Quotes for November 1948 quotes · 40 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every November 19: the anniversary does not move.

• A woman may very well form a friendship with a man, but for this to endure, it must be assisted by a little physical antipathy.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.1 · 58 votes · 12 reads

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• Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  4.5 · 34 votes · 142 reads

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• But money, wife, is the true Fuller's Earth for reputations, there is not a spot or a stain but what it can take out.

  

  John Gay

  PoetEnglish1685 · 17th century

  4.3 · 26 votes · 146 reads

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• Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.

  

  Sigmund Freud

  PhysicistAustrian1856 · 19th century

  3.6 · 41 votes · 42 reads

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• Clever people are always the best conversations lexicon.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.6 · 38 votes · 18 reads

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• Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  4.8 · 24 votes · 67 reads

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• Every revolution evaporates and leaves behind only the slime of a new bureaucracy.

  

  Franz Kafka

  WriterCzeck1883 · 19th century

  3.0 · 58 votes · 80 reads

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• Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.

  

  Jean Paul Sartre

  WriterFrench1905 · 20th century

  3.5 · 39 votes · 60 reads

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• Give me health and a day, and I will make the pomp of emperors ridiculous.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.5 · 37 votes · 159 reads

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• He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  3.5 · 59 votes · 166 reads

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• How could a man be satisfied with a decision between such alternatives and under such circumstances? No more than he can be satisfied with his hat, which he's chosen from among such shapes as the resources of the age offer him, wearing it at best with a r

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.3 · 39 votes · 124 reads

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• I am prejudiced in favor of him who, without impudence, can ask boldly. He has faith in humanity, and faith in himself. No one who is not accustomed to giving grandly can ask nobly and with boldness.

  

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  TheologianSwiss1741 · 18th century

  4.8 · 47 votes · 125 reads

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• I claim to be an average man of less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  3.5 · 10 votes · 149 reads

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• I don't think a system or a government should fear critical opinions or views. Only by heeding those critical views would it be possible for us to further improve our work and make further progress.

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  Wen Jiabao

  PoliticianChinese1942 · 20th century

  4.9 · 55 votes · 135 reads

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• I have wanted to fly into space for many years, but never imagined it would really be feasible.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.6 · 58 votes · 37 reads

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• I have wept in the night for the shortness of sight that to somebody's need made me blind; But I never have yet Felt a tinge of regret for being a little to kind

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 52 votes · 42 reads

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• I know that you, ladies and gentlemen, have a philosophy, each and all of you, and that the most interesting and important thing about you is the way in which it determines the perspective in your several worlds.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  4.1 · 52 votes · 76 reads

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• I revere the memory of Mr. F. as an estimable man and most indulgent husband, only necessary to mention Asparagus and it appeared or to hint at any little delicate thing to drink and it came like magic in a pint bottle; it was not ecstasy but it was comfo

  

  Charles Dickens

  NovelistBritish1812 · 19th century

  3.9 · 57 votes · 78 reads

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• If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.5 · 19 votes · 128 reads

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• If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are.

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  John W. Gardner

  EducatorAmerican1912 · 20th century

  4.5 · 11 votes · 153 reads

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• If you want to be incrementally better: Be competitive. If you want to be exponentially better: Be cooperative.

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 47 votes · 161 reads

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• In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our soc

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.6 · 49 votes · 53 reads

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• Is your love for the Lord sufficient to give all your time and talents to his work?

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  Anonymous

  3.2 · 7 votes · 35 reads

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• It is not one man nor a million, but the spirit of liberty that must be preserved. The waves which dash upon the shore are, one by one, broken, but the ocean conquers nevertheless. It overwhelms the Armada, it wears out the rock. In like manner, whatever

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  4.7 · 9 votes · 61 reads

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• Life leaps like a geyser for those who drill through the rock of inertia.

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  Alexis Carrel

  ScientistFrench1873 · 19th century

  3.1 · 5 votes · 87 reads

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• Most people think companies are basically evil. They get a bad rap. And I think that's somewhat correct.

  

  Larry Page

  BusinessmanAmerican1973 · 20th century

  4.6 · 5 votes · 3 reads

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• Nothing in life is as good as the marriage of true minds between man and woman. As good? It is life itself. ''

  

  Paul Válery

  PoetFrench1871 · 19th century

  4.5 · 17 votes · 92 reads

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• O curse of marriage that we can call these delicate creatures ours and not their appetites!

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.2 · 7 votes · 110 reads

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• Of all God's creatures there is only one that cannot be made the slave of the lash. That one is the cat. If man could be crossed with a cat it would improve man, but it would deteriorate the cat.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.4 · 8 votes · 89 reads

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• One might enumerate the items of high civilization, as it exists in other countries, which are absent from the texture of American life, until it should become a wonder to know what was left.

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  Henry James

  AuthorAmerican-British1843 · 19th century

  3.1 · 56 votes · 116 reads

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• Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.

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  Sophocles

  PoetGreek

  3.6 · 48 votes · 116 reads

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• Sex is like money; only too much is enough.

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  John Updike

  WriterAmerican1932 · 20th century

  3.0 · 54 votes · 200 reads

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• The greatest evil is physical pain.

  

  Rudyard Kipling

  WriterBritish1865 · 19th century

  3.1 · 44 votes · 41 reads

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• The greatest masterpiece in literature is only a dictionary out of order.

  

  Jean Cocteau

  AuthorFrench1889 · 19th century

  4.6 · 44 votes · 96 reads

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• The intoxication of anger, like that of the grape, shows us to others, but hides us from ourselves.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  4.3 · 10 votes · 113 reads

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• The reputation of a thousand years may be determined by the conduct of one hour.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 63 votes · 119 reads

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• The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it NOW deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.

  

  Thomas Mann

  AuthorGerman1875 · 19th century

  3.1 · 52 votes · 130 reads

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• The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-distrust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciple.

  

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  EducatorAmerican1799 · 18th century

  3.1 · 45 votes · 77 reads

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• There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  4.2 · 19 votes · 15 reads

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• There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by unfolding of his powers.

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  Erich Fromm

  PhilosopherGerman1900 · 19th century

  3.3 · 43 votes · 175 reads

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• To look at the cross-section of any plan of a big city is to look at something like the section of a fibrous tumor.

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  Frank Lloyd Wright

  ArchitectAmerican1867 · 19th century

  3.4 · 12 votes · 98 reads

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• True friendship is like sound health, the value of it is seldom known until it be lost.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  3.0 · 33 votes · 77 reads

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• We never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead - and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead and then they would be honest so much earlier.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.5 · 6 votes · 115 reads

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• We want peace and a political solution to the situation in Chechnya.

  

  Boris Yeltsin

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  3.9 · 48 votes · 99 reads

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• When the eyes say one thing, and the tongue another, a practiced man relies on the language of the first.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.4 · 34 votes · 108 reads

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• Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the two sexes.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.0 · 45 votes · 123 reads

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• Work keeps at bay, three great evils - boredom, vice and need.

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  Anonymous

  3.9 · 52 votes · 74 reads

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