Quotes for October 1451 quotes · 44 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every October 14: the anniversary does not move.

• A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

  

  Helen Rowland

  JournalistAmerican1875 · 19th century

  4.5 · 59 votes · 195 reads

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• A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed, it feels an impulsion... .this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reason and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high en

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 21 votes · 56 reads

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• All tragedies are finished by a death, all comedies by a marriage.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  4.1 · 53 votes · 23 reads

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• Authority forgets a dying king.

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  Lord Alfred Tennyson

  PoetBritish1809 · 19th century

  3.3 · 40 votes · 113 reads

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• Be not simply good; be good for something.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.6 · 7 votes · 109 reads

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• Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

  

  David Hume

  PhilosopherScottish1711 · 18th century

  3.9 · 47 votes · 177 reads

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• Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful, that's what matters to me.

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.9 · 37 votes · 71 reads

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• Children wish fathers looked but with their eyes; fathers that children with their judgment looked; and either may be wrong.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.7 · 17 votes · 53 reads

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• China is a great country with a great culture, populated by fascinating, industrious and talented people.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  3.0 · 39 votes · 50 reads

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• Do not worry; eat three square meals a day; say your prayers; be courteous to your creditors; keep your digestion good; exercise; go slow and easy. Maybe there are other things your special case requires to make you happy, but my friend, these I reckon wi

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.0 · 45 votes · 104 reads

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• Even the wisest woman you talk to is ignorant of something you may know, but an elegant woman never forgets her elegance.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.7 · 21 votes · 60 reads

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• Every new opinion, at its starting, is precisely in a minority of one.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.4 · 56 votes · 151 reads

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• For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.

  

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Film directorBritish1899 · 19th century

  3.4 · 28 votes · 60 reads

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• Have a deep respect for the source of life and also for the ocean, for the forest, for the stars and for the truth.

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 57 votes · 56 reads

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• Haven't we put off problems without clarifying Japan's will to protect the lives and assets of its people and territory with its own hands, and merely accepted the benefits of economic prosperity?

  

  Shinzo Abe

  PoliticianJapanese1954 · 20th century

  3.8 · 55 votes · 39 reads

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• How often things occur by mere chance which we dared not even hope for.

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  Tennessee Williams

  PlaywrightAmerican1911 · 20th century

  3.1 · 24 votes · 125 reads

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• I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  5.0 · 5 votes · 33 reads

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• I think ''taste'' is a social concept and not an artistic one. I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a Writerto be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in s

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  John Updike

  WriterAmerican1932 · 20th century

  3.6 · 30 votes · 20 reads

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• I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again - as I always am when I write.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  4.6 · 6 votes · 30 reads

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• I wasn't able to do much reading when I was chairman of the Reserve Board. The workload was too large, and the luxury of reading was not available to me. So I caught up a good deal when I left office.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  3.7 · 5 votes · 27 reads

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• If poverty is the mother of crime, lack of good sense is the father.

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  4.1 · 40 votes · 96 reads

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• In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it.

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  3.4 · 26 votes · 151 reads

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• It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

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  Terence

  PoetRoman

  3.6 · 40 votes · 131 reads

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• It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

  

  John Locke

  PhilosopherEnglish1632 · 17th century

  4.0 · 55 votes · 27 reads

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• Let us not forget that the European Community started as a project for peace after the terrible Second World War. And today people take for granted the freedom to travel, to study, to work abroad. And the citizens of one country have almost exactly the sa

  

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  PoliticianPortuguese1956 · 20th century

  3.8 · 21 votes · 64 reads

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• Life is not so much a matter of position as of disposition

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 64 votes · 181 reads

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• May God be gracious to each lonely one who walks in silence towards the setting sun.

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 34 votes · 192 reads

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• Men who do not make advances to women are apt to become victims to women who make advances to them.

  

  Walt Whitman

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  3.7 · 25 votes · 38 reads

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• Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.0 · 36 votes · 85 reads

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• Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all.

  

  George Washington

  PoliticianAmerican1732 · 18th century

  4.7 · 28 votes · 45 reads

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• One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  3.5 · 17 votes · 85 reads

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• Our quaint metaphysical opinions, in an hour of anguish, are like playthings by the bedside of a child deathly sick.

  

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

  3.1 · 8 votes · 20 reads

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• Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  3.5 · 27 votes · 22 reads

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• People may live as much retired from the world as they like, but sooner or later they find themselves debtor or creditor to some one.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.6 · 52 votes · 57 reads

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• Sex is the most fun you can have without laughing.

  

  Woodrow T. Wilson

  PoliticianAmerican1856 · 19th century

  3.8 · 6 votes · 15 reads

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• The perfecting of one's self is the fundamental base of all progress and all moral development.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  4.8 · 58 votes · 62 reads

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• The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  4.3 · 8 votes · 70 reads

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• The saving man becomes the free man.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  4.4 · 23 votes · 54 reads

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• The surprises of thought are like those of love: they wear out. But here too you can carry on for a long time doing your conjugal duty.

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  Jean Baudrillard

  PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century

  3.5 · 21 votes · 89 reads

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• The will to do springs from the knowledge that we can do.

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  James Allen

  EssayistAmerican1864 · 19th century

  3.6 · 42 votes · 170 reads

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• There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other half discreditable.

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  Christian Nestell Bovee

  AuthorAmerican1820 · 19th century

  3.0 · 54 votes · 145 reads

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• There is no gambling like politics. Nothing in which the power of circumstance is more evident.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.0 · 14 votes · 93 reads

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• To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

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  Douglas Adams

  AuthorBritish1952 · 20th century

  3.6 · 47 votes · 8 reads

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• Try and trust will move mountains.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.0 · 22 votes · 168 reads

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• Two things rob people of their peace of mind : work unfinished and work not yet begun.

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 38 votes · 44 reads

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• We have had scarce investment in women... One of my tasks is that everyone spends much more on women.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  3.6 · 54 votes · 172 reads

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• We have long forgotten the ritual by which the house of our life was erected. But when it is under assault and enemy bombs are already taking their toll, what enervated, perverse antiquities do they not lay bare in the foundations.

  

  Walter Bagehot

  EconomistBritish1826 · 19th century

  4.3 · 9 votes · 31 reads

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• We lie loudest when we lie to ourselves.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  3.9 · 23 votes · 106 reads

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• We spend our lives talking about this mystery. Our life.

  

  Jules Renard

  WriterFrench1864 · 19th century

  4.9 · 59 votes · 139 reads

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• While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman.

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  Giovanni Boccaccio

  PoetItaly1313 · 14th century

  4.8 · 13 votes · 17 reads

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