Quotes for January 2944 quotes · 36 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every January 29: the anniversary does not move.

• 'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.6 · 21 votes · 142 reads

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• A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  3.4 · 62 votes · 124 reads

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• Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.8 · 48 votes · 190 reads

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• America has always been a country of amateurs where the professional, that is to say, the man who claims authority as a member of an élite which knows the law in some field or other, is an object of distrust and resentment.

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  W. C. Fields

  ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.9 · 64 votes · 169 reads

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• Conversation is an art in which a man has all mankind for competitors.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.1 · 55 votes · 122 reads

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• Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

  

  Isaac Newton

  MathematicianEnglish1643 · 17th century

  5.0 · 43 votes · 36 reads

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• For the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation.

  

  Charles Baudelaire

  PoetFrench1821 · 19th century

  3.2 · 29 votes · 197 reads

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• God grant that not only the love of liberty but a thorough knowledge of the rights of man may pervade all the nations of the earth, so that a philosopher may set his foot anywhere on its surface and say: This is my country!

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.3 · 17 votes · 138 reads

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• God's finger touched him and he slept.

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  Lord Alfred Tennyson

  PoetBritish1809 · 19th century

  4.2 · 56 votes · 141 reads

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• Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.3 · 48 votes · 3 reads

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• Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.1 · 53 votes · 145 reads

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• I am an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way.

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  Carl Sandburg

  PoetAmerican1878 · 19th century

  4.7 · 54 votes · 47 reads

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• I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare.

  

  C. S. Lewis

  AuthorIrish1898 · 19th century

  3.0 · 7 votes · 65 reads

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• I don't like nouvelle cuisine, too small bits. I like to have a nice wine, nice pasta, tomatoes.

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  Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

  BusinessmanItalian1947 · 20th century

  4.0 · 36 votes · 176 reads

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• I know nothing more mocking than a devil that despairs.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.7 · 61 votes · 127 reads

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• I suffer more from the humiliations inflicted by my country than from those inflicted on her.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  4.3 · 28 votes · 137 reads

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• If people did not prefer reaping to sowing, there would not be a hungry person in the land.

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 6 votes · 196 reads

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• It's the price of success: people start to think you're omnipotent.

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  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  3.6 · 24 votes · 99 reads

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• Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.9 · 55 votes · 197 reads

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• Life may change, but it may fly not; Hope may vanish, but can die not; Truth be veiled, but still it burneth; Love repulsed, - but it returneth.

  

  Pearl S. Buck

  NovelistAmerican1892 · 19th century

  4.3 · 43 votes · 60 reads

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• Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

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  Sir John Eliot

  PoliticianBritish1592 · 16th century

  3.6 · 51 votes · 24 reads

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• Merely having an open mind is nothing; the object of opening the mind, as of opening the mouth, is to shut it again on something solid.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.7 · 50 votes · 194 reads

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• Money is the seed of money, and the first guinea is sometimes more difficult to acquire than the second million.

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  4.0 · 10 votes · 31 reads

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• My big focus is China and OPEC and all of these countries that are just absolutely destroying the United States.

  

  Donald Trump

  BusinessmanAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.2 · 25 votes · 147 reads

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• No one would have doubted his ability to reign had he never been emperor.

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  Publius Cornelius Tacitus

  WriterRoman55 · 1st century

  3.4 · 34 votes · 184 reads

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• Opportunity is no more than a better way of serving and providing for humanities needs.

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 44 votes · 135 reads

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• Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.1 · 12 votes · 143 reads

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• Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing f

  

  Ernest Hemingway

  WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

  3.2 · 11 votes · 12 reads

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• Perseverance, self-reliance, energetic effort, are doubly strengthened when your rise to battle again.

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 30 votes · 196 reads

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• Prayer is a passport to heaven. Your communication with God.

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 58 votes · 12 reads

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• Terrorism has once again shown it is prepared deliberately to stop at nothing in creating human victims. An end must be put to this. As never before, it is vital to unite forces of the entire world community against terror.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  3.3 · 8 votes · 137 reads

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• The city is recruited from the country.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.9 · 18 votes · 193 reads

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• The effectiveness of work increases according to geometric progression if there are no interruptions.

  

  André Maurois

  WriterFrench1885 · 19th century

  3.1 · 29 votes · 125 reads

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• The giants of the race have been men of concentration, who have struck sledge-hammer blows in one place until they have accomplished their purpose. The successful men of today are men of one overmastering idea, one unwavering aim, men of single and intens

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.7 · 36 votes · 77 reads

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• The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  3.1 · 52 votes · 190 reads

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• The open-minded see the truth in different things: the narrow-minded see only the differences.

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 21 votes · 68 reads

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• The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  4.6 · 54 votes · 4 reads

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• The public have neither shame or gratitude.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  4.8 · 38 votes · 179 reads

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• The value of an idea lies in the using of it.

  

  Theodore Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1858 · 19th century

  4.2 · 8 votes · 48 reads

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• To be thoroughly conversant with a man's heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of despair.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe

  WriterAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.5 · 17 votes · 188 reads

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• When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.7 · 8 votes · 45 reads

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• Words are the money of fools.

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  Thomas Hardy

  WriterBritish1840 · 19th century

  3.5 · 61 votes · 46 reads

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• Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship. Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest!

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  3.7 · 59 votes · 0 reads

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