Quotes for December 249 quotes · 40 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every December 2: the anniversary does not move.

• A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

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  Roy Lichtenstein

  PainterAmerican1923 · 20th century

  3.9 · 25 votes · 23 reads

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• Associate reverently, as much as you can, with your loftiest thoughts.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.1 · 11 votes · 141 reads

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• Bachelors have consciences, married men have wives.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.6 · 48 votes · 82 reads

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• Being a President is like riding a tiger. A man has to keep on riding or he is swallowed.

  

  Harry S. Truman

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  4.8 · 20 votes · 61 reads

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• Courage charms us, because it indicates that a man loves an idea better than all things in the world, that he is thinking neither of his bed, nor his dinner, nor his money, but will venture all to put in act the invisible thought of his mind.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.0 · 62 votes · 159 reads

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• Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  3.5 · 20 votes · 185 reads

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• Don't be swayed just because they say it's public opinion. Remember, public opinion is simple what everybody else thinks.

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  Anonymous

  3.9 · 39 votes · 63 reads

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• Each has his own tree of ancestors, but at the top of all sits Probably Arboreal.

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  Robert Green Ingersoll

  PoliticianAmerican1833 · 19th century

  4.2 · 32 votes · 37 reads

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• Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.1 · 60 votes · 100 reads

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• Fame is no plant that grows on mortal soil.

  

  John Milton

  PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

  3.7 · 26 votes · 76 reads

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• Football is a game about feelings and intelligence.

  

  Jose Mourinho

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  3.0 · 55 votes · 141 reads

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• He best keeps from anger who remembers that God is always looking upon him.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  4.3 · 11 votes · 20 reads

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• He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  3.8 · 58 votes · 140 reads

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• I am convinced that a light supper, a good night's sleep, and a fine morning, have sometimes made a hero of the same man, who, by an indigestion, a restless night, and rainy morning, would have proved a coward.

  

  Lord Chesterfield

  PoliticianBritish1694 · 17th century

  3.8 · 18 votes · 173 reads

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• I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart.

  

  William Blake

  PainterBritish1757 · 18th century

  4.1 · 44 votes · 190 reads

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• I don't like these cold, precise, perfect people who, in order not to speak wrong, never speak at all, and in order not to do wrong, never do anything.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  4.3 · 24 votes · 163 reads

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• I fully expected that, by the end of the century, we would have achieved substantially more than we actually did.

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  Neil Armstrong

  AstronautAmerican1930 · 20th century

  4.9 · 40 votes · 169 reads

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• I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.7 · 12 votes · 73 reads

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• If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 38 votes · 162 reads

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• If love is shelter, I'm going to walk in the rain.

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 55 votes · 31 reads

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• If you've found some way to educate yourself about engineering, stocks, or whatever it is, good employers will have some type of exam or interview and see a sample of your work.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.5 · 44 votes · 175 reads

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• Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  4.2 · 62 votes · 193 reads

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• In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

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  Terence

  PoetRoman

  4.6 · 10 votes · 186 reads

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• In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  4.2 · 42 votes · 109 reads

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• It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

  

  Walt Whitman

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  4.1 · 23 votes · 197 reads

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• Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  4.7 · 37 votes · 162 reads

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• Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.0 · 45 votes · 52 reads

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• Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.

  

  Henry Fielding

  NovelistEnglish1707 · 18th century

  3.7 · 23 votes · 13 reads

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• Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love.

  

  Martin Luther King Jr.

  LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century

  5.0 · 57 votes · 11 reads

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• Music is essentially useless, as life is.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  4.0 · 21 votes · 104 reads

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• Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

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  Peter F. Drucker

  WriterAmerican1909 · 20th century

  5.0 · 11 votes · 120 reads

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• Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

  

  James Joyce

  AuthorIrish1882 · 19th century

  3.8 · 6 votes · 174 reads

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• Politics has become so expensive that it takes a lot of money even to be defeated.

  

  Wentworth Dillon

  PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century

  3.8 · 23 votes · 179 reads

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• Professional critics are incapable of distinguishing and appreciating either diamonds in the rough or gold in bars. They are traders, and in literature know only the coins that are current. Their critical lab has scales and weights, but neither crucible o

  

  Joseph Joubert

  French1754 · 18th century

  3.1 · 51 votes · 10 reads

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• Research is creating new knowledge.

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  Neil Armstrong

  AstronautAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.7 · 56 votes · 16 reads

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• Seek joy in what you give not in what you get

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 64 votes · 102 reads

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• Tell me what gives a man or woman their greatest pleasure and I'll tell you their philosophy of life.

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  Dale Carnegie

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  3.8 · 30 votes · 18 reads

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• The English think they are free. They are free only during the election of members of parliament.

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  3.3 · 52 votes · 66 reads

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• The generations of men run on in the tide of time, but leave their destined lineaments permanent for ever and ever.

  

  Will Rogers

  ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

  4.9 · 39 votes · 185 reads

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• The majority have no other reason for their opinions than that they are the fashion.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.5 · 13 votes · 35 reads

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• The reading public is intellectually adolescent at best, and it is obvious that what is called ''significant literature'' will only be sold to this public by exactly the same methods as are used to sell it toothpaste, cathartics and automobiles.

  

  Raymond Chandler

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  3.4 · 48 votes · 79 reads

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• Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasio

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.2 · 29 votes · 140 reads

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• Tyrants have not yet discovered any chains that can fetter the mind.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  4.7 · 49 votes · 48 reads

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• Unless one is taught what to do with success after getting it, achievement of it must inevitably leave him prey to boredom.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  4.7 · 6 votes · 81 reads

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• We have more than we use.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.8 · 29 votes · 62 reads

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• When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experiences.

  

  Susan Sontag

  AuthorAmerican1933 · 20th century

  3.9 · 34 votes · 92 reads

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• Words are all we have.

  

  Salvador Dalí

  PainterSpanish1904 · 20th century

  4.5 · 9 votes · 120 reads

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• You have to be true to yourself.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.4 · 26 votes · 4 reads

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