Quotes for October 843 quotes · 36 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every October 8: the anniversary does not move.

• A man never likes you so well as when he leaves your company liking himself.

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 41 votes · 30 reads

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• A man who is good enough to shed his blood for his country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. More than that no man is entitled to, and less than that no man shall have.

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  Terence

  PoetRoman

  4.0 · 10 votes · 149 reads

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• After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.6 · 31 votes · 2 reads

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• At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  3.6 · 24 votes · 164 reads

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• Because men really respect only that which was founded of old and has developed slowly, he who wants to live on after his death must take care not only of his posterity but even more of his past.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.2 · 15 votes · 164 reads

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• By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  4.3 · 20 votes · 139 reads

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• Conceit in weakest bodies works the strongest.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.8 · 42 votes · 42 reads

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• Enthusiasm. A distemper of youth, curable by small doses of repentance in connection with outward applications of experience.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  3.0 · 26 votes · 53 reads

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• Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.

  

  James Russell Lowell

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  3.7 · 64 votes · 87 reads

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• Every reform, however necessary, will by weak minds be carried to an excess, which will itself need reforming.

  

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

  4.1 · 28 votes · 109 reads

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• He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  3.7 · 18 votes · 70 reads

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• I had not expected 'A Brief History of Time' to be a best seller.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.1 · 31 votes · 45 reads

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• I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.8 · 54 votes · 133 reads

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• I sometimes wander whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy.

  

  C. S. Lewis

  AuthorIrish1898 · 19th century

  4.6 · 52 votes · 88 reads

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• I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was 'Einstein.'

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.2 · 24 votes · 124 reads

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• If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.1 · 40 votes · 0 reads

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• In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Inte

  

  Stendhal

  NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

  4.3 · 18 votes · 122 reads

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• It's not the work which kills people, it's the worry. It's not the revolution that destroys machinery it's the friction.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  4.2 · 33 votes · 109 reads

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• It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thin

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.3 · 20 votes · 12 reads

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• Let the punishment be proportionate to the offense.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  5.0 · 51 votes · 185 reads

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• No good opera plot can be sensible, for people do not sing when they are feeling sensible.

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  W. C. Fields

  ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.4 · 10 votes · 36 reads

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• Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wro

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.6 · 35 votes · 143 reads

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• Our friends interpret the world and ourselves to us, if we take them tenderly and truly.

  

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  EducatorAmerican1799 · 18th century

  3.3 · 15 votes · 185 reads

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• Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  3.2 · 23 votes · 175 reads

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• Say what you have to say and first time you come to a sentence with a grammatical ending; sit down.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.7 · 14 votes · 136 reads

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• Some have argued that confronting the threat from Iraq could detract from the war against terror. To the contrary, confronting the threat posed by Iraq is crucial to winning the war on terror.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.6 · 37 votes · 183 reads

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• The philosophy of FIFA is to expand world soccer space, to spread out the world football space.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  5.0 · 55 votes · 105 reads

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• The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.

  

  David Ogilvy

  BusinessmanEnglish1911 · 20th century

  4.3 · 63 votes · 5 reads

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• The real composer thinks about his work the whole time; he is not always conscious of this, but he is aware of it later when he suddenly knows what he will do.

  

  Igor Stravinsky

  MusicianRussian1882 · 19th century

  4.1 · 41 votes · 152 reads

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• The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things out; it needs leisure to mature. People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  3.3 · 29 votes · 151 reads

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• The value of love will always be stronger than the value of hate.. Any nation or group of nations which employs hatred eventually is torn to pieces by hatred...

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1882 · 19th century

  3.8 · 55 votes · 133 reads

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• The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and Führer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of st

  

  Carl Gustav Jung

  PsychiatristSwiss1875 · 19th century

  4.9 · 25 votes · 107 reads

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• There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one: keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.8 · 43 votes · 129 reads

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• There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  3.0 · 63 votes · 26 reads

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• There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  3.4 · 54 votes · 134 reads

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• Tones sound, and roar and storm about me until I have set them down in notes.

  

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  MusicianGerman1770 · 18th century

  4.0 · 5 votes · 37 reads

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• True obedience is true freedom.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  4.6 · 35 votes · 91 reads

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• War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honor but an empty bubble.

  

  John Dryden

  PoetBritish1631 · 17th century

  3.9 · 11 votes · 100 reads

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• Wars and revolutions and battles are due simply and solely to the body and its desires. All wars are undertaken for the acquisition of wealth; and the reason why we have to acquire wealth is the body, because we are slaves in its service.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  3.9 · 44 votes · 78 reads

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• We really can't forecast all that well, and yet we pretend that we can, but we really can't.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.7 · 56 votes · 30 reads

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• What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are cleaver people.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 31 votes · 133 reads

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• What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  4.8 · 33 votes · 106 reads

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