Quotes for November 2646 quotes · 42 authors

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

• 'Frank and explicit'' - that is the right line to take when you wish to conceal your own mind and to confuse the minds of others.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.8 · 60 votes · 12 reads

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• Abstain from beans.

  

  Plutarch

  EssayistGreek46 · 1st century

  4.2 · 14 votes · 196 reads

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• Adapt or perish, now as ever, is Nature's inexorable imperative.

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  H. G. Wells

  AuthorAmerican1866 · 19th century

  4.8 · 6 votes · 50 reads

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• Advertising is legalized lying.

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  H. G. Wells

  AuthorAmerican1866 · 19th century

  3.0 · 34 votes · 21 reads

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• All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  4.1 · 24 votes · 91 reads

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• All one's inventions are true, you can be sure of that. Poetry is as exact a science as geometry.

  

  Gustave Flaubert

  NovelistFrench1821 · 19th century

  4.2 · 15 votes · 196 reads

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• Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.7 · 22 votes · 24 reads

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• Confidence and courage come through preparation and practice.

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 43 votes · 103 reads

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• Every parting gives a foretaste of death; every coming together again a foretaste of the resurrection.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  PhilosopherGerman1788 · 18th century

  4.9 · 34 votes · 139 reads

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• Force, and fraud, are in war the two cardinal virtues.

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  Thomas Hardy

  WriterBritish1840 · 19th century

  4.8 · 42 votes · 177 reads

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• Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

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  Vilfredo Pareto

  EconomistItaly1848 · 19th century

  4.2 · 33 votes · 117 reads

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• He who has been bitten by a snake fears a piece of string.

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  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  PoetEnglish1792 · 18th century

  4.3 · 25 votes · 200 reads

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• He who multiplies riches, multiplies cares.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.8 · 18 votes · 144 reads

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• I buy expensive suits. They just look cheap on me.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.7 · 29 votes · 163 reads

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• I knew my trainer believed in me and I couldn't let Him down.

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  Anonymous

  3.5 · 38 votes · 132 reads

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• I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  3.3 · 28 votes · 192 reads

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• Iran has basically propped up Assad, who has waged an absolute war of horror against the Syrian people. And he has done anything he could to stay in power with the full support of the Iranians and including Iranian troops and Hezbollah from Lebanon, which

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.8 · 51 votes · 23 reads

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• It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.9 · 11 votes · 92 reads

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• It's hard to tell which assets will be toxic. The best way to ensure that only shareholders and banks feel it is have adequate capital.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  3.8 · 62 votes · 133 reads

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• Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

  

  Helen Rowland

  JournalistAmerican1875 · 19th century

  4.6 · 37 votes · 70 reads

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• Men must be governed by God, or they will be ruled by tyrants.

  

  William James

  PhilosopherAmerican1842 · 19th century

  4.5 · 13 votes · 87 reads

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• Neither wealth or greatness render us happy.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine

  PoetFrench1621 · 17th century

  3.1 · 14 votes · 183 reads

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• Next to theology I give music the highest place of honor.

  

  Martin Luther

  LeaderGerman1483 · 15th century

  4.8 · 35 votes · 165 reads

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• Old people love to give good advice to console themselves for no longer being able to set a bad example.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.8 · 12 votes · 174 reads

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• One shouldn't talk of halters in the hanged man's house.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  4.5 · 28 votes · 87 reads

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• One that does not think to highly of himself is more than he thinks.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.9 · 35 votes · 113 reads

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• Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  5.0 · 20 votes · 94 reads

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• Our chief want in life is somebody who will make us do what we can.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.7 · 13 votes · 126 reads

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• Patience will achieve more than force.

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  4.6 · 10 votes · 137 reads

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• People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  4.0 · 21 votes · 119 reads

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• School is where you go between when your parents can't take you, and industry can't take you.

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  John Updike

  WriterAmerican1932 · 20th century

  4.2 · 40 votes · 92 reads

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• Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  3.2 · 20 votes · 167 reads

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• So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 17 votes · 20 reads

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• Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.2 · 46 votes · 56 reads

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• That which is escaped now is pain to come.

  

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 48 votes · 157 reads

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• The arbitrary rule of a just and enlightened prince is always bad. His virtues are the most dangerous and the surest form of seduction: they lull a people imperceptibly into the habit of loving, respecting, and serving his successor, whoever that successo

  

  Denis Diderot

  PhilosopherFrench1713 · 18th century

  3.8 · 50 votes · 32 reads

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• The family is the most basic unit of government. As the first community to which a person is attached and the first authority under which a person learns to live, the family establishes society's most basic values.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  4.1 · 24 votes · 111 reads

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• The final hour when we cease to exist does not itself bring death; it merely of itself completes the death-process. We reach death at that moment, but we have been a long time on the way.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.4 · 57 votes · 70 reads

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• The strengthening of our statehood is, at times, deliberately interpreted as authoritarianism.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  4.2 · 36 votes · 84 reads

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• The timidity of the child or the savage is entirely reasonable; they are alarmed at this world, because this world is a very alarming place. They dislike being alone because it is verily and indeed an awful idea to be alone. Barbarians fear the unknown fo

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.3 · 58 votes · 101 reads

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• There is no danger of developing eyestrain from looking on the bright side of things.

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  Anonymous

  3.5 · 38 votes · 100 reads

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• This merriment of parsons is mighty offensive.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.2 · 5 votes · 75 reads

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• To know what is right and not do it is the worst cowardice.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  3.7 · 15 votes · 163 reads

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• When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

  

  Sigmund Freud

  PhysicistAustrian1856 · 19th century

  3.0 · 21 votes · 68 reads

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• Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

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  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

  PoliticianBritish1803 · 19th century

  3.8 · 42 votes · 124 reads

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