Quotes for January 3152 quotes · 44 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every January 31: the anniversary does not move.

• A proverb is the child of experience.

  

  English proverb

  English

  3.2 · 30 votes · 17 reads

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• Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  4.4 · 63 votes · 130 reads

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• Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

  

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  TheologianSwiss1741 · 18th century

  4.8 · 35 votes · 61 reads

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• All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  4.5 · 5 votes · 27 reads

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• Although almost every theoretical Physics agrees with my prediction that a black hole should glow like a hot body, it would be very difficult to verify experimentally because the temperature of a macroscopic black hole is so low.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.9 · 14 votes · 99 reads

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• Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.4 · 42 votes · 198 reads

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• Before a diamond shows its brilliancy and prismatic colors it has to stand a good deal of cutting and smoothing. - Unknown, Source

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 32 votes · 33 reads

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• Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.

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  Queen Victoria

  RoyaltyBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.6 · 34 votes · 87 reads

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• Death never takes the wise man by surprise, he is always ready to go.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine

  PoetFrench1621 · 17th century

  3.0 · 39 votes · 121 reads

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• Each day is a little life; every waking and rising a little birth; every fresh morning a little youth; every going to rest and sleep a little dearth.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  PhilosopherGerman1788 · 18th century

  4.6 · 50 votes · 6 reads

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• Folly loves the martyrdom of fame.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.7 · 54 votes · 108 reads

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• Forgiveness is the scent that the rose leaves on the heel that crushes it

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  Anonymous

  3.7 · 54 votes · 89 reads

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• From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.

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  Publilius Syrus

  WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC

  3.2 · 54 votes · 134 reads

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• God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  4.0 · 36 votes · 127 reads

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• How beggarly appear arguments before a defiant deed!

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  3.0 · 31 votes · 91 reads

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• How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach.

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  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  PoetBritish1806 · 19th century

  4.9 · 25 votes · 30 reads

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• I argue thee that love is life. And life hath immortality.

  

  Emily Dickinson

  PoetAmerican1830 · 19th century

  4.5 · 63 votes · 55 reads

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• I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  4.7 · 61 votes · 71 reads

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• I, over the years, have always felt more comfortable if I could go into a projection room and look at a film and not really know what to expect. If you read the script first, you form all kinds of preconceptions about how things look, what the location's

  

  John Williams

  MusicianAmerican1932 · 20th century

  3.0 · 8 votes · 15 reads

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• If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.1 · 54 votes · 176 reads

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• If Christians would really live according to the teachings of Christ, as found in the Bible, all of India would be Christian today.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  4.6 · 39 votes · 195 reads

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• If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin.

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  Ivan Turgenev

  WriterRussian1818 · 19th century

  3.0 · 45 votes · 184 reads

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• Inscribe all human effort with one word, artistry's haunting curse, the Incomplete!

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  Robert Bresson

  Film directorFrench1901 · 20th century

  4.6 · 24 votes · 20 reads

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• It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient. - Billings, Josh

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  3.3 · 63 votes · 33 reads

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• Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.1 · 25 votes · 197 reads

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• Life was meant to be lived, and curiosity must be kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

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  Eleanor Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  4.3 · 58 votes · 89 reads

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• Men must endure, their going hence even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.7 · 28 votes · 122 reads

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• Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

  

  Socrates

  PhilosopherGreek-470 · 5th century BC

  3.0 · 24 votes · 17 reads

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• Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.

  

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  MusicianGerman1685 · 17th century

  3.2 · 41 votes · 7 reads

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• My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.9 · 13 votes · 192 reads

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• Only sick music makes money today.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.7 · 44 votes · 86 reads

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• Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  3.0 · 27 votes · 119 reads

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• Some evils are cured by contempt.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.5 · 44 votes · 199 reads

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• Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.

  

  Euripides

  PoetGreek-484 · 5th century BC

  4.6 · 42 votes · 102 reads

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• The art of leadership... consists in consolidating the attention of the people against a single adversary and taking care that nothing will split up that attention.

  

  Adolf Hitler

  PoliticianGerman1889 · 19th century

  3.4 · 47 votes · 22 reads

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• The idealist is incorrigible: if he is thrown out of his heaven he makes an ideal of his hell.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.8 · 11 votes · 28 reads

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• The injuries that befall us unexpectedly are less severe than those which are deliberately anticipated.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.6 · 34 votes · 176 reads

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• The most important word in the vocabulary of advertising is TEST. If you pretest your product with consumers, and pretest your advertising, you will do well in the marketplace.

  

  David Ogilvy

  BusinessmanEnglish1911 · 20th century

  4.8 · 9 votes · 31 reads

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• The real democratic American idea is, not that every man shall be on a level with every other man, but that every man shall have liberty to be what God made him, without hindrance.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  4.2 · 63 votes · 176 reads

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• The revenues of Cuban state-run companies are used exclusively for the benefit of the people, to whom they belong.

  

  Fidel Castro

  PoliticianCuba1926 · 20th century

  3.5 · 23 votes · 37 reads

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• The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

  

  Thomas Mann

  AuthorGerman1875 · 19th century

  4.4 · 52 votes · 69 reads

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• There are some sluggish men who are improved by drinking; as there are fruits that are not good until they are rotten.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.0 · 42 votes · 179 reads

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• There can be no existence of evil as a force to the healthy-minded individual.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  3.5 · 43 votes · 1 reads

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• To have united the purposes of an entire Nation, is the great historical achievement of the man in whose strong hands our President has placed the fate of our people.

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  Gustav Krupp

  BusinessmanGerman1870 · 19th century

  4.6 · 47 votes · 183 reads

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• To the sick, while there is life there is hope.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.1 · 55 votes · 170 reads

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• True silence is the rest of the mind; it is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

  

  William James

  PhilosopherAmerican1842 · 19th century

  3.2 · 8 votes · 160 reads

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• Wagner manages to convey emotion with music better than anyone, before or since.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.5 · 33 votes · 41 reads

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• We must conclude that it is not only a particular political ideology that has failed, but the idea that men and women could ever define themselves in terms that exclude their spiritual needs.

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  Saint Thomas Aquinas

  TheologianRoman1224 · 13th century

  3.9 · 27 votes · 79 reads

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• What you don't know takes a lot of explaining to the children.

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 33 votes · 100 reads

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• Woe, woe, woe... in a little while we shall all be dead. Therefore let us behave as though we were dead already.

  

  Raymond Chandler

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  4.7 · 32 votes · 38 reads

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• You must drop all your democracy. You must not believe in ''the people.'' One class is no better than another. It must be a case of Wisdom, or Truth. Let the working classes be working classes. That is the truth. There must be an aristocracy of people who

  

  D. H. Lawrence

  WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century

  3.6 · 9 votes · 58 reads

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