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Finding Quotations: Home

Welcome to the quotations libguide. Here you will find print and online sources for quotes you can use in your writing.

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Books/eBooks

Online Resources

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Oxford Essential Quotations

  • Over 12,600 quotations. This collection is the ideal place to answer all your quotation questions. You can discover which of over 3,000 authors said that tantalizing phrase or you can search over 600 subjects to find an apt quotation for any occasion.

Writer's Reference Center (library database)

  • Click on 'Reference Shelf' and look for 'Proverbs'

Bartleby.com Quotations page

  • The 120,000 most authoritative quotations on the web, with 50,000 other short selections.

Quote Investigator

  • Who really said that? Find out if your quote is properly attributed. 

Google Books

  • Searches full text of scanned books, generally too old to be protected by copyright, or provides citation to locate in the library.

Quotes

“The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.” --- Muhammad Ali

"Studying, and striving for truth and beauty in general, is a sphere in which we are allowed to be children throughout life." ---Albert Einstein

"If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich." --- John F. Kennedy

"You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."--- Malcolm X

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