Quotes for December 450 quotes · 40 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every December 4: the anniversary does not move.

• A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words... the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.2 · 60 votes · 40 reads

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• A thousand years may scare form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.3 · 18 votes · 20 reads

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• A woman's always younger than a man at equal years.

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  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  PoetBritish1806 · 19th century

  3.2 · 34 votes · 52 reads

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• An unexamined life is not worth living.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  4.6 · 49 votes · 24 reads

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• And, re-assembling our afflicted powers, consult how we may henceforth most offend.

  

  John Milton

  PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

  4.4 · 58 votes · 18 reads

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• Corporation. An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  4.4 · 39 votes · 130 reads

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• Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe

  WriterAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.6 · 57 votes · 133 reads

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• Did universal charity prevail, earth would be a heaven, and hell a fable.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  5.0 · 64 votes · 106 reads

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• Either sex alone is half itself.

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  Lord Alfred Tennyson

  PoetBritish1809 · 19th century

  4.4 · 17 votes · 167 reads

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• Fear secretes acids; but love and trust are sweet juices.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  3.5 · 22 votes · 126 reads

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• Give me a child for the first seven years, and you may do what you like with him afterwards.

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  Anonymous

  3.9 · 23 votes · 61 reads

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• Great works are performed not by strength, but by perseverance.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.9 · 38 votes · 17 reads

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• Her voice is full of money.

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  Anonymous

  3.9 · 41 votes · 196 reads

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• I have read many books, but the Bible reads me.

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 53 votes · 91 reads

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• I hold this as a rule of life: Too much of anything is bad.

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  Tennessee Williams

  PlaywrightAmerican1911 · 20th century

  4.2 · 44 votes · 10 reads

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• I just think that giving a child a chance and sharing what you have with a child is one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, as well as a child.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.5 · 26 votes · 36 reads

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• I remember reading somewhere about an organization called Procrastinators Anonymous. I think they had been in existence for some years but had never gotten around to having a meeting.

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 54 votes · 148 reads

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• If the Russian nuclear arsenal was fired at the United States and other targets, and we fired back at them with thousands of nuclear weapons, it would be the end of life on earth.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  4.1 · 47 votes · 30 reads

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• If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our expe

  

  C. S. Lewis

  AuthorIrish1898 · 19th century

  3.5 · 51 votes · 82 reads

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• In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

  

  Karl Marx

  EconomistGerman1818 · 19th century

  3.1 · 51 votes · 99 reads

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• In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.0 · 52 votes · 6 reads

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• Language is only the instrument of science, and words are but the signs of ideas.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.7 · 16 votes · 50 reads

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• Maybe I don't have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.7 · 44 votes · 165 reads

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• Much have I traveled in the realms of gold, and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.

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  John Keats

  PoetBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.5 · 43 votes · 154 reads

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• Oh, duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.9 · 5 votes · 74 reads

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• Only with absolute fearlessness can we slay the dragons of mediocrity that invade our gardens.

  

  John Maynard Keynes

  EconomistBritish1883 · 19th century

  4.9 · 44 votes · 63 reads

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• Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.2 · 42 votes · 65 reads

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• Self-confidence is either a petty pride in our own narrowness, or the realization of our duty and privilege as God's children.

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  Peter Ustinov

  WriterBritish1921 · 20th century

  4.3 · 60 votes · 41 reads

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• Seven days without prayer makes one weak.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 27 votes · 176 reads

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• Tardiness often robs us opportunity, and the dispatch of our forces.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  PoliticianFrench1769 · 18th century

  3.0 · 22 votes · 84 reads

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• Terrorism has become the systematic weapon of a war that knows no borders or seldom has a face.

  

  Jacques Chirac

  PoliticianFrench1932 · 20th century

  4.9 · 34 votes · 59 reads

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• The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have great universities. We have entrepreneurs.

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  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  4.2 · 36 votes · 157 reads

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• The best pedigree in the world won't sell a lame race horse.

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  Anonymous

  3.9 · 39 votes · 52 reads

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• The difference between false memories and true ones is the same as for jewels: it is always the false ones that look the most real, the most brilliant.

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  Salman Rushdie

  NovelistIndian1947 · 20th century

  3.2 · 13 votes · 40 reads

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• The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying.

  

  Susan Sontag

  AuthorAmerican1933 · 20th century

  4.4 · 29 votes · 133 reads

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• The last temptation is the greatest treason: To do the right deed for the wrong reason.

  

  Susan Sontag

  AuthorAmerican1933 · 20th century

  3.7 · 49 votes · 52 reads

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• There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything - extremely hard. You'll never get perfect blocking.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.7 · 36 votes · 147 reads

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• There was a time when the world acted on books; now books act on the world.

  

  Joseph Joubert

  French1754 · 18th century

  4.1 · 62 votes · 50 reads

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• To be uncertain is to be uncomfortable, but to be certain is to be ridiculous.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  3.1 · 63 votes · 17 reads

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• To desire is to obtain; to aspire is to achieve.

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  James Allen

  EssayistAmerican1864 · 19th century

  3.2 · 40 votes · 128 reads

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• To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  4.6 · 15 votes · 155 reads

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• We allow no geniuses around our Studio.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  3.3 · 49 votes · 58 reads

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• We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.

  

  Charles Lamb

  EssayistEnglish1775 · 18th century

  4.1 · 51 votes · 33 reads

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• What you don't know can't hurt you .

  

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 49 votes · 147 reads

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• When the righteous man truth away from his righteousness that he hath committed and doeth that which is neither quite lawful nor quite right, he will generally be found to have gained in amiability what he has lost in holiness.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  4.2 · 50 votes · 156 reads

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• When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.5 · 40 votes · 43 reads

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• Why did I write? What sin to me unknown dipped me in ink, my parents , or my own?

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  4.9 · 33 votes · 67 reads

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• Wine is a treacherous friend who you must always be on guard for.

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  Christian Nestell Bovee

  AuthorAmerican1820 · 19th century

  3.5 · 56 votes · 130 reads

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• Work is not a curse, but drudgery is!

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  3.9 · 21 votes · 117 reads

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