Quotes for July 2747 quotes · 44 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every July 27: the anniversary does not move.

• Against stupidity; God Himself is helpless.

  

  Jewish proverb

  Jewish

  3.5 · 41 votes · 40 reads

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• Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

  

  Italian proverb

  Italian

  3.2 · 14 votes · 44 reads

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• Cruelty has a Human Heart, And jealousy a Human Face; Terror the Human Form Divine, And secrecy the Human Dress. The Human Dress is forged Iron, The Human Form a Fiery Forge, The Human Face a Furnace seal d, The Human Heart its hungry gorge.

  

  Will Rogers

  ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

  4.8 · 39 votes · 147 reads

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• Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  3.7 · 14 votes · 35 reads

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• Eighty percent of success is showing up.

  

  Woodrow T. Wilson

  PoliticianAmerican1856 · 19th century

  3.7 · 60 votes · 60 reads

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• Experience keeps a school, yet fools will learn in no other.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.7 · 55 votes · 161 reads

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• Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  3.3 · 6 votes · 86 reads

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• First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.2 · 52 votes · 111 reads

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• For Wealth are all things that conduce, to one's destruction or their use. A standard both to buy and sell, all things from heaven down to hell.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  5.0 · 42 votes · 43 reads

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• He who has made it a practice to lie and deceive his father, will be the most daring in deceiving others.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  4.3 · 36 votes · 19 reads

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• I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided b

  

  George Washington

  PoliticianAmerican1732 · 18th century

  3.1 · 59 votes · 54 reads

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• I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation when they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

  

  Martin Luther King Jr.

  LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century

  4.5 · 35 votes · 106 reads

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• I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think; books think for me.

  

  Charles Lamb

  EssayistEnglish1775 · 18th century

  4.2 · 41 votes · 48 reads

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• I would say the most satisfying thing actually is watching my three children each pick up on their own interests and work many more hours per week than most people that have jobs at trying to intelligently give away that money in fields that they particul

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.8 · 56 votes · 109 reads

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• I'm not in the business of reading tea leaves. I don't have a crystal ball.

  

  Christine Lagarde

  EconomistFrench1956 · 20th century

  3.7 · 53 votes · 184 reads

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• If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

  

  George Washington

  PoliticianAmerican1732 · 18th century

  4.7 · 13 votes · 70 reads

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• In conversation the game is, to say something new with old words. And you shall observe a man of the people picking his way along, step by step, using every time an old boulder, yet never setting his foot on an old place.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.8 · 12 votes · 9 reads

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• In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.1 · 61 votes · 171 reads

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• It is advisable that a person know at least three things, where they are, where they are going, and what they had best do under the circumstances.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  3.2 · 7 votes · 99 reads

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• It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  4.0 · 13 votes · 161 reads

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• It is not from reason and prudence that people marry, but from inclination.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.1 · 38 votes · 122 reads

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• It is twice the pleasure to deceive the deceiver.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine

  PoetFrench1621 · 17th century

  3.5 · 33 votes · 8 reads

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• It's quite complicated and sounds circular, but we've worked out a way of calculate a Web site's importance.

  

  Larry Page

  BusinessmanAmerican1973 · 20th century

  3.7 · 62 votes · 38 reads

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• Look up, laugh loud, talk big, keep the color in your cheek and the fire in your eye, adorn your person, maintain your health, your beauty and your animal spirits.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  4.5 · 12 votes · 132 reads

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• Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch is, and it darts away.

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  Dorothy Parker

  WriterAmerican1893 · 19th century

  4.2 · 11 votes · 120 reads

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• Man knows more than he understands.

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  Alfred Adler

  ScientistAustrian1870 · 19th century

  3.0 · 9 votes · 195 reads

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• My father was a research scientist in tropical medicine, so I always assumed I would be a scientist, too. I felt that medicine was too vague and inexact, so I chose physics.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.1 · 57 votes · 24 reads

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• No amount of political freedom will satisfy the hungry masses.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  3.9 · 50 votes · 48 reads

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• Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.2 · 31 votes · 92 reads

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• People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world.

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  Louisa May Alcott

  AuthorAmerican1832 · 19th century

  3.1 · 48 votes · 111 reads

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• Prerequisite for rereadability in books: that they be forgettable.

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  Jean Rostand

  PhilosopherFrench1894 · 19th century

  3.7 · 54 votes · 108 reads

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• Quarrels are the dowry which married folk bring one another.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  3.8 · 29 votes · 123 reads

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• Russia needs a strong state power and must have it. But I am not calling for totalitarianism.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  4.6 · 61 votes · 52 reads

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• Some great men owe most of their greatness to the ability of detecting in those they destine for their tools the exact quality of strength that matters for their work.

  

  Joseph Conrad

  NovelistBritish1857 · 19th century

  4.2 · 56 votes · 86 reads

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• Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.5 · 40 votes · 47 reads

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• Take heed of critics even when they are not fair; resist them even when they are.

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  Jean Rostand

  PhilosopherFrench1894 · 19th century

  3.5 · 14 votes · 38 reads

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• Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.

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  Robert Green Ingersoll

  PoliticianAmerican1833 · 19th century

  4.5 · 40 votes · 6 reads

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• The contemporary form of true greatness lies in a civilization founded on the spirituality of work.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  4.7 · 14 votes · 164 reads

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• The great critic must be a philosopher, for from philosophy he will learn serenity, impartiality, and the transitoriness of human things.

  

  W. H. Auden

  PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

  3.6 · 42 votes · 109 reads

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• The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.0 · 29 votes · 156 reads

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• There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

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  John Adams

  PoliticianAmerican1735 · 18th century

  3.8 · 27 votes · 0 reads

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• There is a noble manner of being poor, and who does not know it will never be rich.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.9 · 49 votes · 126 reads

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• Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  PoliticianAmerican1890 · 19th century

  4.7 · 18 votes · 10 reads

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• We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.2 · 19 votes · 173 reads

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• What is called generosity is usually only the vanity of giving; we enjoy the vanity more than the thing given.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.9 · 51 votes · 63 reads

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• Whenever a fellow tells me he is bipartisan, I know he's going to vote against me.

  

  Harry S. Truman

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  4.9 · 51 votes · 161 reads

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