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.

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.

[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.

It's always darkest before dawn. We just have to wait a little while longer. The sun always rises.

Joyful living is a healthy life.

I still have people from my past who treat me wrong, i thank them for making me strong.

Why is it you tell me the truth only when you've fallen asleep? It's then that you visit me.

I think it will be found that experience, the true source and foundation of all knowledge, invariably confirms its truth.

I knew not to give the best of myself to the worst of people.

Oh, time is short and the days are sweet and passion rules the arrow that flies.

A smoke in times of rest is a great companion to the solitary soldier.

There is nothing like competition. It teaches you early in life to win and lose, and, when you lose, to put your chin out instead of dropping it.