Quotes for September 1646 quotes · 39 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every September 16: the anniversary does not move.

• A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.7 · 49 votes · 16 reads

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• As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  5.0 · 11 votes · 6 reads

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• Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.7 · 26 votes · 19 reads

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• Begin with another's to end with your own.

  

  Baltasar Gracián

  WriterSpanish1601 · 17th century

  3.7 · 15 votes · 126 reads

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• Break a bad habit - drop it

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 12 votes · 122 reads

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• Courtesy should be a continuous action, not something to be turned on and off like a faucet.

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 25 votes · 114 reads

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• Desire for security keeps littleness little and threatens the great with smallness.''

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 45 votes · 195 reads

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• Equality is the public recognition, effectively expressed in institutions and manners, of the principle that an equal degree of attention is due to the needs of all human beings.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  3.9 · 27 votes · 144 reads

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• Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

  PainterItaly1452 · 15th century

  3.4 · 23 votes · 60 reads

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• For me, a better democracy is a democracy where women do not only have the right to vote and to elect but to be elected.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  4.8 · 20 votes · 191 reads

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• God loves each of us as if there were only one of us.

  

  Rudyard Kipling

  WriterBritish1865 · 19th century

  4.6 · 34 votes · 60 reads

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• Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  4.8 · 43 votes · 141 reads

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• How can there be so much difference between a day off and an off day?

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 57 votes · 12 reads

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• Hypocrite reader - my fellow - my brother!

  

  Charles Baudelaire

  PoetFrench1821 · 19th century

  4.3 · 48 votes · 154 reads

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• I don't think I'm bad for people. If I did think I was bad for people, I would go back to driving a truck, and I really mean this.

  

  Elvis Presley

  MusicianAmerican1935 · 20th century

  4.6 · 61 votes · 200 reads

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• Ideas... they have the power…

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  4.6 · 58 votes · 90 reads

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• Judge a person by their questions, rather than their answers.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  3.2 · 63 votes · 91 reads

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• Laws too gentle, are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.4 · 29 votes · 6 reads

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• Love is an emotion that is based on an opinion of women that is impossible for those who have had any experience with them.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.6 · 64 votes · 99 reads

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• Men despise religion. They hate it and are afraid it may be true.

  

  Blaise Pascal

  PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century

  4.7 · 31 votes · 183 reads

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• Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  4.9 · 33 votes · 145 reads

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• Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known.

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 60 votes · 127 reads

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• Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.5 · 26 votes · 39 reads

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• Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their work done.

  

  Peter Drucker

  BusinessmanAmerican1909 · 20th century

  4.4 · 13 votes · 28 reads

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• Much can be inferred about a man from his mistress: in her one beholds his weaknesses and his dreams.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  3.8 · 62 votes · 42 reads

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• Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.6 · 54 votes · 157 reads

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• No man ever got very high by pulling other people down. The intelligent merchant does not knock his competitors. The sensible worker does not work those who work with him. Don't knock your friends. Don't knock your enemies. Don't knock yourself.

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  Lord Alfred Tennyson

  PoetBritish1809 · 19th century

  4.3 · 50 votes · 79 reads

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• One has to secrete a jelly in which to slip quotations down people's throats -and one always secretes too much jelly.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  5.0 · 23 votes · 2 reads

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• Pilots take no special joy in walking. Pilots like flying.

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  Neil Armstrong

  AstronautAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.8 · 25 votes · 49 reads

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• Practicing the Golden Rule is not a sacrifice; it is an investment.

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 39 votes · 137 reads

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• The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.3 · 35 votes · 174 reads

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• The greatest part of a writer's time is spent in reading, in order to write; a man will turn over half a library to make one book.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.5 · 49 votes · 55 reads

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• The only way around is through.

  

  Robert Burton

  EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century

  3.1 · 22 votes · 88 reads

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• The wicked flee when no one pursues, but the righteous are bold as a lion.

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 10 votes · 20 reads

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• There is not so much comfort in having children as there is sorrow in parting with them.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.0 · 15 votes · 21 reads

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• There's a Bible on the shelf there. But I keep it next to Voltaire-poison and antidote.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  3.5 · 7 votes · 65 reads

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• To change and change for the better are two different things

  

  German proverb

  German

  4.7 · 8 votes · 87 reads

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• To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it; those who have, fear it.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  3.6 · 18 votes · 3 reads

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• We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers.

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century

  4.1 · 35 votes · 131 reads

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• Whatever is done for love always occurs beyond good and evil.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.9 · 46 votes · 73 reads

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• When it comes to my own turn to lay my weapons down, I shall do so with thankfulness and fatigue, and whatever be my destiny afterward, I shall be glad to lie down with my fathers in honor. It is human at least, if not divine.

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  Robert Green Ingersoll

  PoliticianAmerican1833 · 19th century

  4.6 · 61 votes · 191 reads

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• When people laugh at Mickey Mouse, it's because he's so human; and that is the secret of his popularity.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  4.5 · 34 votes · 131 reads

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• Whether you are sixteen or over sixty, remember, understatement is the rule of a fine makeup artist.

  

  Helena Rubinstein

  BusinessmanPolish1870 · 19th century

  3.5 · 13 votes · 11 reads

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• With animation, because you can draw anything and do anything and have the characters do whatever you want, the tendency is to be very loose with the boundaries and the rules.

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  4.1 · 30 votes · 165 reads

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• You can't drown your sorrows, they always float to the surface.

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 31 votes · 12 reads

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