Quotes for September 2551 quotes · 37 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every September 25: the anniversary does not move.

• 'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem to be confidences or sides hidden from all else and unmistakably meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profound t

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  5.0 · 57 votes · 121 reads

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• A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.6 · 21 votes · 148 reads

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• All necessary truth is its own evidence.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.2 · 11 votes · 74 reads

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• All the great ages have been ages of belief.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.5 · 55 votes · 192 reads

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• All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified.

  

  Thomas Fuller

  AuthorBritish1608 · 17th century

  4.0 · 64 votes · 53 reads

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• Be charitable and indulge to everyone, but thyself.

  

  Joseph Joubert

  French1754 · 18th century

  3.8 · 13 votes · 164 reads

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• Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

  

  Jane Austen

  NovelistEnglish1775 · 18th century

  3.4 · 22 votes · 81 reads

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• Do the thing we fear, and the death of fear is certain.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.4 · 51 votes · 110 reads

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• Enough shovels of earth - a mountain. Enough pails of water - a river.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  3.4 · 48 votes · 81 reads

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• Everything is in motion. Everything flows. Everything is vibrating.

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  4.2 · 45 votes · 113 reads

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• Everything is perfect in the universe, even your desire to improve it.

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  3.7 · 15 votes · 148 reads

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• Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.

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  Lord Alfred Tennyson

  PoetBritish1809 · 19th century

  3.2 · 37 votes · 65 reads

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• Few people know how to be old.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.8 · 57 votes · 30 reads

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• Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past.

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  Terence

  PoetRoman

  4.3 · 38 votes · 198 reads

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• Friendship is almost always the union of a part of one mind with the part of another; people are friends in spots.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  3.5 · 6 votes · 1 reads

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• He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  3.4 · 54 votes · 20 reads

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• He who has the pepper may season as he lists.

  

  George Herbert

  PoetBritish1593 · 16th century

  4.6 · 42 votes · 179 reads

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• I confess I enjoy democracy immensely. It is incomparably idiotic, and hence incomparably amusing.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  5.0 · 27 votes · 169 reads

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• I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood. If it does need additional interpretation by someone other than the creator, then I question whether it has fulfilled its purpose.

  

  Charles Chaplin

  AuthorEnglish1889 · 19th century

  3.1 · 34 votes · 200 reads

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• I drink to make other people interesting.

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  Anonymous

  3.7 · 40 votes · 160 reads

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• I dwell in Possibility.

  

  Emily Dickinson

  PoetAmerican1830 · 19th century

  4.8 · 21 votes · 110 reads

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• I think that the European Union with the Lisbon agenda has put the right emphasis on growth and employment.

  

  Angela Merkel

  PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century

  5.0 · 54 votes · 43 reads

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• I've often thought that the gauntlet of American politics is more individualistic, more expensive, more unpredictable than in many other democracies.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.2 · 33 votes · 12 reads

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• If a man's eye is on the Eternal, his intellect will grow.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.0 · 7 votes · 136 reads

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• If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster.

  

  Isaac Asimov

  ScientistAmerican1920 · 20th century

  3.1 · 26 votes · 154 reads

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• In the battle for survival the ignorant man has a considerable advantage.

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 60 votes · 179 reads

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• It's a bit disconcerting being treated like Madonna.

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  3.2 · 32 votes · 65 reads

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• It's easy to stop making mistakes. Just stop having ideas.

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 52 votes · 149 reads

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• Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is ph

  

  Thomas Alva Edison

  ScientistAmerican1847 · 19th century

  4.5 · 64 votes · 127 reads

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• Law, without force, is impotent.

  

  Blaise Pascal

  PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century

  3.8 · 37 votes · 169 reads

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• Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

  

  Saint Augustine

  TheologianRoman354 · 4th century

  4.9 · 48 votes · 23 reads

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• Of mankind we may say in general they are fickle, hypocritical, and greedy of gain.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  PoliticianFrench1769 · 18th century

  3.7 · 59 votes · 102 reads

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• Our business in this world is not to succeed, but to continue to fail, in good spirits.

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  Robert Green Ingersoll

  PoliticianAmerican1833 · 19th century

  3.8 · 16 votes · 41 reads

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• Philosophy is a bully that talks loud when the danger is at a distant; but, the moment she is pressed hard by an enemy, she is nowhere to be found and leaves the brunt of the battle to be fought by her steady, humble comrade, religion.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  4.8 · 23 votes · 157 reads

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• The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke, that you don't really have it. You've lost the muse or - the worst dread - you never had it at all. I went through all that madness early on.

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  4.8 · 47 votes · 162 reads

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• The fool thinks himself to be wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.2 · 32 votes · 129 reads

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• The sad thing about destroying the environment is that we're going to take the rest of life with us. The bluebirds will be gone, and the elephants will be gone, and the tigers will be gone, and the pandas will be gone.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  4.5 · 33 votes · 71 reads

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• The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed [and Hence Clamorous To Be Led To Safety] by an endless series of hobgoblins.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.1 · 43 votes · 57 reads

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• There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little new that each man gets from life i

  

  Ernest Hemingway

  WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

  4.4 · 62 votes · 102 reads

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• There is no duty we so much underrated as the duty of being happy.

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  Robert Green Ingersoll

  PoliticianAmerican1833 · 19th century

  4.8 · 22 votes · 83 reads

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• Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.7 · 42 votes · 170 reads

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• True prosperity is the result of well-placed confidence in ourselves and our fellow man.

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 24 votes · 154 reads

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• We have 'Doctor Who' references on 'Futurama,' but we have a lot of science fiction references that I don't get; but in the staff we have experts on 'Star Trek,' 'Star Wars,' 'Doctor Who' and 'Dungeons and Dragons.'

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  4.1 · 16 votes · 200 reads

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• We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.0 · 17 votes · 33 reads

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• We will invent new lullabies, new songs, new acts of love, we will cry over things we used to laugh and our new wisdom will bring tears to eyes of gentle creatures from other planets who were afraid of us till then and in the end a summer with wild winds

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 24 votes · 101 reads

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• What you enjoy is yours; what you save for your heirs, is already not yours, but theirs.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 56 votes · 38 reads

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• Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.6 · 9 votes · 15 reads

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• You are today where your thoughts have brought you; you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you.

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  James Allen

  EssayistAmerican1864 · 19th century

  4.4 · 39 votes · 150 reads

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• You must rouse into people's consciousness their own prudence and strength, if you want to raise their character.

  

  Marquis de Vauvenargues

  WriterFrench1715 · 18th century

  4.0 · 9 votes · 52 reads

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• Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

  

  José Ortega y Gasset

  PhilosopherSpanish1883 · 19th century

  3.1 · 58 votes · 162 reads

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