Imitation is the sincerest form of insecurity.
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other.
Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.
Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine.
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
To be as good as our fathers we must be better, imitation is not discipleship.
You may imitate, but never counterfeit.
Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
No man was ever great by imitation.
Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators.
Do you know why people like violence? It is because it feels good. Humans find violence deeply satisfying. But remove the satisfaction, and the act becomes hollow.
The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals.
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.
Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.
There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.
Imitation is the highest form of flattery.
Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.
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