Quotes for October 348 quotes · 42 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every October 3: the anniversary does not move.

• A conscience is like a baby. It has to go to sleep before you can.

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 52 votes · 27 reads

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• A liberally educated person meets new ideas with curiosity and fascination. An illiberally educated person meets new ideas with fear.

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  James B. Stockdale

  PoliticianAmerican1923 · 20th century

  3.7 · 38 votes · 68 reads

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• Ah, if I were not king, I should lose my temper.

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  Louis XIV

  RoyaltyFrench1638 · 17th century

  3.0 · 36 votes · 55 reads

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• And the buying of new machinery meant not only the possibility of production, but even the new technology, 'cos as I mentioned before, we were back of seven, eight years.

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  Gianni Agnelli

  BusinessmanItalian1921 · 20th century

  3.3 · 17 votes · 126 reads

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• Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  4.8 · 41 votes · 194 reads

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• Do not make yourself so big, you are not so small.

  

  Jewish proverb

  Jewish

  3.9 · 11 votes · 154 reads

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• Don't throw stones at your neighbours , if your own windows are glass.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.0 · 26 votes · 39 reads

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• Fools and obstinate men make lawyers rich.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.2 · 54 votes · 88 reads

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• He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.2 · 56 votes · 117 reads

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• He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.9 · 34 votes · 114 reads

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• I am convinced we shall succeed. I have faith in this country, because I have faith in its people.

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  Horst Koehler

  PoliticianGerman1943 · 20th century

  4.5 · 36 votes · 13 reads

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• I didn't have to think up so much as a comma or a semicolon; it was all given, straight from the celestial recording room. Weary, I would beg for a break, an intermission, time enough, let's say, to go to the toilet or take a breath of fresh air on the ba

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  3.7 · 36 votes · 29 reads

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• I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.6 · 49 votes · 131 reads

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• I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.

  

  Rudyard Kipling

  WriterBritish1865 · 19th century

  3.9 · 48 votes · 9 reads

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• I hate to speak about individuals. Players don't win you trophies, teams win trophies, squads win trophies.

  

  Jose Mourinho

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  3.9 · 50 votes · 185 reads

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• I have nothing to declare except my genius.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.8 · 28 votes · 98 reads

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• I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  4.7 · 22 votes · 24 reads

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• I used to think that everything was just being funny but now I don't know. I mean, how can you tell?

  

  Andy Warhol

  PainterAmerican1928 · 20th century

  3.0 · 12 votes · 47 reads

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• I write music with an exclamation point!

  

  Richard Wagner

  MusicianGerman1813 · 19th century

  4.1 · 27 votes · 188 reads

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• In April 1991, after the Gulf war, Iraq was given 15 days to provide a full and final declaration of all its WMD.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  4.4 · 12 votes · 76 reads

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• In many walks of life, a conscience is a more expensive encumbrance than a wife or a carriage.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  3.6 · 36 votes · 67 reads

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• In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's a spy and he's a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he's not very good at his job.

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  4.6 · 29 votes · 148 reads

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• It is better to be beautiful than to be good, but it is better to be good than to be ugly.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.7 · 44 votes · 161 reads

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• Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.9 · 30 votes · 190 reads

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• Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

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  John Kenneth Galbraith

  EconomistAmerican1908 · 20th century

  3.2 · 16 votes · 22 reads

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• More than an end to war, we want an end to the beginnings of all wars.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1882 · 19th century

  4.5 · 49 votes · 187 reads

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• Music is spiritual. The music business is not.

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  Claudio Monteverdi

  MusicianItalian1567 · 16th century

  3.0 · 33 votes · 145 reads

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• Music of all the arts has the most influence on the passions and the legislator should give it the greatest encouragement.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  4.0 · 19 votes · 105 reads

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• No matter how often you are defeated, you are born to victory.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.4 · 40 votes · 135 reads

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• No one should be rich except those who understand it.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.7 · 47 votes · 164 reads

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• North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

  

  Fidel Castro

  PoliticianCuba1926 · 20th century

  3.4 · 23 votes · 153 reads

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• Of all the infirmities we have, the most savage is to despise our being.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  3.6 · 11 votes · 41 reads

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• One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

  

  Donald Trump

  BusinessmanAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.4 · 21 votes · 200 reads

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• People are generally amazed that I would take an interest in any form that would require me to stop talking for three hours.

  

  Henry A. Kissinger

  PoliticianGerman1923 · 20th century

  3.2 · 10 votes · 78 reads

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• Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

  

  Peter Drucker

  BusinessmanAmerican1909 · 20th century

  3.4 · 40 votes · 178 reads

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• Punishment is the last and the least effective instrument in the hands of the legislator for the prevention of crime.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  3.1 · 36 votes · 147 reads

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• Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.

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  Matthew Arnold

  PoetBritish1822 · 19th century

  4.7 · 9 votes · 92 reads

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• Suppliers and especially manufacturers have market power because they have information about a product or a service that the customer does not and cannot have, and does not need if he can trust the brand. This explains the profitability of brands.

  

  Peter Drucker

  BusinessmanAmerican1909 · 20th century

  4.6 · 31 votes · 184 reads

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• The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.3 · 27 votes · 53 reads

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• The public, with its mob yearning to be instructed, edified and pulled by the nose, demands certainties; it must be told definitely and a bit raucously that this is true and that is false. But there are no certainties.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.0 · 7 votes · 19 reads

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• There are three faithful friends, an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.8 · 51 votes · 17 reads

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• There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  3.2 · 34 votes · 31 reads

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• To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

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  Terence

  PoetRoman

  4.1 · 23 votes · 25 reads

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• We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being, but we share the same human spirit.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.2 · 48 votes · 7 reads

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• What people need and what they want may be very different.

  

  Elbert Hubbard

  AuthorAmerican1856 · 19th century

  4.3 · 63 votes · 134 reads

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• When danger approaches, sing to it.

  

  Arabian proverb

  Arabian

  4.1 · 63 votes · 116 reads

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• When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign in solitude.

  

  William Wordsworth

  PoetEnglish1770 · 18th century

  4.6 · 23 votes · 190 reads

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