Quotes for September 849 quotes · 45 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every September 8: the anniversary does not move.

• A civilization is destroyed only when its gods are destroyed.

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  Emil Cioran

  PhilosopherRomanian1911 · 20th century

  3.0 · 39 votes · 6 reads

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• A family's photograph album is generally about the extended family and, often, is all that remains of it.

  

  Stendhal

  NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

  3.8 · 40 votes · 143 reads

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• A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  5.0 · 34 votes · 163 reads

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• As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.4 · 64 votes · 65 reads

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• Death is a shadow that always follows the body.

  

  English proverb

  English

  3.0 · 14 votes · 71 reads

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• Don't be too optimistic. The light at the end of the tunnel may be another train.

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 5 votes · 49 reads

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• Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that child's world and thus a world event.

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  Gaston Bachelard

  PoetFrench1884 · 19th century

  4.2 · 7 votes · 26 reads

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• Even God doesn't plan to judge a man till the end of his days, why should you and I?

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 39 votes · 182 reads

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• Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.5 · 39 votes · 19 reads

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• He has not lived badly whose birth and death has been unnoticed by the world.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  4.1 · 36 votes · 140 reads

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• How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  4.6 · 16 votes · 144 reads

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• I am not concerned that you have fallen - I am concerned that you arise.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.9 · 47 votes · 57 reads

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• I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.7 · 14 votes · 27 reads

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• I have three kinds of friends: those who love me, those who pay no attention to me, and those who detest me.

  

  Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

  PoetFrench1636 · 17th century

  4.4 · 63 votes · 35 reads

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• I lost 80 percent of my wealth and then gave away over half of the rest. So I'm a man of modest means now. But if you budget carefully and watch your expenditures, you can get by on a couple billion dollars.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  4.8 · 12 votes · 32 reads

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• If this is philosophy it is at any rate a philosophy that is not in its right mind.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  4.1 · 17 votes · 112 reads

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• It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  3.5 · 20 votes · 81 reads

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• Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished.

  

  Jeremy Bentham

  PhilosopherBritish1748 · 18th century

  5.0 · 54 votes · 85 reads

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• Love's like the measles; all the worse when it comes late in life.

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  Douglas William Jerrold

  JournalistEnglish1803 · 19th century

  3.2 · 30 votes · 173 reads

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• Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with. Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not merely pull it out and strike it; merely to show that you have one.

  

  Lord Chesterfield

  PoliticianBritish1694 · 17th century

  4.3 · 64 votes · 120 reads

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• Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties.

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  Aesop

  WriterGreek-620 · 7th century BC

  4.3 · 51 votes · 93 reads

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• Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.

  

  Jean Paul

  ComedianGerman1763 · 18th century

  3.5 · 19 votes · 174 reads

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• No man can understand why a woman shouldn't prefer a good reputation to a good time.

  

  Helen Rowland

  JournalistAmerican1875 · 19th century

  3.8 · 40 votes · 106 reads

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• People are so constituted that everybody would rather undertake what they see others do, whether they have an aptitude for it or not.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.5 · 17 votes · 35 reads

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• Poverty is an anomaly to rich people. It is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.

  

  Walt Whitman

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  4.4 · 25 votes · 140 reads

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• Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  3.4 · 18 votes · 65 reads

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• Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.8 · 11 votes · 84 reads

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• The art is long, life is short.

  

  Hippocrates

  ScientistGreek-460 · 5th century BC

  3.5 · 62 votes · 191 reads

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• The depth of our despair measures what capability and height of claim we have to hope.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.8 · 29 votes · 58 reads

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• The euro is our common fate, and Europe is our common future.

  

  Angela Merkel

  PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century

  4.8 · 19 votes · 197 reads

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• The main object of religion is not to get a man into heaven, but to get heaven into him.

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  Thomas H. Huxley

  ScientistEnglish1825 · 19th century

  3.7 · 61 votes · 88 reads

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• The new electronic interdependence recreates the world in the image of a global village.

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  Marshall Mcluhan

  EducatorCanadian1911 · 20th century

  4.1 · 43 votes · 74 reads

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• The pressures of being a parent are equal to any pressure on earth. To be a conscious parent, and really look to that little being's mental and physical health, is a responsibility which most of us, including me, avoid most of the time because it's too ha

  

  John Lennon

  MusicianBritish1940 · 20th century

  3.1 · 16 votes · 56 reads

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• The world is run by C students.

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 30 votes · 199 reads

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• There are few minds to which tyranny is not delightful.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.7 · 55 votes · 155 reads

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• There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  5.0 · 29 votes · 47 reads

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• There is no class of people so hard to manage in a state, as those whose intentions are honest, but whose consciences are bewitched.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  3.3 · 13 votes · 108 reads

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• Through all the employments of life each neighbour abuses his brother; whore and rogue they call husband and wife: All professions be-rogue one another.

  

  John Gay

  PoetEnglish1685 · 17th century

  4.0 · 49 votes · 188 reads

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• To forget one's purpose is the commonest form of stupidity.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.6 · 35 votes · 59 reads

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• Voice of one, voice of none.

  

  Italian proverb

  Italian

  4.1 · 19 votes · 193 reads

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• We gather strength from sadness and from pain Each time we die we learn to live again.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 7 votes · 136 reads

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• We need a great president.

  

  Donald Trump

  BusinessmanAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.5 · 14 votes · 178 reads

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• What I see in the corporate sector is very clearly an issue of a major shortfall in the issue of, what some people call confidence, but whatever you want to call it. Clearly people are looking out in the very distant future and they are saying that it is

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  3.5 · 5 votes · 166 reads

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• What is a democrat? One who believes that the republicans have ruined the country. What is a republican? One who believes that the democrats would ruin the country.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  3.0 · 54 votes · 39 reads

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• Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

  

  James Joyce

  AuthorIrish1882 · 19th century

  3.9 · 54 votes · 197 reads

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• Whatever satisfies the soul is truth.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  4.9 · 16 votes · 68 reads

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• When you have read the Bible, you will know it is the word of God, because you have found it the key to your own heart, your own happiness and your own duty.

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century

  3.7 · 28 votes · 159 reads

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• Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

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  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  PhilosopherAustrian1889 · 19th century

  4.3 · 31 votes · 175 reads

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