Quotes for December 1650 quotes · 43 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every December 16: the anniversary does not move.

• Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.5 · 8 votes · 63 reads

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• Animals are such agreeable friends, they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.5 · 38 votes · 158 reads

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• Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many

  

  D. H. Lawrence

  WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century

  4.3 · 31 votes · 146 reads

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• Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  5.0 · 48 votes · 127 reads

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• Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

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  Roy Lichtenstein

  PainterAmerican1923 · 20th century

  4.5 · 21 votes · 34 reads

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• But there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.5 · 25 votes · 44 reads

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• By doing nothing we learn to do ill.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.4 · 5 votes · 181 reads

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• Education is the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.9 · 52 votes · 185 reads

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• God how I hate new countries: They are older than the old, more sophisticated, much more conceited, only young in a certain puerile vanity more like senility than anything.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

  WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century

  3.8 · 21 votes · 178 reads

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• Happy the man who can endure the highest and the lowest fortune. He, who has endured such vicissitudes with equanimity, has deprived misfortune of its power.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.6 · 33 votes · 131 reads

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• He is the best physician who is the most ingenious inspirer of hope.

  

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

  4.4 · 52 votes · 117 reads

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• I am the state.

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  Louis XIV

  RoyaltyFrench1638 · 17th century

  3.4 · 15 votes · 75 reads

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• I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  4.4 · 25 votes · 111 reads

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• I once spent a year in Philadelphia, I think it was on a Sunday.

  

  Voltaire

  WriterFrench1694 · 17th century

  3.5 · 57 votes · 177 reads

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• I'll always stay connected with Apple. I hope that throughout my life I'll sort of have the thread of my life and the thread of Apple weave in and out of each other, like a tapestry. There may be a few years when I'm not there, but I'll always come back.

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.5 · 30 votes · 175 reads

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• In crises, the old is dying and the new has not been born. Hence, the revolts we are witnessing in Egypt and Tunisia, which may yet extend to other countries in the region, are full of uncertainties.

  

  Jose Maria Aznar

  PoliticianSpanish1953 · 20th century

  3.4 · 11 votes · 124 reads

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• In government, one actress is enough.

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  Evita Peron

  PoliticianArgentinian1919 · 20th century

  3.8 · 43 votes · 107 reads

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• In teaching others we teach ourselves.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.3 · 9 votes · 145 reads

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• Life is one long process of getting tired.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  4.2 · 22 votes · 61 reads

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• Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one

  

  Ayn Rand

  WriterAmerican1905 · 20th century

  3.4 · 23 votes · 137 reads

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• Man's biological weakness is the condition of human culture.

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  Erich Fromm

  PhilosopherGerman1900 · 19th century

  3.0 · 50 votes · 188 reads

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• Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.7 · 28 votes · 97 reads

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• Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  5.0 · 52 votes · 77 reads

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• Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

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  Emil Cioran

  PhilosopherRomanian1911 · 20th century

  3.6 · 51 votes · 110 reads

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• Never despair, but if you do, work on in despair.

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  4.0 · 20 votes · 161 reads

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• Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart.

  

  Martin Luther King Jr.

  LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century

  3.8 · 37 votes · 43 reads

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• One must always maintain one's connection to the past and yet ceaselessly pull away from it. To remain in touch with the past requires a love of memory. To remain in touch with the past requires a constant imaginative effort.

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  Gaston Bachelard

  PoetFrench1884 · 19th century

  4.4 · 34 votes · 28 reads

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• Out of Plato come all things that are still written and debated about among men of thought.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.9 · 15 votes · 164 reads

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• Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  5.0 · 28 votes · 41 reads

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• Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgment of others.

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  3.8 · 51 votes · 86 reads

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• Success is sweet and sweeter if long delayed and gotten through many struggles and defeats.

  

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  EducatorAmerican1799 · 18th century

  4.8 · 57 votes · 160 reads

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• The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  4.1 · 20 votes · 1 reads

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• The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

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  Dale Carnegie

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  3.3 · 8 votes · 110 reads

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• The words that a father speaks to his children in the privacy of home are not heard by the world, but, as in whispering galleries, they are clearly heard at the end, and by posterity.

  

  Jean Paul

  ComedianGerman1763 · 18th century

  4.3 · 34 votes · 182 reads

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• Those who know how to think need no teachers.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  4.7 · 51 votes · 74 reads

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• Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.

  

  George Herbert

  PoetBritish1593 · 16th century

  4.8 · 33 votes · 55 reads

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• To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

  

  Henri Frédéric Amiel

  WriterSwiss1821 · 19th century

  3.2 · 58 votes · 179 reads

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• Today is yesterday's pupil.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  4.9 · 21 votes · 8 reads

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• We do not stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 10 votes · 147 reads

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• We may give advice, but not the sense to use it.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.7 · 25 votes · 103 reads

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• We've been running a little behind schedule. But only by about 15 years or so.

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  4.5 · 37 votes · 21 reads

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• What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.

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  Wayne Dyer

  ScientistAmerican1940 · 20th century

  3.4 · 33 votes · 70 reads

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• When Nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.3 · 54 votes · 44 reads

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• When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  3.3 · 60 votes · 2 reads

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• When you meet up with a disagreeable person, never allow yourself to be upset. Say to yourself, if a dowdy like that can stand himself all his life, surely I can stand him for a few minutes.''

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 53 votes · 2 reads

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• Who does not in some sort live to others, does not live much to himself.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  3.2 · 20 votes · 141 reads

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• Writers aren't people exactly. Or, if they're any good, they're a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person. It's like actors, who try so pathetically not to look in mirrors. Who lean back ward trying - only to see their faces in the reflecting

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 16 votes · 104 reads

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• You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these twenty years at least.

  

  Jane Austen

  NovelistEnglish1775 · 18th century

  3.1 · 49 votes · 146 reads

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• Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  4.5 · 50 votes · 94 reads

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