Quotes for September 1350 quotes · 39 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every September 13: the anniversary does not move.

• An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names, but are as alike in their principals and aims as two peas in the same pod.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1882 · 19th century

  3.6 · 22 votes · 33 reads

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• As fathers commonly go, it is seldom a misfortune to be fatherless; and considering the general run of sons, as seldom a misfortune to be childless.

  

  Lord Chesterfield

  PoliticianBritish1694 · 17th century

  3.7 · 9 votes · 159 reads

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• Civilization is not by any means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.9 · 30 votes · 81 reads

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• Everyone needs a coach. It doesn't matter whether you're a basketball player, a tennis player, a gymnast or a bridge player.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.3 · 16 votes · 14 reads

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• For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  4.0 · 18 votes · 93 reads

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• Give me a fruitful error anytime, full of seeds, bursting with its own corrections.

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  Viktor Frankl

  ScientistAustrian1905 · 20th century

  3.1 · 25 votes · 182 reads

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• Gratitude is a sickness suffered by dogs.

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  Joseph Stalin

  LeaderRussian1879 · 19th century

  3.9 · 62 votes · 14 reads

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• He has committed the crime who profits by it.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.0 · 31 votes · 172 reads

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• Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

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  John Keats

  PoetBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.9 · 7 votes · 31 reads

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• His life was a sort of dream, as are most lives with the mainspring left out.

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  Anonymous

  3.2 · 18 votes · 167 reads

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• History, is made up of the bad actions of extraordinary men and woman. All the most noted destroyers and deceivers of our species, all the founders of arbitrary governments and false religions have been extraordinary people; and nine tenths of the calamit

  

  Thomas Alva Edison

  ScientistAmerican1847 · 19th century

  4.6 · 42 votes · 180 reads

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• I love those who do not know how to live for today.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.5 · 15 votes · 119 reads

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• I used to sit on the other end of Pennsylvania Avenue and wonder why the Senate was always going into recess, until in my first year I realized how intense the pressure was.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.4 · 10 votes · 12 reads

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• I will seize fate by the throat; it shall certainly never wholly overcome me.

  

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  MusicianGerman1770 · 18th century

  4.2 · 54 votes · 101 reads

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• If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.6 · 5 votes · 130 reads

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• If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  3.4 · 5 votes · 174 reads

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• It's impossible to know what happens in the fog of war.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.5 · 48 votes · 86 reads

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• Long engagements give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which is never advisable.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.3 · 62 votes · 29 reads

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• Loose tongues are worse than wicked hands.

  

  Jewish proverb

  Jewish

  3.7 · 53 votes · 181 reads

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• Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  3.0 · 6 votes · 159 reads

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• More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  4.7 · 50 votes · 175 reads

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• Music is the wine which inspires one to new generative processes, and I am Bacchus who presses out this glorious wine for mankind and makes them spiritually drunken.

  

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  MusicianGerman1770 · 18th century

  4.9 · 17 votes · 19 reads

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• Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  5.0 · 8 votes · 197 reads

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• Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

  

  Henry A. Kissinger

  PoliticianGerman1923 · 20th century

  3.8 · 38 votes · 105 reads

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• One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.

  

  John Locke

  PhilosopherEnglish1632 · 17th century

  4.6 · 48 votes · 121 reads

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• Pride is the mask of one's own faults.

  

  Jewish proverb

  Jewish

  3.1 · 49 votes · 149 reads

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• Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall aw

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.5 · 59 votes · 22 reads

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• Short judgments make long friends.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.9 · 33 votes · 128 reads

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• Since an intelligence common to us all makes things known to us and formulates them in our minds, honorable actions are ascribed by us to virtue, and dishonorable actions to vice; and only a madman would conclude that these judgments are matters of opinio

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.8 · 39 votes · 158 reads

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• The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

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  Terence

  PoetRoman

  3.2 · 45 votes · 44 reads

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• The capacity to give one's attention to a sufferer is a very rare and difficult thing; it is almost a miracle; it is a miracle. Nearly all those who think they have this capacity do not possess it. Warmth of heart, impulsiveness, pity are not enough.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  3.1 · 36 votes · 98 reads

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• The definition of genius is that it acts unconsciously; and those who have produced immortal works, have done so without knowing how or why. The greatest power operates unseen.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  4.9 · 44 votes · 9 reads

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• The longer I am out of office, the more infallible I appear to myself.

  

  Henry A. Kissinger

  PoliticianGerman1923 · 20th century

  3.8 · 33 votes · 26 reads

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• The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.1 · 32 votes · 161 reads

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• The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.7 · 62 votes · 50 reads

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• There are more old drunkards than old physicians.

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  François Rabelais

  WriterFrench1495 · 15th century

  4.1 · 64 votes · 46 reads

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• There is no higher religion than human service. To work for the common good is the greatest creed.''

  

  Albert Schweitzer

  TheologianGerman-French1875 · 19th century

  3.1 · 25 votes · 98 reads

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• There is no wealth but life.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  4.2 · 33 votes · 149 reads

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• There is nothing wrong with making mistakes. Just don't respond with errors.

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  Anonymous

  3.9 · 21 votes · 47 reads

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• There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

  

  Henry Ford

  BusinessmanAmerican1863 · 19th century

  3.9 · 15 votes · 3 reads

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• They make a wilderness and call it peace.

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  Publius Cornelius Tacitus

  WriterRoman55 · 1st century

  4.4 · 26 votes · 58 reads

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• Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  3.1 · 17 votes · 183 reads

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• We are as much informed of a writer's genius by what he selects as by what he originates.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.9 · 53 votes · 20 reads

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• We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  3.5 · 61 votes · 55 reads

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• Whatever you tax, you get less of.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  3.8 · 58 votes · 21 reads

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• When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.8 · 59 votes · 76 reads

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• When I drink, I think; and when I think, I drink.

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  François Rabelais

  WriterFrench1495 · 15th century

  3.0 · 20 votes · 149 reads

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• Women are considered deep - why? Because one can never discover any bottom to them. Women are not even shallow.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.4 · 54 votes · 34 reads

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• You never know what you can do until you try.

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 36 votes · 112 reads

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