Quotes for January 2647 quotes · 42 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every January 26: the anniversary does not move.

• A good novel tells us the truth about it's hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.4 · 32 votes · 36 reads

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• A route differs from a road not only because it is solely intended for vehicles, but also because it is merely a line that connects one point with another. A route has no meaning in itself; its meaning derives entirely from the two points that it connects

  

  Milan Kundera

  WriterCzech1929 · 20th century

  4.9 · 23 votes · 58 reads

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• Action seems to follow feeling, but really action and feeling go together; and by regulating the action, which is under the more direct control of the will, we can indirectly regulate the feeling, which is not.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  3.1 · 28 votes · 137 reads

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• After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.0 · 61 votes · 177 reads

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• All looks yellow to a jaundiced eye.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  5.0 · 24 votes · 37 reads

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• All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.

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  Publius Cornelius Tacitus

  WriterRoman55 · 1st century

  4.7 · 31 votes · 121 reads

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• Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  3.3 · 50 votes · 136 reads

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• Faith. Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  4.8 · 21 votes · 144 reads

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• Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.1 · 25 votes · 189 reads

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• Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.4 · 53 votes · 197 reads

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• God is day and night, winter and summer, war and peace, surfeit and hunger.

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  Heraclitus

  PhilosopherGreek-535 · 6th century BC

  4.7 · 49 votes · 96 reads

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• Honest people will respect us for our merit: the public, for our luck.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.5 · 46 votes · 55 reads

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• I am not an expert in this field but I do try to keep up to date with the Bundesliga. And I do follow World Cups and European Championships more closely.

  

  Angela Merkel

  PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century

  4.9 · 59 votes · 115 reads

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• I certainly don't read coverage of me, I reading and writing what else is going on that I need to know about to do my job.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.4 · 30 votes · 18 reads

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• I don't think that strategically it is smart to begin cutting your options when the other side does not move at all.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.4 · 37 votes · 166 reads

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• I love being a writer, what I can't stand is the paperwork.

  

  Peter Abelard

  TheologianFrench1079 · 11th century

  4.1 · 63 votes · 109 reads

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• I loved school, maybe too much, really. I was summa cum laude in high school. I was driven that way.

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  4.5 · 9 votes · 194 reads

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• If you are speaking the truth you don't have to remember anything.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.4 · 10 votes · 45 reads

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• It is, after all, the responsibility of the expert to operate the familiar and that of the leader to transcend it.

  

  Henry A. Kissinger

  PoliticianGerman1923 · 20th century

  4.3 · 18 votes · 175 reads

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• It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.2 · 34 votes · 103 reads

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• Love is a serious mental disease.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  3.2 · 14 votes · 33 reads

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• Men achieve a certain greatness unawares, when working to another aim.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.6 · 60 votes · 72 reads

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• Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

  

  Daniel Defoe

  AuthorBritish1660 · 17th century

  3.6 · 16 votes · 55 reads

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• Money can't buy happiness.

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  Howard Hughes

  BusinessmanAmerican1905 · 20th century

  4.9 · 22 votes · 171 reads

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• My top priority for 2012 will be to make a renewed push for women's economic empowerment and political participation.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  3.4 · 29 votes · 33 reads

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• My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.2 · 17 votes · 191 reads

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• No one is truly free, they are a slave to wealth, fortune, the law, or other people restraining them from acting according to their will.

  

  Euripides

  PoetGreek-484 · 5th century BC

  3.3 · 8 votes · 21 reads

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• Nobody ever lost money taking a profit.

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  Bernard M. Baruch

  PoliticianAmerican1870 · 19th century

  3.2 · 53 votes · 158 reads

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• Only I can turn this country around.

  

  Silvio Berlusconi

  PoliticianItalian1936 · 20th century

  5.0 · 29 votes · 164 reads

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• Only one endowed with restless vitality is susceptible to pessimism. You become a pessimist -a demonic, elemental, bestial pessimist -only when life has been defeated many times in its fight against depression.

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  Emil Cioran

  PhilosopherRomanian1911 · 20th century

  3.3 · 57 votes · 161 reads

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• Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans -which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.9 · 39 votes · 137 reads

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• Proclaim not all thou knowest, all thou knowest, all thou hast, nor all thou cans't.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.1 · 17 votes · 46 reads

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• Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age.

  

  Pearl S. Buck

  NovelistAmerican1892 · 19th century

  4.9 · 52 votes · 48 reads

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• The good and the wise lead quiet lives.

  

  Euripides

  PoetGreek-484 · 5th century BC

  3.5 · 32 votes · 198 reads

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• The height of cleverness is being able to conceal it.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.8 · 33 votes · 169 reads

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• The real man is one who always finds excuses for others, but never excuses himself.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  4.8 · 8 votes · 106 reads

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• The victor will never be asked if he told the truth.

  

  Adolf Hitler

  PoliticianGerman1889 · 19th century

  3.2 · 19 votes · 29 reads

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• There were honest people long before there were Christians and there are, God be praised, still honest people where there are no Christians. It could therefore easily be possible that people are Christians because true Christianity corresponds to what the

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  3.6 · 44 votes · 108 reads

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• Things are beautiful if you love them.

  

  Jean Anouilh

  PlaywrightFrench1910 · 20th century

  3.3 · 8 votes · 13 reads

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• Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.

  

  Robert Schumann

  MusicianGerman1810 · 19th century

  3.1 · 36 votes · 61 reads

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• We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up until now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future.

  

  Max Planck

  ScientistGerman1858 · 19th century

  4.7 · 46 votes · 143 reads

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• What is called an acute knowledge of human nature is mostly nothing but the observer's own weaknesses reflected back from others.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  4.3 · 57 votes · 124 reads

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• What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

  

  W. H. Auden

  PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

  3.7 · 5 votes · 185 reads

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• Who goes to Rome a beast returns a beast.

  

  Italian proverb

  Italian

  3.8 · 10 votes · 123 reads

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• Winner expects to win in advance. Life is a self-fulfilling prophesy.

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 51 votes · 61 reads

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• Without music, life would be a mistake.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.3 · 35 votes · 89 reads

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