Quotes for January 950 quotes · 44 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every January 9: the anniversary does not move.

• Alas, I am dying beyond my means.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.1 · 59 votes · 0 reads

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• Anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

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  Douglas Adams

  AuthorBritish1952 · 20th century

  3.9 · 23 votes · 85 reads

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• Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  3.0 · 16 votes · 86 reads

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• Colleges are places where pebbles are polished and diamonds are dimmed.

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  Robert Frost

  PoetAmerican1874 · 19th century

  5.0 · 47 votes · 1 reads

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• Conceit is incompatible with understanding.

  

  Leo Tolstoy

  WriterRussian1828 · 19th century

  4.8 · 36 votes · 138 reads

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• Education forms the common mind. Just as the twig is bent, the tree's inclined.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  4.1 · 5 votes · 135 reads

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• Electric communication will never be a substitute for the face of someone who with their soul encourages another person to be brave and true.

  

  Charles Dickens

  NovelistBritish1812 · 19th century

  3.5 · 59 votes · 132 reads

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• Evil comes at leisure like the disease. Good comes in a hurry like the doctor.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.6 · 25 votes · 122 reads

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• Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

  

  Benedict de Spinoza

  PhilosopherDutch1632 · 17th century

  4.1 · 18 votes · 173 reads

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• Far from idleness being the root of all evil, it is rather the only true good.

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  Sophocles

  PoetGreek

  4.5 · 63 votes · 112 reads

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• Feed your faith and doubt will starve to death

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  Anonymous

  3.5 · 9 votes · 56 reads

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• God couldn't be everywhere, so he created mothers

  

  Jewish proverb

  Jewish

  3.7 · 24 votes · 28 reads

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• I always knew I was going to be rich. I don't think I ever doubted it for a minute.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.7 · 28 votes · 169 reads

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• I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century

  3.2 · 48 votes · 67 reads

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• I think we should not control the Internet.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  4.6 · 59 votes · 198 reads

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• If God lived on earth, people would break his windows.

  

  Jewish proverb

  Jewish

  3.3 · 51 votes · 197 reads

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• If we would build on a sure foundation in friendship, we must love friends for their sake rather than for our own.

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  Charlotte Bronte

  PoetEnglish1816 · 19th century

  4.5 · 39 votes · 152 reads

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• If you wish for peace be ready for war.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  3.4 · 19 votes · 138 reads

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• It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  3.2 · 42 votes · 10 reads

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• It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read the

  

  Ernest Hemingway

  WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

  4.6 · 20 votes · 104 reads

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• Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.

  

  Joseph Addison

  PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century

  4.1 · 31 votes · 97 reads

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• Man has demonstrated that he is master of everything - except his own nature.

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  3.8 · 31 votes · 63 reads

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• Man is not weak; knowledge is more than equivalent to force.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  5.0 · 20 votes · 159 reads

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• Man is stark mad; he cannot make a flea, and yet he will be making gods by the dozens.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  3.0 · 61 votes · 40 reads

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• No eulogy is due to him who simply does his duty and nothing more.

  

  Rudyard Kipling

  WriterBritish1865 · 19th century

  4.4 · 49 votes · 154 reads

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• Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

  

  James Russell Lowell

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  4.7 · 56 votes · 155 reads

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• One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  4.0 · 15 votes · 43 reads

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• Overcoming the Cold War required courage from the people of Central and Eastern Europe and what was then the German Democratic Republic, but it also required the steadfastness of Western partner over many decades when many had long lost hope of integratio

  

  Angela Merkel

  PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century

  3.5 · 20 votes · 15 reads

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• Patience is not active; on the contrary, it is active; it is concentrated strength.

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  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

  PoliticianBritish1803 · 19th century

  3.2 · 27 votes · 92 reads

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• Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  4.0 · 52 votes · 71 reads

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• Self-love is the instrument of our preservation.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  4.6 · 55 votes · 75 reads

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• Such is hope, heaven's own gift to struggling mortals, pervading, like some subtle essence from the skies, all things both good and bad.

  

  Charles Dickens

  NovelistBritish1812 · 19th century

  3.4 · 38 votes · 125 reads

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• The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.8 · 55 votes · 100 reads

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• The greatest step is out the door.

  

  German proverb

  German

  4.8 · 34 votes · 74 reads

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• The happiness in this life does not consist of being devoid of passion, but mastering them.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 36 votes · 50 reads

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• The modern composer builds upon the foundation of truth.

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  Claudio Monteverdi

  MusicianItalian1567 · 16th century

  4.4 · 60 votes · 114 reads

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• The more one loves a mistress, the more one is ready to hate her.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.3 · 21 votes · 123 reads

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• The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.

  

  Albert Schweitzer

  TheologianGerman-French1875 · 19th century

  3.7 · 7 votes · 63 reads

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• The sin of pride may be a small or a great thing in someone's life, and hurt vanity a passing pinprick, or a self-destroying or ever murderous obsession.

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  Iris Murdoch

  NovelistBritish1919 · 20th century

  3.8 · 56 votes · 3 reads

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• The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do.

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  5.0 · 58 votes · 3 reads

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• The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.3 · 50 votes · 138 reads

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• Thwackum was for doing justice, and leaving mercy to Heaven.

  

  Henry Fielding

  NovelistEnglish1707 · 18th century

  3.1 · 60 votes · 193 reads

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• To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.

  

  Henri Frédéric Amiel

  WriterSwiss1821 · 19th century

  3.2 · 40 votes · 98 reads

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• We all indulge in the strange, pleasant process called thinking, but when it comes to saying, even to someone opposite, what we think, then how little we are able to convey! The phantom is through the mind and out of the window before we can lay salt on

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  3.8 · 45 votes · 6 reads

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• We are never so happy nor so unhappy as we imagine.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.1 · 57 votes · 25 reads

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• We must act out passion before we can feel it.

  

  Jean Paul Sartre

  WriterFrench1905 · 20th century

  4.6 · 37 votes · 158 reads

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• Well, the Communists at that moment were very strong in Italy and the Italian Communist Party was the biggest Communist Party outside Soviet Union, there's no doubt about that.

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  Gianni Agnelli

  BusinessmanItalian1921 · 20th century

  3.9 · 29 votes · 131 reads

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• What I tell you three times is true.

  

  Lewis Carroll

  NovelistEnglish1832 · 19th century

  5.0 · 38 votes · 146 reads

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• You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.1 · 33 votes · 85 reads

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