Quotes for August 2652 quotes · 41 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every August 26: the anniversary does not move.

• A pun is not bound by the laws which limit nicer wit. It is a pistol let off at the ear; not a feather to tickle the intellect.

  

  Charles Lamb

  EssayistEnglish1775 · 18th century

  4.5 · 13 votes · 113 reads

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• A special kind of beauty exists which is born in language, of language, and for language.

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  Gaston Bachelard

  PoetFrench1884 · 19th century

  3.4 · 34 votes · 103 reads

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• All promise outruns performance.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.3 · 40 votes · 149 reads

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• And of all plagues with which mankind are cursed, ecclesiastic tyranny's the worst.

  

  Daniel Defoe

  AuthorBritish1660 · 17th century

  3.3 · 28 votes · 55 reads

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• Any alliance whose purpose is not the intention to wage war is senseless and useless.

  

  Adolf Hitler

  PoliticianGerman1889 · 19th century

  5.0 · 61 votes · 197 reads

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• Anyone who thinks my story is anywhere near over is sadly mistaken.

  

  Donald Trump

  BusinessmanAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.6 · 43 votes · 43 reads

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• Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  3.8 · 57 votes · 174 reads

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• Common sense is not so common.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  3.2 · 5 votes · 179 reads

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• Don't be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.

  

  Raymond Chandler

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  3.8 · 37 votes · 4 reads

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• Don't open a shop unless you like to smile.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  3.0 · 38 votes · 131 reads

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• Doubt is the key to knowledge.

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  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  PoetEnglish1792 · 18th century

  3.6 · 44 votes · 46 reads

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• Every worthwhile accomplishment, big or little, has its stages of drudgery and triumph; a beginning, a struggle and a victory.

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 53 votes · 57 reads

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• Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.4 · 34 votes · 62 reads

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• He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.

  

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  TheologianSwiss1741 · 18th century

  3.1 · 24 votes · 151 reads

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• I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1882 · 19th century

  3.7 · 20 votes · 138 reads

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• If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a better mousetrap, than his neighbour, though he build his house in the woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.3 · 48 votes · 81 reads

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• If He Tom Sawyer had been a great and wise philosopher, like the Writerof this book, he would now have comprehended that Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do and Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.0 · 51 votes · 34 reads

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• If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.5 · 37 votes · 23 reads

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• If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  4.3 · 25 votes · 167 reads

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• If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that understands and seizes opportunity can everything.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.6 · 37 votes · 155 reads

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• In marriage, a man becomes slack and selfish, and undergoes a fatty degeneration of his moral being.

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  Robert Green Ingersoll

  PoliticianAmerican1833 · 19th century

  4.3 · 48 votes · 63 reads

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• In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life. It goes on.

  

  Robert Burton

  EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century

  4.4 · 53 votes · 37 reads

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• It is not I who become addicted, it is my body.

  

  Jean Cocteau

  AuthorFrench1889 · 19th century

  5.0 · 22 votes · 148 reads

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• It takes less time to do a thing right than to explain why you did it wrong.

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  4.3 · 13 votes · 36 reads

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• Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a Writerto a lover of books.

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  Gaston Bachelard

  PoetFrench1884 · 19th century

  3.3 · 37 votes · 48 reads

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• Love is the bridge between two hearts.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 26 votes · 172 reads

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• Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  4.1 · 13 votes · 102 reads

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• No man tastes pleasures truly, who does not earn them by previous business; and few people do business well, who do nothing else.

  

  Lord Chesterfield

  PoliticianBritish1694 · 17th century

  4.5 · 54 votes · 178 reads

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• No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  4.6 · 51 votes · 144 reads

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• One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return.

  

  George Orwell

  NovelistBritish1903 · 20th century

  4.7 · 19 votes · 22 reads

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• Planning without action is futile, action without planning is fatal

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 26 votes · 90 reads

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• Realists do not fear the results of their study.

  

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  WriterRussian1821 · 19th century

  4.4 · 14 votes · 126 reads

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• Some of the Presidents were great and some of them weren't. I can say that, because I wasn't one of the great Presidents, but I had a good time trying to be one, I can tell you that.

  

  Harry S. Truman

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  3.5 · 31 votes · 42 reads

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• Talk well of your friends and of your enemies say nothing.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.0 · 59 votes · 191 reads

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• The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  4.7 · 21 votes · 197 reads

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• The legislature's job is to write law. It's the executive branch's job to interpret law.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.6 · 23 votes · 45 reads

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• The power which resides in man is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.6 · 49 votes · 8 reads

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• The superiority of one man's opinion over another's is never so great as when the opinion is about a woman.

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  Henry James

  AuthorAmerican-British1843 · 19th century

  4.9 · 32 votes · 113 reads

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• The ugly and the stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.9 · 22 votes · 6 reads

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• The voice of the Lord is the voice of common sense, which is shared by all that is.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  4.2 · 24 votes · 129 reads

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• There are moments when everything goes well, but don't be frightened.

  

  Jules Renard

  WriterFrench1864 · 19th century

  4.9 · 54 votes · 102 reads

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• There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.2 · 43 votes · 171 reads

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• There is that indescribable freshness and unconsciousness about an illiterate person that humbles and mocks the power of the noblest expressive genius.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  3.8 · 55 votes · 104 reads

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• There's nothing wrong with having nothing to say - unless you insist on saying it.

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  Anonymous

  3.9 · 30 votes · 55 reads

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• To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.7 · 19 votes · 161 reads

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• We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  3.1 · 42 votes · 111 reads

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• We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  3.0 · 16 votes · 174 reads

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• We've had cloning in the South for years. It's called cousins.

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  3.0 · 11 votes · 31 reads

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• When you have once seen the glow of happiness on the face of a beloved person, you know that a man can have no vocation but to awaken that light on the faces surrounding him; and you are torn by the thought of the unhappiness and night you cast, by the me

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  3.6 · 44 votes · 179 reads

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• Yes, America must do the right thing, but to provide moral leadership, America must do it in the right way, too.

  

  David Cameron

  PoliticianBritish1966 · 20th century

  3.0 · 50 votes · 191 reads

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• You can make the dream come true if you wake up and work.

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  Anonymous

  3.4 · 25 votes · 110 reads

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