Quotations cause all kinds of trouble.

[D]ifferent people have different quotational gravity.

Flatter yourself critically.

Like pollen on a honeybee, flattery clings to the things you tell yourself.

Quotology disdains no quotations whatsoever, a duty it bears stoutly, with bloodshot eyes and sagging shelves.

Cunning authors cut to be quoted.

Ralph Keyes calls quotation collectors "quotographers," the men and women who gather catchwords, watchwords, war words, winged words, maxims, mottos, sayings, and quips into books of a thousand pages. Through the centuries quotation collectors have saved quotations that would otherwise be lost.