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Quotations

Resources to help identify quotations or find interesting quotations.

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About.com: Quotations
http://quotations.about.com/
An Internet guide to quotations, with feature articles, Website links, and discussion forums. Topics covered famous quotations and quotes by famous people, and quotes on a variety of topics, such as business, holidays, inspirational, and movies and TV.
AskOxford.com: Free online dictionary resources from Oxford University Press
http://www.askoxford.com/
Provides essays, definitions, resources, FAQs, and games about the English language, usage, history, grammar, and related topics. If your questions are not answered on the website, you can send them to the Oxford Word and Language service team.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/100/
Online version of the 1901 edition of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. You can browse by author (chronologically oralphabetically) or search by keyword.
The Columbia World of Quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/66/
"The 65,000 essential quotations that constitute this authoritative collection represent the research of 154 experts. Entries from more than 5,000 authors and speakers are multiply classified into 6,500 subjects." Search full text, by author or category, or browse an alphabetical author index.
Confucian Analects : the Lun Yu
http://www.confucius.org/main01.htm
This site contains the Lun Yu (499 sayings of Confucius) in more than twenty languages, as well as a varying amount of other Confucius related contents for each language.
Cool Quotes
http://www.coolquotes.com/
Cool Quotes is a website containing a database of famous quotations. Search by author or keyword(s). Also offers a discussion forum.
Engineering Quotes
http://www.bris.ac.uk/civilengineering/aboutus/engineeringqu...
This collection of civil engineering and engineering-related quotes contains idealistic, cynical, and humorous entries. Many quotations are taken from 'Engineering Classics of James Kip Finch'.
Mathematical Quotations Server
http://math.furman.edu/~mwoodard/mqs/mquot.shtml
Fairly sizable collection of quotes relating to mathematics, culled from a variety of sources. The collection can be browsed by author's name, or keyword searched. A random quote feature is also available.
Movie Quotes Browser
http://us.imdb.com/Sections/Quotes/
Browse for movie quotes by movie title or do a keyword search.
The Movie Quotes Site
http://www.moviequotes.com/
This site has a huge collection of quotes from major motion pictures. It includes a "guess the quote" game and links to minutia and mistakes from each movie.
Quotation Center from Cybernation
http://www.cybernation.com/index.php
Over 13,000 "great quotes to inspire, empower and motivate you to live the life of your dreams and become the person you've always wanted to be!" The quotations are arranged by author or subject (over 900) or can be searched by keyword.
Quotations
http://www.ipl.org/div/pf/entry/48522
This IPL pathfinder is designed for anyone looking for quotations or quotation sources. Both print and Internet sources are included.
Quotations and Proverbs Search
http://www.faganfinder.com/quotes/
This is a comprehensive directory of quotation and proverb resources available online. If you are looking for a variety of resources, this is a good place to start!
The Quotations and Sayings Database
http://www.quotesandsayings.com/
"A search portal for finding literary quotations and sayings from all the best databases on the internet."
The Quotations Archive
http://www.aphids.com/quotes/index.shtml
"The Quotations Archive is a comprehensive, searchable database of general purpose quotations. Visitors to the web site can browse through quotations by subject, alphabetically by author, or they can use the search engine to generate a listing of quotations containing selected keywords or by a certain author."
The Quotations Page
http://www.quotationspage.com/
Offering over 26,000 quotations searchable by keyword and author, this site also has a database of book reviews, biographies for quoted authors, and a section where members can store their favorite quotations.
quoteland.com
http://www.quoteland.com/
A quotation site that is searchable or browsable by topic. There are also sections of literary and humorous quotations. Discussion groups are available for visitors to share favorite quotes or find the source of a quote.
A Short Dictionary of Scientific Quotations
http://naturalscience.com/dsqhome.html
Published by naturalSCIENCE, an independent online journal, this is a list of famous science-related quotations, in order by the name of the person to whom the quote is attributed.
Simpson's Contemporary Quotations
http://www.bartleby.com/63/
A quotation guide, convering 1950-1988. "Nearly 10,000 notable quotes from 4,000 quoatable notables. Covers all of modern American life--including politics and government, architecture, art, music and dance, theater, radio and television, and religion." Use either the author index or the subject index, or search for a quotation.
ThinkExist.com Quotations
http://www.thinkexist.com/
This large quotation database can be searched quickly through its search box, or browsed through its collections of quotes by popular authors and by popular topics. Its unique feature is the collection of Birthday Quotes, quotes from notablel people are listed on their birthdays every day of the year.

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