Jorge Luis Borges was an Argentine short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator. His two famous books, Ficciones (Fictions) and El Aleph (The Aleph), are compilations of short stories.
The above quote is mentioned in French philosopher, cultural theorist Jean Baudrillard in his book "Cool Memories". He heard it at a lecture given in Paris.
The quotation means all our lives are just like all those popular quotes, sayings or proverbs. There are messages to be found in our lives, which can inspired or laughed at by others.
“Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.”
“Don't talk unless you can improve the silence.”
Writing is nothing more than a guided dream."
“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.”