Quotes for October 548 quotes · 41 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every October 5: the anniversary does not move.

• Achievement is not the most important thing - Authenticity is

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 22 votes · 155 reads

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• Ah, good taste! What a dreadful thing! Taste is the enemy of creativeness.

  

  Pablo Neruda

  PoetChilean1904 · 20th century

  4.3 · 10 votes · 120 reads

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• All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

  

  Isaac Asimov

  ScientistAmerican1920 · 20th century

  5.0 · 14 votes · 93 reads

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• Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart, and cannot make a good soup.

  

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  MusicianGerman1770 · 18th century

  4.7 · 34 votes · 98 reads

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• Avarice has ruined more souls than extravagance.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  4.4 · 53 votes · 166 reads

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• Before a man speaks, it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks it is seldom necessary to assume.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.0 · 62 votes · 37 reads

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• Big men become big by doing what they didn't want to do when they didn't want to do it.

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 63 votes · 66 reads

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• Can a nation be free if it oppresses other nations? It cannot.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  4.9 · 56 votes · 131 reads

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• Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

  

  Will Rogers

  ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

  4.6 · 46 votes · 77 reads

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• Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.5 · 31 votes · 28 reads

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• For diplomacy to be effective, words must be credible - and no one can now doubt the word of America.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.8 · 22 votes · 79 reads

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• I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.6 · 28 votes · 180 reads

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• I love CNN. I love the Cartoon Network. I mean, I thought these things up.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  4.1 · 31 votes · 117 reads

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• If you desire faith, then you have faith enough.

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  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  PoetBritish1806 · 19th century

  4.8 · 51 votes · 38 reads

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• In all professions each affects a look and an exterior to appear what he wishes the world to believe that he is. Thus we may say that the whole world is made up of appearances.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.6 · 61 votes · 126 reads

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• In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.4 · 47 votes · 187 reads

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• It is time for a new generation of leadership, to cope with new problems and new opportunities. For there is a new world to be won.

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  3.1 · 35 votes · 80 reads

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• Love is said to be blind, but I know some fellows in love who can see twice as much in their sweethearts as I do.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  5.0 · 17 votes · 53 reads

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• Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things.

  

  Henri Poincaré

  MathematicianFrench1854 · 19th century

  4.1 · 19 votes · 136 reads

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• Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.6 · 16 votes · 92 reads

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• My country is the world, and my religion is to do good.

  

  Thomas Mann

  AuthorGerman1875 · 19th century

  5.0 · 14 votes · 111 reads

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• Old age may seem a long way off. But on the day it doesn't, it will be too late to do anything about it.

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  Anonymous

  3.0 · 53 votes · 58 reads

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• Pictures and shapes are but secondary objects and please or displease only in the memory.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  4.1 · 62 votes · 149 reads

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• Plain women are always jealous of their husbands. Beautiful women never are. They are always so occupied with being jealous of other women's husbands.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.7 · 33 votes · 83 reads

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• Plan more than you can do, then do it. Bite off more than you can chew, then chew it. Hitch your wagon to a star, keep your seat, and there you are

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  Anonymous

  3.6 · 19 votes · 195 reads

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• Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  3.2 · 37 votes · 13 reads

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• Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.4 · 45 votes · 127 reads

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• Sometimes it is better to lose and do the right thing than to win and do the wrong thing.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  3.0 · 38 votes · 136 reads

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• Such is the state of life, that none are happy but by the anticipation of change: the change itself is nothing; when we have made it, the next wish is to change again. The world is not yet exhausted; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.9 · 20 votes · 12 reads

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• The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

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  Terence

  PoetRoman

  3.6 · 55 votes · 21 reads

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• The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  3.9 · 5 votes · 67 reads

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• The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  4.3 · 30 votes · 178 reads

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• The genius of democracies is seen not only in the great number of new words introduced but even more in the new ideas they express.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  PhilosopherFrench1805 · 19th century

  4.8 · 42 votes · 76 reads

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• The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

  

  Thomas Fuller

  AuthorBritish1608 · 17th century

  3.2 · 17 votes · 187 reads

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• The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.5 · 12 votes · 130 reads

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• The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them in parliament.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  4.8 · 60 votes · 192 reads

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• The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie.

  

  Stendhal

  NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

  4.6 · 38 votes · 114 reads

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• There is a limit to how much the United States Treasury can borrow.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  3.1 · 54 votes · 21 reads

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• Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.

  

  Greek proverb

  Greek

  4.2 · 29 votes · 99 reads

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• To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  3.4 · 29 votes · 88 reads

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• To be ignorant of one's ignorance is the malady of the ignorant.

  

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  EducatorAmerican1799 · 18th century

  5.0 · 38 votes · 20 reads

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• To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.0 · 19 votes · 52 reads

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• We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.8 · 35 votes · 108 reads

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• We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

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  Abigail Adams

  PoliticianAmerican1744 · 18th century

  3.3 · 53 votes · 38 reads

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• We must hold a man amenable to reason for the choice of his daily craft or profession. It is not an excuse any longer for his deeds that they are the custom of his trade. What business has he with an evil trade?

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  5.0 · 38 votes · 181 reads

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• We take our shape, it is true, within and against that cage of reality bequeathed us at our birth; and yet is precisely through our dependence on this reality that we are most endlessly betrayed.

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  James Baldwin

  WriterAmerican1924 · 20th century

  4.2 · 20 votes · 168 reads

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• We've demonstrated a strong track record of being very disciplined with the use of our cash. We don't let it burn a hole in our pocket, we don't allow it to motivate us to do stupid acquisitions. And so I think that we'd like to continue to keep our powde

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.7 · 26 votes · 178 reads

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