Quotes for October 1745 quotes · 40 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every October 17: the anniversary does not move.

• A book worth reading is worth buying.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  3.7 · 14 votes · 7 reads

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• Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can reach. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries and predecessors; try to be better than yourself.

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 54 votes · 48 reads

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• An orator who is disposed to evil subverts the law.

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 54 votes · 114 reads

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• As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to b

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.9 · 9 votes · 77 reads

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• Call no man unhappy until he is married.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  3.0 · 8 votes · 93 reads

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• Cities give us collision. 'Tis said, London and New York take the nonsense out of a man.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.6 · 35 votes · 156 reads

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• Disturbances in society are never more fearful than when those who are stirring up the trouble can use the pretext of religion to mask their true designs.

  

  Denis Diderot

  PhilosopherFrench1713 · 18th century

  3.0 · 57 votes · 158 reads

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• Efficiency is doing things right; effectiveness is doing the right things.

  

  Peter Drucker

  BusinessmanAmerican1909 · 20th century

  3.8 · 15 votes · 41 reads

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• Every offense is avenged on earth.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.6 · 21 votes · 127 reads

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• Ferrari used to be the car that you kept in your garage, took out to polish and show, and put back into the garage.

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  Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

  BusinessmanItalian1947 · 20th century

  4.4 · 49 votes · 77 reads

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• Had it not been for you, I should have remained what I was when we first met, a prejudiced, narrow-minded being, with contracted sympathies and false knowledge, wasting my life on obsolete trifles, and utterly insensible to the privilege of living in this

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.4 · 24 votes · 89 reads

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• Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 53 votes · 51 reads

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• How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, but musical as is Apollo's lute, and a perpetual feast of nectared sweets, where no crude surfeit reigns.

  

  John Milton

  PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

  4.1 · 54 votes · 112 reads

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• I love fools experiments. I am always making them.

  

  Charles Darwin

  ScientistEnglish1809 · 19th century

  4.5 · 20 votes · 103 reads

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• I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt.

  

  George Orwell

  NovelistBritish1903 · 20th century

  3.0 · 12 votes · 75 reads

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• If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.

  

  George Orwell

  NovelistBritish1903 · 20th century

  3.3 · 55 votes · 55 reads

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• In the modern world of business, it is useless to be a creative, original thinker unless you can also sell what you create.

  

  David Ogilvy

  BusinessmanEnglish1911 · 20th century

  4.1 · 58 votes · 79 reads

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• It is easier to keep half a dozen lovers guessing than to keep one lover after he has stopped guessing.

  

  Helen Rowland

  JournalistAmerican1875 · 19th century

  3.6 · 28 votes · 116 reads

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• It is not well for a man to pray cream and live skim milk.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  3.3 · 53 votes · 7 reads

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• It is vital that we get these policies right as we take forward our plans to drive down the deficit and transform our economy.

  

  David Cameron

  PoliticianBritish1966 · 20th century

  3.4 · 33 votes · 30 reads

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• Man know much more than he understands.

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  Alfred Adler

  ScientistAustrian1870 · 19th century

  4.1 · 55 votes · 150 reads

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• Men give away nothing so liberally as their advice.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.4 · 45 votes · 31 reads

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• My facts shall be falsehoods to the common sense. I would so state facts that they shall be significant, shall be myths or mythologies. Facts which the mind perceived, thoughts which the body thought - with these I deal.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.7 · 57 votes · 121 reads

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• Never advise anyone to go to war or to get married. Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present. He that has no children brings them up well.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard

  PhilosopherDanish1813 · 19th century

  3.7 · 13 votes · 7 reads

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• Nothing is as peevish and pedantic as men's judgments of one another.

  

  Erasmus of Rotterdam

  TheologianDutch1466 · 15th century

  5.0 · 20 votes · 128 reads

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• Nothing is more noble than politeness, and nothing more ridiculous than ceremony.

  

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 6 votes · 17 reads

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• She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.8 · 44 votes · 145 reads

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• Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

  

  Jane Austen

  NovelistEnglish1775 · 18th century

  3.3 · 50 votes · 128 reads

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• The comic is the perception of the opposite; humor is the feeling of it.

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  Truman Capote

  AuthorAmerican1924 · 20th century

  3.4 · 7 votes · 160 reads

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• The destiny of any nation at any given time depends on the opinion of its young people, those under twenty-five.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.7 · 40 votes · 80 reads

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• The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  4.8 · 31 votes · 37 reads

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• The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.7 · 15 votes · 36 reads

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• The spirit of man is more important than mere physical strength, and the spiritual fiber of a nation than its wealth

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  PoliticianAmerican1890 · 19th century

  3.8 · 36 votes · 167 reads

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• The trade of advertising is now so near perfection that it is not easy to propose any improvement. But as every art ought to be exercised in due subordination to the public good, I cannot but propose it as a moral question to these masters of the public e

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.0 · 26 votes · 147 reads

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• The trouble is that rich people, well-to-do people, very often don't really know who the poor are; and that is why we can forgive them, for knowledge can only lead to love, and love to service. And so, if they are not touched by them, it's because they do

  

  Teresa of Calcutta

  MissionaryAlbanian1910 · 20th century

  3.3 · 23 votes · 91 reads

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• The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

  

  Carl Gustav Jung

  PsychiatristSwiss1875 · 19th century

  4.9 · 46 votes · 95 reads

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• There is a terrific disadvantage in not having the abrasive quality of the press applied to you daily. Even though we never like it, and even though we wish they didn't write it, and even though we disapprove, there isn't any doubt that we could not do th

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  3.3 · 11 votes · 151 reads

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• This life of separateness may be compared to a dream, a phantasm, a bubble, a shadow, a drop of dew, a flash of lightning.

  

  Buddha

  LeaderNepal-563 · 6th century BC

  4.6 · 25 votes · 95 reads

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• To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  4.7 · 12 votes · 27 reads

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• We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen.

  

  Pythagoras

  MathematicianGreek-582 · 6th century BC

  3.0 · 48 votes · 11 reads

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• We'll hold out our hand; they have to unclench their fist.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.4 · 24 votes · 119 reads

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• What I aspired to be and was not, comforts me.

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  Robert Bresson

  Film directorFrench1901 · 20th century

  3.6 · 36 votes · 149 reads

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• Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts. it is something celestial and divine.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  3.9 · 25 votes · 10 reads

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• Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.5 · 54 votes · 151 reads

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