Quotes for November 2147 quotes · 42 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every November 21: the anniversary does not move.

• A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.

  

  Otto von Bismarck

  PoliticianGerman1815 · 19th century

  3.5 · 64 votes · 101 reads

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• A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  4.7 · 23 votes · 37 reads

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• All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.

  

  Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

  PoetFrench1636 · 17th century

  3.3 · 63 votes · 155 reads

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• All that I am or hope to be I owe to my angel mother. I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.5 · 40 votes · 100 reads

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• All wrong doing is done in the sincere belief that it is the best thing to do.

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  Arnold Bennett

  NovelistEnglish1867 · 19th century

  4.1 · 57 votes · 176 reads

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• Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.8 · 34 votes · 166 reads

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• Beauty is in the eye of the Beer holder!

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 40 votes · 33 reads

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• Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  4.5 · 41 votes · 95 reads

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• Broad-minded is just another way of saying a fellow is too lazy to form an opinion.

  

  Wentworth Dillon

  PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century

  3.3 · 47 votes · 55 reads

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• Christianity is completed Judaism or it is nothing.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.6 · 22 votes · 169 reads

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• Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

  

  Walter Bagehot

  EconomistBritish1826 · 19th century

  3.6 · 11 votes · 187 reads

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• Death, they say, acquits us of all obligations.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  3.6 · 16 votes · 131 reads

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• Dog. A kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  4.2 · 14 votes · 167 reads

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• Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

  

  Peter Abelard

  TheologianFrench1079 · 11th century

  4.1 · 21 votes · 113 reads

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• He that has light within his own clear breast may sit in the center, and enjoy bright day: But he that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts benighted walks under the mid-day sun;

  

  John Milton

  PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

  4.0 · 26 votes · 79 reads

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• I would rather fail in a cause that will ultimately succeed than succeed in a cause that will ultimately fail.

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century

  4.7 · 10 votes · 84 reads

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• If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye.

  

  Honore de Balzac

  NovelistFrench1799 · 18th century

  4.1 · 37 votes · 199 reads

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• Inevitably we look upon society, so kind to you, so harsh to us, as an ill-fitting form that distorts the truth; deforms the mind; fetters the will.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  3.8 · 50 votes · 150 reads

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• It is usually best to be generous with praise, but cautious with criticism.

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 59 votes · 80 reads

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• Life is tragic for those who have plenty to live on and nothing to live for.

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  Anonymous

  4.5 · 43 votes · 158 reads

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• My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  4.0 · 28 votes · 96 reads

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• Nobody speaks the truth when there's something they must have.

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  Elizabeth Bowen

  WriterIrish1899 · 19th century

  4.8 · 48 votes · 195 reads

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• Noise proves nothing, Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.1 · 34 votes · 61 reads

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• None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  4.3 · 53 votes · 123 reads

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• On the one hand, the financial projection is on the agenda - we will see if this problem can be resolved or not. I think it is a right idea to stage a special summit, which would deal with the question of priorities of European politics.

  

  Angela Merkel

  PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century

  3.7 · 41 votes · 111 reads

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• Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.3 · 27 votes · 168 reads

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• Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  3.6 · 54 votes · 99 reads

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• Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.9 · 32 votes · 20 reads

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• Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

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  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  PhilosopherAustrian1889 · 19th century

  4.4 · 64 votes · 141 reads

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• Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover.

  

  Henri Poincaré

  MathematicianFrench1854 · 19th century

  4.8 · 7 votes · 12 reads

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• Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

  

  James Russell Lowell

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  4.3 · 20 votes · 88 reads

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• Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they will.

  

  Pythagoras

  MathematicianGreek-582 · 6th century BC

  3.2 · 23 votes · 37 reads

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• So Europe needs to be competitive and we also need to be competitive if we wish to remain an interesting economic partner for the United States. This has to be done on the basis of strength, of competitiveness.

  

  Angela Merkel

  PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century

  4.3 · 26 votes · 106 reads

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• Stupidity is without anxiety.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.4 · 7 votes · 39 reads

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• Such power there is in clear-eyed self-restraint.

  

  James Russell Lowell

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  4.2 · 40 votes · 20 reads

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• The characteristic of Chaucer is intensity: of Spencer, remoteness: of Milton elevation and of Shakespeare everything.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  4.7 · 60 votes · 92 reads

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• The only thing that we cannot control is our supporters.

  

  Jose Mourinho

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  3.2 · 22 votes · 63 reads

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• The past is prophetic in that it asserts loudly that wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.

  

  Martin Luther King Jr.

  LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century

  3.3 · 52 votes · 5 reads

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• There's no need to hang about waiting for the last judgment. It takes place every day.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  3.1 · 14 votes · 154 reads

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• To me, fair friend, you never can be old. For as you were when first your eye I eyed. Such seems your beauty still.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.8 · 38 votes · 155 reads

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• True glory takes root, and even spreads; all false pretences, like flowers, fall to the ground; nor can any counterfeit last long.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  3.9 · 48 votes · 70 reads

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• We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.8 · 11 votes · 31 reads

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• When you want to do your homework, fill out your tax return, or see all the choices for a trip you want to take, you need a full-size screen.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.4 · 62 votes · 30 reads

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• Whether for life or death, do your own work well.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  4.8 · 50 votes · 131 reads

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• With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale

  AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century

  4.9 · 28 votes · 131 reads

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• Wondrous is the strength of cheerfulness, and its power of endurance - the cheerful man will do more in the same time, will do it ;better, will preserve it longer, than the sad or sullen.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.5 · 63 votes · 166 reads

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