"When a thing has been said and said well; have no scruple. Take it and copy it." -Anatole France

"Taking something from one man and making it worse is plagiarism." - George Moore

"There is much difference between imitating a man and counterfeiting him." - Benjamin Franklin

"What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing, he knew nobody had said it before." - Mark Twain

"Originality is undetected plagiarism." - William R. Inge

"Genius borrows nobly." - Emerson

"Nothing is said which has not been said before." - Terence

"About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgement." - Josh Billings

"Stealing a ride on someone else's train of thought." - Russell E. Curran

"Borrowing, if it be not bettered by the borrower." - John Milton

"The highest form of compliment and the lowest form of larceny." - Anonymous

"Plagiarist: an educated pickpocket and a literary body-snatcher." - Anonymous

"When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other." - Eric Hoffer

"One Sunday morning after attending a church service, Mark Twain approached the pastor and said, 'I enjoyed your service this morning. I welcomed it like an old friend. In fact, I have a book at home containing every word of it.' The minister said, 'You have not!' Twain insisted, 'Yes, I have. I'll send it to you.' The next day, someone delivered a copy of an unabridged dictionary."

"To take the thought or style of another writer." - Ambrose Bierce

"Another man's ideas dressed up." - Solomon Bushkin

"The only 'ism' Hollywood believes in." - Dorothy Parker

"An act which aids the novice." - Anonymous

Plagiarism

"God is closest to those whose hearts are broken." - anonymous

"Humility is the beginning of true intelligence." - John Calvin

"Humility, after the first shock, is cheerful virtue." - C. S. Lewis

"Only those who see themselves as utterly destitute can fully appreciate the grace of God." - Erwin W. Lutzer

"I did nothing that I might not have done better." - Richard Baxter

"Humility is not thinking meanly of oneself, but rather it means not thinking of oneself at all." - Vance Havner

"If you want to become humble, the first thing you have to admit is that you are proud." - Michael Catt

"I've met some people who were very proud of their humility." - Michael Catt

"Should you ask me what is the first thing in religion, I should reply that the first, second, and third thing therein is humility." - Augustine

"The true way to be humble is not to stoop until you are smaller than yourself, but to stand at your real height against some higher nature that will show you what the real smallness of your greatness is." - Phillips Brooks

"The only wisdom we can hope to acquire is the wisdom of humility; humility is endless." - T. S. Eliot

"God created the world out of nothing, and so long as we are nothing, He can make something out of us." - Martin Luther

"I used to think that God's gifts were on shelves one above the other and that the taller we grew in Christian character, the more easily we should reach them. I find now that God's gifts are on shelves one beneath the other and that it is not a question of growing taller, but of stooping lower and that we have to go down, always down to get His best ones." - F. B. Meyer

"Humility is like underwear - essential, but indecent if it shows." - Helen Nielson

"For the Christian, humility is absolutely indispensable. Without it there can be no self-knowledge, no repentance, no faith and no salvation." - A. W. Tozer

"There are two classes of Christians: the proud who imagine they are humble and the humble who are afraid they are proud. There should be another class: the self-forgetful who leave the whole thing in the hands of Christ and refuse to waste any time trying to make themselves good. They will reach the goal far ahead of the rest." - A. W. Tozer

"Humility is a strange thing: the moment you think you have it, you have lost it." - anonymous

"Many would be scantily clad if clothed in their humility." - anonymous

"Life is a long lesson in humility." - Sir James Matthew Barrie, The Little Minister

"Nothing sets a person so much out of the devil's reach as humility." - Jonathan Edwards

"Humility is pride in God." - Austin O'Malley

Humility