Quotes for January 2147 quotes · 42 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every January 21: the anniversary does not move.

• ''I can forgive, but I cannot forget,'' is only another way of saying, ''I cannot forgive.''

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  5.0 · 50 votes · 71 reads

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• 'Tis the white stag, Fame, we're a-hunting, bid the world's hounds come to horn!

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  Ezra Pound

  PoetAmerican1885 · 19th century

  3.5 · 55 votes · 195 reads

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• A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.0 · 15 votes · 123 reads

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• All criminals turn preachers under the gallows.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.9 · 48 votes · 64 reads

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• America is a great country, but you can't live in it for nothing.

  

  Wentworth Dillon

  PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century

  3.7 · 22 votes · 92 reads

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• An evil fate has deprived me of the full use of my right hand, so that I am not able to play my compositions as I feel them. The trouble with my hand is that certain fingers have become so weak, probably through writing and playing too much at one time, t

  

  Robert Schumann

  MusicianGerman1810 · 19th century

  3.3 · 12 votes · 17 reads

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• And all who told it added something new, and all who heard it, made enlargements too.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  3.5 · 44 votes · 82 reads

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• Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.7 · 23 votes · 113 reads

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• At most, the greatest persons are but great wens, and excrescences; men of wit and delightful conversation, but as morals for ornament, except they be so incorporated into the body of the world that they contribute something to the sustentation of the who

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  John Donne

  PoetEnglish1572 · 16th century

  3.3 · 49 votes · 137 reads

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• By nature's kindly disposition most questions which it is beyond a man's power to answer do not occur to him at all.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  5.0 · 22 votes · 116 reads

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• Call no man happy till he is dead.

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  Aeschylus

  WriterGreek-525 · 6th century BC

  3.5 · 64 votes · 20 reads

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• Chastity does not mean abstention from sexual wrong; it means something flaming, like Joan of Arc.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.8 · 21 votes · 52 reads

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• Children today will grow up taking for granted that an African-American or a woman can, yes, become the president of the United States.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.4 · 53 votes · 141 reads

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• Doubt whom you will, but never yourself.

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  Christian Nestell Bovee

  AuthorAmerican1820 · 19th century

  4.4 · 62 votes · 10 reads

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• Every man is surrounded by a neighbourhood of voluntary spies.

  

  Jane Austen

  NovelistEnglish1775 · 18th century

  3.3 · 48 votes · 94 reads

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• Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  5.0 · 20 votes · 0 reads

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• Here's to alcohol: the cause of, and answer to, all of life's problems.

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  4.1 · 64 votes · 12 reads

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• I have been working or attending school full time since I was 13.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.9 · 64 votes · 83 reads

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• I have long been convinced that my artistic ideal stands or falls with Germany. Only the Germany that we love and desire can help us achieve that ideal.

  

  Richard Wagner

  MusicianGerman1813 · 19th century

  4.0 · 60 votes · 116 reads

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• I wander if there really is a brave man with a really good imagination? If hypocrisy was destructive to the environment the world would have ended a long, long time ago.

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  Anonymous

  3.4 · 16 votes · 65 reads

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• I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.1 · 9 votes · 127 reads

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• If the truth be known, most successes are built on a multitude of failures.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 36 votes · 1 reads

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• If you took all the economists in the world and laid them end-to-end, they couldn't reach a conclusion

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 62 votes · 50 reads

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• If you would lift me up you must be on higher ground.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.3 · 37 votes · 152 reads

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• If your descent is from heroic sires, show in your life a remnant of their fires.

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  Nicola Abbagnano

  PhilosopherItaly1901 · 20th century

  3.3 · 5 votes · 82 reads

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• Increased jobs are the consequence of increased trade. Increasing jobs more than output implies a fall in productivity and standards of living. That surely cannot be our goal.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  3.9 · 10 votes · 119 reads

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• Interest rates do not have to be identical across the whole euro area, but it is unacceptable if major differences arise from broken capital markets or concern about a euro area break-up.

  

  Mario Draghi

  EconomistItalian1947 · 20th century

  4.8 · 11 votes · 96 reads

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• Kindness has converted more sinners than zeal, eloquence, or learning.

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  Frederick William Faber

  TheologianBritish1814 · 19th century

  3.0 · 51 votes · 78 reads

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• Knowledge is in the end based on acknowledgement.

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  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  PhilosopherAustrian1889 · 19th century

  3.7 · 40 votes · 168 reads

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• Let every dawn of the morning be to you as the beginning of life. And let every setting of the sun be to you as its close. Then let everyone of these short lives leave its sure record of some kindly thing done for others; some good strength of knowledge g

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  3.5 · 51 votes · 140 reads

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• Like the bee, we should make our industry our amusement.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale

  AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century

  3.2 · 8 votes · 83 reads

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• Love is stronger than violence.

  

  Hermann Hesse

  PoetGerman1877 · 19th century

  3.8 · 60 votes · 177 reads

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• Medicines are only fit for old people.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  3.6 · 17 votes · 125 reads

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• Men never do evil so fully and cheerfully as when we do it out of conscience.

  

  Blaise Pascal

  PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century

  4.4 · 8 votes · 159 reads

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• My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.5 · 52 votes · 2 reads

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• O Polly, you might have toyed and kissed, by keeping men off, you keep them on.

  

  John Gay

  PoetEnglish1685 · 17th century

  3.9 · 36 votes · 90 reads

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• One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.0 · 45 votes · 182 reads

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• Our own self-love draws a thick veil between us and our faults.

  

  Lord Chesterfield

  PoliticianBritish1694 · 17th century

  4.2 · 38 votes · 61 reads

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• Promises are like crying babies in a theater, they should be carried out at once.

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  Norman Mailer

  WriterAmerican1923 · 20th century

  4.1 · 61 votes · 122 reads

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• Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.2 · 9 votes · 30 reads

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• Secrecy is the soul of all great designs.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  3.5 · 9 votes · 177 reads

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• Some remedies are worse than the disease.

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  Publilius Syrus

  WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC

  4.6 · 8 votes · 125 reads

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• The trouble began with Forster. After him it was considered ungentlemanly to write more than five or six novels.

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  Anthony Burgess

  AuthorEnglish1917 · 20th century

  3.1 · 61 votes · 74 reads

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• There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

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  Dante

  PoetItaly1265 · 13th century

  4.6 · 21 votes · 132 reads

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• There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.2 · 12 votes · 110 reads

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• You must not expect old heads upon young shoulders.

  

  English proverb

  English

  4.0 · 31 votes · 162 reads

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