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Quiting smoking is like quiting a beautiful bitch of a lover, she is beautiful but you have 1001 reasons to quit her, quiting benzos is like going out of prison digging the rock with a spoon. – Me
Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times. – Mark Twain
Quo fata trahunt, retrahuntque sequamur. (Wherever the fates may lead us, let us follow them.) – Vergil
Quod est ante pedes nemo spectat: coeli scrutantur plagas. (No one sees what is before his feet: we all gaze at the stars.) – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium. – Henry W. Fowler
Quotation ... A writer expresses himself in words that have been used before because they give his meaning better than he can give it himself, or because they are beautiful or witty, or because he expects them to touch a cord of association in his reader, or because he wishes to show that he is learned and well read. Quotations due to the last motive are invariably ill-advised; the discerning reader detects it and is contemptuous; the undiscerning is perhaps impressed, but even then is at the same time repelled, pretentious quotations being the surest road to tedium. – Henry W. Fowler, A Dictionary of Modern English Usage (1926)
Quotation, n The act of repeating erroneously the words of another. – Ambrose Bierce
Quotations (such as have point and lack triteness) from the great old authors are an act of reverence on the part of the quoter, and a blessing to a public grown superficial and external. – Louise Guiney
Quotations are the gold mine of human mind, the silver pearls of the wisdom ocean, and the cool drops of the rain of intelligence. – Mehmet Murat ildan
Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired. – Richard Kemph
Quoting the act of repeating erroneously the words of another. – Ambrose Gwinett Bierce

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