Quotes for October 1953 quotes · 42 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every October 19: the anniversary does not move.

• A maker of idols is never an idolater.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  3.3 · 11 votes · 6 reads

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• A man's action is only a picture book of his creed.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.0 · 11 votes · 161 reads

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• A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism.

  

  Karl Marx

  EconomistGerman1818 · 19th century

  3.1 · 31 votes · 78 reads

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• A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe

  WriterAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.8 · 44 votes · 35 reads

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• Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.8 · 16 votes · 170 reads

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• Action, looks, words, steps, form the alphabet by which you may spell character.

  

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  TheologianSwiss1741 · 18th century

  3.8 · 22 votes · 26 reads

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• All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance.

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  Gianni Agnelli

  BusinessmanItalian1921 · 20th century

  4.9 · 18 votes · 166 reads

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• Any man who married for money and got it. Earned it.

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  Anonymous

  3.4 · 27 votes · 114 reads

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• At the very least we should be given a bit of credit and a little bit of space, and maybe the media should think we could help them discover why English teams do not win European competitions.

  

  Jose Mourinho

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  3.7 · 59 votes · 141 reads

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• Communication is depositing a part of yourself in another person.

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  Anonymous

  3.2 · 56 votes · 184 reads

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• Computers in the future will weigh no more than 1.5 tons. [Quoted in Popular Mechanics 1950]

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  Anonymous

  3.5 · 17 votes · 2 reads

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• Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed downstairs a step at a time.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.9 · 26 votes · 48 reads

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• Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness.

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  Storm Jameson

  JournalistBritish1891 · 19th century

  5.0 · 49 votes · 155 reads

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• Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  3.2 · 43 votes · 100 reads

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• He who boasts of his descent, praises the deed of another.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.6 · 57 votes · 106 reads

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• His scorn of the great is repeated too often to be real; no man thinks much of that which he despises.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.9 · 40 votes · 100 reads

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• I am convinced that there are universal currents of Divine Thought vibrating the ether everywhere and that any who can feel these vibrations is inspired.

  

  Richard Wagner

  MusicianGerman1813 · 19th century

  3.4 · 29 votes · 106 reads

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• I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.

  

  Theodore Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1858 · 19th century

  4.2 · 61 votes · 121 reads

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• I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.

  

  Fidel Castro

  PoliticianCuba1926 · 20th century

  4.3 · 62 votes · 55 reads

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• I have not observed men's honesty to increase with their riches.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  4.6 · 50 votes · 92 reads

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• I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

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  Laurence Sterne

  WriterBritish1713 · 18th century

  3.8 · 24 votes · 61 reads

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• If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.5 · 13 votes · 5 reads

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• It is legal because I wish it.

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  Louis XIV

  RoyaltyFrench1638 · 17th century

  4.2 · 42 votes · 39 reads

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• It is only the impossible that is possible for God. He has given over the possible to the mechanics of matter and the autonomy of his creatures.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  4.5 · 24 votes · 100 reads

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• It's easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.3 · 27 votes · 191 reads

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• Knowledge is power.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  3.9 · 10 votes · 68 reads

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• Many people might have attained wisdom had they not assumed they already had it.

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  Anonymous

  3.6 · 60 votes · 86 reads

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• Marriage is the best state for man in general, and every man is a worst man in proportion to the level he is unfit for marriage.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.2 · 12 votes · 145 reads

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• Of all the possessions of this life fame is the noblest; when the body has sunk into the dust the great name still lives.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  3.8 · 62 votes · 184 reads

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• One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.8 · 23 votes · 189 reads

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• Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.1 · 39 votes · 161 reads

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• Our words have wings, but fly not where we would.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.5 · 57 votes · 160 reads

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• Ours is a culture based on excess, on overproduction; the result is a steady loss of sharpness in our sensory experience. All the conditions of modern life - its material plenitude, its sheer crowdedness - conjoin to dull our sensory faculties.

  

  Stendhal

  NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

  3.5 · 44 votes · 153 reads

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• Pain, scorned by yonder gout-ridden wretch, endured by yonder dyspeptic in the midst of his dainties, borne bravely by the girl in travail. Slight thou art, if I can bear thee, short thou art if I cannot bear thee!

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.2 · 19 votes · 135 reads

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• Seize the day.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  3.9 · 51 votes · 0 reads

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• The common idea that success spoils people by making them vain, egotistic, and self-complacent is erroneous, on the contrary, it makes them for the most part, humble, tolerant, and kind. Failure makes people bitter and cruel.

  

  W. H. Auden

  PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

  4.3 · 55 votes · 118 reads

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• The history of liberty is the history of the limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it. When we resist the concentration of power we are resisting the powers of death. Concentration of power precedes the destruction of human liberties.

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century

  4.5 · 31 votes · 174 reads

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• The media is too concentrated, too few people own too much. There's really five companies that control 90 percent of what we read, see and hear. It's not healthy.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  3.0 · 19 votes · 132 reads

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• The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.9 · 28 votes · 31 reads

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• The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.

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  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

  PoliticianBritish1803 · 19th century

  3.0 · 39 votes · 138 reads

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• The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 64 votes · 3 reads

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• There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colors of life in all their purity.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  3.9 · 45 votes · 62 reads

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• There is no stability without solidarity and no solidarity without stability.

  

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  PoliticianPortuguese1956 · 20th century

  3.9 · 37 votes · 102 reads

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• They do not sweat and whine about their condition, they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning things, not one knee

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  4.5 · 61 votes · 175 reads

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• Think of your own faults the first part of the night when you are awake, and of the faults of others the latter part of the night when you are asleep.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  4.2 · 32 votes · 83 reads

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• Those who enjoy their own emotionally bad health and who habitually fill their own minds with the rank poisons of suspicion, jealousy and hatred, as a rule take umbrage at those who refuse to do likewise, and they find a perverted relief in trying to deni

  

  Johannes Brahms

  MusicianGerman1833 · 19th century

  4.4 · 30 votes · 58 reads

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• When I have fears that I may cease to be, Before my pen has gleaned my teeming brain.

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  John Keats

  PoetBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.5 · 64 votes · 191 reads

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• Who shall set a limit to the influence of a human being?

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.8 · 37 votes · 178 reads

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• Without perestroika, the cold war simply would not have ended. But the world could not continue developing as it had, with the stark menace of nuclear war ever present.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  4.9 · 32 votes · 113 reads

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• Words ought to be a little wild for they are the assaults of thought on the unthinking.

  

  John Maynard Keynes

  EconomistBritish1883 · 19th century

  3.3 · 9 votes · 37 reads

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• Writers like teeth are divided into incisors and grinders.

  

  Walt Whitman

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  4.1 · 41 votes · 16 reads

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• Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  3.1 · 6 votes · 142 reads

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