Quotes for December 1147 quotes · 42 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every December 11: the anniversary does not move.

• 'To give style'' to one's character - a great and rare art! He exercises it who surveys all that his nature presents in strength and weakness and then moulds it to an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason, and even the weaknesses deligh

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  5.0 · 35 votes · 149 reads

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• A blind man knows he cannot see, and is glad to be led, though it be by a dog; but he that is blind in his understanding, which is the worst blindness of all, believes he sees as the best, and scorns a guide.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  3.7 · 29 votes · 15 reads

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• A bride at her second marriage does not wear a veil. She wants to see what she is getting.

  

  Helen Rowland

  JournalistAmerican1875 · 19th century

  4.3 · 31 votes · 139 reads

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• A good conscience is a continual feast.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  5.0 · 58 votes · 199 reads

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• A good speaker makes a good liar.

  

  German proverb

  German

  3.4 · 34 votes · 192 reads

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• A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

  

  John Steinbeck

  WriterAmerican1902 · 20th century

  3.1 · 42 votes · 71 reads

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• An affair wants to spill, to share its glory with the world. No act is so private it does not seek applause.

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  John Updike

  WriterAmerican1932 · 20th century

  3.8 · 47 votes · 103 reads

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• As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well spent brings happy death.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

  PainterItaly1452 · 15th century

  3.3 · 5 votes · 113 reads

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• Character is like the foundation of a house - it is below the surface.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 61 votes · 13 reads

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• Death is the liberator of him whom freedom cannot release, the physician of him whom medicine cannot cure, and the comforter of him whom time cannot console.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  3.1 · 41 votes · 154 reads

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• Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham

  WriterBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.4 · 12 votes · 27 reads

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• Don't gamble; take all your savings and buy some good stock and hold it till it goes up. If it don't go up, don't buy it.

  

  Wentworth Dillon

  PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century

  4.8 · 51 votes · 28 reads

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• Every day is just one day.

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 40 votes · 108 reads

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• He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  4.6 · 34 votes · 195 reads

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• I deal with the obvious. I present, reiterate and glorify the obvious - because the obvious is what people need to be told.

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  Dale Carnegie

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  4.2 · 25 votes · 46 reads

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• I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most certain of the first time.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  4.0 · 42 votes · 11 reads

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• I stopped loving my father a long time ago. What remained was the slavery to a pattern.

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  Anaïs Nin

  AuthorFrench1903 · 20th century

  4.7 · 57 votes · 199 reads

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• I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  5.0 · 64 votes · 143 reads

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• I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government rather than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.9 · 43 votes · 99 reads

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• Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, a

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  4.6 · 56 votes · 163 reads

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• It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry.

  

  Thomas Mann

  AuthorGerman1875 · 19th century

  3.7 · 35 votes · 53 reads

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• It is wonderful when a calculation is made, how little the mind is actually employed in the discharge of any profession.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.0 · 59 votes · 97 reads

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• It's not how much we give but how much love we put into giving.

  

  Teresa of Calcutta

  MissionaryAlbanian1910 · 20th century

  4.3 · 35 votes · 191 reads

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• Justice to my readers compels me to admit that I write because I have nothing to do; justice to myself induces me to add that I will cease to write the moment I have nothing to say.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  3.9 · 16 votes · 67 reads

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• Most high-income people in our country do not realize that their incomes are being subsidized by their protection from competition from highly skilled people who are prevented from immigrating to the United States. But we need such skills in order to staf

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  3.9 · 42 votes · 111 reads

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• O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.7 · 24 votes · 24 reads

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• Only an inventor knows how to borrow, and every man is or should be an inventor.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.9 · 33 votes · 48 reads

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• People will not look forward to posterity who will not look backward to their ancestors.

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  5.0 · 34 votes · 142 reads

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• Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them -their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table.

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 54 votes · 127 reads

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• Success is the child of audacity.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.1 · 8 votes · 161 reads

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• That moderation which nature prescribes, which limits our desires by resources restricted to our needs, has abandoned the field; it has now come to this - that to want only what is enough is a sign both of boorishness and of utter destitution.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.4 · 60 votes · 147 reads

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• The Opera is obviously the first draft of a fine spectacle; it suggests the idea of one.

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  4.1 · 14 votes · 25 reads

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• The pen is mightier than the sword.

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  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

  PoliticianBritish1803 · 19th century

  3.9 · 46 votes · 141 reads

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• The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  3.9 · 17 votes · 109 reads

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• The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.5 · 52 votes · 181 reads

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• There are no rules for friendship. It must be left to itself. We cannot force it any more than love.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  4.3 · 61 votes · 186 reads

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• There won't be any miracles. We never promised any. But as we have said before, when things are done properly, the results come in.

  

  Mariano Rajoy

  PoliticianSpanish1955 · 20th century

  3.0 · 59 votes · 106 reads

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• To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.3 · 46 votes · 55 reads

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• We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  4.9 · 45 votes · 85 reads

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• We should come home from adventures, and perils, and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.8 · 60 votes · 178 reads

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• What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.3 · 52 votes · 69 reads

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• What will the world be quite overturned when you die?

  

  Epictetus

  PhilosopherGreek55 · 1st century

  4.8 · 31 votes · 92 reads

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• When I heard the word ''stream'' uttered with such a revolting primness, what I think of is urine and not the contemporary novel. And besides, it isn't new, it is far from the dernier cri. Shakespeare used it continually, much too much in my opinion, and

  

  James Joyce

  AuthorIrish1882 · 19th century

  4.2 · 26 votes · 140 reads

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• When I tell any truth it is not for the sake of convincing those who do not know it, but for the sake of defending those who do.

  

  Will Rogers

  ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

  3.1 · 59 votes · 84 reads

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• When the severity of the law is to be softened, let pity, not bribes, be the motive.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  4.8 · 32 votes · 117 reads

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• Writing books is the closest men ever come to childbearing.

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  Niels Bohr

  PhysicistDanish1885 · 19th century

  3.3 · 12 votes · 115 reads

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