Quotes for September 748 quotes · 39 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every September 7: the anniversary does not move.

• A decadent civilization compromises with its disease, cherishes the virus infecting it, loses its self-respect.

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  Emil Cioran

  PhilosopherRomanian1911 · 20th century

  5.0 · 14 votes · 28 reads

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• A fox may steal your hens, Sir, a whore your health and pence, Sir, your daughter rob your chest, Sir, your wife may steal your rest, Sir, a thief your goods and plate. But this is all but picking, with rest, pence, chest and chicken; it ever was decreed,

  

  John Gay

  PoetEnglish1685 · 17th century

  3.9 · 23 votes · 142 reads

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• Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances.

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  Sophocles

  PoetGreek

  4.4 · 58 votes · 173 reads

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• Distrust everyone in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.9 · 56 votes · 27 reads

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• Flattery makes friends and truth makes enemies.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard

  PhilosopherDanish1813 · 19th century

  3.6 · 21 votes · 133 reads

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• Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided.

  

  John Locke

  PhilosopherEnglish1632 · 17th century

  3.6 · 59 votes · 97 reads

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• Happy the man, and happy he alone, he who can call today his own; he who, secure within, can say, tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.

  

  John Dryden

  PoetBritish1631 · 17th century

  3.7 · 10 votes · 143 reads

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• Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  4.9 · 34 votes · 167 reads

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• Husbands never become good; they merely become proficient.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.0 · 52 votes · 194 reads

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• I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive.

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  John W. Gardner

  EducatorAmerican1912 · 20th century

  4.0 · 20 votes · 115 reads

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• I finally know what distinguishes man from the other beasts: financial worries.

  

  Jules Renard

  WriterFrench1864 · 19th century

  3.0 · 18 votes · 84 reads

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• I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.9 · 20 votes · 54 reads

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• I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  3.7 · 11 votes · 110 reads

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• I started the site when I was 19. I didn't know much about business back then.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg

  BusinessmanAmerican1984 · 20th century

  3.2 · 26 votes · 50 reads

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• If you are bitten by a snake, what's the best thing to do? Remain calm, separate the poison from the rest of your body, suck the poison out. Worst thing to do: get upset, chase and kill snake. Same when someone strikes out at you verbally. Remain calm, do

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  Anonymous

  3.0 · 7 votes · 131 reads

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• If you do not the expect the unexpected you will not find it, for it is not to be reached by search or trail.

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  Heraclitus

  PhilosopherGreek-535 · 6th century BC

  4.5 · 21 votes · 72 reads

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• If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.1 · 28 votes · 42 reads

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• Isolation is the sum total of wretchedness to a man.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.8 · 19 votes · 137 reads

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• Let me walk three weeks in the footsteps of my enemy, carry the same burden, have the same trials as he, before I say one word to criticize.

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  Anonymous

  4.5 · 21 votes · 42 reads

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• Lord Bacon told Sir Edward Coke when he was boasting, The less you speak of your greatness, the more shall I think of it.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.4 · 26 votes · 32 reads

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• Marriage is the death of hope.

  

  Woodrow T. Wilson

  PoliticianAmerican1856 · 19th century

  3.0 · 50 votes · 79 reads

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• Newspapers are technologically obsolete. In the days of instant electronic communications, its crazy to have to print these newspapers at a central plant and deliver them by truck. They're the biggest problem with our solid-waste disposal. And the news yo

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  3.7 · 63 votes · 169 reads

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• No bird soars too high, if he soars with his own wings.

  

  Will Rogers

  ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

  3.2 · 51 votes · 173 reads

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• Nothing can resist the human will that will stake even its existence on its stated purpose.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  4.9 · 47 votes · 194 reads

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• Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.7 · 11 votes · 140 reads

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• People don't care about what someone says about you in a movie - or even what you say, right? They care about what you build. And if you can make something that makes people's life better, then that's something that's really good.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg

  BusinessmanAmerican1984 · 20th century

  3.0 · 8 votes · 150 reads

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• Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

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  John Keats

  PoetBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.5 · 27 votes · 89 reads

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• Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.

  

  Isaac Asimov

  ScientistAmerican1920 · 20th century

  4.1 · 33 votes · 187 reads

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• The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!

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  Robert Bresson

  Film directorFrench1901 · 20th century

  3.4 · 58 votes · 111 reads

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• The beginning is the most important part of the work.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  4.7 · 9 votes · 125 reads

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• The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

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  Laurence J. Peter

  WriterCanadian1919 · 20th century

  3.1 · 28 votes · 56 reads

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• The good lawyer is not the man who has an eye to every side and angle of contingency, and qualifies all his qualifications, but who throws himself on your part so heartily, that he can get you out of a scrape.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.6 · 45 votes · 168 reads

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• The man who can make hard things easy is the educator.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.9 · 42 votes · 76 reads

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• The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

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  Clarence S. Darrow

  LawyerAmerican1857 · 19th century

  4.6 · 7 votes · 194 reads

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• The relationship between a manufacturer and his advertising agency is almost as intimate as the relationship between a patient and his doctor. Make sure that you can life happily with your prospective client before you accept his account.

  

  David Ogilvy

  BusinessmanEnglish1911 · 20th century

  3.2 · 50 votes · 127 reads

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• There is this to be said in favor of drinking, that it takes the drunkard first out of society, then out of the world.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.1 · 52 votes · 123 reads

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• They are not only idle who do nothing, but they are idle also who might be better employed.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  4.1 · 45 votes · 25 reads

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• They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.7 · 53 votes · 11 reads

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• To watch the corn grow, or the blossoms set; to draw hard breath over the plough or spade; to read, to think, to love, to pray, are the things that make men happy.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  4.3 · 37 votes · 80 reads

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• Tomorrow is often the busiest day of the week.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard

  PhilosopherDanish1813 · 19th century

  3.5 · 18 votes · 72 reads

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• We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.0 · 5 votes · 120 reads

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• We must clearly see that international hostile forces are intensifying the strategic plot of Westernizing and dividing China, and ideological and cultural fields are the focal areas of their long-term infiltration.

  

  Hu Jintao

  PoliticianChinese1942 · 20th century

  5.0 · 21 votes · 4 reads

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• We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want

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  John W. Gardner

  EducatorAmerican1912 · 20th century

  3.4 · 52 votes · 61 reads

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• What right have you to take the word wealth, which originally meant ''well-being,'' and degrade and narrow it by confining it to certain sorts of material objects measured by money.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  4.5 · 14 votes · 191 reads

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• Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  4.4 · 25 votes · 43 reads

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• Women say that my election represents a cultural break with the past - a past of sexism, of misogyny.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  4.4 · 23 votes · 3 reads

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• Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble.

  

  George Washington

  PoliticianAmerican1732 · 18th century

  4.8 · 17 votes · 50 reads

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