Quotes for September 1749 quotes · 40 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every September 17: the anniversary does not move.

• A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.3 · 8 votes · 143 reads

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• A man must eat a peck of salt with his friend, before he knows him.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  4.2 · 52 votes · 5 reads

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• A man's own manner and character is what most becomes him.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.5 · 55 votes · 131 reads

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• All happy families resemble one another; every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

  

  Leo Tolstoy

  WriterRussian1828 · 19th century

  4.1 · 62 votes · 197 reads

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• An educational system isn't worth a great deal if it teaches young people how to make a living but doesn't teach them how to make a life.

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 46 votes · 53 reads

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• Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  3.1 · 13 votes · 44 reads

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• But the effort, the effort! And as the marrow is eaten out of a man's bones and the soul out of his belly, contending with the strange rapacity of savage life, the lower stage of creation, he cannot make the effort any more.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

  WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century

  4.8 · 39 votes · 157 reads

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• Character is always lost when a high ideal is sacrificed on the altar of conformity and popularity.

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 60 votes · 128 reads

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• Crime and punishment grow out of one stem. Punishment is a fruit that, unsuspected, ripens with the flower of the pleasure that concealed it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.8 · 56 votes · 105 reads

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• Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it by the handle of anxiety, or by the handle of faith.

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  Anonymous

  3.9 · 38 votes · 83 reads

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• Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  4.8 · 13 votes · 188 reads

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• Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.

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  Richard Bach

  WriterAmerican1936 · 20th century

  3.5 · 6 votes · 54 reads

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• Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

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  Anonymous

  3.7 · 50 votes · 94 reads

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• I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day...

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  4.2 · 8 votes · 189 reads

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• I would rather have peace in the world than be President.

  

  Harry S. Truman

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  4.8 · 49 votes · 140 reads

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• If an angel were ever to tell us anything of his philosophy I believe many propositions would sound like 2 times 2 equals 13.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  3.3 · 20 votes · 151 reads

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• If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

  

  Hermann Hesse

  PoetGerman1877 · 19th century

  5.0 · 18 votes · 29 reads

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• In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  5.0 · 47 votes · 105 reads

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• It is the harmony of the diverse parts, their symmetry, their happy balance; in a word it is all that introduces order, all that gives unity, that permits us to see clearly and to comprehend at once both the ensemble and the details.

  

  Henri Poincaré

  MathematicianFrench1854 · 19th century

  4.8 · 48 votes · 31 reads

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• It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

  

  Epictetus

  PhilosopherGreek55 · 1st century

  4.9 · 63 votes · 162 reads

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• Life consists not in holding good cards but in playing those you hold well.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  4.9 · 52 votes · 36 reads

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• Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers we have not yet thought of.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.1 · 44 votes · 135 reads

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• Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

  

  Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

  PoetFrench1636 · 17th century

  4.9 · 15 votes · 56 reads

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• Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.

  

  Antoine Rivarol

  WriterFrench1753 · 18th century

  4.1 · 5 votes · 44 reads

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• Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.3 · 6 votes · 81 reads

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• Money will say more in one moment than the most eloquent lover can in years.

  

  Henry Fielding

  NovelistEnglish1707 · 18th century

  3.8 · 63 votes · 188 reads

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• My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery -always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  4.0 · 56 votes · 168 reads

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• Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.

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  Roy Lichtenstein

  PainterAmerican1923 · 20th century

  3.3 · 27 votes · 156 reads

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• One of the great things about the Internet is that you can read what everybody has to say about everything. It is fascinating to me, the critiques about humor by people who have no sense of humor.

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  3.6 · 56 votes · 61 reads

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• People talk about the courage of condemned men walking to the place of execution: sometimes it needs as much courage to walk with any kind of bearing towards another person's habitual misery.

  

  Graham Greene

  WriterEnglish1904 · 20th century

  4.8 · 63 votes · 116 reads

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• Poetry is the universal language which the heart holds with nature and itself. He who has a contempt for poetry, cannot have much respect for himself, or for anything else.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  4.3 · 28 votes · 75 reads

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• Prospect is often better than possession.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  4.8 · 33 votes · 59 reads

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• Reduce your plan to writing. The moment you complete this, you will have definitely given concrete form to the intangible desire.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  4.9 · 33 votes · 48 reads

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• Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction.

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 15 votes · 2 reads

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• Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failure. In the assurance of strength there is strength, and, they are the weakest, however strong, who have no faith in themselves or their powers.

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  Christian Nestell Bovee

  AuthorAmerican1820 · 19th century

  3.3 · 16 votes · 63 reads

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• Sometimes too much drink is barely enough.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.5 · 60 votes · 101 reads

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• The best criticism doesn't trap an employee or child in a dead end. It gives them an escape route.

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 26 votes · 131 reads

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• The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.

  

  Euripides

  PoetGreek-484 · 5th century BC

  4.9 · 40 votes · 199 reads

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• The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.

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  Thomas Hardy

  WriterBritish1840 · 19th century

  3.2 · 32 votes · 112 reads

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• The improvement of understanding is for two ends: first, our own increase of knowledge; secondly, to enable us to deliver that knowledge to others.

  

  John Locke

  PhilosopherEnglish1632 · 17th century

  3.2 · 40 votes · 134 reads

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• The longer a man's fame is likely to last, the longer it will be in coming.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  PhilosopherGerman1788 · 18th century

  4.1 · 27 votes · 2 reads

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• To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  3.2 · 47 votes · 105 reads

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• Unless you are willing to compromise, society cannot live together.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  3.9 · 23 votes · 4 reads

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• Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.3 · 28 votes · 20 reads

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• We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.7 · 59 votes · 96 reads

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• We are never so ridiculous by the qualities we have, as by those we affect to have.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.5 · 63 votes · 44 reads

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• We believe that according the name 'investors' to institutions that trade actively is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a 'romantic.'

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.4 · 32 votes · 35 reads

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• Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.0 · 56 votes · 118 reads

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