Quotes for January 1248 quotes · 43 authors

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

• A cosmic philosophy is not constructed to fit a man; a cosmic philosophy is constructed to fit a cosmos. A man can no more possess a private religion than he can possess a private sun and moon.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.5 · 56 votes · 191 reads

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• A man has no religion who has not slowly and painfully gathered one together, adding to it, shaping it; and one's religion is never complete and final, it seems, but must always be undergoing modification.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

  WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century

  3.1 · 60 votes · 80 reads

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• A small error in the former will produce an enormous error in the latter.

  

  Henri Poincaré

  MathematicianFrench1854 · 19th century

  3.3 · 46 votes · 84 reads

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• A sneer is the weapon of the weak.

  

  James Russell Lowell

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  4.3 · 38 votes · 89 reads

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• Being president is like running a cemetery: you've got a lot of people under you and nobody's listening.

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.8 · 18 votes · 37 reads

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• Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.5 · 8 votes · 156 reads

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• Business is a combination of war and sport.

  

  André Maurois

  WriterFrench1885 · 19th century

  5.0 · 51 votes · 11 reads

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• Capability means imagination...

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  3.1 · 58 votes · 161 reads

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• Economy is too late when you are at the bottom of your purse.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.5 · 37 votes · 191 reads

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• Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness...

  

  Raymond Chandler

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  4.0 · 22 votes · 150 reads

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• Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.8 · 30 votes · 159 reads

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• For at least another hundred years we must pretend to ourselves and to every one that fair is foul and foul is fair; for foul is useful and fair is not. Avarice and usury and precaution must be our gods for a little longer still.

  

  John Maynard Keynes

  EconomistBritish1883 · 19th century

  3.0 · 46 votes · 79 reads

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• Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.

  

  Pythagoras

  MathematicianGreek-582 · 6th century BC

  3.1 · 15 votes · 65 reads

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• Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all the others.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  3.1 · 46 votes · 106 reads

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• Half a truth is better than no politics.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  5.0 · 55 votes · 187 reads

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• I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.8 · 7 votes · 114 reads

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• I don't like that man. I'm going to have to get to know him better.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.6 · 36 votes · 153 reads

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• I think it quite likely that we are the only civilization within several hundred light years; otherwise we would have heard radio waves.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.2 · 23 votes · 150 reads

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• If any organism fails to fulfill its potentialities, it becomes sick.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  3.1 · 39 votes · 131 reads

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• In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  3.4 · 59 votes · 105 reads

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• It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.0 · 28 votes · 29 reads

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• Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  4.3 · 34 votes · 111 reads

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• Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.5 · 21 votes · 35 reads

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• Man is always looking for someone to boast to; woman is always looking for a shoulder to put her head on.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.7 · 44 votes · 171 reads

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• Man is an imagining being.

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  Gaston Bachelard

  PoetFrench1884 · 19th century

  3.3 · 46 votes · 52 reads

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• Man partly is and wholly hopes to be.

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  Robert Bresson

  Film directorFrench1901 · 20th century

  4.4 · 43 votes · 39 reads

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• Not how long, but how well you have lived is the main thing.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.4 · 43 votes · 14 reads

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• Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

  

  Susan Sontag

  AuthorAmerican1933 · 20th century

  3.1 · 54 votes · 180 reads

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• The hours that we pass with happy prospects in view are more pleasing than those crowned with success.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale

  AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century

  3.9 · 53 votes · 144 reads

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• The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.9 · 37 votes · 35 reads

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• The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  4.1 · 27 votes · 40 reads

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• The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  4.5 · 52 votes · 149 reads

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• The rare case where the conquered is very satisfied with the conqueror.

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  Konrad Adenauer

  PoliticianGerman1876 · 19th century

  3.3 · 16 votes · 133 reads

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• The way to avoid responsibility is to say, ''I've got responsibilities.''

  

  Raymond Chandler

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  3.6 · 52 votes · 25 reads

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• The way to wealth depends on just two words, industry and frugality.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.8 · 56 votes · 175 reads

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• There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  4.2 · 41 votes · 162 reads

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• There is no road too long to the man who advances deliberately and without undue haste; there are no honors too distant to the man who prepares himself for them with patience.

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  4.8 · 23 votes · 60 reads

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• There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them.

  

  C. S. Lewis

  AuthorIrish1898 · 19th century

  4.8 · 30 votes · 164 reads

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• There's a way to do better... find it.

  

  Theodore Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1858 · 19th century

  3.3 · 16 votes · 189 reads

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• This is what we call smart power. Using every possible tool and partner to advance peace and security. Leaving no one on the sidelines. Showing respect even for one's enemies. Trying to understand, in so far as psychologically possible, empathize with the

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.6 · 61 votes · 150 reads

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• To endeavor to work upon the vulgar with fine sense is like attempting to hew blocks with a razor.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  4.1 · 47 votes · 27 reads

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• To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

  

  Euripides

  PoetGreek-484 · 5th century BC

  3.9 · 39 votes · 44 reads

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• We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

  

  José Ortega y Gasset

  PhilosopherSpanish1883 · 19th century

  4.4 · 48 votes · 24 reads

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• Wealthy women have rights in every country. And poor women don't.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.6 · 27 votes · 44 reads

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• What is success? I think it is a mixture of having a flair for the thing that you are doing; knowing that it is not enough, that you have got to have hard work and a certain sense of purpose.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  3.8 · 16 votes · 106 reads

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• Why do I not seek some real good; one which I could feel, not one which I could display?

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.7 · 56 votes · 68 reads

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• You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand.

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  3.1 · 31 votes · 163 reads

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