Quotes for December 845 quotes · 38 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every December 8: the anniversary does not move.

• A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.1 · 43 votes · 164 reads

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• A great fortune is a great slavery.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.1 · 5 votes · 106 reads

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• A very small cause which escapes our notice determines a considerable effect that we cannot fail to see, and then we say that the effect is due to chance.

  

  Henri Poincaré

  MathematicianFrench1854 · 19th century

  3.2 · 61 votes · 49 reads

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• All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind.

  

  Charles Baudelaire

  PoetFrench1821 · 19th century

  3.0 · 60 votes · 190 reads

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• All the means of action - the shapeless masses - the materials - lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius.''

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  4.7 · 42 votes · 144 reads

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• Among a people generally corrupt, liberty cannot long exist.

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  3.8 · 49 votes · 92 reads

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• Courage is not the absence of fear, but the conquest of it.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 21 votes · 1 reads

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• Friendship makes prosperity brighter, while it lightens adversity by sharing its grieves and anxieties.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.5 · 26 votes · 185 reads

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• Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

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  Anonymous

  4.5 · 35 votes · 160 reads

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• I am always sorry when any language is lost, because languages are the pedigrees of nations.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.8 · 34 votes · 160 reads

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• I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer.

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  Neil Armstrong

  AstronautAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.2 · 51 votes · 148 reads

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• I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

  

  William Blake

  PainterBritish1757 · 18th century

  4.4 · 30 votes · 60 reads

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• I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream.

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  Neil Armstrong

  AstronautAmerican1930 · 20th century

  4.4 · 16 votes · 88 reads

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• In the Church, considered as a social organism, the mysteries inevitably degenerate into beliefs.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  4.0 · 59 votes · 154 reads

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• It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics.

  

  Ernest Hemingway

  WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

  5.0 · 40 votes · 57 reads

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• Let no one till his death be called unhappy. Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done.

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  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  PoetBritish1806 · 19th century

  3.1 · 51 votes · 40 reads

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• Love is full of anxious fears.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  4.3 · 60 votes · 3 reads

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• Love, by its very nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.

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  Hannah Arendt

  PoliticianGerman1906 · 20th century

  4.3 · 30 votes · 4 reads

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• Men who are unhappy, like men who sleep badly, are always proud of the fact.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  4.9 · 36 votes · 62 reads

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• My idea, as the whole world knows, is that the capitalist system now doesn't work either for the United States or the world, driving it from crisis to crisis, which are each time more serious.

  

  Fidel Castro

  PoliticianCuba1926 · 20th century

  3.5 · 43 votes · 191 reads

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• Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre.

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  3.5 · 52 votes · 81 reads

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• Of neighbourhoods, benevolence is the most beautiful. How can the man be considered wise who when he had the choice does not settle in benevolence.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  4.9 · 46 votes · 32 reads

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• One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound.

  

  Jane Austen

  NovelistEnglish1775 · 18th century

  3.7 · 6 votes · 82 reads

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• Pep without purpose is piffle.

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 16 votes · 143 reads

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• Soft words are hard arguments.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  4.4 · 41 votes · 25 reads

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• Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

  

  Pythagoras

  MathematicianGreek-582 · 6th century BC

  4.5 · 54 votes · 17 reads

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• Success and money have nothing in common.

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 49 votes · 95 reads

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• The Arab League tells us to go in and take out Qaddafi. We've spent billions of dollars already with respect to the Arab League. Billions of dollars, because they told us to do it. Why aren't they paying for it? They don't like Qaddafi, Qaddafi's been a t

  

  Donald Trump

  BusinessmanAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.6 · 50 votes · 160 reads

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• The greatest thing a man can do in this world is to make the most possible out of the stuff that has been given him. This is success, and there is no other.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.2 · 45 votes · 72 reads

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• The mould of a man's fortune is in his own hands.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  3.2 · 51 votes · 69 reads

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• The press should be not only a collective propagandist and a collective agitator, but also a collective organizer of the masses.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  4.9 · 43 votes · 14 reads

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• The real stumbling-block of totalitarian régimes is not the spiritual need of men for freedom of thought; it is men's inability to stand the physical and nervous strain of a permanent state of excitement, except during a few years of their youth.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  4.0 · 7 votes · 42 reads

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• The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.5 · 24 votes · 118 reads

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• The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.3 · 43 votes · 186 reads

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• There is a good principle which created order, light, and man, and an evil principle which created chaos, darkness, and woman.

  

  Pythagoras

  MathematicianGreek-582 · 6th century BC

  3.2 · 40 votes · 7 reads

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• To give a man full knowledge of morality, I would send him to no other book than the New Testament.

  

  John Locke

  PhilosopherEnglish1632 · 17th century

  4.6 · 14 votes · 114 reads

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• Violence ravaged my life. I was a victim of hatred, and I have dedicated my life to reversing that hatred.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  3.2 · 51 votes · 46 reads

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• War will never cease until babies begin to come into the world with larger cerebrums and smaller adrenal glands.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.4 · 28 votes · 98 reads

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• We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

  

  John Lennon

  MusicianBritish1940 · 20th century

  3.1 · 21 votes · 77 reads

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• We've used up a lot of bullets. And we talk about stimulus. But the truth is, we're running a federal deficit that's 9 percent of GDP. That is stimulative as all get out. It's more stimulative than any policy we've followed since World War II.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  4.1 · 55 votes · 85 reads

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• When you introduce a moral lesson, let it be brief.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  3.6 · 49 votes · 32 reads

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• With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  4.7 · 11 votes · 89 reads

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• With thee conversing I forget all time.

  

  John Milton

  PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

  4.1 · 28 votes · 67 reads

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• You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  4.8 · 13 votes · 141 reads

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