter Mondale

"Note that at least half of all Category:Quotes entries seemingly have one or more quotes from Warhammer 40000."

- Andrew J on the Warhammer 40000 page example for Trope Overdosed.