Quotes for December 949 quotes · 39 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every December 9: the anniversary does not move.

• A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  3.0 · 21 votes · 47 reads

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• All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time.

  

  Ernest Hemingway

  WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

  4.6 · 52 votes · 86 reads

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• Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.7 · 22 votes · 67 reads

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• But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.6 · 58 votes · 80 reads

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• Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  4.5 · 48 votes · 1 reads

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• Education is the progressive realization of our ignorance.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  3.6 · 38 votes · 10 reads

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• Effective philanthropy requires a lot of time and creativity - the same kind of focus and skills that building a business requires.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.3 · 18 votes · 149 reads

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• Experience is the name we give to our mistakes.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.5 · 57 votes · 121 reads

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• I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called t

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.3 · 48 votes · 8 reads

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• I can sympathize with everything, except suffering.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.0 · 36 votes · 51 reads

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• I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates.

  

  Susan Sontag

  AuthorAmerican1933 · 20th century

  4.0 · 59 votes · 166 reads

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• I don't think I've read any of the books that have been written about me.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  5.0 · 48 votes · 46 reads

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• I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.5 · 23 votes · 17 reads

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• I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you've probably misunderstood what I've said.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  3.4 · 40 votes · 37 reads

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• I hold it true, whatever befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all.

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  Lord Alfred Tennyson

  PoetBritish1809 · 19th century

  3.7 · 41 votes · 59 reads

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• I went to Bali, and I was in a small village, and somebody who was with me showed a woman a little figurine of Bart and asked: 'Do you know who this is?' And she said: 'Mickey Mouse.'

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  3.9 · 17 votes · 129 reads

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• I've never written a song in my life. It's all a big hoax.

  

  Elvis Presley

  MusicianAmerican1935 · 20th century

  3.1 · 19 votes · 78 reads

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• If women believed in their husbands they would be a good deal happier and also a good deal more foolish.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.6 · 25 votes · 105 reads

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• In my life, I have prayed but one prayer: oh Lord, make my enemies ridiculous. And God granted it.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  3.9 · 58 votes · 13 reads

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• It is better to meet danger than to wait for it. He that is on a lee shore, and foresees a hurricane, stands out to sea and encounters a storm to avoid a shipwreck.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  4.1 · 16 votes · 158 reads

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• It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to ''meddle not''.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  3.9 · 30 votes · 181 reads

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• It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

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  Eleanor Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  4.4 · 8 votes · 63 reads

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• Lawyers I suppose were children once.

  

  Charles Lamb

  EssayistEnglish1775 · 18th century

  4.4 · 51 votes · 83 reads

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• Money is the most envied, but the least enjoyed. Health is the most enjoyed, but the least envied.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  3.9 · 40 votes · 155 reads

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• Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.9 · 12 votes · 45 reads

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• None are more taken in by flattery than the proud, who wish to be the first and are not.

  

  Benedict de Spinoza

  PhilosopherDutch1632 · 17th century

  4.0 · 9 votes · 34 reads

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• Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  5.0 · 46 votes · 118 reads

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• Reason sits firm and holds the reins, and she will not let the feelings burst away and hurry her to wild chasms. The passions may rage furiously, like true heathens, as they are; and the desires may imagine all sorts of vain things: but judgment shall sti

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  Charlotte Bronte

  PoetEnglish1816 · 19th century

  4.3 · 47 votes · 127 reads

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• Some folks rail against other folks, because other folks have what some folks would be glad of.

  

  Henry Fielding

  NovelistEnglish1707 · 18th century

  3.8 · 25 votes · 188 reads

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• The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. He is the man who has lost everything except his reason.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  5.0 · 51 votes · 162 reads

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• The only question with wealth is, what do you do with it?

  

  Woody Allen

  ComedianAmerican1935 · 20th century

  3.7 · 13 votes · 34 reads

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• The principle of the Gothic architecture is infinity made imaginable.

  

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

  4.3 · 55 votes · 41 reads

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• The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  4.6 · 25 votes · 108 reads

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• The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.1 · 55 votes · 102 reads

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• The soil of their native land is dear to all the hearts of mankind.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  3.9 · 28 votes · 4 reads

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• There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off. In short, I deny nothing, but doubt everything.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  4.8 · 62 votes · 45 reads

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• There was no one near to confuse me, so I was forced to become original.

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  Joseph Haydn

  MusicianAustrian1732 · 18th century

  3.5 · 60 votes · 7 reads

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• There's always room out there for the hand-drawn image. I personally like the imperfection of hand drawing as opposed to the slick look of computer animation. But you can do good stuff either way. The Pixar movies are amazing in what they do, but there's

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  4.0 · 53 votes · 33 reads

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• There's no other job in public life that is like chairman of the Fed.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.5 · 30 votes · 18 reads

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• They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  3.7 · 32 votes · 176 reads

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• This social-networking thing takes you to crazy places.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.3 · 19 votes · 75 reads

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• What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.

  

  Edgar Degas

  PainterFrench1834 · 19th century

  4.6 · 20 votes · 30 reads

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• When ever the speech is corrupted so is the mind.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.9 · 17 votes · 27 reads

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• When I look at you, the wheels of time stand still vs. Your face could stop a clock

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 21 votes · 79 reads

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• Why are we never quite at ease in the presence of a schoolmaster? Because we are conscious that he is not quite at his ease in ours. He is awkward, and out of place in the society of his equals. He comes like Gulliver from among his little people, and he

  

  Charles Lamb

  EssayistEnglish1775 · 18th century

  3.0 · 15 votes · 157 reads

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• Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.9 · 14 votes · 126 reads

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• You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.

  

  W. H. Auden

  PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

  3.7 · 13 votes · 31 reads

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• Your own safety is at stake when your neighbour's house is in flames.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  3.2 · 26 votes · 164 reads

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