Quotes for October 2150 quotes · 39 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every October 21: the anniversary does not move.

• A lot of our writers, like Conan O'Brien, moved on to other things.

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  3.3 · 51 votes · 69 reads

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• Animals often strike us as passionate machines.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  4.2 · 38 votes · 18 reads

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• At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try.

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  Anonymous

  3.6 · 12 votes · 13 reads

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• Beauty is a manifestation of secret natural laws, which otherwise would have been hidden from us forever.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.4 · 38 votes · 108 reads

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• Better to ask a question than to remain ignorant.

  

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  Anonymous

  3.0 · 43 votes · 155 reads

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• Business has only two functions - marketing and innovation.

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  Peter de Vries

  NovelistAmerican1910 · 20th century

  4.6 · 55 votes · 162 reads

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• Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.

  

  C. S. Lewis

  AuthorIrish1898 · 19th century

  4.3 · 7 votes · 45 reads

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• Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  3.9 · 21 votes · 31 reads

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• Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.6 · 45 votes · 184 reads

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• Few things are impracticable in themselves; and it is for want of application, rather than of means, that men fail to succeed.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.9 · 22 votes · 200 reads

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• Genius is no more than childhood recaptured at will, childhood equipped now with man's physical means to express itself, and with the analytical mind that enables it to bring order into the sum of experience, involuntarily amassed.

  

  Charles Baudelaire

  PoetFrench1821 · 19th century

  3.8 · 11 votes · 74 reads

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• Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.

  

  John Dryden

  PoetBritish1631 · 17th century

  3.6 · 34 votes · 35 reads

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• He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.8 · 46 votes · 108 reads

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• He's winding up the watch of his wit. By and by it will strike.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.1 · 19 votes · 26 reads

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• Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.

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  Robert Frost

  PoetAmerican1874 · 19th century

  3.3 · 57 votes · 150 reads

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• I assure this committee that, if I am confirmed, I will be strictly independent of all political influences... essential to that institution's ability to function effectively and achieve its mandated objectives.

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  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  3.7 · 38 votes · 21 reads

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• I can't let important policy decisions hinge on the fact that an election is coming up every 90 days.

  

  Gerhard Schroder

  PoliticianGerman1944 · 20th century

  3.3 · 27 votes · 31 reads

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• I'm an academic. I teach at the university, and that's where I will go back to.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  PoliticianIranian1956 · 20th century

  3.2 · 16 votes · 122 reads

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• If you have a choice between certainty and hope, choose certainty every time.

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  Anonymous

  3.0 · 23 votes · 3 reads

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• If you understand the universe, you control it, in a way.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.9 · 53 votes · 162 reads

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• Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.6 · 60 votes · 161 reads

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• It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say; when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  4.7 · 34 votes · 1 reads

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• Life for both sexes is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. More than anything... it calls for confidence in oneself...And how can we generate this imponderable quality most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  3.2 · 52 votes · 79 reads

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• No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.0 · 17 votes · 14 reads

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• Optimism is the opium of the people.

  

  Milan Kundera

  WriterCzech1929 · 20th century

  3.4 · 21 votes · 8 reads

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• Parents wonder why the streams are bitter, when they themselves have poisoned the fountain.

  

  John Locke

  PhilosopherEnglish1632 · 17th century

  3.1 · 22 votes · 90 reads

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• Political correctness is simply a speed bump in the traffic of truth, free thought and speech.

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  Anonymous

  3.6 · 10 votes · 92 reads

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• Success is more attitude than aptitude.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 28 votes · 36 reads

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• Taxing is an easy business. Any projector can contrive new compositions, any bungler can add to the old.

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  3.8 · 17 votes · 7 reads

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• That which proves too much, proves nothing!

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  3.6 · 39 votes · 42 reads

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• The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust. - Billings, Josh

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  3.8 · 58 votes · 150 reads

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• The crisis and recession have led to very low interest rates, it is true, but these events have also destroyed jobs, hamstrung economic growth and led to sharp declines in the values of many homes and businesses.

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  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  3.6 · 8 votes · 70 reads

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• The drafts which true genius draws upon posterity, although they may not always be honored so soon as they are due, are sure to be paid with compound interest in the end.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  4.2 · 33 votes · 55 reads

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• The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.2 · 14 votes · 199 reads

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• The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.5 · 5 votes · 184 reads

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• The most interesting thing about a postage stamp is the persistence with which it sticks to its job.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  3.7 · 14 votes · 89 reads

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• The real risks for any artist are taken in pushing the work to the limits of what is possible, in the attempt to increase the sum of what it is possible to think. Books become good when they go to this edge and risk falling over it -when they endanger the

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  Saint Thomas Aquinas

  TheologianRoman1224 · 13th century

  3.4 · 40 votes · 160 reads

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• There is nothing certain, but the uncertain.

  

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  Anonymous

  3.9 · 42 votes · 179 reads

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• There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  4.4 · 64 votes · 40 reads

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• Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.

  

  William Blake

  PainterBritish1757 · 18th century

  4.7 · 28 votes · 58 reads

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• Though I love my country, I do not love my countrymen.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.2 · 6 votes · 5 reads

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• To believe what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  4.4 · 10 votes · 3 reads

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• To me, consensus seems to be the process of abandoning all beliefs, principles, values and policies. So it is something in which no one believes and to which no one objects.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  4.4 · 35 votes · 145 reads

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• Vain, very vain is my search to find; that happiness which only centers in the mind.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale

  AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century

  3.2 · 27 votes · 71 reads

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• We are made happy when reason can discover no occasion for it. The memory of some past moments is more persuasive than the experience of present ones. There have been visions of such breadth and brightness that these motes were invisible in their light.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.2 · 41 votes · 24 reads

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• What wisdom can there be to choose, what continence to forbear without the knowledge of evil? He that can apprehend and consider vice with all her baits and seeming pleasures, and yet abstain, and yet distinguish, and yet prefer that which is truly better

  

  John Milton

  PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

  3.5 · 13 votes · 86 reads

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• Whatever you do may seem insignificant, but it is most important that you do it.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  4.4 · 14 votes · 154 reads

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• When one has the feeling of dislike for evil, when one feels tranquil, one finds pleasure in listening to good teachings; when one has these feelings and appreciates them, one is free of fear.

  

  Buddha

  LeaderNepal-563 · 6th century BC

  5.0 · 38 votes · 194 reads

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• When we think we lead we are most led.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  4.7 · 7 votes · 184 reads

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