Quotes for December 1348 quotes · 36 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every December 13: the anniversary does not move.

• 'Tis ill talking of halters in the house of a man that was hanged.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  4.2 · 38 votes · 114 reads

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• A person who is too nice an observer of the business of the crowd, like one who is too curious in observing the labor of bees, will often be stung for his curiosity.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  3.4 · 35 votes · 87 reads

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• A resolution to avoid an evil is seldom framed till the evil is so far advanced as to make avoidance impossible.

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  Thomas H. Huxley

  ScientistEnglish1825 · 19th century

  5.0 · 40 votes · 42 reads

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• A sign on the door of Opportunity reads Push.

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  Anonymous

  3.7 · 31 votes · 48 reads

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• A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.

  

  Jonathan Swift

  WriterIrish1667 · 17th century

  3.6 · 39 votes · 101 reads

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• Boredom is the root of all evil-the despairing refusal to be oneself.

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  Sophocles

  PoetGreek

  3.4 · 18 votes · 148 reads

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• Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.

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  Eleanor Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  3.6 · 15 votes · 140 reads

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• Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.0 · 16 votes · 63 reads

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• Every hero becomes a bore at last.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.6 · 13 votes · 28 reads

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• Every year it takes less time to fly across the Atlantic and more time to drive to the office.

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  Anonymous

  3.7 · 43 votes · 162 reads

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• Everything becomes a little different as soon as it is spoken out loud.

  

  Hermann Hesse

  PoetGerman1877 · 19th century

  3.7 · 37 votes · 4 reads

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• Excessive sorrow laughs. Excessive joy weeps.

  

  Will Rogers

  ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

  3.4 · 9 votes · 175 reads

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• For centuries, New York has served as the gateway for millions of people from all over the world in search of the American dream. It only makes sense that it would now serve as a gateway for the world's greatest athletes.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  5.0 · 50 votes · 49 reads

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• For truth is precious and divine, too rich a pearl for carnal swine.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  4.3 · 28 votes · 38 reads

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• Forgetfulness. A gift of God bestowed upon debtors in compensation for their destitution of conscience.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  3.3 · 46 votes · 151 reads

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• Genius, when young, is divine.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  5.0 · 16 votes · 89 reads

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• God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  4.8 · 7 votes · 72 reads

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• How much of human life is lost in waiting.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.6 · 16 votes · 22 reads

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• If God thought about you as much as you think about Him, where would you be?

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 52 votes · 36 reads

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• If you must cry over spilled milk then please try to condense it

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 47 votes · 106 reads

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• If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  5.0 · 57 votes · 11 reads

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• If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy

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  Dale Carnegie

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  3.6 · 62 votes · 176 reads

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• Let us never forget that the greatest man is never more than an animal disguised as a god.

  

  Francis Picabia

  PainterFrench1879 · 19th century

  3.0 · 39 votes · 107 reads

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• Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

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  Peter F. Drucker

  WriterAmerican1909 · 20th century

  4.7 · 19 votes · 169 reads

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• Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  3.7 · 40 votes · 122 reads

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• Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.7 · 6 votes · 49 reads

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• Memory is like a purse, if it be over-full that it cannot shut, all will drop out of it. Take heed of a gluttonous curiosity to feed on many things, lest the greediness of the appetite of thy memory spoil the digestion thereof.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  3.1 · 13 votes · 164 reads

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• Most women have no characters at all.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  4.6 · 64 votes · 53 reads

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• Music is well said to be the speech of angels; in fact, nothing among the utterances allowed to man is felt to be so divine. It brings us near to the infinite.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.0 · 15 votes · 167 reads

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• Never try to impress people with the profundity of your thought by the obscurity of your language. Whatever has been thoroughly thought through can be stated simply.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 17 votes · 179 reads

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• Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  5.0 · 56 votes · 122 reads

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• No great genius has ever existed without some touch of madness.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  3.7 · 30 votes · 88 reads

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• Oh man! There is no planet sun or star could hold you, if you but knew what you are.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.6 · 9 votes · 30 reads

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• See only that thou work and thou canst not escape the reward.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.5 · 22 votes · 159 reads

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• The critical opinions of a Writershould always be taken with a large grain of salt. For the most part, they are manifestations of his debate with himself as to what he should do next and what he should avoid.

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  W. C. Fields

  ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.2 · 52 votes · 36 reads

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• The importance of money flows from it being a link between the present and the future.

  

  John Maynard Keynes

  EconomistBritish1883 · 19th century

  4.1 · 18 votes · 147 reads

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• The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.3 · 25 votes · 168 reads

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• To do the same thing over and over again is not only boredom: it is to be controlled by rather than to control what you do.

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  Heraclitus

  PhilosopherGreek-535 · 6th century BC

  3.7 · 33 votes · 121 reads

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• To want fame is to prefer dying scorned than forgotten.

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  Emil Cioran

  PhilosopherRomanian1911 · 20th century

  3.1 · 15 votes · 179 reads

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• To withdraw myself from myself has ever been my sole, my entire, my sincere motive in scribbling at all.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.1 · 37 votes · 106 reads

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• Tranquil pleasures last the longest; we are not fitted to bear the burden of great joys.

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  Christian Nestell Bovee

  AuthorAmerican1820 · 19th century

  4.1 · 9 votes · 186 reads

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• We are the prisoners of ideas.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.9 · 36 votes · 69 reads

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• We can say with certainty - or 90% probability - that the new industries that are about to be born will have nothing to do with information.

  

  Peter Drucker

  BusinessmanAmerican1909 · 20th century

  3.4 · 9 votes · 121 reads

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• What most people need to learn in life is how to love people and use things instead of using people and loving things.

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  Anonymous

  3.0 · 54 votes · 148 reads

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• When one wanted one's interests looking after whatever the cost, it was not so well for a lawyer to be over honest, else he might not be up to other people's tricks.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  5.0 · 44 votes · 92 reads

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• You cannot depend on your judgments when your imagination is out of focus.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.0 · 25 votes · 90 reads

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• You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your tricks of war.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  4.6 · 58 votes · 52 reads

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