Quotes for January 2552 quotes · 42 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every January 25: the anniversary does not move.

• Act well your part; there all honor lies.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  3.8 · 63 votes · 186 reads

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• All things tend to corrupt perverted minds.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  5.0 · 20 votes · 140 reads

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• And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

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  Aeschylus

  WriterGreek-525 · 6th century BC

  5.0 · 39 votes · 166 reads

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• Animation offers a medium of story telling and visual entertainment which can bring pleasure and information to people of all ages everywhere in the world.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  4.1 · 59 votes · 26 reads

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• Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  3.0 · 28 votes · 200 reads

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• Bravery has no place where it can avail nothing.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.6 · 6 votes · 26 reads

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• Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.4 · 58 votes · 127 reads

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• Despair is the only genuine atheism.

  

  Jean Paul

  ComedianGerman1763 · 18th century

  3.9 · 12 votes · 155 reads

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• Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.

  

  William Blake

  PainterBritish1757 · 18th century

  3.8 · 28 votes · 120 reads

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• For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.2 · 12 votes · 38 reads

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• Friendships begin with liking or gratitude roots that can be pulled up.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.4 · 62 votes · 39 reads

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• Good men must not obey the laws too well.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.9 · 16 votes · 168 reads

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• Governments must commit to sound economic and financial policies. This is how we ensure reform in the euro area - and our independence.

  

  Mario Draghi

  EconomistItalian1947 · 20th century

  4.2 · 33 votes · 55 reads

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• Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.9 · 51 votes · 168 reads

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• He never chooses an opinion, he just wears whatever happens to be in style.

  

  Leo Tolstoy

  WriterRussian1828 · 19th century

  3.8 · 49 votes · 8 reads

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• He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

  

  George Herbert

  PoetBritish1593 · 16th century

  4.6 · 63 votes · 90 reads

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• He who is upright in his way of life and free from sin.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  4.6 · 34 votes · 7 reads

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• I actually do think you're seeing this trend towards organizations just caring more about their brand and engaging. And so I think Home Depot will want to humanize itself. I think that's a lot of why companies are starting blogs, are just giving more insi

  

  Mark Zuckerberg

  BusinessmanAmerican1984 · 20th century

  3.0 · 51 votes · 200 reads

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• I am always with myself and it is I who am my tormentor. - Tolstoy, Count Leo

  

  Leo Tolstoy

  WriterRussian1828 · 19th century

  3.1 · 29 votes · 12 reads

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• I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason - as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.5 · 11 votes · 137 reads

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• I think the human race doesn't have a future if it doesn't go into space.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.9 · 18 votes · 162 reads

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• If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use the pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time; a tremendous whack.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.0 · 41 votes · 140 reads

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• In those days he was wiser than he is now - he used frequently to take my advice.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.3 · 48 votes · 25 reads

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• It ain't so much trouble to get rich as it is to tell when we have got rich.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  3.3 · 62 votes · 189 reads

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• It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.

  

  Isaac Asimov

  ScientistAmerican1920 · 20th century

  3.7 · 28 votes · 90 reads

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• It requires more than mere genius to be an author.

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  3.7 · 47 votes · 197 reads

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• Just as modern mass production requires the standardization of commodities, so the social process requires standardization of man, and this standardization is called equality.

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  Erich Fromm

  PhilosopherGerman1900 · 19th century

  4.8 · 46 votes · 93 reads

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• Live for love. Without love, you don't live.

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  Anonymous

  4.5 · 53 votes · 171 reads

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• Lord Tyrawley and I have been dead these two years, but we don't choose to have it known.

  

  Lord Chesterfield

  PoliticianBritish1694 · 17th century

  4.1 · 63 votes · 152 reads

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• Man can acquire accomplishments or he can become an animal, whichever he wants. God makes the animals, man makes himself.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  4.0 · 31 votes · 129 reads

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• Moderate profits fill the purse.

  

  Italian proverb

  Italian

  3.8 · 27 votes · 98 reads

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• My ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, but they were there to meet the boat.

  

  Wentworth Dillon

  PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century

  4.0 · 20 votes · 178 reads

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• No verse can give pleasure for long, nor last, that is written by drinkers of water.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  3.7 · 28 votes · 138 reads

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• O reason, reason, abstract phantom of the waking state, I had already expelled you from my dreams, now I have reached a point where those dreams are about to become fused with apparent realities: now there is only room here for myself.

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  Louis Aragon

  PoetFrench1897 · 19th century

  5.0 · 9 votes · 51 reads

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• Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.6 · 26 votes · 180 reads

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• Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  3.4 · 33 votes · 17 reads

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• Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.

  

  Martin Luther King Jr.

  LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century

  3.1 · 64 votes · 177 reads

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• Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  3.5 · 17 votes · 40 reads

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• The ''good old times'' - all times when old are good.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  4.1 · 58 votes · 196 reads

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• The art of the parenthesis is one of the greatest secrets of eloquence in Society.

  

  Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

  PoetFrench1636 · 17th century

  3.2 · 53 votes · 136 reads

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• The more a man can forget, the greater the number of metamorphoses which his life can undergo, the more he can remember the more divine his life becomes.

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  Sophocles

  PoetGreek

  3.5 · 13 votes · 0 reads

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• The only way you can bring in the harvest in the fall is to plant in the spring, and to water, weed, fertilize in the summer

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 11 votes · 42 reads

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• The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to liver dangerously.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.8 · 39 votes · 54 reads

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• There is no faculty of the human soul so persistent and universal as that of hatred.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  4.3 · 28 votes · 68 reads

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• To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

  

  William Blake

  PainterBritish1757 · 18th century

  4.6 · 21 votes · 0 reads

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• Trust instinct to the end, even though you can give no reason.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.0 · 34 votes · 137 reads

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• War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can't smile, grin. If you can't grin, keep out of the way till you can.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.7 · 58 votes · 148 reads

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• We don't believe in planners and deciders making the decisions on behalf of Americans.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.9 · 46 votes · 161 reads

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• What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed - and not for pay? Absurd - or insincere?

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  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  PoetBritish1806 · 19th century

  4.5 · 53 votes · 158 reads

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• Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  4.8 · 46 votes · 97 reads

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• Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

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  Dale Carnegie

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  4.5 · 34 votes · 147 reads

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