Quotes for September 2347 quotes · 41 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every September 23: the anniversary does not move.

• A miser grows rich by seeming poor. An extravagant man grows poor by seeming rich.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.4 · 15 votes · 130 reads

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• A mother's yearning feels the presence of the cherished child even in the degraded man.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.4 · 47 votes · 56 reads

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• Action is eloquence.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.1 · 27 votes · 73 reads

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• An orphan's curse would drag to hell, a spirit from on high; but oh! more horrible than that, is a curse in a dead man's eye!

  

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

  3.5 · 39 votes · 129 reads

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• Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.0 · 62 votes · 122 reads

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• Effective leadership is not about making speeches or being liked; leadership is defined by results not attributes.

  

  Peter Drucker

  BusinessmanAmerican1909 · 20th century

  4.7 · 35 votes · 113 reads

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• Every production of genius must be the production of enthusiasm.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.6 · 53 votes · 193 reads

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• For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied.

  

  Stendhal

  NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

  3.1 · 47 votes · 13 reads

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• Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

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  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  MathematicianGerman1777 · 18th century

  4.0 · 63 votes · 9 reads

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• Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  4.7 · 43 votes · 0 reads

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• Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principals which direct them.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  3.8 · 38 votes · 159 reads

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• Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead

  MathematicianEnglish1861 · 19th century

  3.3 · 38 votes · 90 reads

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• Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future -and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  4.5 · 18 votes · 114 reads

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• I don't think Russia is setting this as a goal; I don't think this should be Russia's goal. I think even the United States doesn't need to be a superpower. China doesn't need to be a superpower. It's a different world.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  3.1 · 15 votes · 60 reads

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• In memory everything seems to happen to music.

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  T. S. Eliot

  PoetAmerican1888 · 19th century

  4.1 · 20 votes · 53 reads

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• It can never be bought or borrowed or sold A gift to be cherished, True friendship is a treasure beyond compare.

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  Anonymous

  3.4 · 25 votes · 35 reads

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• It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  3.9 · 24 votes · 142 reads

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• Live as you wish your kids would.

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  Anonymous

  3.4 · 13 votes · 167 reads

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• Love is a promise, love is a souvenir, once given never forgotten, never let it disappear.

  

  John Lennon

  MusicianBritish1940 · 20th century

  4.3 · 52 votes · 99 reads

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• Mobile is a lot closer to TV than it is to desktop.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg

  BusinessmanAmerican1984 · 20th century

  4.6 · 55 votes · 175 reads

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• Most people of action are inclined to fatalism and most of thought believe in providence.

  

  Honore de Balzac

  NovelistFrench1799 · 18th century

  4.4 · 59 votes · 12 reads

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• Nordstrom's Rules for Employees: Rule # 1: Use your good judgment in all situations There are no additional rules

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  Anonymous

  3.0 · 59 votes · 32 reads

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• One must care about a world one will not see.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  3.5 · 54 votes · 87 reads

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• One of the chief misfortunes of honest people is that they are cowardly.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  3.5 · 15 votes · 87 reads

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• People don't fail, they give up

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  Anonymous

  3.2 · 22 votes · 52 reads

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• Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does.

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  Allen Ginsberg

  PoetAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.1 · 37 votes · 164 reads

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• Remove advertising, disable a person or firm from proclaiming its wares and their merits, and the whole of society and of the economy is transformed. The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

  

  David Ogilvy

  BusinessmanEnglish1911 · 20th century

  4.5 · 40 votes · 115 reads

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• Self-love is the greatest of all flatterers.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.6 · 56 votes · 184 reads

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• Smitten as we are with the vision of social righteousness, a God indifferent to everything but adulation, and full of partiality for his individual favorites, lacks an essential element of largeness.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  3.6 · 49 votes · 122 reads

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• Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  5.0 · 60 votes · 189 reads

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• Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.0 · 45 votes · 156 reads

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• The battle is all over except the ''shouting'' when one knows what is wanted and has made up his mind to get it, whatever the price may be.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  3.9 · 17 votes · 70 reads

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• The desire is thy prayers; and if thy desire is without ceasing, thy prayer will also be without ceasing. The continuance of your longing is the continuance of your prayer.

  

  Rudyard Kipling

  WriterBritish1865 · 19th century

  4.9 · 26 votes · 122 reads

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• The really important things are said over cocktails and are never done.

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  Peter de Vries

  NovelistAmerican1910 · 20th century

  3.3 · 48 votes · 176 reads

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• The reward of one's duty is the power to fulfill another.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.3 · 15 votes · 7 reads

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• The rich become richer and the poor become poorer is a cry heard throughout the whole civilized world.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  4.2 · 9 votes · 28 reads

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• There has never yet been a man in our history who led a life of ease whose name is worth remembering.

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  Terence

  PoetRoman

  3.5 · 55 votes · 58 reads

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• There is nothing sadder than a young pessimist.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.9 · 52 votes · 32 reads

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• To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

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  Lord Alfred Tennyson

  PoetBritish1809 · 19th century

  4.2 · 42 votes · 92 reads

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• True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

  

  Joseph Addison

  PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century

  4.5 · 22 votes · 29 reads

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• We learn geology the morning after the earthquake.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  5.0 · 42 votes · 133 reads

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• We quaff the cup of life with eager haste without draining it, instead of which it only overflows the brim - objects press around us, filling the mind with the throng of desires that wait upon them, so that we have no room for the thoughts of death.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  5.0 · 43 votes · 35 reads

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• What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.1 · 16 votes · 111 reads

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• When we believe ourselves in possession of the only truth, we are likely to be indifferent to common everyday truths.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  5.0 · 5 votes · 38 reads

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• When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.6 · 50 votes · 53 reads

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• You all want to know what is my dream? Very simple. To walk along the beach, holding the hand of my lover.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  4.8 · 18 votes · 138 reads

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