Quotes for July 2650 quotes · 44 authors

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

• A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.

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  Frank Lloyd Wright

  ArchitectAmerican1867 · 19th century

  3.3 · 32 votes · 167 reads

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• A man writes to throw off the poison which he has accumulated because of his false way of life. He is trying to recapture his innocence, yet all he succeeds in doing (by writing) is to inoculate the world with a virus of his disillusionment. No man would

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  4.0 · 57 votes · 150 reads

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• All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.2 · 45 votes · 16 reads

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• All men are alike in their lower natures; it is in their higher characters that they differ.

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  Christian Nestell Bovee

  AuthorAmerican1820 · 19th century

  4.6 · 25 votes · 200 reads

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• Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  4.3 · 54 votes · 173 reads

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• An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes, which can be made, in a very narrow field.

  

  Nicolas Chamfort

  WriterFrench1741 · 18th century

  4.2 · 62 votes · 184 reads

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• Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 16 votes · 140 reads

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• Beware of rashness, but with energy, and sleepless vigilance, go forward and give us victories.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.6 · 61 votes · 78 reads

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• But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.2 · 23 votes · 67 reads

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• Call the bald man, ''Boy;'' make the sage thy toy; greet the youth with solemn face; praise the fat man for his grace.

  

  Helen Rowland

  JournalistAmerican1875 · 19th century

  5.0 · 61 votes · 115 reads

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• Carpe per diem - seize the check.

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  4.9 · 49 votes · 5 reads

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• Cautiousness in judgment is nowadays to be recommended to each and every one: if we gained only one incontestable truth every ten years from each of our philosophical writers the harvest we reaped would be sufficient.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  4.6 · 19 votes · 129 reads

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• Cheese is milk's leap toward immortality.

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  Clifton Fadiman

  WriterAmerican1904 · 20th century

  4.2 · 25 votes · 66 reads

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• Don't steal; thou it never thus compete successfully in business. Cheat.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  4.9 · 8 votes · 5 reads

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• Even a mosquito doesn't get a pat on the back until he's well into his work.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 30 votes · 23 reads

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• First, whenever a man talks loudly against religion, always suspect that it is not his reason, but his passions, which have got the better of his creed. A bad life and a good belief are disagreeable and troublesome neighbours, and where they separate, dep

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  Laurence Sterne

  WriterBritish1713 · 18th century

  4.3 · 13 votes · 154 reads

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• Form ever follows function.

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  Louis Henry Sullivan

  ArchitectAmerican1856 · 19th century

  4.4 · 57 votes · 174 reads

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• History is but a confused heap of facts.

  

  Lord Chesterfield

  PoliticianBritish1694 · 17th century

  3.3 · 20 votes · 158 reads

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• I believe I and all the Chinese people have such a conviction that China will make continuous progress and the people's wishes for and needs for democracy and freedom are irresistible.

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  Wen Jiabao

  PoliticianChinese1942 · 20th century

  3.3 · 17 votes · 151 reads

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• I believe in Christianity as I believe in the rising sun; not because I see it, but by it I can see all else.

  

  C. S. Lewis

  AuthorIrish1898 · 19th century

  4.5 · 57 votes · 11 reads

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• I don't give a damn for man that can spell a word only one way.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.7 · 59 votes · 91 reads

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• I hold every man a debtor to his profession.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  5.0 · 53 votes · 33 reads

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• In endowing us with memory, nature has revealed to us a truth utterly unimaginable to the unreflective creation, the truth of immortality. The most ideal human passion is love, which is also the most absolute and animal and one of the most ephemeral.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  4.7 · 31 votes · 149 reads

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• It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed ''Wisdom.'' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: ''Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.''

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  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  PhilosopherAustrian1889 · 19th century

  5.0 · 49 votes · 178 reads

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• Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  5.0 · 37 votes · 99 reads

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• Living is death; dying is life. We are not what we appear to be. On this side of the grave we are exiles, on that citizens; on this side orphans, on that children;

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  4.7 · 19 votes · 58 reads

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• Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

  

  Anatole France

  WriterFrench1844 · 19th century

  4.5 · 33 votes · 115 reads

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• Man is made to adore and to obey: but if you will not command him, if you give him nothing to worship, he will fashion his own divinities, and find a chieftain in his own passions.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  5.0 · 12 votes · 146 reads

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• Men argue, nature acts.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  4.8 · 43 votes · 126 reads

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• Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

  

  Joseph Addison

  PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century

  3.5 · 39 votes · 143 reads

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• No one knows what he can do till he tries.

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  Publilius Syrus

  WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC

  3.9 · 42 votes · 10 reads

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• Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.9 · 5 votes · 185 reads

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• One of society's biggest problems today is that we've allowed relationships to be accepted as impermanent, particularly marriage.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 18 votes · 95 reads

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• Only in a house where one has learnt to be lonely does one have this solicitude for things. One's relation to them, the daily seeing or touching, begins to become love, and to lay one open to pain.

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  Elizabeth Bowen

  WriterIrish1899 · 19th century

  4.8 · 62 votes · 161 reads

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• Sincerity is the luxury allowed, like diadems and authority, only to the highest rank. Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.9 · 22 votes · 15 reads

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• The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance musi

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  Ezra Pound

  PoetAmerican1885 · 19th century

  4.8 · 7 votes · 17 reads

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• The best things and best people rise out of their separateness; I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

  

  Robert Burton

  EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century

  3.0 · 55 votes · 138 reads

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• The pain of the mind is worse than the pain of the body.

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  Publilius Syrus

  WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC

  3.4 · 56 votes · 69 reads

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• The rich were dull and they drank too much or they played too much backgammon. They were dull and they were repetitious. He remembered poor Julian and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, ''The very rich are different f

  

  Ernest Hemingway

  WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

  3.3 · 22 votes · 133 reads

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• There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  3.2 · 43 votes · 167 reads

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• There is no substitute for hard work.

  

  Theodore Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1858 · 19th century

  4.9 · 11 votes · 96 reads

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• Those who trust us educate us.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.0 · 49 votes · 64 reads

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• To keep a lamp burning we have to keep putting oil in it.

  

  Teresa of Calcutta

  MissionaryAlbanian1910 · 20th century

  3.1 · 39 votes · 108 reads

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• To live lightheartedly but not recklessly; to be gay without being boisterous; to be courageous without being bold; to show trust and cheerful resignation without fatalism - this is the art of living.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine

  PoetFrench1621 · 17th century

  4.9 · 39 votes · 120 reads

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• To turn really interesting ideas and fledgling technologies into a company that can continue to innovate for years, it requires a lot of disciplines.

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.8 · 38 votes · 190 reads

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• We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  4.0 · 52 votes · 68 reads

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• We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.8 · 30 votes · 19 reads

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• Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.7 · 59 votes · 188 reads

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• Words build bridges into unexplored regions.

  

  Adolf Hitler

  PoliticianGerman1889 · 19th century

  4.7 · 12 votes · 56 reads

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