Quotes for November 748 quotes · 40 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every November 7: the anniversary does not move.

• A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  4.7 · 20 votes · 52 reads

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• A dog is the only thing on earth that loves you more than you love yourself.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  4.6 · 7 votes · 108 reads

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• A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it.

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  3.1 · 49 votes · 31 reads

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• A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least care to acquire.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.7 · 13 votes · 159 reads

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• Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

  

  Jonathan Swift

  WriterIrish1667 · 17th century

  3.7 · 45 votes · 119 reads

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• Battle doesn't need a purpose; the battle is its own purpose.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.7 · 54 votes · 112 reads

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• Be not afraid of greatness; some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness thrust upon them.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.5 · 29 votes · 97 reads

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• Crime and bad lives are the measure of a State's failure, all crime in the end is the crime of the community.

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  H. G. Wells

  AuthorAmerican1866 · 19th century

  4.7 · 15 votes · 20 reads

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• Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

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  Terence

  PoetRoman

  3.3 · 42 votes · 5 reads

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• For all have not the gift of martyrdom.

  

  John Dryden

  PoetBritish1631 · 17th century

  4.1 · 46 votes · 64 reads

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• Goodness is the only investment which never fails.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.3 · 45 votes · 98 reads

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• He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.

  

  William James

  PhilosopherAmerican1842 · 19th century

  3.7 · 23 votes · 72 reads

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• Honesty is for the most par less profitable than dishonesty.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  3.0 · 22 votes · 170 reads

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• I believe in being an innovator.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  4.7 · 27 votes · 50 reads

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• I have long believed this interdependence defines the new world we live in.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  5.0 · 44 votes · 84 reads

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• I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  3.1 · 58 votes · 159 reads

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• I would rather try to persuade a man to go along, because once I have persuaded him, he will stick. If I scare him, he will stay just as long as he is scared, and then he is gone.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  PoliticianAmerican1890 · 19th century

  4.0 · 13 votes · 46 reads

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• I've never understood multi-party democracy. It's hard enough with two parties.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.5 · 34 votes · 178 reads

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• If economists could manage to get themselves thought of as humble, competent people on a level with dentists, that would be splendid.

  

  John Maynard Keynes

  EconomistBritish1883 · 19th century

  3.8 · 58 votes · 40 reads

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• If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

  

  Emily Dickinson

  PoetAmerican1830 · 19th century

  3.5 · 49 votes · 127 reads

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• If I had a time machine, I'd visit Marilyn Monroe in her prime or drop in on Galileo as he turned his telescope to the heavens.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.0 · 64 votes · 11 reads

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• If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.5 · 32 votes · 182 reads

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• Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  4.8 · 14 votes · 170 reads

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• It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  5.0 · 42 votes · 1 reads

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• Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.7 · 57 votes · 196 reads

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• Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 20 votes · 18 reads

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• Remember, Republican economic policies quadrupled the debt before I took office and doubled it after I left. We simply can't afford to double-down on trickle-down.

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.8 · 36 votes · 50 reads

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• Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.9 · 63 votes · 181 reads

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• The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  4.8 · 42 votes · 24 reads

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• The individual who has to justify his existence by his own efforts is in eternal bondage to himself.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  3.1 · 44 votes · 97 reads

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• The main business of religions is to purify, control, and restrain that excessive and exclusive taste for well-being which men acquire in times of equality.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  PhilosopherFrench1805 · 19th century

  4.9 · 48 votes · 122 reads

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• The self-styled intellectual who is impotent with pen and ink hungers to write history with sword and blood.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  4.0 · 36 votes · 118 reads

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• The true past departs not, no truth or goodness realized by man ever dies, or can die; but all is still here, and, recognized or not, lives and works through endless change.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.9 · 63 votes · 105 reads

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• The universe seems bankrupt as soon as we begin to discuss the characters of individuals.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.5 · 8 votes · 139 reads

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• There is no luck in literary reputation. They who make up the final verdict upon every book are not the partial and noisy readers of the hour when it appears; but a court as of angels, a public not to be bribed, not to be entreated, and not to be overawed

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.5 · 57 votes · 76 reads

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• There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  4.2 · 9 votes · 161 reads

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• To be doing good deeds is man's most glorious task.

  

  Socrates

  PhilosopherGreek-470 · 5th century BC

  3.4 · 35 votes · 46 reads

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• To get a name can happen but to few; it is one of the few things that cannot be brought. It is the free gift of mankind, which must be deserved before it will be granted, and is at last unwillingly bestowed.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.5 · 45 votes · 179 reads

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• To teach well, we need not say all that we know, Successful teachers are effective in spite of the psychological theories they suffer under.

  

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 41 votes · 51 reads

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• We make the future sustainable when we invest in the poor, not when we insist on their suffering.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.9 · 62 votes · 195 reads

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• We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.2 · 19 votes · 65 reads

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• What people call serendipity sometimes is just having your eyes open.

  

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  PoliticianPortuguese1956 · 20th century

  4.9 · 51 votes · 191 reads

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• What you THINK about reveals what you ARE. Sometimes we need to do a check-up from the neck-up.

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 41 votes · 137 reads

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• When in doubt, ask. When not in doubt, ask.

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 60 votes · 37 reads

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• When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.1 · 32 votes · 98 reads

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• Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

  

  Ernest Hemingway

  WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

  4.6 · 55 votes · 132 reads

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• Your friend has a friend; don't tell him.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  4.6 · 15 votes · 143 reads

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