Quotes for September 446 quotes · 40 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every September 4: the anniversary does not move.

• A word once uttered can never be recalled.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  4.2 · 45 votes · 187 reads

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• Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.9 · 56 votes · 190 reads

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• All you can be sure about in a political-minded Writeris that if his work should last you will have to skip the politics when you read it. Many of the so-called politically enlisted writers change their politics frequently . Perhaps it can be respected as

  

  Ernest Hemingway

  WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

  3.5 · 35 votes · 22 reads

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• America is neither free nor brave, but a land of tight, iron-clanking little wills, everybody trying to put it over everybody else, and a land of men absolutely devoid of the real courage of trust, trust in life's sacred spontaneity. They can't trust life

  

  D. H. Lawrence

  WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century

  3.5 · 62 votes · 7 reads

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• And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.

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  John Donne

  PoetEnglish1572 · 16th century

  3.0 · 13 votes · 64 reads

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• Despair is the conclusion of fools.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.1 · 56 votes · 142 reads

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• Endurance is the crowning quality...

  

  James Russell Lowell

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  3.1 · 13 votes · 7 reads

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• Enjoy yourself - it's later than you think.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  4.7 · 56 votes · 45 reads

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• Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, all-embracing compassion.

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  Arnold Bennett

  NovelistEnglish1867 · 19th century

  4.4 · 59 votes · 91 reads

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• Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances dr

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  WriterAmerican1811 · 19th century

  3.2 · 14 votes · 42 reads

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• Faith is not without worry or care, but faith is fear that has said a prayer.

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 43 votes · 129 reads

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• Fear invariably and universally induces disengagement, and disengagement is negative division of labor.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  3.5 · 24 votes · 169 reads

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• Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person, nation, or creed.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  3.4 · 43 votes · 82 reads

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• He that seeks trouble never misses.

  

  English proverb

  English

  3.0 · 7 votes · 163 reads

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• I would rather live and love where death is king than have eternal life where love is not.

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  Robert Frost

  PoetAmerican1874 · 19th century

  4.9 · 53 votes · 190 reads

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• If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.1 · 50 votes · 177 reads

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• If you're going to lend money make sure somebody else is around. If you're going to give money make sure nobody else is around.

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 8 votes · 71 reads

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• It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  4.2 · 13 votes · 141 reads

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• It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  3.5 · 11 votes · 74 reads

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• Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

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  John Keats

  PoetBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.4 · 10 votes · 187 reads

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• Let that which stood in front go behind, let that which was behind advance to the front, let bigots, fools, unclean persons, offer new propositions, let the old propositions be postponed.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  4.1 · 38 votes · 29 reads

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• Literature that is not the breath of contemporary society, that dares not transmit the pains and fears of that society, that does not warn in time against threatening moral and social dangers - such literature does not deserve the name of literature; it i

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  Alexander Solzhenitsyn

  NovelistRussian1918 · 20th century

  4.7 · 9 votes · 132 reads

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• Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  4.1 · 60 votes · 29 reads

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• Nothing prevents one from appearing natural as the desire to appear natural.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.6 · 61 votes · 195 reads

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• Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  4.5 · 33 votes · 125 reads

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• On the first day of a revolution he is a treasure; on the second he ought to be shot.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 42 votes · 41 reads

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• Once more I would adopt the graver style - a teacher should be sparing of his smile.

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  William Butler Yeats

  PoetIrish1865 · 19th century

  4.3 · 32 votes · 45 reads

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• One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  4.6 · 9 votes · 3 reads

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• Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is, with thoughts of what may be.

  

  John Dryden

  PoetBritish1631 · 17th century

  3.0 · 32 votes · 154 reads

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• Pity cost nothing and ain't worth nothing.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  3.1 · 60 votes · 148 reads

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• Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.9 · 20 votes · 130 reads

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• Show me the person you honor, for I know better by that the kind of person you are. For you show me what your idea of humanity is.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.7 · 9 votes · 55 reads

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• Sure men were born to lie, and women to believe them!

  

  John Gay

  PoetEnglish1685 · 17th century

  4.2 · 25 votes · 94 reads

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• Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.

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  Bernard M. Baruch

  PoliticianAmerican1870 · 19th century

  4.9 · 58 votes · 97 reads

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• That fear first created the gods is perhaps as true as anything so brief could be on so great a subject.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  4.0 · 13 votes · 108 reads

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• The eye is the notebook of the poet.

  

  James Russell Lowell

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  4.9 · 35 votes · 65 reads

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• The mind is just another muscle.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  4.6 · 30 votes · 108 reads

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• The only privilege literature deserves - and this privilege it requires in order to exist - is the privilege of being in the arena of discourse, the place where the struggle of our languages can be acted out.

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  Saint Thomas Aquinas

  TheologianRoman1224 · 13th century

  4.7 · 23 votes · 129 reads

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• The only thing that will redeem mankind is cooperation.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  4.2 · 26 votes · 120 reads

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• The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards.

  

  Anatole France

  WriterFrench1844 · 19th century

  4.2 · 25 votes · 100 reads

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• There is no greater folly in the world than for a man to despair.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  3.1 · 16 votes · 30 reads

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• We moralize among ruins.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.1 · 45 votes · 118 reads

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• We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.

  

  Martin Luther King Jr.

  LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century

  3.1 · 56 votes · 105 reads

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• You have this idea that you'd better keep working otherwise people will forget. And that was dangerous.

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  3.2 · 21 votes · 56 reads

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• You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.4 · 42 votes · 51 reads

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