Quotes for August 1345 quotes · 34 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every August 13: the anniversary does not move.

• A majority is always better than the best repartee.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  4.9 · 17 votes · 103 reads

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• A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea. If he tries to climb out into the air as inexperienced people endeavor to do, he drowns.

  

  Joseph Conrad

  NovelistBritish1857 · 19th century

  3.1 · 33 votes · 104 reads

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• American politics is always an open competition.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.9 · 32 votes · 115 reads

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• Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent.

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  James Baldwin

  WriterAmerican1924 · 20th century

  3.8 · 50 votes · 83 reads

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• As the Spanish proverb says, ''He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.'' So it is in travelling; a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.6 · 12 votes · 56 reads

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• Be kind to unkind people - they need it the most.

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  Anonymous

  3.6 · 12 votes · 77 reads

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• Bear and endure: This sorrow will one day prove to be for your good.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  5.0 · 64 votes · 100 reads

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• Chains of habit are too light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  4.6 · 40 votes · 160 reads

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• Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.5 · 11 votes · 30 reads

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• Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee and I'll forgive Thy great big one on me.

  

  Robert Burton

  EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century

  3.7 · 25 votes · 156 reads

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• Friendship is a sheltering tree.

  

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

  3.3 · 27 votes · 116 reads

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• Friendship is love with understanding.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 52 votes · 129 reads

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• Habit is stronger than reason.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  3.5 · 25 votes · 56 reads

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• I believe that eventually, one of the next big issues that will have to be addressed globally is the role of state-owned enterprises. Because there is a disadvantage that's built in.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.5 · 47 votes · 118 reads

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• I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone, I never found the companionable as solitude.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.9 · 56 votes · 88 reads

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• If you look deep enough you will see music; the heart of nature being everywhere music.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.1 · 13 votes · 39 reads

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• It doesn't much signify whom one marries, for one is sure to find out the next morning that it was someone else.

  

  Wentworth Dillon

  PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century

  3.5 · 39 votes · 124 reads

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• It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  4.4 · 56 votes · 52 reads

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• It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

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  Eleanor Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  3.3 · 24 votes · 171 reads

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• Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.

  

  Euripides

  PoetGreek-484 · 5th century BC

  4.8 · 64 votes · 116 reads

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• Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

  

  André Maurois

  WriterFrench1885 · 19th century

  3.9 · 8 votes · 118 reads

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• One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life.

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  3.4 · 23 votes · 54 reads

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• Our high respect for a well read person is praise enough for literature.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.0 · 56 votes · 156 reads

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• People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  4.6 · 37 votes · 147 reads

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• Remembrance of things past.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.6 · 64 votes · 113 reads

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• Solitude is the despair of fools, the torment of the wicked, and the joy of the good.

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 26 votes · 32 reads

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• Success is going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.5 · 7 votes · 128 reads

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• The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  4.1 · 28 votes · 145 reads

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• The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.

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  Jean Rostand

  PhilosopherFrench1894 · 19th century

  4.7 · 14 votes · 87 reads

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• The Dead Sea is the dead sea, because it continually receives and never gives.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 12 votes · 1 reads

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• The first thing a great person does, is make us realize the insignificance of circumstance.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.4 · 37 votes · 190 reads

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• The flower is the poetry of reproduction. It is the example of the eternal seductiveness of life.

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  Jean Giraudoux

  NovelistFrench1882 · 19th century

  3.0 · 53 votes · 78 reads

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• The future influences the present just as much as the past.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.1 · 15 votes · 178 reads

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• The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

  

  Socrates

  PhilosopherGreek-470 · 5th century BC

  3.6 · 56 votes · 100 reads

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• The measure of a master is his success in bringing all men around to his opinion twenty years later.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.8 · 15 votes · 1 reads

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• There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.8 · 54 votes · 125 reads

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• Things are not to be judged good or bad merely because the public think so.

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  Publius Cornelius Tacitus

  WriterRoman55 · 1st century

  4.1 · 16 votes · 146 reads

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• Those that are a friend to themselves are sure to be a friend to all.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.4 · 23 votes · 180 reads

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• We need more good jobs that reward hard work with rising wages, dignity, and a ladder to a better life.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.0 · 24 votes · 33 reads

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• What people should understand is that I adore the Labour party.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  5.0 · 30 votes · 144 reads

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• What really distinguishes this generation in all countries from earlier generations... is its determination to act, its joy in action, the assurance of being able to change things by one's own efforts.

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  Hannah Arendt

  PoliticianGerman1906 · 20th century

  3.0 · 16 votes · 166 reads

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• Where the fear is, happiness is not.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.2 · 55 votes · 124 reads

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• With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.0 · 57 votes · 33 reads

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• You are much surer that you are doing good when you pay money to those who work, as the recompense of their labor, than when you give money merely in charity.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.6 · 17 votes · 32 reads

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