Quotes for November 1646 quotes · 38 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every November 16: the anniversary does not move.

• AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder.

  

  Stendhal

  NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

  3.0 · 43 votes · 188 reads

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• Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.

  

  Elvis Presley

  MusicianAmerican1935 · 20th century

  4.8 · 13 votes · 74 reads

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• As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.

  

  Jonathan Swift

  WriterIrish1667 · 17th century

  3.9 · 28 votes · 94 reads

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• Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

  

  Hippocrates

  ScientistGreek-460 · 5th century BC

  3.8 · 24 votes · 111 reads

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• Fashion your life as a garland of beautiful deeds.

  

  Buddha

  LeaderNepal-563 · 6th century BC

  3.6 · 40 votes · 5 reads

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• Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

  

  Horace Mann

  EducatorAmerican1796 · 18th century

  5.0 · 40 votes · 4 reads

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• He teaches me to be good that does me good.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  4.7 · 44 votes · 69 reads

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• How can the moribund old man reason back to himself the romance, the mystery, the imminence of great things with which our old earth tingled for him in the days when he was young and well?

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  3.0 · 7 votes · 178 reads

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• I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you u

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.2 · 47 votes · 114 reads

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• I sat at a table where were rich food and wine in abundance, and obsequious attendance, but sincerity and truth were not; and I went away hungry from the inhospitable board.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.5 · 28 votes · 76 reads

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• I say to my friends, 'Don't just listen to the vuvuzelas; look at who scores the goals.' And this is the important thing.

  

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  PoliticianPortuguese1956 · 20th century

  3.1 · 43 votes · 57 reads

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• I want to be all that I am capable of becoming.

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  Katherine Mansfield

  WriterEnglish1888 · 19th century

  3.2 · 12 votes · 71 reads

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• I'm a warrior for the middle class.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.9 · 12 votes · 111 reads

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• If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He's everything that I'm not.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  5.0 · 57 votes · 13 reads

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• It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.

  

  Jonathan Swift

  WriterIrish1667 · 17th century

  3.6 · 15 votes · 14 reads

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• Know most of the rooms of thy native country before thou goest over the threshold thereof.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  4.0 · 30 votes · 80 reads

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• Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

  

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  TheologianSwiss1741 · 18th century

  3.1 · 29 votes · 37 reads

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• Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.6 · 14 votes · 128 reads

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• Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.8 · 15 votes · 171 reads

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• Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1882 · 19th century

  3.5 · 57 votes · 16 reads

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• Michelle and I don't want anyone telling us who our family's doctor should be - and no one should decide that for you either. Under our proposals, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. If you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.9 · 30 votes · 21 reads

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• Old age equalizes - we are aware that what is happening to us has happened to untold numbers from the beginning of time. When we are young we act as if we were the first young people in the world.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  3.8 · 58 votes · 195 reads

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• One cause, which is not always observed, of the insufficiency of riches, is that they very seldom make their owner rich.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.5 · 42 votes · 126 reads

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• People do not mind their faults being spread out before them, but they become impatient if called on to give them up.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.8 · 57 votes · 8 reads

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• People sometimes say that the way things happen in the movies is unreal, but actually it's the way things happen to you in life that's unreal. The movies make emotions look so strong and real, whereas when things really do happen to you, it's like watchin

  

  Andy Warhol

  PainterAmerican1928 · 20th century

  4.5 · 19 votes · 112 reads

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• Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.0 · 37 votes · 191 reads

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• Spinoza Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.3 · 51 votes · 152 reads

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• Successful leaders have the courage to take action where others hesitate.

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  Anonymous

  3.7 · 48 votes · 110 reads

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• Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  3.6 · 30 votes · 15 reads

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• Tact is ability to see others as they wish to be seen.

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  Anonymous

  3.5 · 31 votes · 194 reads

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• Technical knowledge has now become an integral aspect of the Iranian psyche.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  PoliticianIranian1956 · 20th century

  4.6 · 12 votes · 88 reads

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• Terror is as much a part of the concept of truth as runniness is of the concept of jam. We wouldn't like jam if it didn't, by its very nature, ooze. We wouldn't like truth if it wasn't sticky, if, from time to time, it didn't ooze blood.

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  Jean Baudrillard

  PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century

  4.7 · 31 votes · 69 reads

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• The good of the people is the greatest law.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  3.9 · 17 votes · 109 reads

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• The honor of the conquest is rated by the difficulty.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  3.9 · 11 votes · 25 reads

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• The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground.

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  Herman Melville

  WriterAmerican1819 · 19th century

  3.0 · 7 votes · 180 reads

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• The man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - waif, a nothing, a no man. Have a purpose in life, and, having it, throw such strength of mind and muscle into your work as God has given you.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  5.0 · 27 votes · 147 reads

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• The short memories of American voters is what keeps our politicians in office.

  

  Wentworth Dillon

  PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century

  5.0 · 33 votes · 77 reads

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• The word that is heard perishes, but the letter that is written remains.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  3.9 · 26 votes · 30 reads

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• The wrath of brothers is fierce and devilish.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.6 · 32 votes · 70 reads

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• This gives force to the strong - that the multitude have no habit of self-reliance or original action.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.9 · 59 votes · 100 reads

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• Victory belongs to the most persevering.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  3.3 · 52 votes · 60 reads

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• Whether I'm at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I'm looking forward to reading.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.8 · 44 votes · 127 reads

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• While you have a thing it can be taken from you... but when you give it, you have given it. No robber can take it from you. It is yours then for ever when you have given it. It will be yours always. That is to give.

  

  James Joyce

  AuthorIrish1882 · 19th century

  3.1 · 21 votes · 165 reads

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• Who loves not women, wine and song remains a fool his whole life long.

  

  Martin Luther

  LeaderGerman1483 · 15th century

  4.2 · 24 votes · 154 reads

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• Wit is so shining a quality that everybody admires it; most people aim at it, all people fear it, and few love it unless in themselves. A man must have a good share of wit himself to endure a great share of it in another.

  

  Lord Chesterfield

  PoliticianBritish1694 · 17th century

  3.8 · 42 votes · 73 reads

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