Like pollen on a honeybee, flattery clings to the things you tell yourself.

Quotations calcify into clichés.

Cunning authors cut to be quoted.

Flatter yourself critically.

Quotology disdains no quotations whatsoever, a duty it bears stoutly, with bloodshot eyes and sagging shelves.

At its best, flattery is truth well dressed, and it is best dressed with fine see-through fabrics. Honest flattery can caress a lover, cover up a gaffe, and muffle aggression.

Misquotation is quotology’s swamp. Amateur quoters mix and mangle Shakespeare and Scripture. Professors gaffe and printers bungle. It’s a mess we must wade into.

[D]ifferent people have different quotational gravity.

Flattery works like a drug.

If you flatter yourself properly you will be better able to enjoy yourself. Stretch your joy so that others enjoy you too.

In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates.

That's what being young is all about. You have the courage and the daring to think that you can make a difference.

Reprove your friends in secret praise them openly.

If Mike Tyson was the voice of your GPS, would you ever not use it?

This guy [Tim Kaine] is every bit as radical as Barack Obama is. Every bit.

In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.

He that is his owne Counsellor knowes nothing sure but what hee hath laid out.

Let an ill man lie in thy straw, and he looks to be thy heire.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.

That politician who curries favor with the citizens and indulges them and fawns upon them and has a presentiment of their wishes, and is skillful in gratifying them, he is esteemed a great statesman.