Advanced Banter; the QI Book of Quotations

On Quotations
I always love to quote Albert Einstein because nobody dares contradict him.

STUDS TERKEL
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

GEORGE SANTAYANA
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced. Even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

JOHN KEATS
When a thing has been said, and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

ANATOLE FRANCE
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

ELIAS CANETTI
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

HESKETH PEARSON
If it were not for quotations, conversation between gentlemen would consist of an endless succession of “what-hos!”.

PG WODEHOUSE