I Hate Quotations .Tell Me What you know.

Journals: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals: May 1849: This is a remark Emerson wrote referring to the unreliability of second hand testimony and worse upon the subject of immortality. It is often taken out of proper context, and has even begun appearing on the internet as “I hate quotations. Tell me what you know” or sometimes Read More…

The Ability To Quote Is A Serviceable Substitute For Wit.

Source: W. Somerset Maugham The Creative Impulse (1926). Complete Quote: She had a pretty gift for quotation, which is a serviceable substitute for wit…