An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances.

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.

I wonder if "an" ever occurs before "haughty" except in a quotation, or whether you can make anything sound like a quotation by adding a word like "goeth"?

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

An anthology of quotations is a museum of utterances.

Reframing an extract as a quotation constitutes a kind of coauthorship. With no change in wording, the cited passage becomes different. I imagine that the thrill of making an anthology includes the opportunity to become such a coauthor.

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