Quotes for January 349 quotes · 38 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every January 3: the anniversary does not move.

• A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.

  

  Robert Burton

  EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century

  3.7 · 32 votes · 121 reads

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• A talk is like a woman's dress. Long enough to cover the subject, but short enough to be interesting.

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 9 votes · 160 reads

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• Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  3.8 · 13 votes · 148 reads

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• Death gives us sleep, eternal youth, and immortality.

  

  Jean Paul

  ComedianGerman1763 · 18th century

  3.0 · 48 votes · 39 reads

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• Every day's a perfect gift of time for us to use. Hours waiting to be filled in any way we choose. Each morning brings a quiet hope that rises with the sun. Each evening brings the sweet content that comes with work well done.

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  Anonymous

  3.6 · 45 votes · 14 reads

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• Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

  

  Jean Paul Sartre

  WriterFrench1905 · 20th century

  3.6 · 59 votes · 0 reads

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• Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more.

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  3.4 · 57 votes · 80 reads

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• Failure is not the worst thing in the world - the very worst is not to try

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  Anonymous

  4.5 · 56 votes · 178 reads

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• Fortune and love favor the brave.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  3.3 · 63 votes · 137 reads

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• Freedom is the right to live as we wish.

  

  Epictetus

  PhilosopherGreek55 · 1st century

  3.1 · 46 votes · 130 reads

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• Give little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  4.1 · 26 votes · 28 reads

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• Going home must be like going to render an account.

  

  Joseph Conrad

  NovelistBritish1857 · 19th century

  4.8 · 7 votes · 152 reads

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• He was distinguished for ignorance; for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  4.9 · 27 votes · 60 reads

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• I don't have an alarm clock. If someone needs to wake me up, then I have my BlackBerry next to me.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg

  BusinessmanAmerican1984 · 20th century

  4.4 · 37 votes · 112 reads

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• I don't know where the stock market is going, but I will say this, that if it continues higher, this will do more to stimulate the economy than anything we've been talking about today or anything anybody else was talking about.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  3.3 · 31 votes · 19 reads

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• I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.

  

  Isaac Asimov

  ScientistAmerican1920 · 20th century

  5.0 · 21 votes · 99 reads

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• If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of t

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.2 · 7 votes · 94 reads

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• If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning.

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  Aristotle Onassis

  BusinessmanGreek1906 · 20th century

  4.2 · 37 votes · 59 reads

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• Imagination is the pontoon bridge making way for the timid feet of reason.

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 51 votes · 119 reads

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• In nearly every religion I am aware of, there is a variation of the golden rule. And even for the non-religious, it is a tenet of people who believe in humanistic principles.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.0 · 20 votes · 185 reads

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• In the real world, nothing happens at the right place at the right time. It is the job of journalists and historians to correct that.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.5 · 55 votes · 100 reads

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• It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.7 · 28 votes · 174 reads

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• It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things.

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  Terence

  PoetRoman

  4.9 · 29 votes · 118 reads

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• Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.

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  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  MathematicianGerman1777 · 18th century

  3.8 · 40 votes · 194 reads

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• Little girl's definition of conscience: ''Something that makes you tell your mother before your brother or sister does. ''

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 19 votes · 139 reads

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• Now I know that Wal-Mart's policies do not reflect the best way of doing business and the values that I think are important in America.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.0 · 61 votes · 33 reads

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• One reason we should love our enemies is that we made them ourselves. Another reason is that they keep us on our toes, a third reason is that we should make them our friends.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 60 votes · 104 reads

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• Painting was called silent poetry and poetry speaking painting.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.5 · 20 votes · 173 reads

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• Sex is a conversation carried out by other means. If you get on well out of bed, half the problems of bed are solved.

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  Peter F. Drucker

  WriterAmerican1909 · 20th century

  3.8 · 54 votes · 84 reads

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• Simplicity is the seal of truth.

  

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  Anonymous

  4.5 · 14 votes · 175 reads

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• Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.5 · 9 votes · 124 reads

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• Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  5.0 · 60 votes · 21 reads

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• Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

  

  Albert Schweitzer

  TheologianGerman-French1875 · 19th century

  3.2 · 53 votes · 52 reads

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• The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities.

  

  Stendhal

  NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

  4.4 · 49 votes · 157 reads

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• The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  5.0 · 6 votes · 180 reads

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• The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  4.1 · 52 votes · 57 reads

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• The person who wins may have been counted out several times, but didn't hear the referee.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 12 votes · 173 reads

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• The philosopher proves that the philosopher exists. The poet merely enjoys existence.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham

  WriterBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.4 · 7 votes · 173 reads

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• The pleasure of reading is doubled when one lives with another who shares the same books.

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  Katherine Mansfield

  WriterEnglish1888 · 19th century

  4.4 · 41 votes · 11 reads

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• The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life.

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  Terence

  PoetRoman

  4.7 · 54 votes · 89 reads

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• There is no instinct like that of the heart.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.1 · 32 votes · 124 reads

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• Transformation literally means going beyond your form.

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  3.2 · 64 votes · 8 reads

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• We are reformers in the spring and summer, but in autumn we stand by the old. Reformers in the morning, and conservers at night.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.2 · 9 votes · 82 reads

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• We defy augury. There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'Tis not to come. If it be not to come, it will be now. If it be not now, yet it will come. The readiness is all.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.2 · 49 votes · 18 reads

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• What we determine we often break. Purpose is but the slave to memory.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.6 · 42 votes · 46 reads

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• When firmness is sufficient, rashness is unnecessary.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  3.5 · 38 votes · 2 reads

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• Wit. The salt with which the American humorist spoils his intellectual cookery by leaving it out.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  3.2 · 46 votes · 94 reads

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• You must have the devil in you to succeed in the arts.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  3.6 · 50 votes · 68 reads

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