Quotes for October 1549 quotes · 43 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every October 15: the anniversary does not move.

• A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

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  Emily Bronte

  PoetBritish1818 · 19th century

  4.7 · 37 votes · 75 reads

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• A spark of kindness starts a fire of love.

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 55 votes · 27 reads

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• A vacuum of ideas affects people differently than a vacuum of air, otherwise readers of books would be constantly collapsing.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  5.0 · 60 votes · 36 reads

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• Earth laughs in flowers.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.4 · 45 votes · 99 reads

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• Embraces are cominglings from the head even to the feet, and not a pompous high priest entering by a secret place.

  

  Will Rogers

  ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

  3.7 · 55 votes · 89 reads

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• Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

  

  George Orwell

  NovelistBritish1903 · 20th century

  4.6 · 36 votes · 91 reads

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• False friends are like our shadow, keeping close to us while we walk in the sunshine, but leaving us the instant we cross into the shade.

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  Christian Nestell Bovee

  AuthorAmerican1820 · 19th century

  4.1 · 44 votes · 29 reads

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• He loses his thanks who promises and delays.

  

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 41 votes · 87 reads

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• He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest.

  

  Hernan Cortes

  LeaderSpanish1485 · 15th century

  4.7 · 28 votes · 96 reads

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• He would make a lovely corpse.

  

  Charles Dickens

  NovelistBritish1812 · 19th century

  4.3 · 56 votes · 17 reads

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• I have no use for bodyguards, but I have very specific use for two highly trained certified public accountants.

  

  Elvis Presley

  MusicianAmerican1935 · 20th century

  4.3 · 34 votes · 33 reads

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• I say again that I am an atheist. I do not believe in God.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  4.6 · 6 votes · 63 reads

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• Injustice is relatively easy to bear what stings is justice.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.7 · 11 votes · 0 reads

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• It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

  

  Phillips Brooks

  TheologianAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.6 · 34 votes · 198 reads

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• It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?

  

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  WriterRussian1821 · 19th century

  3.0 · 26 votes · 115 reads

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• It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.1 · 17 votes · 164 reads

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• It's when things get rough and you don't quit that success comes.

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  Anonymous

  3.2 · 37 votes · 9 reads

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• Listen to the cry of a woman in labor at the hour of giving birth -look at the dying man's struggle at his last extremity, and then tell me whether something that begins and ends thus could be intended for enjoyment.

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  Sophocles

  PoetGreek

  4.7 · 60 votes · 59 reads

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• Little-minded people's thoughts move in such small circles that five minutes conversation gives you an arc long enough to determine their whole curve.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.4 · 33 votes · 116 reads

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• Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.6 · 60 votes · 65 reads

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• Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks. Methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam.

  

  John Milton

  PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

  3.1 · 57 votes · 144 reads

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• Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.

  

  Henry Ford

  BusinessmanAmerican1863 · 19th century

  3.0 · 20 votes · 200 reads

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• Nationality is the miracle of political independence; race is the principle of physical analogy.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.3 · 49 votes · 84 reads

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• No man has come to true greatness who has not felt that his life belongs to his race, and that which God gives to him, He gives him for mankind.

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  Peter Ustinov

  WriterBritish1921 · 20th century

  4.4 · 9 votes · 52 reads

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• No one is so old as to think he cannot live one more year.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.0 · 23 votes · 73 reads

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• Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  4.7 · 11 votes · 72 reads

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• On the day when a young Writercorrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox.

  

  Charles Baudelaire

  PoetFrench1821 · 19th century

  3.2 · 5 votes · 178 reads

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• Plant and your spouse plants with you; weed and you weed alone.

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  4.3 · 23 votes · 108 reads

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• Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  4.4 · 42 votes · 46 reads

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• Pray for what you want, but work for what you need.

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 31 votes · 34 reads

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• Rather go to bed with out dinner than to rise in debt.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.6 · 27 votes · 13 reads

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• Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.3 · 38 votes · 139 reads

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• Successful people make money. It's not that people who make money become successful, but that successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  4.2 · 63 votes · 89 reads

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• The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.9 · 49 votes · 106 reads

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• The miserable have no other medicine but only hope.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.8 · 19 votes · 3 reads

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• The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  4.7 · 49 votes · 151 reads

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• The war existing between the senses and reason.

  

  Blaise Pascal

  PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century

  3.8 · 30 votes · 121 reads

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• The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.6 · 48 votes · 143 reads

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• There is only one time that is important - NOW! It is the most important time because it is the only time hat we have any power.

  

  Leo Tolstoy

  WriterRussian1828 · 19th century

  5.0 · 22 votes · 51 reads

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• Those who have never had a father can at any rate never know the sweets of losing one. To most men the death of his father is a new lease of life.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  4.7 · 11 votes · 90 reads

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• To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  3.2 · 39 votes · 130 reads

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• To have joy one must share it. Happiness was born a twin.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.2 · 19 votes · 26 reads

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• To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied my mind for the past thirty or thirty-five years.

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  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  MathematicianGerman1777 · 18th century

  4.2 · 32 votes · 142 reads

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• To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  3.5 · 63 votes · 129 reads

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• Unlike grown ups, children have little need to deceive themselves.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.0 · 10 votes · 158 reads

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• We lose the right of complaining sometimes, by denying something, but this often triples its force.

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  Laurence Sterne

  WriterBritish1713 · 18th century

  4.8 · 15 votes · 100 reads

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• What madness it is for a man to starve himself to enrich his heir, and so turn a friend into an enemy! For his joy at your death will be proportioned to what you leave him.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.9 · 46 votes · 160 reads

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• You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.1 · 52 votes · 20 reads

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