Quotes for November 2049 quotes · 44 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every November 20: the anniversary does not move.

• A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.

  

  Joseph Addison

  PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century

  3.7 · 10 votes · 157 reads

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• A wise man doesn't just wait for the right opportunity, He creates the right opportunity.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 11 votes · 99 reads

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• All farewells should be sudden, when forever.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  4.4 · 48 votes · 58 reads

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• All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.

  

  Charles Chaplin

  AuthorEnglish1889 · 19th century

  3.0 · 48 votes · 2 reads

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• An unimaginative person can neither be reverent or kind.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  4.9 · 49 votes · 199 reads

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• Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, until the sun goes down. And this is all that life really means.

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  Robert Green Ingersoll

  PoliticianAmerican1833 · 19th century

  4.9 · 40 votes · 1 reads

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• As a boy, because I was born and raised in Ohio, about 60 miles north of Dayton, the legends of the Wrights have been in my memories as long as I can remember.

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  Neil Armstrong

  AstronautAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.2 · 11 votes · 10 reads

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• Candor is the brightest gem of criticism.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.6 · 27 votes · 174 reads

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• Cromwell is just as much of a bloody dictator as was Stalin.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  3.3 · 49 votes · 10 reads

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• Even when the experts all agree, they may well be mistaken.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  4.9 · 29 votes · 168 reads

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• Flaming enthusiasm, backed up by horse sense and persistence, is the quality that most frequently makes for success.

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  Dale Carnegie

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  4.4 · 10 votes · 4 reads

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• He who enjoys doing and enjoys what he has done is happy.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.6 · 32 votes · 104 reads

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• I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capill

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  3.6 · 38 votes · 59 reads

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• I believe a marriage is between a man and a woman.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.4 · 44 votes · 94 reads

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• I have a nice office. I have a nice house... So I'm not denying myself some great things. I just don't happen to have expensive hobbies.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.4 · 63 votes · 17 reads

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• I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.7 · 39 votes · 70 reads

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• If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing.

  

  English proverb

  English

  4.4 · 46 votes · 179 reads

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• It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.9 · 28 votes · 162 reads

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• It is an equal failing to trust everybody, and to trust nobody.

  

  English proverb

  English

  4.2 · 44 votes · 81 reads

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• It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  3.6 · 14 votes · 38 reads

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• Love is an alliance of friendship and animalism; if the former predominates it is passion exalted and refined; if the latter, gross and sensual.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  4.9 · 51 votes · 94 reads

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• Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  3.7 · 17 votes · 171 reads

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• Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.

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  Peter de Vries

  NovelistAmerican1910 · 20th century

  3.1 · 9 votes · 176 reads

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• Modesty is the conscience of the body.

  

  Honore de Balzac

  NovelistFrench1799 · 18th century

  4.5 · 37 votes · 184 reads

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• Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope.

  

  Epictetus

  PhilosopherGreek55 · 1st century

  4.8 · 47 votes · 189 reads

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• Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

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  Terence

  PoetRoman

  4.1 · 21 votes · 132 reads

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• No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.5 · 49 votes · 26 reads

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• Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.

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  Robert Bresson

  Film directorFrench1901 · 20th century

  3.3 · 49 votes · 144 reads

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• People talk about the conscience, but it seems to me one must just bring it up to a certain point and leave it there. You can let your conscience alone if you're nice to the second housemaid.

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  Henry James

  AuthorAmerican-British1843 · 19th century

  3.8 · 5 votes · 40 reads

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• So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of despair.

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  Antonin Artaud

  PoetFrench1896 · 19th century

  4.8 · 26 votes · 179 reads

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• Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.8 · 20 votes · 114 reads

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• Talk happiness. The world is sad enough without your woe.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.5 · 41 votes · 200 reads

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• The city is as large as Seville or Cordova; its streets, I speak of the principal ones, are very wide and straight; some of these, and all the inferior ones, are half land and half water, and are navigated by canoes.

  

  Hernan Cortes

  LeaderSpanish1485 · 15th century

  4.6 · 26 votes · 110 reads

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• The heart may think it knows better: the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking, however unwillingly or sadly, out of our own zone: a hard judgment is passed on him, for all th

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  Elizabeth Bowen

  WriterIrish1899 · 19th century

  3.8 · 48 votes · 127 reads

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• The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.0 · 34 votes · 11 reads

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• The innocent seldom find an uncomfortable pillow.

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  William Butler Yeats

  PoetIrish1865 · 19th century

  3.2 · 24 votes · 31 reads

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• The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  4.2 · 61 votes · 87 reads

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• The royal road to a man's heart is to talk to him about the things he treasures most.

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  Dale Carnegie

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  3.8 · 45 votes · 12 reads

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• The scrupulous and the just, the noble, humane, and devoted natures; the unselfish and the intelligent may begin a movement - but it passes away from them. They are not the leaders of a revolution. They are its victims.

  

  Joseph Conrad

  NovelistBritish1857 · 19th century

  3.3 · 42 votes · 12 reads

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• The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.8 · 63 votes · 113 reads

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• There are two fools in this world. One is the millionaire who thinks that by hoarding money he can somehow accumulate real power, and the other is the penniless reformer who thinks that if only he can take the money from one class and give it to another,

  

  Henry Ford

  BusinessmanAmerican1863 · 19th century

  4.1 · 54 votes · 129 reads

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• There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  4.7 · 39 votes · 71 reads

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• There is but one step from the Academy to the Fad.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  3.6 · 37 votes · 62 reads

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• There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  PoliticianAmerican1890 · 19th century

  3.8 · 35 votes · 32 reads

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• Truth is always the strongest argument.

  

  Socrates

  PhilosopherGreek-470 · 5th century BC

  4.1 · 47 votes · 74 reads

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• We are armed with language adequate to describe each leaf of the filed, but not to describe human character.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.8 · 32 votes · 17 reads

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• You may have the universe if I may have Italy.

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  Giuseppe Verdi

  MusicianItalian1813 · 19th century

  4.7 · 52 votes · 194 reads

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• Your failures won't hurt you until you start blaming them on others.

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  Anonymous

  3.0 · 30 votes · 99 reads

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