Quotes for July 2146 quotes · 42 authors

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

• A great man stands on God. A small man on a great man.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.6 · 6 votes · 87 reads

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• An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.3 · 24 votes · 68 reads

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• Anecdotes and maxims are rich treasures to the man of the world, for he knows how to introduce the former at fit place in conversation.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.0 · 15 votes · 125 reads

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• At every trifle take offense, that always shows great pride or little sense.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  3.0 · 26 votes · 166 reads

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• Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it's always your choice.

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  4.4 · 29 votes · 149 reads

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• Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.0 · 25 votes · 148 reads

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• Celebrity is the advantage of being known to people who we don't know, and who don't know us.

  

  Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

  PoetFrench1636 · 17th century

  3.7 · 14 votes · 77 reads

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• Extremism thrives amid ignorance and anger, intimidation and cowardice.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.3 · 9 votes · 53 reads

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• Geologists have a saying - rocks remember.

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  Neil Armstrong

  AstronautAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.0 · 17 votes · 186 reads

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• He cannot be strict in judging, who does not wish others to be strict judges of himself.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  3.9 · 14 votes · 54 reads

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• His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

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  Anonymous

  4.5 · 37 votes · 9 reads

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• I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

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  Katherine Mansfield

  WriterEnglish1888 · 19th century

  4.7 · 34 votes · 54 reads

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• I had to abandon free market principles in order to save the free market system.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.2 · 21 votes · 172 reads

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• I would be delighted if the United States could have a positive relationship with Russia, and I would be thrilled if the Russian people, who are so capable, had a normal country that they could chart a different future.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.5 · 49 votes · 134 reads

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• If the relationship of father to son could really be reduced to biology, the whole earth would blaze with the glory of fathers and sons.

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  James Baldwin

  WriterAmerican1924 · 20th century

  3.5 · 57 votes · 118 reads

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• If there were only turnips and potatoes in the world, someone would complain that plants grow the wrong way.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  3.4 · 13 votes · 116 reads

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• If we are to judge of love by its consequences, it more nearly resembles hatred than friendship.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.7 · 21 votes · 83 reads

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• In a unified and diverse Spain, based on the equality of and solidarity between its people, there is room for all of us. And for all of our feelings and sensitivities and our distinct ways of being Spaniards.

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  Felipe VI

  RoyaltySpanish1968 · 20th century

  3.6 · 15 votes · 71 reads

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• Let us train our minds to desire what the situation demands.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.9 · 18 votes · 146 reads

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• Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that must be humored and coaxed a little till it falls asleep, and then all the care is over.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale

  AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century

  3.7 · 64 votes · 62 reads

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• No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.8 · 22 votes · 175 reads

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• One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it.

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  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  PoetEnglish1792 · 18th century

  3.6 · 62 votes · 157 reads

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• Silence is the perfectos herald of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.0 · 49 votes · 177 reads

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• Skill makes love unending.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  5.0 · 46 votes · 182 reads

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• Spring is nature's way of saying, 'Let's party!'

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  4.3 · 51 votes · 11 reads

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• Terrorism has no nationality or religion.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  3.9 · 55 votes · 35 reads

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• That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

  

  Anatole France

  WriterFrench1844 · 19th century

  3.8 · 52 votes · 112 reads

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• That which has been believed by everyone, always and everywhere, has every chance of being false.

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  Paul Goodman

  AuthorAmerican1911 · 20th century

  3.6 · 14 votes · 156 reads

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• The art of life is the art of avoiding pain; and he is the best pilot, who steers clearest of the rocks and shoals with which it is beset.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  3.3 · 12 votes · 101 reads

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• The Creator has not given you a longing to do that which you have no ability to do.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.5 · 36 votes · 72 reads

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• The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  4.0 · 22 votes · 184 reads

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• The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles.

  

  Karl Marx

  EconomistGerman1818 · 19th century

  3.6 · 48 votes · 42 reads

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• The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  4.3 · 21 votes · 124 reads

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• The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  4.5 · 46 votes · 198 reads

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• There are ways which lead to everything, and if we have sufficient will we should always have sufficient means.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.2 · 54 votes · 109 reads

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• Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God.

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  Felix Mendelssohn

  MusicianGerman1809 · 19th century

  3.8 · 15 votes · 23 reads

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• To have a grievance is to have a purpose in life.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  4.3 · 47 votes · 163 reads

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• Truth of a modest sort I can promise you, and also sincerity. That complete, praiseworthy sincerity which, while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies, is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.

  

  Joseph Conrad

  NovelistBritish1857 · 19th century

  3.6 · 26 votes · 166 reads

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• Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.

  

  James Russell Lowell

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  4.7 · 34 votes · 146 reads

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• Unquiet souls. In the dark fermentation of earth, in the never idle workshop of nature, in the eternal movement, yea shall find yourselves again.

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  Matthew Arnold

  PoetBritish1822 · 19th century

  3.2 · 11 votes · 180 reads

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• When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  4.6 · 45 votes · 106 reads

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• When you go back and look at American history, it's not terribly different from Canadian history. If you weren't self-reliant on the prairie, you wouldn't survive.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.1 · 49 votes · 145 reads

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• Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.0 · 20 votes · 71 reads

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• Yesterday the greatest question was decided which ever was debated in America; and a greater perhaps never was, nor will be, decided among men. A resolution was passed without one dissenting colony, ''that these United Colonies are, and of right ought to

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  John Adams

  PoliticianAmerican1735 · 18th century

  4.0 · 6 votes · 77 reads

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• You'll never succeed in idealizing hard work. Before you can dig mother earth you've got to take off your ideal jacket. The harder a man works, at brute labor, the thinner becomes his idealism, the darker his mind.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

  WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century

  3.6 · 60 votes · 5 reads

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