Quotes for September 1251 quotes · 43 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every September 12: the anniversary does not move.

• A good neighbour sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation.

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  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  PoetBritish1806 · 19th century

  3.1 · 57 votes · 65 reads

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• A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

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  T. S. Eliot

  PoetAmerican1888 · 19th century

  3.1 · 40 votes · 159 reads

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• A man in public life expects to be sneered at - it is the fault of his elevated situation, and not of himself.

  

  Charles Dickens

  NovelistBritish1812 · 19th century

  4.2 · 37 votes · 183 reads

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• A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  3.3 · 14 votes · 131 reads

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• A scalded cat dreads cold water.

  

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 46 votes · 131 reads

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• A trait no other nation seems to possess in quite the same degree that we do - namely, a feeling of almost childish injury and resentment unless the world as a whole recognizes how innocent we are of anything but the most generous and harmless intentions.

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  Eleanor Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  5.0 · 58 votes · 122 reads

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• A wicked book cannot repent.

  

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  Anonymous

  3.6 · 7 votes · 168 reads

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• Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.

  

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  TheologianSwiss1741 · 18th century

  3.9 · 52 votes · 88 reads

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• All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.7 · 54 votes · 189 reads

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• Astronomy is perhaps the science whose discoveries owe least to chance, in which human understanding appears in its whole magnitude, and through which man can best learn how small he is.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  3.9 · 15 votes · 37 reads

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• Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence. True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

  

  George Washington

  PoliticianAmerican1732 · 18th century

  4.6 · 51 votes · 186 reads

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• By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.5 · 39 votes · 141 reads

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• Capital punishment would be more effective as a preventive measure if it were administered prior to the crime.

  

  Woodrow T. Wilson

  PoliticianAmerican1856 · 19th century

  4.2 · 49 votes · 175 reads

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• Cash-payment never was, or could except for a few years be, the union-bond of man to man. Cash never yet paid one man fully his deserts to another; nor could it, nor can it, now or henceforth to the end of the world.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.2 · 34 votes · 30 reads

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• Could everything be done twice it would be done better.

  

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 44 votes · 176 reads

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• Do not let yourself be tainted with a barren skepticism.

  

  Louis Pasteur

  ScientistFrench1822 · 19th century

  4.2 · 57 votes · 66 reads

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• Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

  

  Plutarch

  EssayistGreek46 · 1st century

  3.1 · 6 votes · 34 reads

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• Everything in woman hath a solution. It is called pregnancy.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.1 · 25 votes · 15 reads

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• Football is a more beautiful game in high definition.

  

  Jose Mourinho

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  4.7 · 34 votes · 55 reads

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• He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  3.1 · 6 votes · 77 reads

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• He who loses wealth loses much; he who loses a friend loses more; but he that loses his courage loses all.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  3.9 · 51 votes · 94 reads

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• How could there be any question of acquiring or possessing, when the one thing needful for a man is to become - to be at last, and to die in the fullness of his being.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  WriterFrench1900 · 19th century

  4.3 · 58 votes · 114 reads

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• I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on stage. That was the only thing that interested me, along with learning the craft and working, and just being in productions with people.

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  3.3 · 61 votes · 93 reads

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• I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  3.9 · 33 votes · 139 reads

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• If you sit in judgment, investigate, if you sit in supreme power, sit in command.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.6 · 15 votes · 123 reads

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• If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction Writerbecause you're dealing mainly with sex and violence. These remain the basic themes, they're the basic themes of Shakespeare whether you like it

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  Anthony Burgess

  AuthorEnglish1917 · 20th century

  3.3 · 54 votes · 85 reads

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• In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  4.9 · 28 votes · 99 reads

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• In Europe it is particularly important that we build good relations to everyone who holds political responsibility because Europe can only be build together.

  

  Angela Merkel

  PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century

  3.1 · 17 votes · 61 reads

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• Is it not odd that the only generous person I ever knew, who had money to be generous with, should be a stockbroker.

  

  Pearl S. Buck

  NovelistAmerican1892 · 19th century

  3.8 · 57 votes · 106 reads

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• Isn't it sad how some people can't be funny, so they have to settle for being obnoxious?

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 13 votes · 86 reads

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• Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

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  Eleanor Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  5.0 · 38 votes · 94 reads

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• Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  3.0 · 19 votes · 154 reads

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• Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  4.2 · 5 votes · 143 reads

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• Mathematics may be defined as the subject in which we never know what we are talking about, nor whether what we are saying is true.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  3.8 · 8 votes · 2 reads

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• Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds.

  

  Lord Chesterfield

  PoliticianBritish1694 · 17th century

  3.0 · 60 votes · 117 reads

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• More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.3 · 38 votes · 138 reads

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• Possession is nine tenths of the law.

  

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  Anonymous

  3.7 · 26 votes · 122 reads

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• Shame arises from the fear of men, conscience from the fear of God.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.1 · 27 votes · 200 reads

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• Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 27 votes · 182 reads

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• The greatest sweetener of human life is Friendship. To raise this to the highest pitch of enjoyment, is a secret which but few discover.

  

  Joseph Addison

  PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century

  3.1 · 51 votes · 183 reads

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• The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  3.3 · 23 votes · 155 reads

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• Those who do not complain are never pitied.

  

  Jane Austen

  NovelistEnglish1775 · 18th century

  3.8 · 32 votes · 99 reads

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• To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection.

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  3.3 · 37 votes · 164 reads

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• Truth fears nothing but concealment.

  

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 34 votes · 168 reads

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• War - what a waist of time. It's all about great achievements for the very few but hideous losses for the very many.

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 31 votes · 49 reads

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• War both needs and generates certain virtues; not the highest, but what may be called the preliminary virtues, as valor, veracity, the spirit of obedience, the habit of discipline. Any of these, and of others like them, when possessed by a nation, and no

  

  Walt Whitman

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  4.4 · 59 votes · 127 reads

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• What is a society without a heroic dimension?

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  Jean Baudrillard

  PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century

  3.0 · 18 votes · 129 reads

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• What is true by lamplight is not always true by sunlight.

  

  Joseph Joubert

  French1754 · 18th century

  4.8 · 58 votes · 168 reads

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• Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.

  

  William Blake

  PainterBritish1757 · 18th century

  5.0 · 64 votes · 44 reads

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• Working in Hollywood for the orchestra world is a very time consuming and laborious job.

  

  John Williams

  MusicianAmerican1932 · 20th century

  4.2 · 48 votes · 57 reads

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