If your judgment, taste, sense of humor, and belief systems are similar to mine you will love the quotations. If not, assimulate them anyway and expand what you can think, feel, and become.
Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings,
so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
Socrates
The wisdom of the wise, the experience of the ages,
are perpetuated by quotations.
Disraeli