Quotes for October 748 quotes · 40 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every October 7: the anniversary does not move.

• A man perfects himself by working. Foul jungles are cleared away, fair seed-fields rise instead, and stately cities; and with the man himself first ceases to be a jungle, and foul unwholesome desert thereby. The man is now a man.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.7 · 54 votes · 6 reads

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• A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.

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  W. C. Fields

  ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.4 · 59 votes · 15 reads

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• A woman never knows what she really wants until she fins out what her husband cannot afford.

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  Anonymous

  3.5 · 38 votes · 3 reads

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• All excellent things are as difficult as they are rare.

  

  Benedict de Spinoza

  PhilosopherDutch1632 · 17th century

  3.9 · 14 votes · 107 reads

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• Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

  

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

  4.1 · 56 votes · 162 reads

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• Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  5.0 · 43 votes · 189 reads

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• Fame is a constant effort

  

  Jules Renard

  WriterFrench1864 · 19th century

  4.2 · 38 votes · 163 reads

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• He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.1 · 23 votes · 123 reads

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• Heaven will be inherited by every man who has heaven in his soul.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  5.0 · 48 votes · 116 reads

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• Hedges between keep friendships green.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.9 · 29 votes · 151 reads

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• Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

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  H. G. Wells

  AuthorAmerican1866 · 19th century

  3.3 · 14 votes · 156 reads

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• Hypotheses are what we lack the least.

  

  Henri Poincaré

  MathematicianFrench1854 · 19th century

  3.5 · 28 votes · 74 reads

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• I think I'm very hardheaded.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.1 · 17 votes · 7 reads

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• I think the discovery of supersymmetric partners for the known particles would revolutionize our understanding of the universe.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.6 · 37 votes · 158 reads

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• I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters.

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  John Keats

  PoetBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.3 · 38 votes · 181 reads

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• If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom: and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that, too.

  

  W. H. Auden

  PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

  5.0 · 58 votes · 123 reads

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• If you follow only one rule, let it be this one: Be yourself. The really strong boy-girl relationships are based on what people really are, not on what they pretend to be.

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  Anonymous

  3.6 · 13 votes · 70 reads

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• It is a clear gain to sacrifice pleasure in order to avoid pain.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  PhilosopherGerman1788 · 18th century

  3.4 · 17 votes · 188 reads

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• It is much easier for good to deal with evil than it is for good to deal with stupidity.

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 32 votes · 91 reads

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• It is said that the world is in a state of bankruptcy, that the world owes the world more than the world can pay.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.2 · 36 votes · 19 reads

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• It is with disease of the mind, as with those of the body; we are half dead before we understand our disorder, and half cured when we do.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  3.1 · 19 votes · 103 reads

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• It was a struggle financing CNN, but I did it without ever asking the government for a nickel.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  3.5 · 61 votes · 193 reads

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• It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes life worth living.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.8 · 43 votes · 155 reads

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• Let's not leave an educational vacuum to be filled by religious extremists who go to families who have no other option and offer meals, housing and some form of education. If we are going to combat extremism then we must educate those very same children.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.2 · 64 votes · 121 reads

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• Man is the only creature that strives to surpass himself, and yearns for the impossible.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  4.5 · 37 votes · 89 reads

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• Management by objective works - if you know the objectives. Ninety percent of the time you don't.

  

  Peter Drucker

  BusinessmanAmerican1909 · 20th century

  3.0 · 32 votes · 17 reads

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• Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

  

  Thomas Mann

  AuthorGerman1875 · 19th century

  4.6 · 18 votes · 54 reads

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• My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.6 · 49 votes · 45 reads

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• Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together.

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  Joseph Pulitzer

  PublisherAmerican1847 · 19th century

  3.1 · 14 votes · 169 reads

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• People who ask for your criticism want only praise.

  

  W. H. Auden

  PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

  3.4 · 26 votes · 174 reads

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• Perversity is the muse of modern literature.

  

  Stendhal

  NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

  5.0 · 7 votes · 12 reads

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• Taken in any context, except seriously, life on earth is palatable and positively enjoyable.

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  Anonymous

  3.9 · 7 votes · 118 reads

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• That best portion of a good man's life; His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

  

  William Wordsworth

  PoetEnglish1770 · 18th century

  4.6 · 54 votes · 191 reads

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• The history of mankind is his character.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.9 · 7 votes · 60 reads

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• The most important service rendered by the press and the magazines is that of educating people to approach printed matter with distrust.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  3.3 · 57 votes · 35 reads

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• The right man comes at the right time.

  

  Italian proverb

  Italian

  3.7 · 39 votes · 68 reads

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• The thirst after happiness is never extinguished in the heart of man.

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  3.7 · 25 votes · 198 reads

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• Their errors have been weighed and found to have been dust in the balance; if their sins were as scarlet, they are now white as snow: they have been washed in the blood of the mediator and the redeemer, Time.

  

  Pearl S. Buck

  NovelistAmerican1892 · 19th century

  4.1 · 6 votes · 192 reads

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• Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment. There is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows.

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  4.8 · 58 votes · 79 reads

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• We are justified in enforcing good morals, for they belong to all mankind; but we are not justified in enforcing good manners, for good manners always mean our own manners.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.3 · 33 votes · 185 reads

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• We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  4.7 · 16 votes · 4 reads

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• Well, I am a Republican, and I would run as a Republican. And I have a lot of confidence in the Republican Party. I don't have a lot of confidence in the president. I think what's happening to this country is unbelievably bad. We're no longer a respected

  

  Donald Trump

  BusinessmanAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.0 · 49 votes · 148 reads

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• What is a demanding pleasure that demands the use of ones mind! Not in the sense of problem solving, but in the sense of exercising discrimination, judgment, awareness.

  

  Ayn Rand

  WriterAmerican1905 · 20th century

  4.9 · 15 votes · 0 reads

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• When a new president comes in, a new president gets to clean house.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.1 · 8 votes · 45 reads

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• When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.5 · 47 votes · 168 reads

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• When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.

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  J. P. Morgan

  BusinessmanAmerican1837 · 19th century

  3.0 · 27 votes · 140 reads

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• Your manuscript is both good and original; but the parts that are good are not original, and the parts that are original are not good.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.9 · 24 votes · 50 reads

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