Quotes for December 2848 quotes · 40 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every December 28: the anniversary does not move.

• A Judge may be a farmer; but he is not to geld his own pigs. A Judge may play a little at cards for his own amusement; but he is not to play at marbles, or chuck farthing in the Piazza.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.1 · 32 votes · 139 reads

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• All words are pegs to hang ideas on.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  4.3 · 14 votes · 156 reads

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• Ambition is pitiless. Any merit that it cannot use it finds despicable.

  

  Joseph Joubert

  French1754 · 18th century

  4.1 · 18 votes · 141 reads

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• An idle brain is the devil's workshop.

  

  English proverb

  English

  3.0 · 22 votes · 179 reads

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• From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  3.1 · 45 votes · 95 reads

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• Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

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  Emily Bronte

  PoetBritish1818 · 19th century

  3.9 · 51 votes · 91 reads

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• He who ashamed of his poverty would be equally proud of his wealth.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 7 votes · 66 reads

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• Hypocrisy is the most difficult and nerve-racking vice that any man can pursue; it needs an unceasing vigilance and a rare detachment of spirit. It cannot, like adultery or gluttony, be practiced at spare moments; it is a whole-time job.

  

  W. H. Auden

  PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

  3.4 · 24 votes · 9 reads

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• I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned.

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 8 votes · 129 reads

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• I want to do nothing chic, I want to have ideas before beginning a piece.

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  Georges Bizet

  MusicianFrench1838 · 19th century

  4.2 · 35 votes · 45 reads

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• If all people are unique, and if they are constantly changing each and every day, then all one can say about any social research finding is that it applied to that group of people on that given day, and given the propensity of humans to be different and t

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  3.9 · 19 votes · 73 reads

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• If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.7 · 31 votes · 118 reads

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• If you ever injected truth into politics you would have no politics.

  

  Wentworth Dillon

  PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century

  4.0 · 41 votes · 96 reads

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• If you find yourself further from God than you were yesterday, you can be sure who has moved.

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  Anonymous

  3.6 · 36 votes · 168 reads

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• If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this

  

  C. S. Lewis

  AuthorIrish1898 · 19th century

  3.2 · 34 votes · 17 reads

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• If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

  

  René Descartes

  MathematicianFrench1596 · 16th century

  4.9 · 29 votes · 141 reads

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• Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority.

  

  Henri Poincaré

  MathematicianFrench1854 · 19th century

  3.7 · 43 votes · 126 reads

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• It is a pitiful fortune that is not without enemies.

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  Publilius Syrus

  WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC

  5.0 · 30 votes · 94 reads

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• Keep a mid course between two extremes.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  4.8 · 14 votes · 37 reads

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• Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.9 · 30 votes · 18 reads

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• Let your hook always be cast. In the pool where you least expect it, will be a fish.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  4.0 · 5 votes · 97 reads

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• Life is really simple, but men insist on making it complicated.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  3.5 · 58 votes · 12 reads

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• Men are generally more careful of the breed of their horses and dogs than of their children.

  

  William James

  PhilosopherAmerican1842 · 19th century

  4.1 · 25 votes · 123 reads

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• Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe

  WriterAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.2 · 22 votes · 80 reads

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• My symphonies would have reached Opus 100 if I had but written them down... Sometimes I am so full of music, and so overflowing with melody, that I find it simply impossible to write down anything.

  

  Robert Schumann

  MusicianGerman1810 · 19th century

  3.3 · 29 votes · 78 reads

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• Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.

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  Neil Armstrong

  AstronautAmerican1930 · 20th century

  5.0 · 5 votes · 60 reads

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• Never say die.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  3.6 · 53 votes · 26 reads

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• No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.1 · 19 votes · 26 reads

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• Separation penetrates the disappearing person like a pigment and steeps him in gentle radiance.

  

  Walter Bagehot

  EconomistBritish1826 · 19th century

  3.6 · 38 votes · 81 reads

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• Sometimes it's difficult to accept, to recognise one's own mistakes, but one must do it. I was guilty of overconfidence and arrogance, and I was punished for that.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  3.8 · 27 votes · 136 reads

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• Sorrow is the rust of the soul and activity will cleanse and brighten it.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.6 · 64 votes · 36 reads

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• The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.8 · 23 votes · 141 reads

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• The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  4.1 · 55 votes · 125 reads

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• The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  4.2 · 18 votes · 44 reads

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• The possibility of my presidential candidacy emerged spontaneously in public opinion polls. For my part, I noticed people's affection when I was doing work on the ground. I think the important thing is that my candidacy was born from citizens themselves,

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  4.3 · 58 votes · 1 reads

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• The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.9 · 50 votes · 26 reads

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• The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  3.4 · 55 votes · 31 reads

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• These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.8 · 62 votes · 117 reads

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• Time hath a wallet at his back, wherein he puts. Alms for oblivion, a great-sized monster of ingratitudes.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.6 · 28 votes · 35 reads

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• To write well, express yourself like common people, but think like a wise man. Or, think as wise men do, but speak as the common people do.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  4.2 · 32 votes · 197 reads

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• True happiness is the full use of your powers along lines of excellence in a life affording scope.

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  3.0 · 24 votes · 189 reads

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• Unpretending mediocrity is good, and genius is glorious; but a weak flavor of genius in an essentially common person is detestable. It spoils the grand neutrality of a commonplace character, as the rinsings of an unwashed wine-glass spoil a draught of fai

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.9 · 15 votes · 23 reads

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• We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.4 · 26 votes · 173 reads

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• Where the apple reddens never pry - lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I.

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  Robert Bresson

  Film directorFrench1901 · 20th century

  3.6 · 20 votes · 143 reads

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• Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  3.0 · 32 votes · 17 reads

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• Without the spiritual world the material world is a disheartening enigma.

  

  Joseph Joubert

  French1754 · 18th century

  5.0 · 64 votes · 129 reads

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• You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  4.9 · 44 votes · 152 reads

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