Quotes for December 1844 quotes · 38 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every December 18: the anniversary does not move.

• 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

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  Lord Alfred Tennyson

  PoetBritish1809 · 19th century

  3.8 · 51 votes · 164 reads

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• A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  4.7 · 39 votes · 133 reads

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• A man does not know what he is saying until he knows what he is not saying.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.2 · 42 votes · 189 reads

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• A person doesn't die when he should but when he can.

  

  Gabriel García Márquez

  WriterColombian1927 · 20th century

  3.7 · 7 votes · 187 reads

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• Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  PhilosopherGerman1788 · 18th century

  3.3 · 42 votes · 133 reads

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• By improving health, empowering women, population growth comes down.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.1 · 34 votes · 190 reads

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• Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.7 · 8 votes · 105 reads

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• Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous mind.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.5 · 40 votes · 137 reads

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• Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  3.5 · 7 votes · 144 reads

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• Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.8 · 42 votes · 36 reads

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• Faith is different from proof; the latter is human, the former is a Gift from God.

  

  Blaise Pascal

  PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century

  3.3 · 56 votes · 54 reads

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• Give me a laundry-list and I'll set it to music.

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  Gioachino Rossini

  MusicianItalian1792 · 18th century

  3.5 · 50 votes · 94 reads

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• Good breeding is the result of good sense, some good nature, and a little self-denial for the sake of others.

  

  Lord Chesterfield

  PoliticianBritish1694 · 17th century

  4.9 · 38 votes · 105 reads

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• Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced.

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  3.3 · 34 votes · 131 reads

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• Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.0 · 34 votes · 198 reads

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• How many languages are there in the world? How about 5 billion! Each of us talks, listens, and thinks in his/her own special language that has been shaped by our culture, experiences, profession, personality, mores and attitudes. The chances of us meeting

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 47 votes · 169 reads

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• I like to walk about among the beautiful things that adorn the world; but private wealth I should decline, or any sort of personal possessions, because they would take away my liberty.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  4.4 · 14 votes · 152 reads

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• I may not be a first-rate composer, but I am a first-class second-rate composer.

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  Richard Strauss

  MusicianGerman1864 · 19th century

  4.9 · 63 votes · 11 reads

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• I start where the last man left off.

  

  Theodore Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1858 · 19th century

  3.9 · 16 votes · 72 reads

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• Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations, and epochs it is the rule.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.8 · 30 votes · 32 reads

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• It is not difficult to get away into retirement; and there live upon your own convictions; nor is it difficult to mix with men and follow their convictions; but to enter into the world; and there live firmly and fearlessly according to your own conscience

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  Anonymous

  3.0 · 41 votes · 121 reads

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• Just praise is only a debt, but flattery is a present.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.2 · 57 votes · 34 reads

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• Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.

  

  Salvador Dalí

  PainterSpanish1904 · 20th century

  4.6 · 26 votes · 88 reads

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• Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  5.0 · 61 votes · 14 reads

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• Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings -as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser.

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  3.8 · 28 votes · 176 reads

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• Mathematicians are like Frenchman: whatever you say to them they translate Into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.

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  Anonymous

  3.5 · 49 votes · 46 reads

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• No woman marries for money; they are all clever enough, before marrying a millionaire, to fall in love with him first.

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  Cesare Pavese

  PoetItaly1908 · 20th century

  3.7 · 30 votes · 80 reads

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• Nothing so fortifies a friendship as a belief on the part of one friend that he is superior to the other.

  

  Honore de Balzac

  NovelistFrench1799 · 18th century

  3.6 · 23 votes · 125 reads

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• One of the biggest problems that Egypt faces is the lack of border security - the importation of weapons on their way to Gaza, for example, coming out of Sudan.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.2 · 26 votes · 11 reads

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• Rome was not built in a day.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.5 · 46 votes · 92 reads

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• Silence is the mother of truth.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.2 · 61 votes · 159 reads

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• Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven.

  

  Igor Stravinsky

  MusicianRussian1882 · 19th century

  3.9 · 6 votes · 155 reads

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• The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  4.2 · 48 votes · 73 reads

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• The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  PhilosopherFrench1805 · 19th century

  3.9 · 33 votes · 135 reads

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• The man is free to rule his world, not his world rule him.

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 5 votes · 181 reads

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• The Metropolis should have been aborted long before it became New York, London or Tokyo.

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  John Kenneth Galbraith

  EconomistAmerican1908 · 20th century

  3.7 · 18 votes · 35 reads

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• The secret of business is to know something that nobody else knows.

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  Aristotle Onassis

  BusinessmanGreek1906 · 20th century

  3.7 · 11 votes · 140 reads

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• The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them all. They're really imaginative. They show a lot of hard work.

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  4.8 · 27 votes · 174 reads

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• The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.

  

  Igor Stravinsky

  MusicianRussian1882 · 19th century

  4.6 · 41 votes · 121 reads

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• There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  4.1 · 39 votes · 40 reads

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• Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O. When may it suffice?

  

  William Blake

  PainterBritish1757 · 18th century

  4.6 · 52 votes · 8 reads

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• We do not talk - we bludgeon one another with facts and theories gleaned from cursory readings of newspapers, magazines and digests.

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  4.1 · 39 votes · 200 reads

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• We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction.

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  Aesop

  WriterGreek-620 · 7th century BC

  3.2 · 22 votes · 32 reads

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