Quotes for September 1952 quotes · 44 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every September 19: the anniversary does not move.

• A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.

  

  David Ogilvy

  BusinessmanEnglish1911 · 20th century

  3.8 · 17 votes · 114 reads

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• Anger as soon as fed is dead; 'Tis starving makes it fat.

  

  Emily Dickinson

  PoetAmerican1830 · 19th century

  3.4 · 63 votes · 149 reads

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• As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.7 · 24 votes · 154 reads

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• Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

  

  Baltasar Gracián

  WriterSpanish1601 · 17th century

  3.2 · 52 votes · 55 reads

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• Business is like a wheelbarrow-it stands still until someone pushes it.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 20 votes · 87 reads

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• Character is our destiny.

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  Heraclitus

  PhilosopherGreek-535 · 6th century BC

  5.0 · 21 votes · 18 reads

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• Children demand that their heroes should be freckleless, and easily believe them so: perhaps a first discovery to the contrary is less revolutionary shock to a passionate child than the threatened downfall of habitual beliefs which makes the world seem to

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.5 · 60 votes · 80 reads

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• Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals. But in and through all this they retain a kind of homesickness for the scenes of their childhood.

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  Sophocles

  PoetGreek

  4.4 · 6 votes · 133 reads

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• Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

  

  Pythagoras

  MathematicianGreek-582 · 6th century BC

  4.1 · 64 votes · 176 reads

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• Don't only practice your art, but force your way into its secrets; art deserves that, for it and knowledge can raise man to the Divine.

  

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  MusicianGerman1770 · 18th century

  4.6 · 56 votes · 58 reads

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• Fashion, by which what is really fantastic becomes for a moment the universal.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.1 · 43 votes · 180 reads

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• For true success ask yourself these four questions: Why? Why not? Why not me? Why not now?

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  James Allen

  EssayistAmerican1864 · 19th century

  3.3 · 31 votes · 70 reads

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• Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.

  

  Joseph Joubert

  French1754 · 18th century

  4.2 · 61 votes · 36 reads

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• Harmony is one phase of the law whose spiritual expression is love.

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  James Allen

  EssayistAmerican1864 · 19th century

  3.8 · 45 votes · 41 reads

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• He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

  

  George Herbert

  PoetBritish1593 · 16th century

  3.8 · 13 votes · 157 reads

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• He who is brave is free.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.7 · 50 votes · 65 reads

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• How can we help President Obama?

  

  Fidel Castro

  PoliticianCuba1926 · 20th century

  3.6 · 53 votes · 31 reads

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• I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.9 · 47 votes · 192 reads

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• I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

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  François Rabelais

  WriterFrench1495 · 15th century

  3.9 · 46 votes · 15 reads

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• I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.7 · 38 votes · 86 reads

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• I quote others in order to better express myself.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  5.0 · 9 votes · 114 reads

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• If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.4 · 53 votes · 36 reads

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• If you want to cut your own throat, don't come to me for a bandage.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  3.9 · 64 votes · 9 reads

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• In Downing Street they called me 'Boss'. Civil servants would always call me 'Prime Minister'.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  4.6 · 28 votes · 68 reads

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• In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  3.4 · 21 votes · 79 reads

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• It is no less a feat to keep what you have, than to increase it. In one there is chance, the other will be a work of art.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  3.4 · 43 votes · 88 reads

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• It strikes me as bad manners for a magazine to accept one of my advertisements and then attack it editorially - like inviting a man to dinner then spitting in his eye.

  

  David Ogilvy

  BusinessmanEnglish1911 · 20th century

  4.1 · 35 votes · 93 reads

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• Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one.

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 40 votes · 115 reads

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• Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  3.5 · 63 votes · 45 reads

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• Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so exciting.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.6 · 7 votes · 152 reads

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• Look, Israel doesn't intend to introduce nuclear weapons, but if people are afraid that we have them, why not? It's a deterrent.

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  Shimon Peres

  PoliticianIsraeli1923 · 20th century

  4.6 · 49 votes · 166 reads

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• Love dies only when growth stops.

  

  Paul Válery

  PoetFrench1871 · 19th century

  4.6 · 22 votes · 41 reads

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• Marriage is an adventure, like going to war.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.4 · 24 votes · 86 reads

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• Memory is the scribe of the soul.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  3.5 · 63 votes · 196 reads

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• Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make very small use of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whol

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  3.4 · 16 votes · 109 reads

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• Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.

  

  John Dryden

  PoetBritish1631 · 17th century

  3.2 · 64 votes · 179 reads

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• Plan well before you take the journey. Remember the carpenter's rule: Measure twice, cut once.

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 46 votes · 128 reads

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• Romania and Bulgaria were particularly irresponsible. If they wanted to diminish their chances of joining Europe they could not have found a better way.

  

  Jacques Chirac

  PoliticianFrench1932 · 20th century

  4.7 · 41 votes · 195 reads

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• Russia is Germany's most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so.

  

  Helmut Kohl

  PoliticianGerman1930 · 20th century

  3.9 · 21 votes · 194 reads

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• Scientific truth is marvelous, but moral truth is divine and whoever breathes its air and walks by its light has found the lost paradise.

  

  Horace Mann

  EducatorAmerican1796 · 18th century

  3.1 · 33 votes · 167 reads

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• Some minds are like concrete, all mixed up and permanently set.

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  Anonymous

  4.5 · 15 votes · 167 reads

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• The basis of effective government if public confidence.

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  5.0 · 64 votes · 18 reads

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• The city is loveliest when the sweet death racket begins. Her own life lived in defiance of nature, her electricity, her frigidaires, her soundproof walls, the glint of lacquered nails, the plumes that wave across the corrugated sky. Here in the coffin de

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  4.4 · 42 votes · 89 reads

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• The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.2 · 5 votes · 168 reads

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• The great strength of the totalitarian state is that it forces those who fear it to imitate it.

  

  Adolf Hitler

  PoliticianGerman1889 · 19th century

  3.0 · 23 votes · 1 reads

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• The sure mark of one born with noble qualities is being born without envy.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.0 · 12 votes · 63 reads

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• There are no such things as incurable s. There are only things for which man has not found a cure.

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  Bernard M. Baruch

  PoliticianAmerican1870 · 19th century

  3.0 · 34 votes · 166 reads

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• We are more often treacherous, through weakness than through calculation.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.5 · 23 votes · 86 reads

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• What is not in the open street is false, derived, that is to say, literature.

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  3.3 · 35 votes · 94 reads

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• What men want is not knowledge, but certainty.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  4.0 · 15 votes · 157 reads

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• What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

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  Robert Bresson

  Film directorFrench1901 · 20th century

  3.6 · 5 votes · 27 reads

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