Quotes for November 148 quotes · 43 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every November 1: the anniversary does not move.

• Act quickly, think slowly.

  

  Greek proverb

  Greek

  4.8 · 51 votes · 80 reads

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• After your death you will be what you were before your birth.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  PhilosopherGerman1788 · 18th century

  4.9 · 7 votes · 194 reads

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• All human actions are equivalent... and all are on principle doomed to failure.

  

  Jean Paul Sartre

  WriterFrench1905 · 20th century

  3.0 · 47 votes · 160 reads

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• All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  4.5 · 64 votes · 132 reads

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• At a time when we're having to take such difficult decisions about how to cut back without damaging the things that matter the most, we should strain every sinew to cut error, waste and fraud.

  

  David Cameron

  PoliticianBritish1966 · 20th century

  4.0 · 23 votes · 103 reads

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• Character is made by many acts; it may be lost by a single one.

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  Anonymous

  3.9 · 21 votes · 184 reads

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• Devout believers are safeguarded in a high degree against the risk of certain neurotic illnesses; their acceptance of the universal neurosis spares them the task of constructing a personal one.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.8 · 15 votes · 196 reads

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• Failure has no friends.

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  4.9 · 43 votes · 100 reads

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• Fame often makes a Writervain, but seldom makes him proud.

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  W. C. Fields

  ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.1 · 12 votes · 129 reads

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• Fleas can be taught nearly anything that a Congressman can.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.0 · 24 votes · 162 reads

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• Genius is childhood recaptured.

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  Jean Baudrillard

  PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century

  3.0 · 63 votes · 179 reads

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• God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

  

  John Lennon

  MusicianBritish1940 · 20th century

  3.9 · 5 votes · 82 reads

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• God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant, and the cat. He has no real style. He just keeps on trying other things.

  

  Pablo Neruda

  PoetChilean1904 · 20th century

  4.9 · 22 votes · 112 reads

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• Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have.

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 28 votes · 66 reads

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• His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a Writerhe has mastered everything except language.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  5.0 · 19 votes · 32 reads

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• I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  5.0 · 20 votes · 122 reads

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• If each of us hires people who are smaller than we are, we shall become a company of dwarfs. But if each of us hires people who are bigger than we are, we shall become a company of giants.

  

  David Ogilvy

  BusinessmanEnglish1911 · 20th century

  3.9 · 42 votes · 146 reads

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• In private life I never knew anyone interfere with other people's disputes but he heartily repented of it.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.8 · 60 votes · 110 reads

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• It is a strange fact that freedom and equality, the two basic ideas of democracy, are to some extent contradictory. Logically considered, freedom and equality are mutually exclusive, just as society and the individual are mutually exclusive.

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  Thomas Kempis

  AuthorGerman1379 · 14th century

  3.8 · 7 votes · 46 reads

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• It is good taste, and good taste alone, that possesses the power to sterilize and is always the first handicap to any creative functioning.

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  Salman Rushdie

  NovelistIndian1947 · 20th century

  3.5 · 18 votes · 163 reads

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• Love is something eternal; the aspect may change, but not the essence.

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  Vilfredo Pareto

  EconomistItaly1848 · 19th century

  4.1 · 57 votes · 179 reads

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• Most of us spend the first six days of each week sowing wild oats; then we go to church on Sunday and pray for a crop failure.

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  Fred A. Allen

  ComedianAmerican1894 · 19th century

  4.9 · 10 votes · 137 reads

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• Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul.

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  3.5 · 59 votes · 70 reads

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• Never do anything when you are in a temper, for you will do everything wrong.

  

  Baltasar Gracián

  WriterSpanish1601 · 17th century

  3.2 · 16 votes · 77 reads

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• None are so old as those who have outlived enthusiasm

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.6 · 15 votes · 112 reads

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• Of all the wonders of nature, a tree in summer is perhaps the most remarkable; with the possible exception of a moose singing ''Embraceable You'' in spats.

  

  Woodrow T. Wilson

  PoliticianAmerican1856 · 19th century

  4.6 · 31 votes · 21 reads

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• People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.0 · 45 votes · 0 reads

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• People usually are the happiest at home.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.9 · 25 votes · 168 reads

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• Success comes in cans, failure in can'ts.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 30 votes · 107 reads

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• Sympathy is a supporting atmosphere, and in it we unfold easily and well.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.8 · 9 votes · 118 reads

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• The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.0 · 25 votes · 58 reads

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• The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  3.8 · 22 votes · 194 reads

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• The least movement is of importance to all nature. The entire ocean is affected by a pebble.

  

  Blaise Pascal

  PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century

  3.0 · 9 votes · 139 reads

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• The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  3.4 · 27 votes · 89 reads

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• The paradox of education is precisely this: that as one begins to become conscious one begins to examine the society in which he is being educated.

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  James Baldwin

  WriterAmerican1924 · 20th century

  4.4 · 30 votes · 70 reads

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• The Planck satellite may detect the imprint of the gravitational waves predicted by inflation. This would be quantum gravity written across the sky.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.3 · 52 votes · 160 reads

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• The wise person has long ears and a short tongue.

  

  German proverb

  German

  3.5 · 22 votes · 141 reads

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• There are apothecaries' shops, where prepared medicines, liquids, ointments, and plasters are sold; barbers' shops, where they wash and shave the head; and restaurateurs, that furnish food and drink at a certain price.

  

  Hernan Cortes

  LeaderSpanish1485 · 15th century

  5.0 · 53 votes · 108 reads

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• There's full consensus in the military that women shouldn't be in person-to-person combat. I don't know if we have enough experience to know whether this is the right approach. But women can be elsewhere. We have mandatory military service in Chile. I pus

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  5.0 · 57 votes · 13 reads

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• Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.2 · 51 votes · 184 reads

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• Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those the art of living well.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  4.9 · 20 votes · 176 reads

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• To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  3.1 · 25 votes · 38 reads

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• We are always getting ready to live, but never living.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.0 · 11 votes · 94 reads

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• We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.6 · 6 votes · 192 reads

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• We will make no distinction between the terrorists who committed these acts and those who harbour them.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.7 · 26 votes · 54 reads

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• With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

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  David Lloyd George

  PoliticianBritish1863 · 19th century

  4.1 · 62 votes · 179 reads

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• Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.

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  John Updike

  WriterAmerican1932 · 20th century

  4.8 · 34 votes · 148 reads

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