Quotes for August 3149 quotes · 47 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every August 31: the anniversary does not move.

• A book should be luminous not voluminous.

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  Christian Nestell Bovee

  AuthorAmerican1820 · 19th century

  3.7 · 52 votes · 189 reads

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• A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.

  

  Henri Poincaré

  MathematicianFrench1854 · 19th century

  4.1 · 10 votes · 190 reads

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• A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.0 · 62 votes · 25 reads

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• An old man loved is winter with flowers.

  

  German proverb

  German

  3.5 · 38 votes · 14 reads

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• And if your friend does evil to you, say to him, ''I forgive you for what you did to me, but how can I forgive you for what you did to yourself?''

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.5 · 16 votes · 128 reads

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• Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

  

  Joseph Addison

  PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century

  3.1 · 43 votes · 130 reads

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• At the beginning of the 60's our country called the foreign workers to come to Germany and now they live in our country. We kidded ourselves a while, we said: 'They won't stay, sometime they will be gone.' But this isn't reality.

  

  Angela Merkel

  PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century

  4.4 · 40 votes · 65 reads

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• Buddhism is not a creed, it is a doubt.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.1 · 15 votes · 56 reads

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• Folly is perennial, yet the human race has survived.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  4.2 · 64 votes · 112 reads

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• For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; the worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  3.5 · 19 votes · 131 reads

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• He who feels no compassion will become insane.

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 20 votes · 141 reads

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• I don't judge a regime by the damning criticism of the opposition, but by the ingenuous praise of the partisan.

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  Jean Rostand

  PhilosopherFrench1894 · 19th century

  4.3 · 54 votes · 138 reads

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• I helped to restore America's leadership.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  5.0 · 43 votes · 69 reads

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• I know myself, but that is all.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 60 votes · 19 reads

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• I seated ugliness on my knee, and almost immediately grew tired of it.

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  Salman Rushdie

  NovelistIndian1947 · 20th century

  5.0 · 37 votes · 122 reads

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• I would've loved to have been in a band, but sadly I just wasn't good enough.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  3.6 · 53 votes · 55 reads

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• If all else fails, the character of a man can be recognized by nothing so surely as by a jest which he takes badly.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  4.6 · 45 votes · 174 reads

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• If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  4.3 · 62 votes · 163 reads

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• If you are afraid of being lonely, don't try to be right.

  

  Jules Renard

  WriterFrench1864 · 19th century

  3.5 · 22 votes · 101 reads

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• If you can't get people to listen to you any other way, tell them it's confidential.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  3.1 · 58 votes · 20 reads

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• In the 2013 Economists Program, we hired 51 percent women, 49 percent men. And the reason for that is that we have a draft from all over the world, and we've hired, for instance, in that group, a good number of Chinese economists - highly qualified, all P

  

  Christine Lagarde

  EconomistFrench1956 · 20th century

  4.1 · 8 votes · 132 reads

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• It is kindness to refuse immediately what you intend to deny.

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  Publilius Syrus

  WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC

  3.2 · 6 votes · 172 reads

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• It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.

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  John Updike

  WriterAmerican1932 · 20th century

  3.1 · 45 votes · 94 reads

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• Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

  

  George Orwell

  NovelistBritish1903 · 20th century

  3.4 · 10 votes · 87 reads

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• Let a man once overcome his selfish terror at his own infinitude, and his infinitude is, in one sense, overcome.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  3.2 · 25 votes · 92 reads

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• Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.

  

  Charles Chaplin

  AuthorEnglish1889 · 19th century

  4.3 · 56 votes · 45 reads

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• Literature is news that stays news.

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  Ezra Pound

  PoetAmerican1885 · 19th century

  3.7 · 32 votes · 164 reads

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• Man who stand on hill with mouth open will wait long time for roast duck to drop in.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  4.3 · 46 votes · 105 reads

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• Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.7 · 51 votes · 117 reads

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• Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

  

  Fidel Castro

  PoliticianCuba1926 · 20th century

  3.8 · 58 votes · 37 reads

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• Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly.

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  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  PoetBritish1806 · 19th century

  4.5 · 52 votes · 85 reads

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• No man or woman can be strong, gentle, pure, and good, without the world being better for it and without someone being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.

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  Peter Ustinov

  WriterBritish1921 · 20th century

  4.9 · 63 votes · 8 reads

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• Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what we are given by the senses.

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  Hannah Arendt

  PoliticianGerman1906 · 20th century

  3.0 · 26 votes · 118 reads

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• Opportunity often comes in disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  4.0 · 15 votes · 65 reads

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• People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale

  AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century

  3.3 · 61 votes · 34 reads

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• Practice conquers the habit of doing, without reflecting on the rule.

  

  John Locke

  PhilosopherEnglish1632 · 17th century

  3.2 · 25 votes · 128 reads

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• Terrorist attacks can shake the foundations of our biggest buildings, but they cannot touch the foundation of America. These acts shatter steel, but they cannot dent the steel of American resolve.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  5.0 · 21 votes · 102 reads

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• That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened.

  

  William Wordsworth

  PoetEnglish1770 · 18th century

  5.0 · 27 votes · 156 reads

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• The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.6 · 11 votes · 142 reads

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• The desire of knowledge, like the thirst for riches, increases ever with the acquisition of it.

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  Laurence Sterne

  WriterBritish1713 · 18th century

  4.3 · 40 votes · 63 reads

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• The foundations of a person are not in matter but in spirit.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.8 · 57 votes · 129 reads

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• The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.

  

  Raymond Chandler

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  3.0 · 28 votes · 196 reads

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• The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  3.5 · 58 votes · 141 reads

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• The Republicans have their splits right after election and Democrats have theirs just before an election.

  

  Wentworth Dillon

  PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century

  4.4 · 57 votes · 23 reads

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• There are moments when, faced with our lack of success, I wonder whether we are failures, proud but impotent. One thing reassures me as to our value: the boredom that afflicts us. It is the hall-mark of quality in modern men.

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  Edmond de Goncourt

  WriterFrench1822 · 19th century

  3.4 · 46 votes · 1 reads

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• We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

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  James Truslow Adams

  WriterAmerican1878 · 19th century

  3.3 · 27 votes · 145 reads

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• What comes from the heart, goes to the heart.

  

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

  3.5 · 18 votes · 65 reads

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• When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  4.2 · 43 votes · 178 reads

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