Quotes for August 2150 quotes · 41 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every August 21: the anniversary does not move.

• A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

  

  Walt Whitman

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  4.2 · 63 votes · 95 reads

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• Ceremony leads her bigots forth, prepared to fight for shadows of no worth. While truths, on which eternal things depend, can hardly find a single friend.

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  William Butler Yeats

  PoetIrish1865 · 19th century

  4.2 · 49 votes · 56 reads

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• Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.

  

  Henry Ford

  BusinessmanAmerican1863 · 19th century

  4.8 · 16 votes · 174 reads

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• Educational equality doesn't guarantee equality on the labor market. Even the most developed countries are not gender-equal. There are still glass ceilings and 'leaky pipelines' that prevent women from getting ahead in the workplace.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  4.6 · 60 votes · 116 reads

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• Even on the most exalted throne in the world we are only sitting on our own bottom.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  5.0 · 9 votes · 41 reads

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• Experience demands that man is the only animal which devours his own kind, for I can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  4.6 · 27 votes · 2 reads

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• Failure is the path of least persistence

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 50 votes · 107 reads

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• Fools take to themselves the respect that is given to their office.

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  Aesop

  WriterGreek-620 · 7th century BC

  4.3 · 39 votes · 130 reads

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• Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.6 · 38 votes · 31 reads

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• I believe things cannot make themselves impossible.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.6 · 59 votes · 189 reads

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• I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.2 · 52 votes · 117 reads

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• I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.8 · 22 votes · 183 reads

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• I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination.

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  4.8 · 14 votes · 0 reads

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• If a fish is the movement of water embodied, given shape, then cat is a diagram and pattern of subtle air.

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  Doris Lessing

  WriterBritish1919 · 20th century

  4.7 · 38 votes · 97 reads

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• If I care to listen to every criticism, let alone act on them, then this shop may as well be closed for all other businesses. I have learned to do my best, and if the end result is good then I do not care for any criticism, but if the end result is not go

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.6 · 34 votes · 90 reads

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• In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense invo

  

  Leo Tolstoy

  WriterRussian1828 · 19th century

  3.1 · 8 votes · 4 reads

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• In Iran I think nobody loses their job because of making a statement that reflects their opinion. From this point of view, conditions in Iran are far better than in many other places in the world.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  PoliticianIranian1956 · 20th century

  4.8 · 12 votes · 179 reads

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• In literature, as in love, we are astonished at the choice made by other people.

  

  André Maurois

  WriterFrench1885 · 19th century

  4.1 · 36 votes · 184 reads

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• In marriage do thou be wise; prefer the person before money; virtue before beauty; the mind before the body.

  

  William James

  PhilosopherAmerican1842 · 19th century

  3.9 · 29 votes · 44 reads

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• It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  4.7 · 63 votes · 61 reads

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• It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.

  

  Sigmund Freud

  PhysicistAustrian1856 · 19th century

  4.5 · 13 votes · 132 reads

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• It's only when the markets are perceived to have exhausted themselves on the downside that they turn. Trying to prevent them from going down just merely prolongs the agony.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.5 · 21 votes · 130 reads

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• Laziness. Unwarranted repose of manner in a person of low degree.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  4.0 · 34 votes · 15 reads

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• Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

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  Laurence Sterne

  WriterBritish1713 · 18th century

  3.7 · 48 votes · 177 reads

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• Life is but a game and we are the playthings of the gods.

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  Anonymous

  4.5 · 56 votes · 104 reads

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• Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.9 · 64 votes · 106 reads

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• Men are anxious to improve their circumstances, but are unwilling to improve themselves; they therefore remain bound.

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  James Allen

  EssayistAmerican1864 · 19th century

  3.1 · 60 votes · 155 reads

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• Nature makes only dumb animals. We owe the fools to society.

  

  Honore de Balzac

  NovelistFrench1799 · 18th century

  3.8 · 34 votes · 63 reads

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• One can advise comfortably from a safe port.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  3.1 · 59 votes · 112 reads

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• One cannot walk through an assembly factory and not feel that one is in Hell.

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  W. C. Fields

  ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.1 · 20 votes · 40 reads

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• Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

  

  Denis Diderot

  PhilosopherFrench1713 · 18th century

  4.0 · 12 votes · 9 reads

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• Our ideals, like pictures, are made from lights and shadows.

  

  Joseph Joubert

  French1754 · 18th century

  3.0 · 16 votes · 37 reads

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• So long as war is the main business of nations, temporary despotism - despotism during the campaign - is indispensable.

  

  Walt Whitman

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  3.7 · 23 votes · 2 reads

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• Success is full of promise till one gets it, and then it seems like a nest from which the bird has flown.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  4.9 · 51 votes · 27 reads

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• Sympathetic people often don't communicate well, they back reflected images which hide their own depths.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.3 · 10 votes · 116 reads

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• The mark of a good action is that it appears inevitable in retrospect.

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  Robert Green Ingersoll

  PoliticianAmerican1833 · 19th century

  3.0 · 42 votes · 62 reads

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• The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, not to worry about the future, or not to anticipate troubles, but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

  

  Buddha

  LeaderNepal-563 · 6th century BC

  4.3 · 40 votes · 165 reads

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• The world has suffered more from the ravages of ill-advised marriages than from virginity.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  4.0 · 38 votes · 198 reads

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• There are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can't think of any living ones. This is probably because it is only in retrospect that one can see who made the important contributions.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.0 · 21 votes · 33 reads

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• There is no means of proving it is preferable to be than not to be.

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  Emil Cioran

  PhilosopherRomanian1911 · 20th century

  3.1 · 56 votes · 18 reads

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• There is no substitute for the comfort supplied by the utterly taken-for-granted relationship.

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  Iris Murdoch

  NovelistBritish1919 · 20th century

  3.3 · 41 votes · 141 reads

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• To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.3 · 30 votes · 63 reads

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• We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  4.6 · 42 votes · 131 reads

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• We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  3.9 · 41 votes · 95 reads

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• We should seek the greatest value of our action.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.3 · 52 votes · 74 reads

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• What a sound money system does is to stabilize all the elements in it, and reduces the uncertainty that people confront. And the one thing all human beings do when they are confronted with uncertainty is pull back, withdraw, disengage, and that means econ

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.6 · 16 votes · 98 reads

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• What is conservatism? It is not adherence to the old and tried, but against the new and untried?

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.0 · 54 votes · 195 reads

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• What was hard to suffer is sweet to remember.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.0 · 13 votes · 77 reads

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• Your next-door neighbour is not a man; he is an environment. He is the barking of a dog; he is the noise of a piano; he is a dispute about a party wall; he is drains that are worse than yours, or roses that are better than yours.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.4 · 18 votes · 87 reads

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