Quotes for October 649 quotes · 42 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every October 6: the anniversary does not move.

• 'Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.

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  Roy Lichtenstein

  PainterAmerican1923 · 20th century

  4.5 · 17 votes · 60 reads

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• All I know is I'm not a Marxist.

  

  Karl Marx

  EconomistGerman1818 · 19th century

  3.6 · 7 votes · 61 reads

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• Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.5 · 13 votes · 13 reads

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• Facts are counterrevolutionary.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  3.6 · 13 votes · 190 reads

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• Frugality is founded on the principal that all riches have limits.

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  4.8 · 55 votes · 83 reads

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• Government is at best but an expedient; but most governments are usually, and all governments are sometimes, inexpedient. The objections which have been brought against a standing army, and they are many and weighty, and deserve to prevail, may also at la

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.6 · 52 votes · 59 reads

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• Help yourself, and Heaven will help you.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine

  PoetFrench1621 · 17th century

  4.6 · 53 votes · 31 reads

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• I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usuall

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.7 · 5 votes · 101 reads

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• I have known several presidents quite well, including my husband, and I worked closely with President George W. Bush and the White House then after 9/11, and I served with President Obama. I disagree with all three of those presidents on certain things.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.7 · 61 votes · 70 reads

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• I have lived some thirty-odd years on this planet, and I have yet to hear the first syllable of valuable or even earnest advice from my seniors.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.8 · 16 votes · 13 reads

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• I think it's fair to say that diplomacy today requires much more of that if you're the United States of America than it did 10, 20, 30, 40 years ago.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.5 · 52 votes · 183 reads

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• If we must fall, we should boldly meet the danger.

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  Publius Cornelius Tacitus

  WriterRoman55 · 1st century

  3.6 · 37 votes · 68 reads

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• If you are trying to take a difficult decision and you're weighing up the pros and cons, you have frank conversations. Everybody knows this in their walk of life.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  4.2 · 40 votes · 96 reads

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• In Heaven all the interesting people are missing.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.0 · 41 votes · 66 reads

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• Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

  

  Harry S. Truman

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  4.9 · 35 votes · 21 reads

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• It isn't easy for an idea to squeeze itself into a head filled with prejudice.

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  Anonymous

  3.0 · 53 votes · 160 reads

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• Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  4.6 · 62 votes · 183 reads

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• Let us go in; the fog is rising.

  

  Emily Dickinson

  PoetAmerican1830 · 19th century

  4.5 · 21 votes · 168 reads

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• Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.4 · 45 votes · 100 reads

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• Love is too young to know what conscience is.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.7 · 47 votes · 144 reads

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• Man is a clever animal who behaves like an imbecile.

  

  Albert Schweitzer

  TheologianGerman-French1875 · 19th century

  4.9 · 55 votes · 32 reads

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• Nothing is so dangerous as an ignorant friend.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine

  PoetFrench1621 · 17th century

  4.8 · 33 votes · 161 reads

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• Of my friends I am the only one left.

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  Tennessee Williams

  PlaywrightAmerican1911 · 20th century

  3.6 · 49 votes · 28 reads

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• One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.8 · 33 votes · 54 reads

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• Patience when teased is often transformed into rage.

  

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 47 votes · 82 reads

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• People see I am a mother and head of a household. Today in Chile, one-third of households are run by women. They wake up, take the children to school, go to work. To them I am hope.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  3.0 · 25 votes · 21 reads

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• People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.6 · 35 votes · 156 reads

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• Plunge boldly into the thick of life, and seize it where you will, it is always interesting.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.4 · 36 votes · 34 reads

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• Political activities in Russia should be as transparent as possible. Financing political activities from abroad is something the state should keep an eye on.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  4.1 · 60 votes · 38 reads

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• Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones.

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  Charlotte Bronte

  PoetEnglish1816 · 19th century

  4.2 · 29 votes · 134 reads

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• Riches are a good hand maiden, but a poor mistress.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  3.4 · 12 votes · 19 reads

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• So long as we are loved by others I should say that we are almost indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend.

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  Robert Green Ingersoll

  PoliticianAmerican1833 · 19th century

  3.3 · 33 votes · 61 reads

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• The heart will break, but broken live on.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  4.0 · 47 votes · 30 reads

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• The profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until an equal mind and heart finds and publishes it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.9 · 8 votes · 199 reads

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• The ruling passion, be it what it will, The ruling passion conquers reason still.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  3.0 · 35 votes · 60 reads

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• There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.1 · 28 votes · 60 reads

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• There is no sickness worse for me than words that to be kind must lie.

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  Aeschylus

  WriterGreek-525 · 6th century BC

  4.8 · 56 votes · 13 reads

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• There's lots of people who spend so much time watching their health, they haven't got time to enjoy it.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  3.7 · 53 votes · 33 reads

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• Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  4.0 · 16 votes · 2 reads

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• To speak and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

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  Ben Jonson

  PoetEnglish1573 · 16th century

  4.2 · 13 votes · 17 reads

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• Truth comes only to a prepared mind.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 29 votes · 161 reads

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• What's so remarkable about Love at first sight? It's when people have been looking at each other for years that it becomes remarkable.

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 10 votes · 159 reads

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• When a work appears to be ahead of its time, it is only the time that is behind the work.

  

  Jean Cocteau

  AuthorFrench1889 · 19th century

  4.3 · 38 votes · 149 reads

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• Why is it that whenever I hear a piece of music I don't like, it's always by Villa-Lobos?

  

  Igor Stravinsky

  MusicianRussian1882 · 19th century

  4.9 · 32 votes · 161 reads

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• Women are as old as they feel and men are old when they lose their feelings.

  

  Mae West

  ComedianAmerican1893 · 19th century

  4.1 · 7 votes · 33 reads

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• Words pay no debts.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.4 · 10 votes · 100 reads

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• You have to make a conscious decision to change for your own well-being and that of your family and your country.

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.6 · 8 votes · 44 reads

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• You will become as small as your controlling desire; as great as your dominant aspiration.

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  James Allen

  EssayistAmerican1864 · 19th century

  4.7 · 20 votes · 61 reads

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