Imitation is suicide.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
?Charles Caleb Colton
One who imitates what is bad
always goes beyond his model;
while one who imitates what is good
always comes up short of it.
?Francesco Guicciardini
No man ever yet became
great by imitation.
?Dr Samuel Johnson
Everything that irritates us about others can
lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
?Carl Jung
Most people are other people.
Their thoughts are someone
else's opinions, their lives a mimicry,
their passions a quotation.
?Oscar Wilde
Those who do not want to imitate
anything, produce nothing.
?Salvador Dali
To be as good as our fathers we must be
better, imitation is not discipleship
?Wendell Phillips
Insist on yourself; never imitate.
?Ralph Waldo Emerson
Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
?Johann Friedrich Von Schiller
Imitation, if noble and general, insures
the best hope of originality.
?Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
