Quotes for November 545 quotes · 39 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every November 5: the anniversary does not move.

• A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  5.0 · 28 votes · 107 reads

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• Better to try something and fail than to try nothing and succeed.

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 42 votes · 92 reads

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• For here we are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead...

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  3.9 · 9 votes · 174 reads

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• Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

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  Robert Frost

  PoetAmerican1874 · 19th century

  4.3 · 35 votes · 151 reads

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• Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst.

  

  English proverb

  English

  3.7 · 13 votes · 35 reads

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• How strange to have failed as a social creature - even criminals do not fail that way - they are the law's ''Loyal Opposition,'' so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they can

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 41 votes · 91 reads

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• However big the fool, there is always a bigger fool to admire him.

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  Nicola Abbagnano

  PhilosopherItaly1901 · 20th century

  4.3 · 64 votes · 127 reads

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• I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

  

  Henry Ford

  BusinessmanAmerican1863 · 19th century

  4.4 · 56 votes · 190 reads

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• I have cultivated my hysteria with delight and terror. Now I suffer continually from vertigo, and today, 23rd of January, 1862, I have received a singular warning, I have felt the wind of the wing of madness pass over me.

  

  Charles Baudelaire

  PoetFrench1821 · 19th century

  3.5 · 14 votes · 105 reads

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• I hold it to be the inalienable right of anybody to go to hell in his own way.

  

  Robert Burton

  EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century

  3.2 · 33 votes · 199 reads

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• I never was very capable of expressing my feelings or emotions in words. I don't know whether this is the cause why I did it in music and also why I did it in painting. Or vice versa: That I had this way as an outlet. I could renounce expressing something

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  Arnold Schoenberg

  MusicianAustrian1874 · 19th century

  3.1 · 48 votes · 8 reads

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• I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.3 · 14 votes · 77 reads

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• If a great thing can be done, it can be done easily, but this ease is like the of ease of a tree blossoming after long years of gathering strength.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  4.1 · 18 votes · 62 reads

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• If only one could tell true love from false love as one can tell mushrooms from toadstools.

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  Katherine Mansfield

  WriterEnglish1888 · 19th century

  4.6 · 12 votes · 40 reads

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• If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth, it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming, mass manufacturing, things like that. The problem is, our society is not organized around doing that.

  

  Larry Page

  BusinessmanAmerican1973 · 20th century

  3.8 · 56 votes · 197 reads

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• In a real dark night of the soul it is always three o clock in the morning, day after day.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 25 votes · 52 reads

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• In the same way that I had to follow an Italian manager here, I can imagine that it was not easy for an Italian manager to follow me at Porto.

  

  Jose Mourinho

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  4.1 · 37 votes · 28 reads

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• It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history.

  

  Henry Ford

  BusinessmanAmerican1863 · 19th century

  4.7 · 59 votes · 25 reads

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• It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.0 · 31 votes · 86 reads

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• It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows.

  

  Epictetus

  PhilosopherGreek55 · 1st century

  4.9 · 62 votes · 146 reads

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• It is we that are blind, not fortune.

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  Sir John Eliot

  PoliticianBritish1592 · 16th century

  4.5 · 15 votes · 48 reads

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• Just because your ratings are bigger doesn't mean you're better.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  4.8 · 36 votes · 183 reads

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• Life is mostly froth and bubble. Two things stand like stone: Dodging duty at the double, leaving work alone.

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 52 votes · 122 reads

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• Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.9 · 31 votes · 97 reads

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• Modesty is the only sure bait when you angle for praise.

  

  Lord Chesterfield

  PoliticianBritish1694 · 17th century

  3.1 · 41 votes · 146 reads

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• No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  4.3 · 41 votes · 46 reads

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• Our love of what is beautiful does not lead to extravagance; our love of the things of the mind does not make us soft.

  

  Pericles

  PoliticianGreek-495 · 5th century BC

  3.6 · 8 votes · 82 reads

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• Poetry must be as new as foam and as old as the rock.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.9 · 46 votes · 82 reads

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• Some dying men are the most tyrannical; and certainly, since they will shortly trouble us so little for evermore, the poor fellows ought to be indulged.

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  Herman Melville

  WriterAmerican1819 · 19th century

  3.5 · 42 votes · 46 reads

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• The army teaches boys to think like men.

  

  Elvis Presley

  MusicianAmerican1935 · 20th century

  4.8 · 11 votes · 53 reads

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• The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his way.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  4.3 · 42 votes · 169 reads

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• The charitable give out the door and God puts it back through the window.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.3 · 32 votes · 60 reads

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• The distinction between the past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  3.6 · 64 votes · 34 reads

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• The first thing the secretary types is the boss.

  

  Donald Trump

  BusinessmanAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.9 · 29 votes · 193 reads

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• The greater person is one of courtesy.

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  Lord Alfred Tennyson

  PoetBritish1809 · 19th century

  4.5 · 39 votes · 179 reads

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• The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

  

  Peter Abelard

  TheologianFrench1079 · 11th century

  3.8 · 28 votes · 200 reads

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• There are winners and there are losers. And as much as we would like to help the losers, if we do it in the way that directs the limited capital of the society to support the low-productivity parts of the economy, it means that the rest of the economy - o

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  3.2 · 41 votes · 75 reads

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• There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  3.6 · 25 votes · 151 reads

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• Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.2 · 54 votes · 91 reads

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• Those that are the loudest in their threats are the weakest in their actions.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  4.7 · 38 votes · 162 reads

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• To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay.

  

  George Orwell

  NovelistBritish1903 · 20th century

  4.1 · 49 votes · 107 reads

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• To do nothing is also a good remedy.

  

  Hippocrates

  ScientistGreek-460 · 5th century BC

  3.6 · 29 votes · 52 reads

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• Valor grows by daring, fear by holding back.

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  Publilius Syrus

  WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC

  3.5 · 6 votes · 125 reads

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• When complaints are freely heard, deeply considered and speedily reformed, then is the utmost bound of civil liberty attained that wise men look for.

  

  John Milton

  PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

  3.0 · 16 votes · 152 reads

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