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Commonplace Books and Quotation Sites

Commonplace books

A Commonplace book for Advisors (M.J. Leonard)
"A treasury of quotationsfor adacemic advisors and other mentors in higher education."
Commonplace Book (Roger Alexander)
Math and more
Richard's Commonplace Book [Internet Archive copy]
"... references I found useful while developing my own ideas about language and art, and are offered here along with a few notes on them."
Commonplace Book Jeremy Cantrell [Internet Archive copy]
Language, English, more
Quotation Collections (A.M. Kuchling)
A commonplace book and quotations from comic boosk, Neil Gaiman, H.P. Lovecraft, Shakespeare, Doctor Who, Sherlock Holmes, amusing quotes from comp.lang.python, and quotes about the 2002-2006 housing market bubble.

Good places for more quotations

Against Excessive Skepticism (Bill Beaty)
Collected quotes from a "science hobbyist"
All The "Cool Quotes" About Libraries, Books, And Knowledge (Marylaine Block. Ex Libris) [Internet Archive copy]
"Sharing is under siege."
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th Ed (Bartleby)
The tenth edition of 1919 contains over 11,000 searchable quotations.
The Book of Clichés
"...lists phrases to say in times of trouble in a number of categories." Since 1996.
Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (Bartleby)
comprises over 18,000 entries that reveal the etymologies, trace the origins and otherwise catalog “words with a tale to tell.”
dhcmrlchtdj
Quotations of Jorges Luis Borges. "I cannot combine certain letters, as dhcmrlchtdj, which the divine Library has not foreseen and which in one of its secret tongues do not contain a terrible meaning." The Library of Babel (1941).
EFF Quotes Collection 19.6 (The Electronic Frontier Foundation)
"Collection of quotes, pithy to absurd, on issues surrounding EFF's activities, from cryptography to hacking, from First Amendment rights to national security." Updated: Apr. 9, 2001
Fagan Finder: Quotations and Proverbs Search (Michael Fagan)
This page attempts to collect the largest sources of quotations and related items (proverbs, sayings, maxims, amorphisms, slogans, clichés, etc.). Many of the websites included here also include things such as full text of speeches, author biographies, and quotes of the day.
Government Secrecy And Openness, Quotes. (British Columbia Freedom of Information and Privacy Association)
Just a few quotes.
Internet Movie Database Search Text of Quotes (IMDb)
Seems to work best if you have a phrase.
Literary Quotations (Yerna)
"Yenra is an encyclopedia of the modern world."
Metaphors in Various Disciplines (Virginia Montecino)
Links to information about metaphors and a "Bibliography of text-based metaphor resources."
The Phrase Finder
The meanings and origins of over 1,200 English sayings, phrases and idioms. Includes a free email service: 'A Phrase A Week.' [Note: "The Phrase Thesaurus product was developed as part of a computational linguistics project that ran at Sheffield Hallam University from 1997 to 2001. The database was transferred to a commercial server in Nov 2001. That research also produced the Phrase Finder website which provides public access to the meanings and origins of many phrases and sayings in English."]
Quotations (Rory Litwin)
from th Library Juice blog.
Quotations on the Environment (Physical Plant - Recycling, University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN)
Includes: Animals/Creatures, Consumerism/Overconsumption, Energy/Alternatives, Forests, Future, General Environmental Quotes, Global Warming, Land, Pollution, Plants, Recycling/Landfills, Sky, Stewardship, Sustainability, Water.
Quotes & Sayings (Amit Kothari)
about 20Mb. of text, as of 22nd January 2000.
Quotes About History (Ferenc M. Szasz)
Mr. Szasz is a professor of history at the University of New Mexico.
Quotations Page (Michael Moncur)
"The oldest quotation site on the Web, established 1994." Over 26,000 quotations from over 3,100 authors, more added daily.
Quoteland (David Borenstein)
Since 1997.
Rand Lindsly's HUGE Quotations File (Rand Lindsly )
mostly short quotes. all on one page.
Wikiquote (Wikimedia Foundation)
the free quote compendium that anyone can edit.

Lists of Links to other quotations sources

Arts: Movies: Quotations (Open Directory [dmoz.org])
Pathfinder: Quotations (The Internet Public Library)
Quotation Ring (Webring)
This ring contains sites that display quotations and links to further sites with good quotes.
Reference: Quotations (The Internet Public Library)
Reference: Quotations (Open Directory [dmoz.org])
Reference: Quotations (Yahoo)

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