Famous quotations are frequently collected in books that are sometimes called quotation dictionaries or treasuries.

Like the " Yogiisms " of baseball great Yogi Berra, or the Colemanballs collected by Private Eye, a damaging quotation purports to give insight into the thinking of the speaker, frequently a politician or of the politicians or political groups that used it as means of attack.

A quotation frequently attributed to him is: " Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.

In the twentieth century and to the present day Colton has been read most frequently perhaps in quotation books, including Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, where many of his aphorisms have been preserved.

and refers to an old northern song over a dead corps, but also notes the Fire and sleet version, with a quotation that sleet seems to be corrupted from selt, or salt, a quantity of which is frequently placed on the breast of a corpse.

" ( The quotation is frequently attributed to Charles Dana, Sun editor and part-owner between 1868 and 1897.

One quotation from Back to Methuselah is frequently misattributed to Robert F. Kennedy, even though Kennedy stated that he was quoting Shaw —" You see things ; and you say, ' Why?

The video was memorable, and the song itself – somewhat unusual in its musical approach, and even more so in its lyrics, which led off with a quotation from Oscar Wilde and ran through an extensive roster of famous artists from various fields, all dead, with years of births and deaths specified – stabilized the band as a cult favorite among indie lovers, and is the paradigm of the surprisingly successful " list " style of song which Couse has frequently used ( the first example of this style had been the title track on I Want Too Much ).

John Ernest Grabe found an otherwise unreported saying of Jesus, attributed to the Apostle Barnabas, amongst the Greek manuscripts in the Baroccian collection in the Bodleian Library ; which he speculated might be a quotation from this lost gospel ; and John Toland claimed to have identified a corresponding phrase when he examined the surviving Italian manuscript of the Gospel of Barnabas in Amsterdam before 1709.

According to both Pasteur Vallery-Radot and Maurice Vallery-Radot, the following well-known quotation attributed to Pasteur is apocryphal: " The more I know, the more nearly is my faith that of the Breton peasant.

Recognizing the profound implications and practicalities of the law of the lever, Archimedes has been famously attributed with the quotation " Give me a place to stand and with a lever I will move the whole world.

A quotation or quote is the repetition of one expression as part of another one, particularly when the quoted expression is well-known or explicitly attributed by citation to its original source, and it is indicated by ( punctuated with ) quotation marks.

" This quotation was incorrectly attributed to Allenby, and throughout his life he vehemently protested against his conquest of Palestine in 1917 having been called a " Crusade ".

The other common quotation attributed to Yamamoto predicting the future outcome of a naval war against the United States is: " I can run wild for six months … after that, I have no expectation of success ".

The famous quotation, " We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97 % of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil ", by Donald Knuth, has also been mistakenly attributed to Hoare ( by Knuth himself ), although Hoare disclaims authorship.

A quotation attributed to a 1996 speech by Robert Wilensky states " We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare ; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.

A similar quotation appears in Robert A. Heinlein's 1941 short story " Logic of Empire " (" You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity "); this was noticed in 1996 ( five years before Bigler identified the Robert J. Hanlon citation ) and first referenced in version 4. 0. 0 of the Jargon File, with speculation that Hanlon's Razor might be a corruption of " Heinlein's Razor ".

In fact this quotation is more precisely attributed to Madame de Pompadour, although it is not certain that even she ever said it.

However, the quotations quite often are not exact ; this can be attributed either to the author using a different source text, or simply to the author paraphrasing the quotation.

The insightful quotation, " It's a great life, if you don't weaken ," is famously attributed to Buchan, as is, " No great cause is ever lost or won, The battle must always be renewed, And the creed must always be restated.

A quotation attributed to Kolmogorov is into English: " Every mathematician believes that he is ahead over all others.

In the Crimean War, he distinguished himself in the Battle of Malakoff at Sevastopol ( 8 September 1855 ), during which he reputedly uttered the famous quotation now attributed to him: J ' y suis, j ' y reste (" Here I am, here I stay ").

