Quotes for October 1049 quotes · 43 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every October 10: the anniversary does not move.

• A fellow who says he has never told a lie has just told one.

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 60 votes · 187 reads

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• A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.

  

  Gabriel García Márquez

  WriterColombian1927 · 20th century

  4.7 · 17 votes · 91 reads

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• A rich man without charity is a rogue; and perhaps it would be no difficult matter to prove that he is also a fool.

  

  Henry Fielding

  NovelistEnglish1707 · 18th century

  4.8 · 39 votes · 148 reads

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• A Writeris dear and necessary for us only in the measure of which he reveals to us the inner workings of his very soul.

  

  Leo Tolstoy

  WriterRussian1828 · 19th century

  3.0 · 52 votes · 6 reads

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• Among the very rich you will never find a really generous man, even by accident. They may give their money away, but they will never give themselves away; they are egoistic, secretive, dry as old bones. To be smart enough to get all that money you must be

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.3 · 21 votes · 118 reads

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• Be such a man, and live such a life, that if every man were such as you, and every life a life like yours, this earth would be God's Paradise.

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  Peter Ustinov

  WriterBritish1921 · 20th century

  3.9 · 37 votes · 85 reads

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• Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.

  

  English proverb

  English

  3.2 · 6 votes · 67 reads

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• Courage is almost a contradiction in terms. It means a strong desire to live taking the form of a readiness to die.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.9 · 45 votes · 106 reads

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• Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt.

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  4.3 · 36 votes · 70 reads

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• Disarming Iraq is legal under a series of U.N. resolutions. Iraq is in flagrant violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions.

  

  Jose Maria Aznar

  PoliticianSpanish1953 · 20th century

  3.5 · 15 votes · 64 reads

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• Every quotation contributes something to the stability or enlargement of the language.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.1 · 10 votes · 0 reads

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• Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.

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  Alexander Solzhenitsyn

  NovelistRussian1918 · 20th century

  4.2 · 37 votes · 74 reads

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• First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak.

  

  Epictetus

  PhilosopherGreek55 · 1st century

  4.3 · 11 votes · 46 reads

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• Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt, not swallowed.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  3.6 · 26 votes · 163 reads

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• For every minute spent in organizing, an hour is earned.

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 8 votes · 193 reads

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• Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.

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  W. C. Fields

  ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.3 · 27 votes · 29 reads

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• Hatred is the madness of the heart.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.4 · 50 votes · 2 reads

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• How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do thy duty; then you shall know what is in thee.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.3 · 43 votes · 162 reads

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• I have found no greater satisfaction than achieving success through honest dealing and strict adherence to the view that, for you to gain, those you deal with should gain as well.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.2 · 42 votes · 162 reads

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• I have just received the following wire from my generous Daddy. It says, ''Dear Jack: Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I am going to pay for a landslide.''

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  4.7 · 21 votes · 80 reads

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• I've always been intrigued by the Senate, and admired many of the people who have served there.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.9 · 53 votes · 143 reads

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• If you have to ask how much it costs, you can't afford it.

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  J. P. Morgan

  BusinessmanAmerican1837 · 19th century

  4.8 · 37 votes · 178 reads

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• In the name of Hypocrites, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

  

  Luis Buñuel

  Film directorSpanish1900 · 19th century

  4.4 · 25 votes · 122 reads

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• In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word ''experience'' have been perceived, with the result that realists have more and more avoided the word.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  4.3 · 16 votes · 41 reads

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• In the usual (though certainly not in every) public decision on economic policy, the choice is between courses that are almost equally good or equally bad. It is the narrowest decisions that are most ardently debated. If the world is lucky enough to enjoy

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  John Kenneth Galbraith

  EconomistAmerican1908 · 20th century

  3.5 · 8 votes · 145 reads

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• It is impossible to go through life without trust: that is to be imprisoned in the worst cell of all, oneself.

  

  Graham Greene

  WriterEnglish1904 · 20th century

  4.6 · 58 votes · 188 reads

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• Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors.

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  Louisa May Alcott

  AuthorAmerican1832 · 19th century

  4.7 · 25 votes · 172 reads

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• Look and you will find it - what is unsought will go undetected.

  

  Socrates

  PhilosopherGreek-470 · 5th century BC

  3.4 · 23 votes · 137 reads

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• Look for the good, not the evil, in the conduct of members of the family.

  

  Jewish proverb

  Jewish

  4.4 · 62 votes · 110 reads

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• More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  3.2 · 34 votes · 190 reads

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• No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

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  Tennessee Williams

  PlaywrightAmerican1911 · 20th century

  3.8 · 38 votes · 47 reads

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• Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

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  Lord Acton

  WriterEnglish1834 · 19th century

  4.9 · 50 votes · 198 reads

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• Order and simplification are the first steps towards the mastery of a subject.

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  Thomas Kempis

  AuthorGerman1379 · 14th century

  4.7 · 14 votes · 199 reads

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• Persuasion is better than force.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.2 · 63 votes · 83 reads

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• Pessimism is, in brief, playing the sure game. You cannot lose at it; you may gain. It is the only view of life in which you can never be disappointed. Having reckoned what to do in the worst possible circumstances, when better arise, as they may, life be

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  Thomas H. Huxley

  ScientistEnglish1825 · 19th century

  4.3 · 39 votes · 113 reads

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• Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.

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  Emily Bronte

  PoetBritish1818 · 19th century

  4.8 · 7 votes · 37 reads

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• Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  3.9 · 53 votes · 180 reads

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• The chains of habit are generally too weak to be felt, until they are too strong to be broken.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.4 · 54 votes · 113 reads

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• The feeling of inferiority rules the mental life and can be clearly recognized in the sense of incompleteness and unfulfillment, and in the uninterrupted struggle both of individuals and humanity.

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  Alfred Adler

  ScientistAustrian1870 · 19th century

  3.1 · 49 votes · 53 reads

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• The highest use of capital is not to make more money, but to make money do to more for the betterment of life.

  

  Henry Ford

  BusinessmanAmerican1863 · 19th century

  5.0 · 61 votes · 126 reads

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• There are the countries of the north of Europe taking decisions and the countries of the south of Europe that are living under intervention. This division exists.

  

  Jose Maria Aznar

  PoliticianSpanish1953 · 20th century

  3.8 · 23 votes · 166 reads

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• There must be, not a balance of power, but a community of power; not organized rivalries, but an organized peace.

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century

  3.9 · 54 votes · 113 reads

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• There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.9 · 7 votes · 0 reads

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• There would be no advantage to be gained by sowing a field of wheat if the harvest did not return more than was sown.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  4.6 · 62 votes · 162 reads

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• Today's greatest labor-saving device is tomorrow.

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century

  4.9 · 63 votes · 25 reads

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• We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.3 · 22 votes · 98 reads

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• Without friends the world is but a wilderness. There is no man that imparteth his joys to his friends, but he joyeth the more; and no man that imparteth his grieves to his friend, but he grieveth the less.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  4.3 · 8 votes · 153 reads

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• You must go to bed with friends or whores, where money makes up the difference in beauty or desire.

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  W. C. Fields

  ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.9 · 24 votes · 151 reads

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