Quotes for November 2446 quotes · 40 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every November 24: the anniversary does not move.

• A business that makes nothing but money is a poor kind of business.

  

  Henry Ford

  BusinessmanAmerican1863 · 19th century

  3.0 · 34 votes · 10 reads

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• A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  3.6 · 38 votes · 152 reads

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• A light heart lives long.

  

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 55 votes · 96 reads

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• A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  WriterAmerican1811 · 19th century

  3.6 · 52 votes · 65 reads

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• All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 25 votes · 29 reads

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• Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.2 · 17 votes · 47 reads

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• Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

  

  Andy Warhol

  PainterAmerican1928 · 20th century

  3.8 · 21 votes · 177 reads

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• Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.6 · 41 votes · 14 reads

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• Delay always breeds danger; and to protract a great design is often to ruin it.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  4.1 · 10 votes · 128 reads

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• Example is a bright looking-glass, universal and for all shapes to look into.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  3.7 · 8 votes · 24 reads

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• I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly: feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.0 · 21 votes · 85 reads

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• I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  4.4 · 42 votes · 45 reads

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• I consider the relationship with the U.S. very important to Brazil. I will try to forge closer ties with the U.S.

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  Dilma Rousseff

  PoliticianBrazilian1947 · 20th century

  3.8 · 14 votes · 147 reads

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• I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.3 · 17 votes · 53 reads

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• If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men.

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  Maria Montessori

  EducatorItaly1870 · 19th century

  3.7 · 8 votes · 70 reads

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• If some persons died, and others did not die, death would be a terrible affliction.

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  3.0 · 57 votes · 58 reads

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• If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

  

  Lord Chesterfield

  PoliticianBritish1694 · 17th century

  4.5 · 55 votes · 11 reads

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• If you stand up to be counted, someone will take your seat.

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 5 votes · 93 reads

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• In most of mankind gratitude is merely a secret hope of further favors.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.7 · 49 votes · 55 reads

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• It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.

  

  René Descartes

  MathematicianFrench1596 · 16th century

  3.3 · 11 votes · 39 reads

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• It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.

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  Eleanor Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  4.4 · 24 votes · 35 reads

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• Labor, if it were not necessary for existence, would be indispensable for the happiness of man.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.4 · 48 votes · 172 reads

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• Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison.

  

  Susan Sontag

  AuthorAmerican1933 · 20th century

  3.4 · 33 votes · 199 reads

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• Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity.

  

  Alan Turing

  MathematicianEnglish1912 · 20th century

  4.7 · 53 votes · 140 reads

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• Most of the time in married life is taken up by talk.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.7 · 5 votes · 23 reads

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• No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy.

  

  Henry A. Kissinger

  PoliticianGerman1923 · 20th century

  4.0 · 36 votes · 84 reads

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• One lesson we learn early, that in spite of seeming difference, men are all of one pattern. We readily assume this with our mates, and are disappointed and angry if we find that we are premature, and that their watches are slower than ours. In fact, the o

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.9 · 6 votes · 171 reads

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• One sheds one's sicknesses in books - repeats and presents again one's emotions, to be master of them.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

  WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century

  3.8 · 41 votes · 176 reads

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• The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.2 · 19 votes · 130 reads

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• The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 5 votes · 51 reads

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• The life of man is a long march through the night, surrounded by invisible foes, tortured by weariness and pain, towards a goal that few can hope to reach, and where none may tarry long.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  3.6 · 42 votes · 34 reads

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• The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

  PainterItaly1452 · 15th century

  4.0 · 59 votes · 10 reads

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• The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  3.1 · 27 votes · 156 reads

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• There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.4 · 22 votes · 82 reads

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• There is nothing strange about fear: no matter in what guise it presents itself it is something with which we are all so familiar that when a man appears who is without it we are at once enslaved by him.

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  4.4 · 56 votes · 106 reads

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• To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  3.3 · 52 votes · 170 reads

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• To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client; still, one must make the best of the case, for the purposes of Providence.

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  John Updike

  WriterAmerican1932 · 20th century

  3.0 · 20 votes · 87 reads

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• Truth is its own reward.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  3.3 · 27 votes · 133 reads

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• We are the people our parents warned us about.

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 34 votes · 131 reads

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• We cannot always assure the future of our friends; we have a better chance of assuring our future if we remember who our friends are.

  

  Henry A. Kissinger

  PoliticianGerman1923 · 20th century

  3.1 · 55 votes · 152 reads

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• We that are true lovers run into strange capers.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.1 · 15 votes · 130 reads

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• What has influenced my life more than any other single thing has been my stammer. Had I not stammered I would probably... have gone to Cambridge as my brothers did, perhaps have become a don and every now and then published a dreary book about French lite

  

  W. H. Auden

  PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

  3.1 · 6 votes · 73 reads

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• What rights are those that dare not resist for them?

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  Lord Alfred Tennyson

  PoetBritish1809 · 19th century

  5.0 · 26 votes · 106 reads

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• Woman! The peg on which the wit hangs his jest, the preacher his text, the cynic his grouch, and the sinner his justification!

  

  Helen Rowland

  JournalistAmerican1875 · 19th century

  4.0 · 61 votes · 11 reads

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• You cannot have Liberty in this world without what you call Moral Virtue, and you cannot have Moral Virtue without the slavery of that half of the human race who hate what you call Moral Virtue.

  

  Will Rogers

  ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

  3.6 · 24 votes · 66 reads

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