There are two aspects of a quote: its meaning and its context. In many cases, the meaning is the goal and can stand on its own. However, there is also context to these quotes which, if you just grab them for their meaning, may net you some strange results. I am fully aware that many people won't really care if the context makes the quote not quite work, but all the same, a little research for something important can save you from some smirks, snark, and side eye down the road. I will look at two examples from our present day. When the 9/11 memorial museum chose a quotation to emblazon their wall, they chose a line from Book IX of Vergil's Aeneid: Nulla dies uuquam memori vos eximet aevo. Which means "No day shall erase you from the memory of time." This is a quite beautiful sentiment, and it is understandable why the meaning of this line would be chosen for such a monument. However, the troubling aspect of the context is that the "you" in that quot...