Quotes for January 1950 quotes · 40 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every January 19: the anniversary does not move.

• A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.9 · 47 votes · 9 reads

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• A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  3.3 · 60 votes · 60 reads

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• Advertising is a business of words, but advertising agencies are infested with men and women who cannot write. They cannot write advertisements, and they cannot write plans. They are helpless as deaf mutes on the stage of the Metropolitan Opera.

  

  David Ogilvy

  BusinessmanEnglish1911 · 20th century

  3.0 · 41 votes · 126 reads

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• As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world - that is the myth of the atomic age - as in being able to remake ourselves.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  3.8 · 8 votes · 55 reads

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• Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding-places in a voluminous writer.

  

  Joseph Addison

  PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century

  4.0 · 37 votes · 25 reads

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• Be it ever so humble, there's no opinion like one's own.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 6 votes · 51 reads

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• Beauty is not caused. It is.

  

  Emily Dickinson

  PoetAmerican1830 · 19th century

  4.9 · 64 votes · 172 reads

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• Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  4.5 · 19 votes · 183 reads

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• Charm is the quality in others that makes us more satisfied with ourselves.

  

  Henri Frédéric Amiel

  WriterSwiss1821 · 19th century

  4.8 · 18 votes · 72 reads

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• Consult. To seek another's approval of a course already decided on.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  4.6 · 60 votes · 118 reads

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• Disease is not of the body but of the place.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.0 · 51 votes · 79 reads

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• Do it now. Then it's done.

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  Anonymous

  3.7 · 35 votes · 53 reads

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• Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  3.7 · 40 votes · 16 reads

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• Everything you can imagine is real.

  

  Pablo Neruda

  PoetChilean1904 · 20th century

  3.1 · 64 votes · 5 reads

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• Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future.

  

  Stendhal

  NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

  4.6 · 12 votes · 164 reads

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• Faith makes: The uplook good, the outlook bright, the future glorious.

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  Anonymous

  3.9 · 32 votes · 112 reads

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• He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or conscientious in his actions.

  

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  TheologianSwiss1741 · 18th century

  3.4 · 44 votes · 13 reads

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• If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

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  Vilfredo Pareto

  EconomistItaly1848 · 19th century

  3.1 · 25 votes · 36 reads

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• If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.8 · 13 votes · 182 reads

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• If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.

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  Dorothy Parker

  WriterAmerican1893 · 19th century

  4.4 · 23 votes · 75 reads

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• In every man there is something wherein I may learn of him, and in that I am his pupil.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.2 · 18 votes · 25 reads

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• It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -past and present -are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hungers, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millennia

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  3.7 · 24 votes · 170 reads

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• It is with true love as it is with ghosts; everyone talks about it, but few have seen it.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.8 · 8 votes · 112 reads

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• It ought to be illegal for an artist to marry. If the artist must marry let him find someone more interested in art, or his art, or the artist part of him, than in him. After which let them take tea together three times a week.

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  Ezra Pound

  PoetAmerican1885 · 19th century

  3.5 · 13 votes · 111 reads

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• It sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  3.2 · 35 votes · 120 reads

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• It's a funny thing about life: if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

  

  W. H. Auden

  PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

  4.7 · 12 votes · 9 reads

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• Laughter is America's most important export.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  5.0 · 62 votes · 74 reads

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• Most people don't have time to master the very mathematical details of theoretical physics.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.8 · 5 votes · 160 reads

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• Most TV shows don't reward you for paying attention.

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  4.4 · 14 votes · 73 reads

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• No matter what you think about the Iraq war, there is one thing we can all agree on for the next days - we have to salute the courage and bravery of those who are risking their lives to vote and those brave Iraqi and American soldiers fighting to protect

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.7 · 28 votes · 80 reads

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• Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

  

  W. H. Auden

  PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

  4.6 · 56 votes · 74 reads

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• Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  3.3 · 36 votes · 74 reads

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• Thank God every morning when you get up that you have something to do that day, which must be done, whether you like it or not.

  

  James Russell Lowell

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  4.0 · 14 votes · 58 reads

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• The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

  

  John Locke

  PhilosopherEnglish1632 · 17th century

  4.6 · 56 votes · 39 reads

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• The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort.

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  Ezra Pound

  PoetAmerican1885 · 19th century

  5.0 · 47 votes · 20 reads

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• The individual, man as a man, man as a brain, if you like, interests me more than what he makes, because I've noticed that most artists only repeat themselves.

  

  Marcel Duchamp

  PainterFrench1887 · 19th century

  3.0 · 30 votes · 144 reads

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• The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished - it is no longer secure in its instincts.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.7 · 28 votes · 81 reads

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• The one who pleased everybody died before they were born.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.9 · 18 votes · 15 reads

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• The power of love, as the basis of a State, has never been tried.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.0 · 33 votes · 123 reads

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• There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the only solution to the strangulation that life had prepared for him.

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  Antonin Artaud

  PoetFrench1896 · 19th century

  3.7 · 29 votes · 183 reads

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• There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale

  AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century

  3.1 · 39 votes · 17 reads

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• Those who foretell the future lies, even if he tells the truth.

  

  Arabian proverb

  Arabian

  4.2 · 61 votes · 95 reads

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• Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  4.0 · 13 votes · 57 reads

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• Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  3.5 · 16 votes · 0 reads

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• War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.8 · 8 votes · 58 reads

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• Whatever evil a man may think of women, there is no woman but thinks more.

  

  Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

  PoetFrench1636 · 17th century

  3.7 · 13 votes · 134 reads

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• When a flirt fishes for a man, she fishes merely for the sport.

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  Anonymous

  3.6 · 45 votes · 79 reads

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• Where one is wise two are happy.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.4 · 33 votes · 3 reads

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• Your commanders have ordered you to storm the White House and to arrest me. But I as the elected President of Russia give you the order to turn your tanks and not to fight against your own people.

  

  Boris Yeltsin

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  3.6 · 6 votes · 136 reads

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