The quotation is not attributed to Bowles on his tombstone.

A quotation is often attributed to him: " The three grand essentials of happiness are: Something to do, someone to love, and something to hope for.

3: 8-10 ) that is attributed to John the Baptist ( the last verse of this quotation also appears in Mt.

* Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt ( Le Mépris ) ( 1963 ) opens with a quotation wrongly attributed to Bazin ( in fact the author of the quotation is French film critic and playwright Michel Mourlet from his article " Sur un art ignoré " in Cahiers du cinéma, no.

Thus the author supports his claims for Plato's various erotic relationships through his quotation of epigrams attributed to the philosopher ; and makes an extreme allegation that Periander committed incest with his own mother.

He wrongly attributed the quotation to Abraham Lincoln .'.

This second quotation does not contain several statements usually attributed to Arius by his opponents, is in metrical form, and resembles other passages that have been attributed to Arius.

In journals and newspapers, quotation mark double / single use depends on the individual publication's house style.

Americans tend to apply quotations when signifying doubt of veracity ( sarcastically or seriously ), to imply another meaning to a word or to imply a cynical take on a paraphrased quotation, without punctuation at all.

This is allowed by the European Convention on Human Rights – note the word finally in the above quotation.

Alexander's influence — an emphasis on matter over style, on careful wording, with the occasional Homeric quotation — has been detected in Marcus ' Meditations.

He tracked and regathered Furnivall's collection of quotation slips, which were found to concentrate on rare, interesting words rather than common usages: for instance, there were ten times as many quotations for abusion than for abuse.

For example, each guest may be given a card with an inspiring quotation on it.

The article ends with a quotation from Ben Wilmott ( Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development ): " Employers can ensure professional language in the workplace by having a well drafted policy on bullying and harassment that emphasises how bad language has potential to amount to harassment or bullying.

Here is a quotation from a paper by Jan Łukasiewicz, Remarks on Nicod's Axiom and on " Generalizing Deduction ", page 180.

After Franco's death, Chevy Chase, reader of the news on NBC's Saturday Nights comedic news segment Weekend Update, announced the dictator's death and read a quotation from Richard Nixon: " General Franco was a loyal friend and ally of the United States.

The second edition of 3, 000 copies was quickly brought out on 7 January 1860, and incorporated numerous corrections as well as a response to religious objections by the addition of a new epigraph on page ii, a quotation from Charles Kingsley, and the phrase " by the Creator " amended to the closing sentence.

In the Keen 1 level in which most players obtain the pogo stick, a short horizontal dash above a long one appears on either side of the word " POGO ", perhaps as quotation marks.

The quotation however appears to be based on memory, and differs in different sources.

In The Reluctant Admiral, Hiroyuki Agawa gives a quotation from a reply by Admiral Yamamoto to Ogata Taketora on January 9, 1941, which is similar to the famous version: " A military man can scarcely pride himself on having ' smitten a sleeping enemy '; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.

The inscription on the stone is a quotation from the work of a fellow Great War poet, Wilfred Owen.

Early on, this vocabulary of refined behaviour began to work its way into English: the word ' debonaire ' appears in the 1137 Peterborough Chronicle ; so too does ' castel ' ( castle ) which appears in the above Biblical quotation, another import of the Normans, who made their mark on the English language as much as on the territory of England itself.

" In fact one modern scholar has observed in Bacchylides a general tendency towards imitation, sometimes approaching the level of quotation: in this case, the eagle simile in Ode 5 may be thought to imitate a passage in the Homeric Hymn to Demeter ( 375 – 83 ), and the countless leaves fluttering in the wind on " the gleaming headlands of Ida ", mentioned later in the ode, recall a passage in Iliad ( 6. 146 – 9 ).

The segmental function was once a common means of indicating an unmarked quotation on the same line.

In English, when a quotation follows other writing on a line of text, a space precedes the opening quotation mark unless the preceding symbol, such as an em dash, requires that there be no space.