The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim. Th'unwearied sun from day to day Does his Creator's power display; And publishes to every land The work of an Almighty hand.

-Addison,Joseph
  In The Spectator, no.465, 23  Aug.

A lotta cats copy theMona Lisa, but peoplestill lineupto see the original.

-Armstrong, Louis known as Satchmo
Alluding to his many imitators. Quoted in David Pickering Brewer's Twentieth Century Music (1994).

Sometimes, in order to imitate the original, it is necessary toput something that isnot inthe original into a portrait in marble.

-Bernini, Gianlorenzo
Attributed remark made to Paul Fre¤  art, in Diary of Cavalier Bernini's Journey in France (1665).

She's the original good time who was had by all.

-Davis, Bette originally Ruth Elizabeth Davis
On an anonymous starlet.  Attributed.

When I went to the Bar as a very young man, (Said I to myselfösaid I), I'll work on a new and original plan, (Said I to myselfösaid I).

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
  Iolanthe, act1.

A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times.

-Holmes, Oliver Wendell
^8  The Autocrat of the Breakfast  Table, ch.1.

All things counter, original, spare, strange; Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) With swift, slow; sweet, sour; adazzle, dim; He fathers-forth whose beauty is past change: Praise him.

-Gerard Manley Hopkins
  'Pied Beauty'.

  Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born to people you could not possibly have met.

-Lebowitz, Fran(ces Ann)
Social Studies,'People'.

When his darling sons Hurled headlong to partake with us, shall curse Their frail original, and faded bliss, Faded so soon.

-Milton,John
  Beelzebub. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.2, l.373^6.

He or she isgreatest who contributes the greatest original practical example.

-Whitman,Walt(er)
  Leaves of Grass,'By Blue Ontario's Shores', section13.