Quotes for January 2846 quotes · 41 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every January 28: the anniversary does not move.

• A banker is a fellow who lends his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.9 · 62 votes · 136 reads

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• All my life people have said that I wasn't going to make it.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  4.8 · 11 votes · 98 reads

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• Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life.

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  Robert Green Ingersoll

  PoliticianAmerican1833 · 19th century

  3.6 · 9 votes · 135 reads

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• Change yourself and your work will seem different.

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  Norman Mailer

  WriterAmerican1923 · 20th century

  3.5 · 48 votes · 62 reads

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• Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a sense of duty acts ;in a uniform manner.

  

  Joseph Addison

  PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century

  4.0 · 29 votes · 116 reads

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• Don't think of retiring from the world until the world will be sorry that you retire. I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drive into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.8 · 27 votes · 69 reads

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• Endure and persist; this pain will turn to good by and by.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  4.4 · 42 votes · 31 reads

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• Every man is the creature of the age in which he lives; very few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  4.5 · 24 votes · 172 reads

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• Facing it, always facing it, that's the way to get through. Face it.

  

  Joseph Conrad

  NovelistBritish1857 · 19th century

  3.2 · 18 votes · 81 reads

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• Faith embraces many truths which seem to contradict each other.

  

  Blaise Pascal

  PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century

  4.1 · 26 votes · 95 reads

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• Fear always springs from ignorance.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.8 · 26 votes · 155 reads

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• Fools build houses, and wise men buy them.

  

  English proverb

  English

  3.0 · 39 votes · 173 reads

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• Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meandering, but leads none of us by the same route

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  3.8 · 30 votes · 134 reads

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• He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.3 · 38 votes · 158 reads

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• He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.4 · 32 votes · 84 reads

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• Imaginary time is a new dimension, at right angles to ordinary, real time.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.6 · 54 votes · 126 reads

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• In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country.

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  4.7 · 50 votes · 100 reads

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• It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.5 · 60 votes · 59 reads

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• It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from fossil fuels.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  4.3 · 41 votes · 137 reads

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• My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.

  

  Franz Kafka

  WriterCzeck1883 · 19th century

  4.5 · 25 votes · 55 reads

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• Not he who has much is rich, but he who gives much.

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  Erich Fromm

  PhilosopherGerman1900 · 19th century

  4.0 · 15 votes · 176 reads

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• O Solitude! If I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap of murky buildings

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  John Keats

  PoetBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.5 · 45 votes · 42 reads

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• Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

  

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  MusicianGerman1770 · 18th century

  3.4 · 61 votes · 95 reads

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• Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what clearly lies at hand.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.3 · 8 votes · 66 reads

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• Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand.

  

  Hippocrates

  ScientistGreek-460 · 5th century BC

  4.7 · 24 votes · 16 reads

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• Rule: Never perform card tricks for the people you play poker with.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  3.5 · 5 votes · 182 reads

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• Seek you counsel of the aged for their eyes have looked on the faces of the years and their ears have hardened to the voices of Life. Even if their counsel is displeasing to you, pay heed to them.

  

  Khalil Gibran

  PoetAmerican1883 · 19th century

  3.6 · 53 votes · 89 reads

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• Self-love, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.1 · 35 votes · 120 reads

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• Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for.

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century

  4.7 · 40 votes · 148 reads

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• The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

  WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century

  4.5 · 19 votes · 83 reads

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• The enchanting charms of this sublime science reveal only to those who have the courage to go deeply into it.

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  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  MathematicianGerman1777 · 18th century

  4.7 · 53 votes · 2 reads

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• The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.3 · 63 votes · 128 reads

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• The greatest homage we can pay truth is to use it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.6 · 18 votes · 25 reads

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• The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1882 · 19th century

  3.5 · 45 votes · 42 reads

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• There are but two ways of paying debt: Increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.1 · 24 votes · 154 reads

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• There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

  

  Nicolas Chamfort

  WriterFrench1741 · 18th century

  3.7 · 59 votes · 45 reads

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• There is no greater treasure than the respect and love of a true friend.

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 7 votes · 123 reads

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• There is no man living who isn't capable of doing more than he thinks he can do.

  

  Henry Ford

  BusinessmanAmerican1863 · 19th century

  3.3 · 6 votes · 81 reads

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• Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

  

  Hector Berlioz

  MusicianFrench1803 · 19th century

  4.6 · 31 votes · 34 reads

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• To aim at excellence, our reputation, and friends, and all must be ventured; to aim at the average we run no risk and provide little service.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale

  AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century

  3.2 · 56 votes · 130 reads

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• To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  4.4 · 48 votes · 57 reads

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• We've climbed the mighty mountain. I see the valley below, and it's a valley of peace.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.4 · 14 votes · 5 reads

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• Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.

  

  James Joyce

  AuthorIrish1882 · 19th century

  4.7 · 51 votes · 154 reads

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• What men have called friendship is only a social arrangement, a mutual adjustment of interests, an interchange of services given and received; it is, in sum, simply a business from which those involved propose to derive a steady profit for their own self-

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.6 · 22 votes · 34 reads

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• You can't trust water: Even a straight stick turns crooked in it.

  

  Voltaire

  WriterFrench1694 · 17th century

  4.7 · 12 votes · 199 reads

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