Kenneth Williams Quotes

I'd lived by quotations, practically all my life.

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

Witty inspirations are the proverbs of the educated.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are preserved by quotations.

I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

I believe aphorisms are best when first read in the wild, free from the confines of any categories.

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond fields of the mind.

I collect axioms, paradoxes, maxims, teaching stories, proverbs, and aphorisms of all sorts, because I love to see complex ideas distilled into a few words.

I prefer sayings over jokes.

There are plenty of maxims in the world; all that remains is to apply them.

Proverbs are potted wisdom.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

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

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.

Proverbs may not improperly be called the philosophy of the common people.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

The wise make proverbs, and fools repeat them.

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything.

I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking

Apothegms form a short cut to much knowledge.

Apothegms are the wisdom of the past condensed for the instruction and guidance of the present.