Quotes for December 150 quotes · 39 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every December 1: the anniversary does not move.

• A group touring Westminster Abbey in London heard the guide list the famous people buried within its walls. During a momentary silence a little old lady's voice blurted out loud and clear, ''Anybody been saved here lately?''

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 28 votes · 109 reads

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• A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations.

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  Paul Goodman

  AuthorAmerican1911 · 20th century

  4.5 · 26 votes · 33 reads

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• Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.

  

  Ernest Hemingway

  WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

  3.0 · 15 votes · 70 reads

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• An ounce of practice is worth a pound of preaching.

  

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 31 votes · 147 reads

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• Courage is fire, and bullying is smoke.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.6 · 53 votes · 66 reads

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• Dreams come true; without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them.

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  John Updike

  WriterAmerican1932 · 20th century

  3.4 · 25 votes · 53 reads

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• Fame is only good for one thing: they will cash your check in a small town.

  

  Thomas Paine

  EducatorEnglish1737 · 18th century

  3.3 · 48 votes · 26 reads

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• Fear is implanted in us as a preservative from evil; but its duty, like that of other passions, is not to overbear reason, but to assist it. It should not be suffered to tyrannize

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.3 · 35 votes · 36 reads

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• Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.8 · 6 votes · 12 reads

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• For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I kn

  

  John Milton

  PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

  4.4 · 45 votes · 165 reads

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• Friendship is a living thing that lasts only as long as it is nourished with kindness, empathy and understanding.

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 48 votes · 94 reads

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• He who has lost honor can lose nothing more.

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  Publilius Syrus

  WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC

  4.2 · 21 votes · 23 reads

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• I have over 2 million followers now on Google Plus.

  

  Larry Page

  BusinessmanAmerican1973 · 20th century

  4.4 · 10 votes · 191 reads

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• I think that both parties should declare the debt limit as a political weapon of mass destruction which can't be used. I mean, it is silly to have a country that has 237 years building up its reputation and then have people threaten to tear it down becaus

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  4.0 · 42 votes · 18 reads

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• I understand that it's hard for everyone, but one cannot give in to emotions... we'll have to draw lessons from the current crisis and now we'll have to work on overcoming it.

  

  Boris Yeltsin

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  4.5 · 42 votes · 91 reads

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• I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  3.6 · 19 votes · 121 reads

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• If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they have gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you. Except the Will which says to them; ''Hold on!''

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  Roy Lichtenstein

  PainterAmerican1923 · 20th century

  3.7 · 29 votes · 26 reads

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• If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it as the old woman did her lost spectacles. Safe on her own nose all the time.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  4.4 · 23 votes · 183 reads

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• If you have one true friend you have more than your share.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  4.3 · 18 votes · 145 reads

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• Innovation has nothing to do with how many R & D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R & D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.9 · 59 votes · 153 reads

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• Inspiration comes of working every day.

  

  Charles Baudelaire

  PoetFrench1821 · 19th century

  3.5 · 58 votes · 156 reads

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• It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.0 · 19 votes · 183 reads

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• Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

  

  Baltasar Gracián

  WriterSpanish1601 · 17th century

  4.0 · 9 votes · 48 reads

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• Many lick before they bite.

  

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 18 votes · 24 reads

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• Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

  

  David Hume

  PhilosopherScottish1711 · 18th century

  3.2 · 36 votes · 39 reads

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• Of course, money will do after its kind, and will steadily work to unspiritualize and unchurch the people to whom it was bequeathed.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.0 · 6 votes · 177 reads

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• One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

  

  Henry Ford

  BusinessmanAmerican1863 · 19th century

  4.3 · 31 votes · 111 reads

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• Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  4.2 · 9 votes · 157 reads

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• Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist -or else it is nothing, an empty formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 21 votes · 173 reads

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• Poetry is what is lost in translation.

  

  Robert Burton

  EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century

  3.8 · 16 votes · 117 reads

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• Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 25 votes · 112 reads

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• Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.9 · 14 votes · 166 reads

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• The acquisition of riches has been to many not an end to their miseries, but a change in them: The fault is not in the riches, but the disposition.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.1 · 60 votes · 186 reads

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• The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  3.2 · 48 votes · 105 reads

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• The end of life is life. Life is action, the use of one's powers. And to use them to their height is our joy of duty.

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  Anonymous

  3.5 · 44 votes · 172 reads

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• The first and last thing required of genius is, love of the truth.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.3 · 62 votes · 155 reads

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• The god of victory is said to be one-handed, but peace gives victory on both sides.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.5 · 27 votes · 98 reads

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• The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.

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  Neil Armstrong

  AstronautAmerican1930 · 20th century

  4.3 · 8 votes · 176 reads

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• The kind of ancestors we have had is not as important as the kind of descendants our ancestors have.

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  Anonymous

  3.2 · 59 votes · 102 reads

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• The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.0 · 21 votes · 139 reads

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• The purpose of man is in action not thought.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.3 · 54 votes · 31 reads

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• The repose of nations cannot be secure without arms. Armies cannot be maintained without pay, nor can the pay be produced without taxes.

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  Publius Cornelius Tacitus

  WriterRoman55 · 1st century

  4.5 · 35 votes · 150 reads

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• There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.6 · 26 votes · 150 reads

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• There are two kinds of people who don't say much, those who are quiet and those who talk a lot.

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  Anonymous

  3.2 · 58 votes · 157 reads

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• To die is but to leave off dying and do the thing once for all.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  3.4 · 19 votes · 149 reads

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• To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  3.1 · 40 votes · 17 reads

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• We have a relationship with Syria, an old relationship. We also have good relations with the people of Syria, with all segments of the population. This is the situation as well in Iraq and other countries.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  PoliticianIranian1956 · 20th century

  4.7 · 49 votes · 108 reads

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• What comes out of you when you are squeezed is what is inside of you.

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  4.2 · 36 votes · 55 reads

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• While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.5 · 44 votes · 90 reads

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