Quotes for September 1149 quotes · 45 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every September 11: the anniversary does not move.

• A man never discloses his own character so clearly as when he describes another's.

  

  Jean Paul

  ComedianGerman1763 · 18th century

  4.9 · 61 votes · 95 reads

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• Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  4.3 · 43 votes · 129 reads

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• America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.

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  Jimmy Carter

  PoliticianAmerican1924 · 20th century

  4.7 · 35 votes · 18 reads

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• An ambassador is not simply an agent; he is also a spectacle.

  

  Walt Whitman

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  4.4 · 51 votes · 14 reads

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• Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  4.0 · 60 votes · 87 reads

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• Be slow to resolve, but quick in performance.

  

  John Dryden

  PoetBritish1631 · 17th century

  4.3 · 45 votes · 112 reads

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• But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud

  PoetFrench1854 · 19th century

  4.7 · 24 votes · 20 reads

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• Chance is the pseudonym God uses when He does not want to sign His name.

  

  Anatole France

  WriterFrench1844 · 19th century

  3.8 · 60 votes · 126 reads

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• Courage conquers all things: it even gives strength to the body.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  4.4 · 46 votes · 63 reads

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• Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  4.8 · 30 votes · 48 reads

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• For my part I distrust all generalizations about women, favorable and unfavorable, masculine and feminine, ancient and modern; all alike, I should say, result from paucity of experience.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  3.6 · 20 votes · 162 reads

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• I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed m

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.6 · 58 votes · 143 reads

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• I do myself a greater injury in lying that I do him of whom I tell a lie.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  4.9 · 42 votes · 163 reads

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• If all hearts were open and all desires known - as they would be if people showed their souls - how many gapings, sighings, clenched fists, knotted brows, broad grins, and red eyes should we see in the market-place!

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  Thomas H. Huxley

  ScientistEnglish1825 · 19th century

  5.0 · 38 votes · 44 reads

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• If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1882 · 19th century

  4.3 · 59 votes · 100 reads

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• If it were necessary to give the briefest possible definition of imperialism, we should have to say that imperialism is the monopoly stage of capitalism.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  3.8 · 15 votes · 41 reads

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• If you make money your god, it will plague you like the devil.

  

  Henry Fielding

  NovelistEnglish1707 · 18th century

  3.9 · 6 votes · 122 reads

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• It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.

  

  Hippocrates

  ScientistGreek-460 · 5th century BC

  3.9 · 41 votes · 70 reads

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• Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

  

  Charles Dickens

  NovelistBritish1812 · 19th century

  3.9 · 12 votes · 45 reads

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• Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.

  

  John Milton

  PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

  5.0 · 31 votes · 89 reads

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• Liberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches.

  

  Wentworth Dillon

  PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century

  3.0 · 27 votes · 176 reads

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• Most people never run far enough on their first wind to find out they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  4.3 · 56 votes · 49 reads

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• Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.

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  Anonymous

  3.2 · 24 votes · 0 reads

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• No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

  

  Gabriel García Márquez

  WriterColombian1927 · 20th century

  3.4 · 51 votes · 60 reads

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• Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  PhilosopherGerman1788 · 18th century

  3.8 · 62 votes · 107 reads

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• Posterity will pay everyone their due.

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  Publius Cornelius Tacitus

  WriterRoman55 · 1st century

  4.2 · 37 votes · 199 reads

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• The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter.

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  Anonymous

  3.6 · 33 votes · 174 reads

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• The foolish and the dead never change their opinions.

  

  James Russell Lowell

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  4.0 · 23 votes · 195 reads

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• The gift of friendship... a willingness to listen... a pair of helping hands... a whisper from the heart. That someone cares and understands.

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 52 votes · 149 reads

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• The most common lie is that which one lies to himself; lying to others is relatively an exception.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.8 · 14 votes · 118 reads

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• The most successful politician is he who says what everybody is thinking most often and in the loudest voice.

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  Terence

  PoetRoman

  3.3 · 15 votes · 20 reads

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• The power of thought, the magic of the mind.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  4.3 · 35 votes · 3 reads

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• The President has paid dear for his White House. It has commonly cost him all his peace, and the best of his manly attributes. To preserve for a short time so conspicuous an appearance before the world, he is content to eat dust before the real masters wh

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.8 · 35 votes · 13 reads

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• The respect for human rights is nowadays not so much a matter of having international standards, but rather questions of compliance with those standards.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  3.5 · 54 votes · 44 reads

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• The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.3 · 30 votes · 124 reads

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• The Vietnam War required us to emphasize the national interest rather than abstract principles. What President Nixon and I tried to do was unnatural. And that is why we didn't make it.

  

  Henry A. Kissinger

  PoliticianGerman1923 · 20th century

  4.3 · 64 votes · 7 reads

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• There is hardly a man clever enough to recognize the full extent of the evil he does.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.0 · 33 votes · 40 reads

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• There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds and creates itself out of the Best as the past withdraws.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.0 · 36 votes · 163 reads

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• Those who are believed to be most abject and humble are usually most ambitious and envious.

  

  Benedict de Spinoza

  PhilosopherDutch1632 · 17th century

  3.2 · 63 votes · 158 reads

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• Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

  

  Joseph Addison

  PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century

  3.5 · 31 votes · 2 reads

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• To be exempt from the passions with which others are tormented, is the only pleasing solitude.

  

  Joseph Addison

  PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century

  3.2 · 57 votes · 106 reads

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• To be prepared is half the victory.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  4.3 · 6 votes · 159 reads

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• Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.0 · 63 votes · 80 reads

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• What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.2 · 23 votes · 22 reads

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• When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.2 · 35 votes · 157 reads

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• Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.7 · 16 votes · 121 reads

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• Who then is free? The one who wisely is lord of themselves, who neither poverty, death or captivity terrify, who is strong to resist his appetites and shun honors, and is complete in themselves smooth and round like a globe.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  3.3 · 28 votes · 127 reads

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• Would you not like to try all sorts of lives - one is so very small - but that is the satisfaction of writing - one can impersonate so many people.

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  Katherine Mansfield

  WriterEnglish1888 · 19th century

  3.0 · 18 votes · 35 reads

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