Quotes for December 2249 quotes · 42 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every December 22: the anniversary does not move.

• A hypocrite despises those whom he deceives, but has no respect for himself. He would make a dupe of himself too, if he could.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  3.4 · 13 votes · 146 reads

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• Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.

  

  William James

  PhilosopherAmerican1842 · 19th century

  4.1 · 36 votes · 116 reads

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• Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.

  

  Jean Anouilh

  PlaywrightFrench1910 · 20th century

  4.2 · 45 votes · 158 reads

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• But I think it's more normal for my team to have no success than it is to win two consecutive European cups.

  

  Jose Mourinho

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  5.0 · 43 votes · 100 reads

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• Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.2 · 24 votes · 197 reads

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• Emotions have taught mankind to reason.

  

  Marquis de Vauvenargues

  WriterFrench1715 · 18th century

  4.7 · 36 votes · 131 reads

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• Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to save it.

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  3.2 · 49 votes · 176 reads

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• Footprints on the sands of time are not made by sitting down.

  

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  Anonymous

  3.2 · 30 votes · 70 reads

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• Friendships, in general, are suddenly contracted; and therefore it is no wonder they are easily dissolved.

  

  Joseph Addison

  PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century

  4.2 · 37 votes · 183 reads

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• Happiness is a perfume which you cannot pour on someone without getting some on yourself.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.2 · 13 votes · 84 reads

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• I am not much an advocate for traveling, and I observe that men run away to other countries because they are not good in their own, and run back to their own because they pass for nothing in the new places. For the most part, only the light characters tra

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.6 · 45 votes · 115 reads

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• I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.5 · 49 votes · 138 reads

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• I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

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  Terence

  PoetRoman

  4.9 · 45 votes · 53 reads

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• I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  3.9 · 39 votes · 52 reads

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• I've never run into a guy who could win at the top level in anything today and didn't have the right attitude, didn't give it everything he had, at least while he was doing it; wasn't prepared and didn't have the whole program worked out.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  4.6 · 25 votes · 168 reads

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• If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  4.4 · 16 votes · 118 reads

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• In the Soviet army it takes more courage to retreat than advance.

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  Joseph Stalin

  LeaderRussian1879 · 19th century

  3.4 · 8 votes · 81 reads

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• It is easier for a woman to defend her virtue against men than her reputation against women.

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  Anonymous

  3.0 · 46 votes · 168 reads

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• It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.

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  Fred A. Allen

  ComedianAmerican1894 · 19th century

  3.8 · 24 votes · 70 reads

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• It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  3.6 · 27 votes · 190 reads

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• Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.0 · 23 votes · 142 reads

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• Obama and his attack dogs have nothing but hate and anger in their hearts and spew it whenever possible.

  

  Donald Trump

  BusinessmanAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.2 · 36 votes · 117 reads

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• One of the benefits of a college education is to show the boy its little avail.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.3 · 27 votes · 104 reads

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• People who overly take care of their health are like misers. They hoard up a treasure which they never enjoy.

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  Laurence Sterne

  WriterBritish1713 · 18th century

  4.2 · 36 votes · 171 reads

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• Reason is a whore, surviving by simulation, versatility, and shamelessness.

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  Emil Cioran

  PhilosopherRomanian1911 · 20th century

  4.1 · 42 votes · 65 reads

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• Sometimes people call me an idealist. Well, that is the way I know I am an American. America is the only idealistic nation in the world.

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century

  4.3 · 26 votes · 92 reads

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• Speech of yourself ought to be seldom and well chosen.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  3.3 · 63 votes · 57 reads

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• Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.6 · 38 votes · 127 reads

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• That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.8 · 29 votes · 133 reads

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• The day you marry, it is either kill or cure.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard

  PhilosopherDanish1813 · 19th century

  4.6 · 27 votes · 136 reads

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• The eyes have one language everywhere.

  

  George Herbert

  PoetBritish1593 · 16th century

  3.3 · 15 votes · 42 reads

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• The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.

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  Robert Frost

  PoetAmerican1874 · 19th century

  4.6 · 21 votes · 97 reads

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• The mind, ever the willing servant, will respond to boldness, for boldness, in effect, is a command to deliver mental resources.

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  Norman Mailer

  WriterAmerican1923 · 20th century

  4.2 · 29 votes · 15 reads

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• The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed, there is no winter and no night; all tragedies, all ennui s, vanish, all duties even.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.9 · 39 votes · 168 reads

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• The poet is the priest of the invisible.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham

  WriterBritish1874 · 19th century

  5.0 · 46 votes · 108 reads

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• The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion.

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  4.6 · 31 votes · 132 reads

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• To a teacher of languages there comes a time when the world is but a place of many words and man appears a mere talking animal not much more wonderful than a parrot.

  

  Joseph Conrad

  NovelistBritish1857 · 19th century

  4.3 · 20 votes · 166 reads

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• To be witty is not enough. One must possess sufficient wit to avoid having too much of it.

  

  André Maurois

  WriterFrench1885 · 19th century

  5.0 · 16 votes · 79 reads

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• We are all alike, on the inside.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.9 · 25 votes · 133 reads

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• We fight not to enslave, but to set a country free, and to make room upon the earth for honest men to live in.

  

  Thomas Mann

  AuthorGerman1875 · 19th century

  3.1 · 38 votes · 47 reads

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• We've got a bunch of new writers now who tell me they grew up watching The Simpsons. It's bizarre, and they're writing some very funny stuff.

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  4.5 · 64 votes · 7 reads

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• What a mother sings to the cradle goes all the way down to the coffin.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  3.4 · 10 votes · 188 reads

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• What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

  

  Will Rogers

  ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

  3.6 · 44 votes · 110 reads

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• Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.

  

  Henry A. Kissinger

  PoliticianGerman1923 · 20th century

  3.7 · 28 votes · 133 reads

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• When we cannot find contentment in ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.0 · 28 votes · 163 reads

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• Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary movement.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  4.8 · 6 votes · 73 reads

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• You can do very little with faith, but you can do nothing without it.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  5.0 · 10 votes · 106 reads

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• You don't write because you want to say something; you write because you've got something to say.

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  Anonymous

  3.5 · 21 votes · 89 reads

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