Quotes for January 447 quotes · 40 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every January 4: the anniversary does not move.

• A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime.

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  W. C. Fields

  ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.9 · 37 votes · 41 reads

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• A man's errors are his portals of discovery.

  

  James Joyce

  AuthorIrish1882 · 19th century

  3.5 · 21 votes · 150 reads

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• A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

  

  James Russell Lowell

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  3.9 · 17 votes · 134 reads

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• A yawn is a silent shout.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.6 · 34 votes · 171 reads

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• Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to that attained by Christ.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.7 · 53 votes · 87 reads

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• As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the United States has a moral responsibility to act.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.9 · 51 votes · 31 reads

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• Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to t

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.9 · 30 votes · 160 reads

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• Early civilizations complained about still earlier ones, much as we do about both.

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 57 votes · 61 reads

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• Enemies promises were made to be broken.

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  Aesop

  WriterGreek-620 · 7th century BC

  4.2 · 43 votes · 97 reads

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• Faith is that quality that enables us to believe what we know to be untrue.

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 20 votes · 141 reads

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• For me, there will be no enemies but unemployment, the deficit, excessive debt, economic stagnation and anything else that keeps our country in these critical circumstances.

  

  Mariano Rajoy

  PoliticianSpanish1955 · 20th century

  3.2 · 47 votes · 185 reads

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• God comes to the hungry in the form of food.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  4.8 · 57 votes · 0 reads

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• He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.8 · 38 votes · 64 reads

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• He who pays the piper calls the tune.

  

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 27 votes · 20 reads

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• How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us, perchance, that will explain our miracles and reveal new ones. The at present unutterable things we may find somewhere uttered.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.7 · 19 votes · 192 reads

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• I feel like every day, every minute I have to make the most of.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.3 · 43 votes · 162 reads

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• I hate a fellow whom pride, or cowardice, or laziness drives 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

  3.2 · 58 votes · 172 reads

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• I have often noticed that a bribe has that effect - it changes a relation. The man who offers a bribe gives away a little of his own importance; the bribe once accepted, he becomes the inferior, like a man who has paid for a woman.

  

  Graham Greene

  WriterEnglish1904 · 20th century

  4.3 · 41 votes · 142 reads

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• I'm not trying to be sexy. It's just my way of expressing myself when I move around.

  

  Elvis Presley

  MusicianAmerican1935 · 20th century

  3.5 · 47 votes · 172 reads

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• Idleness is the parent of psychology.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.4 · 38 votes · 54 reads

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• If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  3.6 · 14 votes · 17 reads

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• If you look for the positive things in life; you will find them.

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 11 votes · 46 reads

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• It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.8 · 53 votes · 110 reads

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• Lords are lordliest in their wine.

  

  John Milton

  PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

  3.4 · 46 votes · 105 reads

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• Nothing is so exhilarating in life as to be shot at with no result.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.0 · 10 votes · 16 reads

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• Perpetual worry will get you to one place ahead of time - the cemetery.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 64 votes · 190 reads

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• Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.0 · 17 votes · 197 reads

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• Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  4.0 · 45 votes · 42 reads

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• Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.

  

  Joseph Heller

  AuthorAmerican1923 · 20th century

  4.3 · 15 votes · 174 reads

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• The burden which is well borne becomes light.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  3.5 · 64 votes · 160 reads

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• The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.1 · 44 votes · 179 reads

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• The E.U. is founded on the Treaties which apply only to the Member States who have agreed and ratified them.

  

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  PoliticianPortuguese1956 · 20th century

  3.3 · 62 votes · 65 reads

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• The giving is the hardest part; what does it cost to add a smile?

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  4.6 · 43 votes · 177 reads

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• The income tax has made liars out of more Americans than golf. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr.

  

  Wentworth Dillon

  PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century

  3.8 · 38 votes · 181 reads

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• The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  5.0 · 9 votes · 199 reads

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• The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.1 · 49 votes · 140 reads

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• The time is out of joint. O cursed spite that ever I was born to set it right!

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.6 · 60 votes · 84 reads

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• The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.9 · 37 votes · 46 reads

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• The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  3.5 · 61 votes · 106 reads

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• There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.7 · 33 votes · 107 reads

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• They that are loudest in their threats are the weakest in the execution of them. It is probable that he who is killed by lightning hears no noise; but the thunder-clap which follows, and which most alarms the ignorant, is the surest proof of their safety.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  3.2 · 13 votes · 116 reads

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• What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  3.5 · 29 votes · 119 reads

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• What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men's existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?

  

  Joseph Conrad

  NovelistBritish1857 · 19th century

  4.8 · 38 votes · 114 reads

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• What is faith but a kind of betting or speculation after all? It should be, ''I bet that my Redeemer liveth.''

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  3.7 · 17 votes · 56 reads

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• When death overtakes us; all that we have is left to others; all that we are we take with us.

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  Anonymous

  3.2 · 51 votes · 9 reads

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• You know, you can only lead them from behind.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  3.1 · 18 votes · 126 reads

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