Quotes for January 545 quotes · 37 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every January 5: the anniversary does not move.

• A man should ever be ready booted to take his journey.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  3.8 · 36 votes · 170 reads

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• A man's wife has more power over him than the state has.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.5 · 15 votes · 48 reads

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• A mother who is really a mother is never free.

  

  Honore de Balzac

  NovelistFrench1799 · 18th century

  4.0 · 53 votes · 104 reads

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• A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  3.8 · 22 votes · 13 reads

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• After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.8 · 49 votes · 32 reads

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• After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.9 · 7 votes · 10 reads

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• Being a hero is about the shortest lived profession on earth.

  

  Wentworth Dillon

  PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century

  3.0 · 37 votes · 185 reads

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• From this experience we have learned that in a big party it is important to have the necessary and often controversial discussions on policy issues such as the health system while in opposition.

  

  Angela Merkel

  PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century

  3.7 · 21 votes · 15 reads

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• I am coming more and more to the conviction that the necessity of our geometry cannot be demonstrated, at least neither by, nor for, the human intellect.

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  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  MathematicianGerman1777 · 18th century

  3.2 · 41 votes · 70 reads

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• I am in the present. I cannot know what tomorrow will bring forth. I can know only what the truth is for me today. That is what I am called upon to serve, and I serve it in all lucidity.

  

  Igor Stravinsky

  MusicianRussian1882 · 19th century

  3.1 · 37 votes · 176 reads

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• I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.0 · 24 votes · 116 reads

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• I would rather have one article a day of this sort; and these ten or twenty lines might readily represent a whole day's hard work in the way of concentrated, intense thinking and revision, polish of style, weighing of words.

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  Joseph Pulitzer

  PublisherAmerican1847 · 19th century

  3.9 · 52 votes · 89 reads

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• Idleness is an appendix to nobility.

  

  Robert Browning

  PoetBritish1812 · 19th century

  4.7 · 50 votes · 89 reads

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• If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  3.9 · 6 votes · 11 reads

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• If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.8 · 17 votes · 49 reads

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• If you can't pay for a thing, don't buy it. If you can't get paid for it, don't sell it. Do this, and you will have calm and drowsy nights, with all of the good business you have now and none of the bad. If you have time, don't wait for time.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.6 · 60 votes · 31 reads

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• In the old generation, if one kid bought a PlayStation 2 and the other kid bought an Xbox, at his house you played PlayStation, at your house you played Xbox. Now that it's online, all those early buyers who... you want to play with, they've got their rep

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.0 · 35 votes · 132 reads

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• It is my ambition to say in ten sentences; what others say in a whole book.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.2 · 62 votes · 59 reads

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• It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

  

  James Russell Lowell

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  4.8 · 51 votes · 98 reads

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• It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut, with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable majority so supportable and so welcome.

  

  Joseph Conrad

  NovelistBritish1857 · 19th century

  3.0 · 24 votes · 74 reads

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• Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.4 · 21 votes · 56 reads

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• Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly of the storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.3 · 58 votes · 82 reads

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• Men, like bullets, go farthest when they are smoothest.

  

  Jean Paul

  ComedianGerman1763 · 18th century

  4.3 · 43 votes · 197 reads

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• Moderation is an ostentatious proof of our strength of character.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.2 · 34 votes · 39 reads

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• Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.9 · 20 votes · 9 reads

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• O, let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven! Keep me in temper. I would not be mad.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.4 · 41 votes · 56 reads

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• On the education of the people of this country the fate of the country depends.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.7 · 31 votes · 101 reads

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• One was never married, and that's his hell; another is, and that's his plague.

  

  Robert Browning

  PoetBritish1812 · 19th century

  4.4 · 46 votes · 21 reads

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• Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

  

  George Washington

  PoliticianAmerican1732 · 18th century

  4.7 · 40 votes · 46 reads

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• Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates - but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.8 · 61 votes · 155 reads

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• Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.6 · 42 votes · 57 reads

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• Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.8 · 43 votes · 72 reads

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• The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.3 · 20 votes · 116 reads

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• The democratic choice Russian people made in the early 90's is final.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  5.0 · 37 votes · 70 reads

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• The economist John Maynard Keynes said that in the long run, we are all dead. If he were around today he might say that, in the long run, we are all on Social Security and Medicare.

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  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  4.3 · 30 votes · 98 reads

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• The financial industry is a service industry. It should serve others before it serves itself.

  

  Christine Lagarde

  EconomistFrench1956 · 20th century

  4.8 · 45 votes · 181 reads

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• The greater the feeling of inferiority that has been experienced, the more powerful is the urge to conquest and the more violent the emotional agitation.

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  Alfred Adler

  ScientistAustrian1870 · 19th century

  3.3 · 53 votes · 54 reads

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• The timid are afraid before the danger, the cowardly while in danger, and the courageous after danger.

  

  Jean Paul

  ComedianGerman1763 · 18th century

  3.3 · 57 votes · 69 reads

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• There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  4.1 · 11 votes · 88 reads

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• There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

  

  W. H. Auden

  PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

  3.2 · 46 votes · 181 reads

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• Tsze-Kung asked, saying, is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?'' The Master said, ''Is not Reciprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  4.9 · 37 votes · 13 reads

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• What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.5 · 51 votes · 83 reads

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• Women sometimes seem to share a quiet, unalterable dogma of persecution that endows even the most sophisticated of them with the inarticulate poignancy of the peasant.

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 6 votes · 185 reads

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• Work is not man's punishment! It is his reward and his strength, his glory and his pleasure.

  

  George Sand

  WriterFrench1804 · 19th century

  4.4 · 23 votes · 36 reads

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