Quotes for September 2850 quotes · 41 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every September 28: the anniversary does not move.

• A failure establishes only this, that our determination to succeed was not strong enough.

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  Christian Nestell Bovee

  AuthorAmerican1820 · 19th century

  4.2 · 39 votes · 146 reads

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• Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.

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  Anonymous

  3.9 · 19 votes · 37 reads

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• Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  4.6 · 5 votes · 48 reads

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• Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.1 · 26 votes · 69 reads

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• Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

  

  Horace Mann

  EducatorAmerican1796 · 18th century

  4.6 · 33 votes · 185 reads

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• Friendship is a pretty full-time occupation if you really are friendly with somebody. You can't have too many friends because then you're just not really friends.

  

  Thomas Paine

  EducatorEnglish1737 · 18th century

  3.7 · 47 votes · 172 reads

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• He who denies all, confesses all.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 60 votes · 173 reads

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• He who enjoys good health is rich, though he knows it not.

  

  Italian proverb

  Italian

  3.8 · 16 votes · 161 reads

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• Hope is a bad thing. It means that you are not what you want to be. It means that part of you is dead, if not all of you. It means that you entertain illusions. It's a sort of spiritual clap, I should say.

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  3.1 · 30 votes · 162 reads

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• How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  3.1 · 27 votes · 56 reads

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• I have spent all my life under a Communist regime, and I will tell you that a society without any objective legal scale is a terrible one indeed. But a society with no other scale but the legal one is not quite worthy of man either.

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  Alexander Solzhenitsyn

  NovelistRussian1918 · 20th century

  4.0 · 47 votes · 139 reads

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• I suppose you think that persons who are as old as your father and myself are always thinking about very grave things, but I know that we are meditating the same old themes that we did when we were ten years old, only we go more gravely about it.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.0 · 45 votes · 32 reads

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• I was elated, ecstatic and extremely surprised that we were successful.

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  Neil Armstrong

  AstronautAmerican1930 · 20th century

  4.4 · 60 votes · 112 reads

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• If it were done when 'tis done, then t'were well. It were done quickly.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.8 · 64 votes · 0 reads

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• In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.9 · 12 votes · 15 reads

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• It is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is excellent.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.1 · 8 votes · 11 reads

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• It is better to rise from life as from a banquet - neither thirsty nor drunken.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  3.3 · 6 votes · 168 reads

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• It is simpler and easier to flatter people than to praise them.

  

  Jean Paul

  ComedianGerman1763 · 18th century

  3.8 · 43 votes · 91 reads

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• Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.

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  Herman Melville

  WriterAmerican1819 · 19th century

  3.6 · 54 votes · 6 reads

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• Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

  

  Victor Hugo

  PoetFrench1802 · 19th century

  4.7 · 39 votes · 173 reads

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• Manners require time, and nothing is more vulgar than haste.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  5.0 · 5 votes · 77 reads

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• Medicine is my lawful wife and literature my mistress; when I get tired of one, I spend the night with the other.

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  Anton Chekhov

  AuthorRussian1860 · 19th century

  3.3 · 55 votes · 176 reads

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• Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  PoliticianFrench1769 · 18th century

  4.9 · 46 votes · 50 reads

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• My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  4.3 · 48 votes · 158 reads

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• Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

  

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

  3.9 · 63 votes · 84 reads

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• Our prejudices are our mistresses; reason is at best our wife, very often heard indeed, but seldom minded.

  

  Lord Chesterfield

  PoliticianBritish1694 · 17th century

  3.4 · 13 votes · 78 reads

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• People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  3.5 · 32 votes · 167 reads

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• Reason lies between the bridle and the spur.

  

  Italian proverb

  Italian

  3.4 · 37 votes · 5 reads

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• Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.

  

  Max Planck

  ScientistGerman1858 · 19th century

  3.7 · 56 votes · 48 reads

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• Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.9 · 38 votes · 139 reads

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• Sometimes when you stand face to face with someone, you cannot see his face.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  3.0 · 19 votes · 116 reads

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• Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well.

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 64 votes · 89 reads

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• The ambitious are forever followed by adulation for they receive the most pleasure from flattery.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale

  AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century

  4.9 · 44 votes · 153 reads

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• The artist is of no importance. Only what he creates is important, since there is nothing new to be said. Shakespeare, Balzac, Homer have all written about the same things, and if they had lived one thousand or two thousand years longer, the publishers wo

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  William Cowper

  PoetBritish1731 · 18th century

  3.6 · 48 votes · 27 reads

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• The battle for women's rights has been largely won.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  4.8 · 35 votes · 152 reads

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• The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.

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  W. C. Fields

  ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.2 · 43 votes · 18 reads

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• The dice of God are always loaded.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.8 · 8 votes · 19 reads

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• The main thing is to make history, not to write it.

  

  Otto von Bismarck

  PoliticianGerman1815 · 19th century

  3.7 · 33 votes · 132 reads

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• The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered.

  

  Rudyard Kipling

  WriterBritish1865 · 19th century

  4.4 · 42 votes · 176 reads

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• The purpose of terrorism lies not just in the violent act itself. It is in producing terror. It sets out to inflame, to divide, to produce consequences which they then use to justify further terror.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  4.3 · 51 votes · 1 reads

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• The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  3.0 · 58 votes · 78 reads

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• The United States strongly condemns the illegal disclosure of classified information. It puts people's lives in danger, threatens our national security, and undermines our efforts to work with other countries to solve shared problems.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.2 · 52 votes · 36 reads

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• Two great talkers will not travel far together.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard

  PhilosopherDanish1813 · 19th century

  3.9 · 60 votes · 124 reads

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• What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like.

  

  Rudyard Kipling

  WriterBritish1865 · 19th century

  3.2 · 40 votes · 47 reads

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• What you don't see with your eyes, don't witness with your mouth.

  

  Jewish proverb

  Jewish

  3.6 · 49 votes · 123 reads

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• When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.

  

  Isaac Asimov

  ScientistAmerican1920 · 20th century

  4.9 · 38 votes · 84 reads

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• When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.

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  T. S. Eliot

  PoetAmerican1888 · 19th century

  4.8 · 23 votes · 112 reads

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• Wherever the fish are, that's where we go.

  

  Richard Wagner

  MusicianGerman1813 · 19th century

  3.5 · 54 votes · 39 reads

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• You'll see it when you believe it.

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  3.6 · 58 votes · 7 reads

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