Quotes for December 1444 quotes · 36 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every December 14: the anniversary does not move.

• A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.

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  Carl Sandburg

  PoetAmerican1878 · 19th century

  3.8 · 20 votes · 94 reads

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• A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business, live concerts.

  

  Elvis Presley

  MusicianAmerican1935 · 20th century

  3.5 · 58 votes · 126 reads

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• A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion.

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  Anonymous

  3.4 · 36 votes · 147 reads

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• A poor beauty finds more lovers than husbands.

  

  English proverb

  English

  3.1 · 24 votes · 16 reads

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• All who have taken it upon themselves to rule over others have incurred hatred and unpopularity for a time; but if one has a great aim to pursue, this burden of envy must be accepted, and it is wise to accept it.

  

  Pericles

  PoliticianGreek-495 · 5th century BC

  3.9 · 10 votes · 169 reads

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• An ounce of blood is worth more than a pound of friendship.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard

  PhilosopherDanish1813 · 19th century

  4.7 · 6 votes · 47 reads

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• As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.4 · 30 votes · 110 reads

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• Candid and generous and just. Boys care but little whom they trust. An error soon corrected - for who but learns in riper years. That man, when smoothest he appears, is most to be suspected?

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  William Butler Yeats

  PoetIrish1865 · 19th century

  3.1 · 11 votes · 112 reads

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• Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too.

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  Anton Chekhov

  AuthorRussian1860 · 19th century

  4.2 · 9 votes · 54 reads

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• Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

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  John Adams

  PoliticianAmerican1735 · 18th century

  4.1 · 55 votes · 34 reads

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• Facts don't cease to exist because they are ignored.

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  3.5 · 46 votes · 117 reads

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• How wonderful is death! Death and his brother sleep.

  

  Pearl S. Buck

  NovelistAmerican1892 · 19th century

  4.6 · 45 votes · 15 reads

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• I believe in pulling together to make the country better right rather than pulling, tearing it apart for partisan reasons. I think the country comes first.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  3.2 · 29 votes · 179 reads

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• I think we must quote whenever we feel that the allusion is interesting or helpful or amusing.

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  Clifton Fadiman

  WriterAmerican1904 · 20th century

  3.3 · 10 votes · 34 reads

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• If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.4 · 50 votes · 186 reads

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• In the modern media age we are rarely surprised by what we see. Whether it's on television or film or in the theatre, everything is so advertised, so trailed, that most entertainment is merely what you thought it was going to be like.

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  3.9 · 46 votes · 61 reads

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• It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.9 · 42 votes · 139 reads

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• It is a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.

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  W. C. Fields

  ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.8 · 9 votes · 0 reads

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• It is almost as if you were frantically constructing another world while the world that you live in dissolves beneath your feet, and that your survival depends on completing this construction at least one second before the old habitation collapses.

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  T. S. Eliot

  PoetAmerican1888 · 19th century

  4.3 · 14 votes · 1 reads

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• Let people go all the way if they have got the balls for it.

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  Anonymous

  3.9 · 40 votes · 136 reads

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• No one can become rich by the efforts of only their toil, but only by the discovery of some method of taxing the labor of others.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  5.0 · 33 votes · 156 reads

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• Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

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  Truman Capote

  AuthorAmerican1924 · 20th century

  4.2 · 21 votes · 94 reads

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• Nothing is more intolerable than to have to admit to yourself your own errors.

  

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  MusicianGerman1770 · 18th century

  3.7 · 49 votes · 47 reads

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• Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

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  John Updike

  WriterAmerican1932 · 20th century

  3.1 · 36 votes · 80 reads

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• Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.4 · 22 votes · 122 reads

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• People will go right on preferring to do business with friends.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 24 votes · 88 reads

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• People will teach you how to sell them if you'll pay attention to the messages they send you.

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  Anonymous

  3.5 · 58 votes · 69 reads

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• Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  3.8 · 50 votes · 44 reads

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• Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.

  

  Jonathan Swift

  WriterIrish1667 · 17th century

  3.6 · 12 votes · 154 reads

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• Rare as is true love, true friendship is rarer.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine

  PoetFrench1621 · 17th century

  3.1 · 10 votes · 189 reads

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• Religion! what treasure untold resides in that heavenly word!

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  William Butler Yeats

  PoetIrish1865 · 19th century

  3.4 · 38 votes · 115 reads

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• Study carefully, the character of the one you recommend, lest their misconduct bring you shame.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.5 · 6 votes · 42 reads

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• The only solid and lasting peace between a man and his wife is, doubtless, a separation.

  

  Lord Chesterfield

  PoliticianBritish1694 · 17th century

  4.9 · 11 votes · 70 reads

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• The sinews of war, a limitless supply of money.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  3.3 · 7 votes · 97 reads

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• The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.8 · 43 votes · 144 reads

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• There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  4.7 · 30 votes · 158 reads

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• To be scared is sensible, to be comfortable is suicidal.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 15 votes · 178 reads

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• To listen is an effort, and just to hear is no merit. A duck hears also.

  

  Igor Stravinsky

  MusicianRussian1882 · 19th century

  4.4 · 31 votes · 46 reads

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• We know too much and feel too little. At least, we feel too little of those creative emotions from which a good life springs.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  3.3 · 17 votes · 10 reads

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• Wit is the salt of conversation, not the food.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  3.8 · 45 votes · 97 reads

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• Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.4 · 11 votes · 196 reads

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• Worth seeing? Yes; but not worth going to see.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.7 · 32 votes · 192 reads

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• You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.

  

  Buddha

  LeaderNepal-563 · 6th century BC

  4.0 · 43 votes · 23 reads

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