Quotes for January 1449 quotes · 42 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every January 14: the anniversary does not move.

• A man is a worker. If he is not that he is nothing.

  

  Joseph Conrad

  NovelistBritish1857 · 19th century

  5.0 · 11 votes · 46 reads

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• A man who waits to believe in action before acting is anything you like, but he's not a man of action.. You must act as you breathe.

  

  Georges Clemenceau

  JournalistFrench1841 · 19th century

  3.4 · 31 votes · 42 reads

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• All womankind, from the highest to the lowest love jokes; the difficulty is to know how they choose to have them cut; and there is no knowing that, but by trying, as we do with our artillery in the field, by raising or letting down their breeches, till we

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  Laurence Sterne

  WriterBritish1713 · 18th century

  3.0 · 25 votes · 86 reads

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• As long as our civilization is essentially one of property, of fences, of exclusiveness, it will be mocked by delusions. Our riches will leave us sick; there will be bitterness in our laughter; and our wine will burn our mouth. Only that good profits, whi

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.9 · 64 votes · 163 reads

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• Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

  PainterItaly1452 · 15th century

  3.7 · 42 votes · 0 reads

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• Death doesn't affect the living because it has not happened yet. Death doesn't concern the dead because they have ceased to exist.

  

  W. H. Auden

  PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

  3.6 · 18 votes · 136 reads

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• Don't waste time trying to break a man's heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.

  

  Helen Rowland

  JournalistAmerican1875 · 19th century

  4.2 · 32 votes · 126 reads

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• Experience is something you get too late to do anything about the mistakes you made while getting it.

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  Anonymous

  3.5 · 22 votes · 85 reads

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• Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.9 · 55 votes · 39 reads

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• Half the world is composed of people who have something to say and can't, and the other half who have nothing to say and keep on saying it.

  

  Robert Burton

  EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century

  4.3 · 50 votes · 103 reads

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• He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  4.8 · 58 votes · 83 reads

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• History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

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  Konrad Adenauer

  PoliticianGerman1876 · 19th century

  4.7 · 28 votes · 81 reads

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• I always tried to turn every disaster into an opportunity.

  

  Woody Allen

  ComedianAmerican1935 · 20th century

  3.3 · 5 votes · 148 reads

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• I can't disguise myself with a wig and dark glasses - the wheelchair gives me away.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.2 · 36 votes · 157 reads

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• I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.8 · 23 votes · 115 reads

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• I feel so entirely in my element with a full orchestra; even if my mortal enemies were marshalled before me, I could lead them, master them, surround them, or repulse them.

  

  Robert Schumann

  MusicianGerman1810 · 19th century

  3.6 · 12 votes · 87 reads

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• I have asked a lot of my emotions -one hundred and twenty stories. The price was high, right up with Kipling, because there was one little drop of something, not blood, not a tear, not my seed, but me more intimately than these, in every story, it was the

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 54 votes · 198 reads

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• If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.

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  Ezra Pound

  PoetAmerican1885 · 19th century

  4.2 · 30 votes · 31 reads

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• It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbour.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  4.2 · 37 votes · 6 reads

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• It is easy to give advice from a port of safety.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  4.7 · 26 votes · 182 reads

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• It is past time for women to take their rightful place, side by side with men, in the rooms where the fates of peoples, where their children's and grandchildren's fates, are decided.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.2 · 45 votes · 91 reads

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• It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about nowadays saying things against one, behind one's back, that are absolutely and entirely true.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.6 · 31 votes · 62 reads

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• It requires courage not to surrender oneself to the ingenious or compassionate counsels of despair that would induce a man to eliminate himself from the ranks of the living; but it does not follow from this that every huckster who is fattened and nourishe

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  Sophocles

  PoetGreek

  3.7 · 62 votes · 107 reads

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• It would seem that man was born a slave, and that slavery is his natural condition. At the same time nothing on earth can stop man from feeling himself born for liberty. Never, whatever may happen, can he accept servitude; for he is a thinking creature.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  3.0 · 16 votes · 198 reads

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• Love, and do what you like.

  

  Rudyard Kipling

  WriterBritish1865 · 19th century

  4.2 · 49 votes · 158 reads

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• Man appoints, and God disappoints.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  4.0 · 9 votes · 99 reads

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• Manners are happy ways of doing things.

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 64 votes · 13 reads

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• No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.7 · 53 votes · 199 reads

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• Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.5 · 58 votes · 12 reads

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• Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  4.1 · 43 votes · 109 reads

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• Perhaps life is just that... a dream and a fear.

  

  Joseph Conrad

  NovelistBritish1857 · 19th century

  4.4 · 10 votes · 151 reads

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• Poets wish to profit or to please.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  3.0 · 47 votes · 158 reads

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• Quotation: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  3.6 · 8 votes · 15 reads

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• Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hall-mark of true science.

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  4.5 · 25 votes · 8 reads

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• The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  4.6 · 27 votes · 107 reads

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• The fight against terror is a common imperative for democracies and must become so for all nations.

  

  Lionel Jospin

  PoliticianFrench1937 · 20th century

  5.0 · 48 votes · 72 reads

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• The first and the best victory is to conquer self.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  4.7 · 27 votes · 131 reads

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• The Russian people and Russian culture are the linchpin, the glue that binds together this unique civilization.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  4.9 · 7 votes · 144 reads

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• The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.

  

  James Russell Lowell

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  3.3 · 27 votes · 114 reads

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• There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  4.4 · 20 votes · 147 reads

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• There is no such thing as chance; and what seem to us merest accident springs from the deepest source of destiny.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  4.4 · 60 votes · 200 reads

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• There once was a brainy baboon who always breathed down a bassoon for he said, ''It appears that in billions of years I shall certainly hit on a tune.''

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  Ezra Pound

  PoetAmerican1885 · 19th century

  4.9 · 16 votes · 40 reads

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• Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.4 · 36 votes · 81 reads

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• Those who attain to any excellence commonly spend life in some single pursuit, for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.6 · 57 votes · 0 reads

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• True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.3 · 37 votes · 75 reads

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• War-making is one of the few activities that people are not supposed to view ''realistically;'' that is, with an eye to expense and practical outcome. In all-out war, expenditure is all-out, unprudent - war being defined as an emergency in which no sacrif

  

  Stendhal

  NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

  3.5 · 61 votes · 28 reads

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• We are no longer in a state of growth; we are in a state of excess. We are living in a society of excrescence. The boil is growing out of control, recklessly at cross purposes with itself, its impacts multiplying as the causes disintegrate.

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  Jean Baudrillard

  PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century

  5.0 · 29 votes · 84 reads

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• When you dream alone, with your eyes shut, asleep, that dream is an illusion. But when we dream together, sharing the same dream, awake and with our eyes wide open, then that dream becomes reality!

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 23 votes · 166 reads

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