...Quotations

1. People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
   - David H. Comins
2. When a thing has been said and well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it. - Anatole France
3. He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
   - Rudyard Kipling
4. It is better to be quotable than to be honest.
   - Tom Stoppard
5. Phlox, recognizing early that she lacked a strong sense of humor, or rather that she lacked the ability to make up jokes, had memorized thousands of bizarre passages from books and from here and there, and had developed, in place of humor, an ability to drop these bombs into a conversation, sometimes with incongruous, killer accuracy. - Michael Chabon