Quotations cause all kinds of trouble.

Great quotation collections glean the millennia, distill essences, and battle for bragging rights about who’s bigger, who’s smarter, who’s best. Who-knows-who-said-what has a market, a history, and a hall of fame.

In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates.

Care for yourself enough to listen carefully to what you say to yourself.

Misquotation is quotology’s swamp. Amateur quoters mix and mangle Shakespeare and Scripture. Professors gaffe and printers bungle. It’s a mess we must wade into.

If you flatter yourself properly you will be better able to enjoy yourself. Stretch your joy so that others enjoy you too.

A little flattery, like a warm bath and soft towel, will let you get along with yourself, lie down with yourself, and sleep.