Quotes for December 1248 quotes · 42 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every December 12: the anniversary does not move.

• 'The Simpsons' obviously is a huge success, and Fox has nothing to do with its success, with its creative success, and as a result they don't really like the show. They don't like 'The Simpsons' at Fox.

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  3.7 · 32 votes · 25 reads

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• But Apple really beats to a different drummer. I used to say that Apple should be the Sony of this business, but in reality, I think Apple should be the Apple of this business.

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.6 · 45 votes · 169 reads

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• By giving people the power to share, we're making the world more transparent.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg

  BusinessmanAmerican1984 · 20th century

  4.3 · 23 votes · 48 reads

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• Character is the indelible mark that determines the only true value of all people and all their work.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.5 · 28 votes · 37 reads

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• Every man has a sane spot somewhere.

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  Robert Green Ingersoll

  PoliticianAmerican1833 · 19th century

  3.7 · 39 votes · 66 reads

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• Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.7 · 50 votes · 100 reads

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• For the rest, whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through every corner of nature; the difference is that instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnishing mankind w

  

  Jonathan Swift

  WriterIrish1667 · 17th century

  4.7 · 23 votes · 148 reads

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• Freedom is a package deal - with it comes responsibilities and consequences.

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 16 votes · 116 reads

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• Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

  

  Joseph Joubert

  French1754 · 18th century

  3.0 · 47 votes · 30 reads

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• God cannot alter the past, but historians can.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  4.9 · 64 votes · 46 reads

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• Home of lost causes, and forsaken beliefs, and unpopular names, and impossible loyalties!

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  Matthew Arnold

  PoetBritish1822 · 19th century

  4.5 · 13 votes · 110 reads

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• I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.2 · 6 votes · 31 reads

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• I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.3 · 9 votes · 12 reads

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• Income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf.

  

  Wentworth Dillon

  PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century

  4.6 · 46 votes · 46 reads

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• It is easier to perceive error than to find truth, for the former lies on the surface and is easily seen, while the latter lies in the depth, where few are willing to search for it.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.9 · 8 votes · 180 reads

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• It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  4.7 · 7 votes · 134 reads

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• It's a terrible thing to be alone - yes it is - it is - but don't lower your mask until you have another mask prepared beneath -as terrible as you like -but a mask.

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  Katherine Mansfield

  WriterEnglish1888 · 19th century

  3.5 · 25 votes · 44 reads

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• It's kind of fun to do the impossible.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  4.0 · 50 votes · 31 reads

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• Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress.

  

  Martin Luther King Jr.

  LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century

  4.2 · 38 votes · 186 reads

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• Leaders grasp nettles.

  

  David Ogilvy

  BusinessmanEnglish1911 · 20th century

  3.5 · 17 votes · 99 reads

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• Let sinful bachelors their woes deplore; full well they merit all they feel, and more: unaw by precepts, human or divine, like birds and beasts, promiscuously they join.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  3.7 · 28 votes · 120 reads

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• Life… It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.2 · 16 votes · 89 reads

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• Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.5 · 28 votes · 35 reads

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• Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.3 · 20 votes · 126 reads

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• Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  3.7 · 56 votes · 162 reads

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• Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way. We become just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave actions.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  5.0 · 19 votes · 86 reads

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• No retreat. No retreat. They must conquer or die who've no retreat.

  

  John Gay

  PoetEnglish1685 · 17th century

  3.0 · 40 votes · 35 reads

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• None can love freedom heartily, but good men... the rest love not freedom, but license.

  

  John Milton

  PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

  3.8 · 5 votes · 0 reads

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• Now, I have always believed that women are not victims; we are agents of change, we are drivers of progress, we are makers of peace - all we need is a fighting chance.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.6 · 54 votes · 164 reads

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• Once thoroughly our own knowledge ceases to give us pleasure.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  4.5 · 38 votes · 91 reads

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• Rock and roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me. I can't help it.'

  

  Elvis Presley

  MusicianAmerican1935 · 20th century

  4.2 · 29 votes · 38 reads

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• Short prayers reach heaven.

  

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  Anonymous

  3.2 · 26 votes · 160 reads

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• Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

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  Henry James

  AuthorAmerican-British1843 · 19th century

  4.8 · 9 votes · 36 reads

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• The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  3.5 · 7 votes · 114 reads

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• The Cardinal is at his wit's end - it is true that he had not far to go.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  5.0 · 33 votes · 31 reads

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• The companies that work are the ones that people really care about and have a vision for the world so do something you like.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg

  BusinessmanAmerican1984 · 20th century

  4.9 · 52 votes · 11 reads

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• The lack of money is the root of all evils.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.8 · 27 votes · 0 reads

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• The mind that is anxious about the future is miserable.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.0 · 46 votes · 194 reads

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• The tendency in comedy is to have a character who's stupid get more stupid, because you're trying to top yourself and not just repeat.

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  4.2 · 52 votes · 66 reads

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• There are two kinds of people; those who can count and those who can't.

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 62 votes · 156 reads

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• Thou art all ice. Thy kindness freezes.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.8 · 15 votes · 88 reads

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• Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

  

  Buddha

  LeaderNepal-563 · 6th century BC

  3.7 · 62 votes · 45 reads

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• To err is human also in so far as animals seldom or never err, or at least only the cleverest of them do so.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  3.4 · 7 votes · 26 reads

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• Trust not yourself, but your defects to know, make use of every friend and every foe.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  4.7 · 32 votes · 112 reads

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• Who questions much, shall learn much, and retain much.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  3.6 · 44 votes · 6 reads

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• Women wish to be loved not because they are pretty, or good, or well bred, or graceful, or intelligent, but because they are themselves.

  

  Henri Frédéric Amiel

  WriterSwiss1821 · 19th century

  3.3 · 35 votes · 185 reads

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• Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

  

  James Joyce

  AuthorIrish1882 · 19th century

  3.1 · 48 votes · 197 reads

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