People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have long been fascinated by these short genres. They seem to lie just where my heart is, somewhere between literature and philosophy.

People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have long been fascinated by these short genres. They seem to lie just where my heart is, somewhere between literature and philosophy.

We sometimes think of quotations as extracts from larger texts, but some quotations originated complete unto themselves.

The attribution of a speaker is in fact a part of the quotation. Some statements simply are better if a certain famous person said them.

Some lines are born quotations, some are made quotations, and some have "quotation" thrust upon them.

An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances.

A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom.