Quotes for October 3050 quotes · 40 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every October 30: the anniversary does not move.

• A punishment to some, to some a gift, and to many a favor.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.2 · 30 votes · 4 reads

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• America must be the teacher of democracy, not the advertiser of the consumer society. It is unrealistic for the rest of the world to reach the American living standard.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  4.4 · 52 votes · 144 reads

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• Bigotry murders religion to frighten fools with her ghost.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  4.6 · 58 votes · 134 reads

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• Children are a great comfort to us in our old age, and they help us reach it faster too.

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  Anonymous

  3.2 · 8 votes · 198 reads

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• Children begin by loving their parents. After a time they judge them. Rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.7 · 18 votes · 116 reads

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• Compliments cost nothing, yet many pay dear for them.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  4.4 · 25 votes · 100 reads

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• Eat my shorts!

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  3.9 · 21 votes · 6 reads

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• For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

  

  Pythagoras

  MathematicianGreek-582 · 6th century BC

  3.9 · 58 votes · 12 reads

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• Genius without education is like silver in the mine.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.2 · 17 votes · 154 reads

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• Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords: but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain; and expectations improperly indulged must end in disappoi

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.5 · 22 votes · 193 reads

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• I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.2 · 25 votes · 153 reads

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• I have full confidence in the IMF. It is a very strong international institution.

  

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  PoliticianPortuguese1956 · 20th century

  3.5 · 44 votes · 141 reads

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• I love the work; I could sit and look at it for hours.

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 61 votes · 190 reads

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• I make no complaint. I am a writer. I do not accept my condition; I will strive to change it; but I inhabit it, I am trying to learn from it.

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  Saint Thomas Aquinas

  TheologianRoman1224 · 13th century

  3.0 · 43 votes · 140 reads

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• I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.1 · 35 votes · 156 reads

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• If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county.

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  Wen Jiabao

  PoliticianChinese1942 · 20th century

  3.0 · 25 votes · 29 reads

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• If you don't want to read it, see it or hear it, don't say it.

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 9 votes · 133 reads

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• It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.1 · 61 votes · 163 reads

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• It is only prudent never to place complete confidence in that by which we have even once been deceived.

  

  René Descartes

  MathematicianFrench1596 · 16th century

  3.4 · 49 votes · 121 reads

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• Labour is the party of law and order in Britain today. Tough on crime, tough on the causes of crime.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  4.2 · 52 votes · 2 reads

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• Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.6 · 36 votes · 70 reads

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• Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  3.0 · 55 votes · 34 reads

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• Many children, many cares; no children, no felicity.

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  Christian Nestell Bovee

  AuthorAmerican1820 · 19th century

  4.1 · 63 votes · 116 reads

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• My office is on Twitter. I don't tweet myself - at least, not intentionally, but I probably should do.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  5.0 · 43 votes · 184 reads

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• One of the greatest moments in anybody's developing experience is when he no longer tries to hide from himself but determines to get acquainted with himself as he really is.

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  Norman Mailer

  WriterAmerican1923 · 20th century

  3.1 · 14 votes · 112 reads

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• People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid.

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  Sophocles

  PoetGreek

  4.2 · 11 votes · 122 reads

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• Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their prejudices they do without any effort many things they would find too difficult to think through to the point of resolving to do them.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  4.5 · 28 votes · 85 reads

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• Present-moment living, getting in touch with your ''now,'' is at the heart of effective living. When you think about it, there really is no other moment you can live. Now is all there is, and the future is just another present moment to live when it arriv

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  3.3 · 64 votes · 179 reads

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• Surely a long life must be somewhat tedious, since we are forced to call in so many trifling things to help rid us of our time, which will never return.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.2 · 9 votes · 4 reads

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• The central focus of what we are doing at the Fed is to keep inflation from accelerating - and preferably decelerating.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.4 · 6 votes · 150 reads

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• The customs and fashions of men change like leaves on the bough, some of which go and others come.

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  Dante

  PoetItaly1265 · 13th century

  5.0 · 39 votes · 141 reads

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• The difference between great celebrities and the unknown is the former failed and yet went at it again; the latter gave up in despair.

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  Anonymous

  3.2 · 11 votes · 156 reads

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• The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.

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  Sophocles

  PoetGreek

  4.2 · 53 votes · 40 reads

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• The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  3.5 · 47 votes · 23 reads

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• The human mind must believe in something, so why not let it believe what it does believe.

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  Anonymous

  4.5 · 5 votes · 49 reads

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• The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique. - Disney, Walt

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  Wallace Stevens

  PoetAmerican1879 · 19th century

  3.1 · 12 votes · 200 reads

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• The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.

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  Shimon Peres

  PoliticianIsraeli1923 · 20th century

  4.9 · 25 votes · 111 reads

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• The road to success is lined with many tempting parking spaces

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 37 votes · 146 reads

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• The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  5.0 · 60 votes · 171 reads

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• The wish to acquire more is admittedly a very natural and common thing; and when men succeed in this they are always praised rather than condemned. But when they lack the ability to do so and yet want to acquire more at all costs, they deserve condemnatio

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  PoliticianFrench1769 · 18th century

  3.1 · 55 votes · 133 reads

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• There are many elements to a campaign. Leadership is number one. Everything else is number two.

  

  Bertolt Brecht

  WriterGerman1898 · 19th century

  3.4 · 13 votes · 59 reads

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• There is a crack in everything God has made.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.1 · 59 votes · 167 reads

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• There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher. Fontenelle says he would undertake to persuade the whole public of readers to believe that the sun was neither the cause of light or heat, if he could only g

  

  Norman Vincent Peale

  AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century

  3.6 · 20 votes · 117 reads

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• This multicultural approach, saying that we simply live side by side and live happily with each other has failed. Utterly failed.

  

  Angela Merkel

  PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century

  4.8 · 19 votes · 61 reads

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• Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

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  William Butler Yeats

  PoetIrish1865 · 19th century

  4.7 · 8 votes · 7 reads

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• To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.0 · 37 votes · 162 reads

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• To the person with a firm purpose all men and things are servants.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.3 · 28 votes · 116 reads

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• Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habits. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 56 votes · 171 reads

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• Without duty, life is sort of boneless; it cannot hold itself together.

  

  Joseph Joubert

  French1754 · 18th century

  4.8 · 15 votes · 139 reads

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