Quotes for December 1044 quotes · 37 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every December 10: the anniversary does not move.

• 'Adult Swim' on the Cartoon Network is unbelievable. And 'South Park' continues to do great stuff. And 'Family Guy' and the various other Seth MacFarlane projects are amazing.

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  3.7 · 6 votes · 29 reads

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• A man who pretends to understand women is ad manners. For him to really to understand them is bad morals.

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  Henry James

  AuthorAmerican-British1843 · 19th century

  4.3 · 40 votes · 129 reads

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• Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

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  William Butler Yeats

  PoetIrish1865 · 19th century

  3.6 · 62 votes · 151 reads

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• All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.7 · 40 votes · 187 reads

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• An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.6 · 34 votes · 99 reads

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• As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, when the hot water gives out or goes tepid, so is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, o my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

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  Ezra Pound

  PoetAmerican1885 · 19th century

  4.7 · 64 votes · 85 reads

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• Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  5.0 · 24 votes · 110 reads

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• Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.

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  Norman Mailer

  WriterAmerican1923 · 20th century

  4.6 · 49 votes · 73 reads

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• Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  5.0 · 58 votes · 35 reads

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• Every country should conduct its own reforms, should develop its own model, taking into account the experience of other countries, whether close neighbours or far away countries.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  3.8 · 7 votes · 14 reads

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• For the woman, the man is a means: the end is always the child.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.0 · 11 votes · 190 reads

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• Great living starts with a picture held in the imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 8 votes · 64 reads

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• I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  4.8 · 13 votes · 38 reads

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• In much of society, research means to investigate something you do not know or understand.

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  Neil Armstrong

  AstronautAmerican1930 · 20th century

  4.8 · 52 votes · 198 reads

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• It is his nature, not his standing, that makes the good man.

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  Publilius Syrus

  WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC

  3.7 · 63 votes · 28 reads

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• Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.4 · 11 votes · 169 reads

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• My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

  

  Ernest Hemingway

  WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

  4.8 · 23 votes · 37 reads

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• Nothing is less in our power than the heart, and far from commanding we are forced to obey it.

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  4.7 · 23 votes · 20 reads

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• One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  3.9 · 44 votes · 106 reads

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• Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.4 · 47 votes · 144 reads

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• Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

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  Laurence J. Peter

  WriterCanadian1919 · 20th century

  3.8 · 64 votes · 165 reads

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• The apparent rulers of the English nation are like the imposing personages of a splendid procession: it is by them the mob are influenced; it is they whom the spectators cheer. The real rulers are secreted in second-rate carriages; no one cares for them o

  

  Walt Whitman

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  3.6 · 15 votes · 150 reads

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• The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.3 · 51 votes · 162 reads

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• The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  3.0 · 27 votes · 2 reads

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• The growing economic potential of India and Russia is mutually complementary in many respects.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  4.7 · 26 votes · 78 reads

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• The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.7 · 5 votes · 169 reads

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• The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  5.0 · 37 votes · 59 reads

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• The more there are riots, the more repressive actin will take place, and the more we face the danger of a right-wing takeover and eventually a fascist society.

  

  Martin Luther King Jr.

  LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century

  3.3 · 42 votes · 111 reads

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• The people to fear are not those who disagree with you, but those who disagree with you and are too cowardly to let you know.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  4.1 · 54 votes · 15 reads

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• The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood.

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  Anonymous

  3.5 · 55 votes · 139 reads

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• The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.

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  Anonymous

  3.2 · 40 votes · 195 reads

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• There are few things more difficult than to appraise the work of a man suddenly dead in his youth; to disentangle ''promise'' from achievement; to save him from that sentimentalizing which confuses the tragedy of the interruption with the merit of the wor

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  Ezra Pound

  PoetAmerican1885 · 19th century

  3.5 · 9 votes · 81 reads

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• There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself, the other appreciates what others can understand, the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent, the second good, and the third kind

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  PoliticianFrench1769 · 18th century

  3.0 · 9 votes · 100 reads

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• There can be no liberty unless there is economic liberty.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  3.6 · 47 votes · 58 reads

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• There is no greater index of character so sure as the voice.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.6 · 9 votes · 40 reads

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• They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

  

  Fidel Castro

  PoliticianCuba1926 · 20th century

  4.8 · 63 votes · 2 reads

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• Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 61 votes · 1 reads

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• We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.7 · 11 votes · 160 reads

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• We hate delays by others, but sometimes it makes us wise.

  

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 49 votes · 84 reads

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• We saw there was no consensus in the U.N. Security Council. It was impossible, due to the threatened veto by some.

  

  Jose Maria Aznar

  PoliticianSpanish1953 · 20th century

  4.9 · 6 votes · 95 reads

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• Whatever the details of union may be, there's no doubt we need more policy coordination in Europe.

  

  Gerhard Schroder

  PoliticianGerman1944 · 20th century

  3.6 · 39 votes · 143 reads

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• With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  4.4 · 14 votes · 41 reads

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• You'll see certain Pythagorean whose belief in communism of property goes to such lengths that they pick up anything lying about unguarded, and make off with it without a qualm of conscience as if it had come to them by law.

  

  Erasmus of Rotterdam

  TheologianDutch1466 · 15th century

  4.1 · 37 votes · 86 reads

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