Quotes for October 247 quotes · 40 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every October 2: the anniversary does not move.

• America is the only nation in history which, miraculously, has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.

  

  Georges Clemenceau

  JournalistFrench1841 · 19th century

  4.1 · 29 votes · 106 reads

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• By ancestry, I was born to rule.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  4.6 · 62 votes · 41 reads

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• Comedy is acting out optimism.

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  4.7 · 25 votes · 95 reads

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• Communism is a cow of many; well milked and badly fed.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard

  PhilosopherDanish1813 · 19th century

  4.9 · 11 votes · 64 reads

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• Conductors' careers are made for the most part with 'Romantic' music. 'Classic' music eliminates the conductor; we do not remember him in it.

  

  Igor Stravinsky

  MusicianRussian1882 · 19th century

  4.8 · 37 votes · 130 reads

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• Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world.

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  Publilius Syrus

  WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC

  4.7 · 36 votes · 192 reads

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• Darkness can not drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.

  

  Martin Luther King Jr.

  LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century

  3.1 · 62 votes · 155 reads

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• Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.6 · 49 votes · 46 reads

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• For the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?' And whenever the answer has been 'No' for too many days in a row, I know I need to

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.5 · 41 votes · 155 reads

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• God makes, and apparel shapes; but it's money that finishes the man.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  4.2 · 39 votes · 137 reads

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• Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  3.5 · 7 votes · 11 reads

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• He presents me with what is always an acceptable gift who brings me news of a great thought before unknown. He enriches me without impoverishing himself.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.3 · 47 votes · 15 reads

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• He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.5 · 45 votes · 87 reads

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• I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence -this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.8 · 6 votes · 72 reads

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• I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation - they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.1 · 5 votes · 130 reads

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• I throw myself down in my chamber, and I call in, and invite God, and his Angels thither, and when they are there, I neglect God and his Angels, for the noise of a fly, for the rattling of a coach, for the whining of a door.

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  John Donne

  PoetEnglish1572 · 16th century

  4.8 · 14 votes · 82 reads

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• I told my wife that a husband is like a fine wine; he gets better with age. The next day, she locked me in the cellar.

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  Anonymous

  4.5 · 34 votes · 28 reads

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• If you get up one time more than you fall, you will make it through.

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 61 votes · 183 reads

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• In matters of truth and justice, there is no difference between large and small problems, for issues concerning the treatment of people are all the same.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.8 · 29 votes · 119 reads

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• It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods. If such a board actually exists it operates precisely like the board of a corporation that is losing money.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.9 · 50 votes · 12 reads

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• Levity is often less foolish and gravity less wise than each of them appears.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  3.9 · 52 votes · 38 reads

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• Meaning and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them, in all of them.

  

  Hermann Hesse

  PoetGerman1877 · 19th century

  4.0 · 21 votes · 86 reads

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• Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death?

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  3.4 · 19 votes · 36 reads

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• My ass contemplates those who talk behind my back.

  

  Francis Picabia

  PainterFrench1879 · 19th century

  4.6 · 58 votes · 44 reads

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• My view is that you still, in order to win from the Labour perspective, have to have a strong alliance with business as well as the unions. You have got to be very much in the centre ground on things like public sector reform.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  3.5 · 33 votes · 76 reads

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• Once you are married, there is nothing for you, not even suicide, but to be good.

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  Robert Green Ingersoll

  PoliticianAmerican1833 · 19th century

  3.7 · 40 votes · 183 reads

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• Remember that your failures are the seeds of your most glorious successes. Be sad if you must, but don't despair.

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 41 votes · 6 reads

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• Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.

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  Laurence Sterne

  WriterBritish1713 · 18th century

  3.5 · 44 votes · 155 reads

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• Silence is as deep as eternity, speech a shallow as time.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.4 · 41 votes · 116 reads

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• Ten censure wrong, for one that writes amiss.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  4.1 · 51 votes · 116 reads

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• The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.0 · 35 votes · 131 reads

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• The parson knows enough who knows a Duke.

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  William Butler Yeats

  PoetIrish1865 · 19th century

  5.0 · 38 votes · 187 reads

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• The real antichrist is he who turns the wine of an original idea into the water of mediocrity.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  4.6 · 23 votes · 76 reads

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• The task of the government is not only to pour honey into a cup, but sometimes to give bitter medicine.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  3.3 · 64 votes · 21 reads

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• The word ''civilization'' to my mind is coupled with death. When I use the word, I see civilization as a crippling, thwarting thing, a stultifying thing. For me it was always so. I don't believe in the golden ages, you see... civilization is the arteriosc

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  4.3 · 34 votes · 127 reads

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• There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.1 · 61 votes · 119 reads

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• These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect to the sun. Hence my optimism.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  3.1 · 38 votes · 167 reads

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• This type of man who is devoted to the study of wisdom is always most unlucky in everything, and particularly when it comes to procreating children; I imagine this is because Nature wants to ensure that the evils of wisdom shall not spread further through

  

  Erasmus of Rotterdam

  TheologianDutch1466 · 15th century

  3.1 · 12 votes · 127 reads

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• Those that think must govern those that toil.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale

  AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century

  3.7 · 18 votes · 68 reads

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• Truth lies within ourselves: it takes no rise from outward things, whatever you may believe. There is an inmost center in us all, where truth abides in fullness and to Know rather consists in opening out a way whence the imprisoned splendor may escape tha

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  Robert Bresson

  Film directorFrench1901 · 20th century

  3.6 · 24 votes · 73 reads

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• TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

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  Frank Lloyd Wright

  ArchitectAmerican1867 · 19th century

  3.2 · 63 votes · 154 reads

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• Tweets? That stuff kills conversation. And people taking pictures with their phone or recording you, sometimes surreptitiously, is creepy. They come up and just start talking to you, and you can see the red light on their phone.

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  3.5 · 16 votes · 22 reads

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• We are made strong by the difficulties we face not by those we evade.

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 37 votes · 179 reads

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• What man's mind can create, man's character can control.

  

  Theodore Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1858 · 19th century

  5.0 · 52 votes · 147 reads

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• Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty.

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  3.8 · 9 votes · 151 reads

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• Who hates the Jews more than the Jew?

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  4.4 · 18 votes · 72 reads

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