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["Michael D. Thomas" <mdthomas AT mindspring.com>]

> >
> > "never mind quotations, tell me what you know." - Ralph Waldo
Emerson
> >
> What's funny about that is that Emerson is one of the most quoted
people
> around.

That thought is often jestingly quoted when advising writers not to
overuse quotes, e.g.:

http://www.ling.upenn.edu/~beatrice/humor/rules.html

Some of my favorite quotes are meta-quotes -- quotes about quotes. I
find many more insightful than Emerson's imperative "I hate quotes. Tell
me what you know." Here are some:

http://www.junkfoodforthought.com/quotations/Q.htm 

Here are some of Emerson's other quotes on quotes:

"By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it
is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to
invent."

"All minds quote. Old and new make the warp and woof of every moment.
There is no thread that is not a twist of these two strands."

"Every man is a borrower and a mimic; life is theatrical and literature
a quotation."

"Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it."

"The next thing to saying a good thing yourself, is to quote one."

"Every book is a quotation; and every house is a quotation out of all
forests and mines and stone quarries; and every man is a quotation from
all his ancestors."