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Funny quotes, inspirational quotes, cute quotes, birthday quotes, funny graduation quotes, friendship quotes, motivational quotes and humor, and just all around good quotes are our primary focus at Emotiquotes.com. We are an ever-growing database of quotations, sayings, quips, and witty bits of humor and wisdom.
Quotations, also called quotes, are bits or fragments of human expression, usually written or oral, that have been inserted into another human expression. These latter types of quotations are normally clipped from literary sources, speech transcripts, film dialogues, song lyrics, or just overheard comments. The ideal and most memorable quotation is short, concise, and only a sentence or two in length. Quotations typically fall into one of two broad, high level categories: beauty and truth. Some quotes can fit into both, but more typically are classed into one or the other. Beautiful quotations are words combined and effected in such a way as to make them memorable near solely for the aesthetically pleasing use of language. On the other hand, truth quotations are most often remembered because they speak clearly and directly to some universal, but often unnoticed universal truth. Truth quotations are often called maxims or aphorisms and are highly regarded as pithy renderings of thoughts or ideas people commonly have but have not priorly expressed so clearly. A third type of quotation, of lesser note, may be classified as any line that merely reminds the person quoting it of a memorable work, a subtle comparison to a situation or topic at hand. Quotations are used for a variety of reasons: to enrich human expression, illuminate subtler meanings, support arguments, pay homage to a person or their work, to make the quoter seem well-read, or even to ridicule someone, often the author of a work. We have made every effort to comply with all copyright and copyleft laws, rules, and principles. We have also tried to be on our best behavior concerning netiquette in general. If, in the process of our attempt to provide high-quality content within the context of a user-friendly experience, we have inadvertently stepped on your or someone else's toes, or violated your or someone else's rights, we apologize. Just contatct us and let us know about our bad behavior or outright infraction and we will happily correct the situation. And now, with all that having been said—on to the quotes! |