Quotes for December 2747 quotes · 39 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every December 27: the anniversary does not move.

• Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  4.8 · 26 votes · 113 reads

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• Envy is the tax which all distinction must pay.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.9 · 7 votes · 122 reads

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• Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.1 · 60 votes · 160 reads

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• God must love the common man, he made so many of them.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.1 · 48 votes · 133 reads

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• How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.9 · 32 votes · 134 reads

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• I am more afraid of my own heart than the Pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great Pope, Self.

  

  Martin Luther

  LeaderGerman1483 · 15th century

  4.1 · 44 votes · 181 reads

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• I don't watch entertainment. I haven't watched in years. I want to see serious news.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  5.0 · 64 votes · 24 reads

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• I want to thank you for taking time out of your day to come and witness my hanging.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.2 · 36 votes · 188 reads

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• If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

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  Vilfredo Pareto

  EconomistItaly1848 · 19th century

  3.6 · 63 votes · 51 reads

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• In my view, the humanity of our world can be measured against the fate of Africa.

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  Horst Koehler

  PoliticianGerman1943 · 20th century

  3.1 · 19 votes · 92 reads

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• In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  5.0 · 64 votes · 91 reads

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• It is the youth who sees a great opportunity hidden in just these simple services, who sees a very uncommon situation, a humble position, who gets on in the world.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.1 · 49 votes · 51 reads

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• Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.8 · 60 votes · 26 reads

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• Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.

  

  Walter Bagehot

  EconomistBritish1826 · 19th century

  4.6 · 15 votes · 151 reads

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• Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

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  Paul Goodman

  AuthorAmerican1911 · 20th century

  3.1 · 31 votes · 183 reads

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• Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.5 · 16 votes · 57 reads

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• Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner, or before taking their rest; when they are sick or aged. In the morning, or when their intellect or their conscience has been aroused

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.2 · 22 votes · 40 reads

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• Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

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  Frank Zappa

  MusicianAmerican1940 · 20th century

  3.2 · 38 votes · 20 reads

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• Nothing retains less of desire in art, in science, than this will to industry, booty, possession.

  

  André Breton

  WriterFrench1896 · 19th century

  3.1 · 44 votes · 150 reads

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• Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in one's birthplace.

  

  Frederic Chopin

  MusicianPolish1810 · 19th century

  3.9 · 46 votes · 184 reads

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• Only he can understand what a farm is, what a country is, who shall have sacrificed part of himself to his farm or country, fought to save it, struggled to make it beautiful. Only then will the love of farm or country fill his heart.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  WriterFrench1900 · 19th century

  3.5 · 20 votes · 199 reads

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• Physical courage, which engages all danger, will make a person brave in one way; and moral courage, which defies all opinion, will make a person brave in another.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  3.3 · 21 votes · 101 reads

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• Revolutions are not made by men in spectacles.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.4 · 39 votes · 114 reads

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• Since every man who lives is born to die, and none can boast sincere felicity, with equal mind, what happens, let us bear, nor joy nor grieve too much for things beyond our care.

  

  John Dryden

  PoetBritish1631 · 17th century

  3.1 · 23 votes · 187 reads

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• Somewhere, everywhere, now hidden, now apparent in what ever is written down, is the form of a human being. If we seek to know him, are we idly occupied?

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  4.3 · 39 votes · 162 reads

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• Sure of their qualities and demanding praise, more go to ruined fortunes than are raised.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  4.6 · 19 votes · 115 reads

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• The alchemists in their search for gold discovered many other things of greater value.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  PhilosopherGerman1788 · 18th century

  4.0 · 11 votes · 23 reads

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• The envious die not once, but as oft as the envied win applause.

  

  Baltasar Gracián

  WriterSpanish1601 · 17th century

  3.0 · 64 votes · 63 reads

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• The mind is its own place, and in itself can make heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

  

  John Milton

  PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

  3.2 · 43 votes · 79 reads

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• The path to cheerfulness is to sit cheerfully and to act and speak as if cheerfulness were already there.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  3.3 · 55 votes · 156 reads

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• The payment of debts is necessary for social order. The non-payment is quite equally necessary for social order. For centuries humanity has oscillated, serenely unaware, between these two contradictory necessities.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  4.5 · 26 votes · 197 reads

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• The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.7 · 60 votes · 104 reads

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• The Revolution was effected before the War commenced. The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people; a change in their religious sentiments of their duties and obligations. This radical change in the principles, opinions, sentiments, and affect

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  John Adams

  PoliticianAmerican1735 · 18th century

  5.0 · 44 votes · 173 reads

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• The words of tongue should have three gate keepers.

  

  Arabian proverb

  Arabian

  4.1 · 41 votes · 91 reads

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• There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

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  Lord Acton

  WriterEnglish1834 · 19th century

  4.1 · 52 votes · 3 reads

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• There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.2 · 52 votes · 73 reads

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• Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  PhilosopherFrench1805 · 19th century

  3.9 · 12 votes · 42 reads

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• Threescore years and ten is enough; if a man can't suffer all the misery he wants in that time, he must be numb.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  4.3 · 35 votes · 27 reads

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• To live is like to love-all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  5.0 · 32 votes · 136 reads

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• We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.

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  Günter Grass

  AuthorGerman1927 · 20th century

  5.0 · 9 votes · 117 reads

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• We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  3.0 · 44 votes · 195 reads

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• What is the cheapest to you now is likely to be the dearest to you in the end.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  4.4 · 53 votes · 33 reads

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• When love begins to sicken and decay it uses an enforced ceremony.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.8 · 64 votes · 71 reads

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• When you love someone all your saved-up wishes start coming out.

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  Elizabeth Bowen

  WriterIrish1899 · 19th century

  3.5 · 52 votes · 116 reads

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• Woman does not forget she needs the fecundator, she does not forget that everything that is born of her is planted in her.

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  Anaïs Nin

  AuthorFrench1903 · 20th century

  4.7 · 57 votes · 45 reads

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• You can conquer almost any fear if you will only make up your mind to do so. For remember, fear doesn't exist anywhere except in the mind.

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  Dale Carnegie

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  4.7 · 32 votes · 17 reads

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