Quotes for January 3049 quotes · 45 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every January 30: the anniversary does not move.

• ''A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gal.'' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroa

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.6 · 40 votes · 39 reads

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• As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.4 · 28 votes · 83 reads

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• At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.

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  Anonymous

  3.5 · 63 votes · 192 reads

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• Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses or avoids.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  4.1 · 17 votes · 109 reads

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• Do not all charms fly at the mere touch of cold philosophy? There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: we know her woof, her texture; she is given in the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings, conquer all mysteries by rule

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  John Keats

  PoetBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.7 · 31 votes · 75 reads

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• Even a mistake may turn out to be the one thing necessary to a worthwhile achievement.

  

  Henry Ford

  BusinessmanAmerican1863 · 19th century

  3.1 · 19 votes · 39 reads

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• Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones y

  

  Donald Trump

  BusinessmanAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.3 · 43 votes · 92 reads

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• Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.7 · 52 votes · 79 reads

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• Great countries are those that produce great people.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  4.7 · 27 votes · 145 reads

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• He who cannot obey himself will be commanded. That is the nature of living creatures.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.3 · 27 votes · 88 reads

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• He who fears to suffer, suffers from fear.

  

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 39 votes · 116 reads

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• I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... a large Arctic region covered with ice.

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  4.6 · 62 votes · 36 reads

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• I do not know how to distinguish between our waking life and a dream. Are we not always living the life that we imagine we are?

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.2 · 48 votes · 78 reads

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• I had no ambition to make a fortune. Mere money-making has never been my goal, I had an ambition to build.

  

  Woody Allen

  ComedianAmerican1935 · 20th century

  3.4 · 37 votes · 107 reads

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• If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.

  

  Isaac Asimov

  ScientistAmerican1920 · 20th century

  4.7 · 19 votes · 81 reads

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• It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

  

  Pythagoras

  MathematicianGreek-582 · 6th century BC

  4.4 · 60 votes · 110 reads

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• It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose your own.

  

  Harry S. Truman

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  3.6 · 61 votes · 71 reads

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• Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.9 · 23 votes · 22 reads

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• Live one day at a time emphasizing ethics rather than rules.

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  3.0 · 52 votes · 181 reads

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• Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.

  

  Albert Schweitzer

  TheologianGerman-French1875 · 19th century

  3.0 · 55 votes · 14 reads

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• Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  4.6 · 19 votes · 189 reads

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• Never the time and the place and the loved one all together!

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  Robert Bresson

  Film directorFrench1901 · 20th century

  4.1 · 8 votes · 77 reads

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• Once we roared like lions for liberty; now we bleat like sheep for security! The solution for America's problem is not in terms of big government, but it is in big men over whom nobody stands in control but God.

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  Norman Mailer

  WriterAmerican1923 · 20th century

  3.4 · 47 votes · 44 reads

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• One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.4 · 41 votes · 42 reads

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• Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.9 · 49 votes · 113 reads

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• Prosperity in the form of wealth works exactly the same as everything else. You will see it coming into your life when you are unattached to needing it.

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  4.7 · 18 votes · 178 reads

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• Scratching is one of nature's sweetest gratifications, and the one nearest at hand.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  4.2 · 51 votes · 174 reads

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• Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  3.8 · 27 votes · 146 reads

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• The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.7 · 27 votes · 43 reads

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• The fearful unbelief is unbelief in yourself.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.7 · 7 votes · 21 reads

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• The human consciousness is really homogeneous. There is no complete forgetting, even in death.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

  WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century

  4.1 · 10 votes · 64 reads

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• The human mind will not be confined to any limits.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.9 · 50 votes · 38 reads

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• The most important questions for anybody thinking of running for president are not 'Will you run and can you win?' There is, 'What is your vision for America? And can you lead us there?'

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.3 · 61 votes · 118 reads

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• The odious and disgusting aristocracy of wealth is built upon the ruins of all that is good in chivalry or republicanism; and luxury is the forerunner of a barbarism scarcely capable of cure.

  

  Pearl S. Buck

  NovelistAmerican1892 · 19th century

  4.4 · 36 votes · 185 reads

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• The older you get, the more you realise how happenstance... has helped to determine your path through life.

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  3.7 · 36 votes · 42 reads

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• The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  3.7 · 7 votes · 58 reads

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• The philosophy of the common man is an old wife that gives him no pleasure, yet he cannot live without her, and resents any aspersions that strangers may cast on her character.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  3.1 · 10 votes · 131 reads

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• The road of life can only reveal itself as it is traveled; each turn in the road reveals a surprise. Man's future is hidden.

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 64 votes · 126 reads

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• The world economy today is recovering slowly, and there are still some destabilising factors and uncertainties. The underlying impact of the international financial crisis is far from over.

  

  Hu Jintao

  PoliticianChinese1942 · 20th century

  4.0 · 21 votes · 85 reads

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• There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.2 · 34 votes · 155 reads

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• This lady is not for turning.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  3.3 · 55 votes · 44 reads

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• W. C. Fields, a lifetime agnostic, was discovered reading a Bible on his deathbed. ''I'm looking for a loop-hole,'' he explained.

  

  Voltaire

  WriterFrench1694 · 17th century

  4.8 · 22 votes · 55 reads

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• We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are.

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  Anaïs Nin

  AuthorFrench1903 · 20th century

  3.1 · 46 votes · 162 reads

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• We live thick and are in each other's way, and stumble over one another, and I think we thus lose some respect for one another.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.5 · 55 votes · 74 reads

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• We must be willing to pay a price for freedom.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.5 · 5 votes · 74 reads

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• We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence. We need silence to be able to to

  

  Teresa of Calcutta

  MissionaryAlbanian1910 · 20th century

  3.5 · 39 votes · 40 reads

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• When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.2 · 60 votes · 12 reads

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• When you examine the lives of the most influential people who have ever walked among us, you discover one thread that winds through them all. They have been aligned first with their spiritual nature and only then with their physical selves.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.1 · 25 votes · 120 reads

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