Update: This is now taken up in my blog.
Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested, spake Francis Bacon.
Here are a few personal favourites that I've tried to chew and digest with varying degrees of success. It's not like the human anatomy is engineered to break down papyrus naturally.
Once in a while, I jot down thoughts as they occur to me, and promptly forget it therefafter. Not any more. Bewarned though, these are very rough sketches, and not formatted properly.
The Talmud says a quotation at the right moment is like bread to the famished, Isaac D'Israeli opined that the wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations, Groucho Marx wanted to be quoted as saying he was mis-quoted, and George Bernard Shaw famously said: I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
But we must all agree and make way for Ralph Waldo Emerson, when he said: 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.
Quips and quotes that I've come across, and which I'd shamelessly use as a serviceable substitute for real wit.
:)