Quotes for July 851 quotes · 40 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every July 8: the anniversary does not move.

• 'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, although there's nothing in it.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.5 · 50 votes · 11 reads

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• A skilful leech is better far, than half a hundred men of war.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  4.5 · 48 votes · 172 reads

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• A zero-gravity flight is a first step toward space travel.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.5 · 10 votes · 121 reads

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• Affliction, like the iron-smith, shapes as it smites.

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  Christian Nestell Bovee

  AuthorAmerican1820 · 19th century

  3.0 · 62 votes · 70 reads

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• Better to be known as a sinner than a hypocrite.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.1 · 50 votes · 35 reads

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• Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  3.5 · 12 votes · 169 reads

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• Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.5 · 8 votes · 110 reads

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• Every kind of music is good, except the boring kind.

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  Gioachino Rossini

  MusicianItalian1792 · 18th century

  4.3 · 9 votes · 148 reads

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• He who knows he who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool, shun him; He who knows not, and knows that he knows not, is a child, teach him. He who knows, and knows not that he knows, is asleep, wake him. He who knows, and knows that he know

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  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  PoetEnglish1792 · 18th century

  4.6 · 15 votes · 176 reads

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• I am a very committed European.

  

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  PoliticianPortuguese1956 · 20th century

  3.8 · 47 votes · 188 reads

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• I believe because it is impossible.

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  Tennessee Williams

  PlaywrightAmerican1911 · 20th century

  4.8 · 13 votes · 143 reads

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• I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.4 · 22 votes · 191 reads

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• I couldn't wait to get to the most powerful position, because I thought then I would be able to fix problems that only the leader can fix. But when I got there, I realized we needed revolutionary change.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  3.3 · 52 votes · 107 reads

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• I do not give money for just mere hopes.

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  Tennessee Williams

  PlaywrightAmerican1911 · 20th century

  3.1 · 5 votes · 51 reads

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• I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  3.0 · 31 votes · 68 reads

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• I'm sorry, if you were right, I'd agree with you.

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  3.9 · 17 votes · 53 reads

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• Ideas are, in truth, force.

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  Henry James

  AuthorAmerican-British1843 · 19th century

  4.0 · 33 votes · 120 reads

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• If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  3.8 · 52 votes · 32 reads

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• In solitude, where we are least alone.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.9 · 41 votes · 160 reads

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• It is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  4.6 · 13 votes · 38 reads

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• It is tact that is golden, not silence.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  4.4 · 9 votes · 164 reads

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• It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half.

  

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  WriterRussian1821 · 19th century

  4.0 · 39 votes · 99 reads

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• Keep a fair-sized cemetery in your back yard, in which to bury the faults of your friends.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  3.1 · 64 votes · 115 reads

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• Most people die before they are fully born. Creativeness means to be born before one dies.

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  Erich Fromm

  PhilosopherGerman1900 · 19th century

  5.0 · 7 votes · 169 reads

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• Music is given to us with the sole purpose of establishing an order in things, including, and particularly, the coordination between man and time.

  

  Igor Stravinsky

  MusicianRussian1882 · 19th century

  3.5 · 62 votes · 76 reads

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• My sun sets to rise again.

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  Robert Bresson

  Film directorFrench1901 · 20th century

  4.4 · 49 votes · 29 reads

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• Never forget public ignorance is the government's best friend.

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 46 votes · 169 reads

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• No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

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  Christian Nestell Bovee

  AuthorAmerican1820 · 19th century

  4.0 · 56 votes · 130 reads

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• Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.2 · 5 votes · 35 reads

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• Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions, only the dialectic of contrary views, some of which, all of which, may be untenable and even silly. A novelist should not b

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  Anthony Burgess

  AuthorEnglish1917 · 20th century

  4.9 · 45 votes · 59 reads

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• Once you consent to some concession, you can never cancel it and put things back the way they are.

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  Howard Hughes

  BusinessmanAmerican1905 · 20th century

  4.5 · 27 votes · 117 reads

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• One hour in the execution of justice is worth seventy years of prayer.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  3.2 · 38 votes · 146 reads

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• Only science and the spirit of seeking truth from facts can save China. I firmly believe in this.

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  Wen Jiabao

  PoliticianChinese1942 · 20th century

  3.4 · 8 votes · 144 reads

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• Ordinary riches can be stolen, real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.4 · 38 votes · 174 reads

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• Our grand business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.8 · 40 votes · 68 reads

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• Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

  

  Denis Diderot

  PhilosopherFrench1713 · 18th century

  4.9 · 42 votes · 56 reads

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• Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  PoliticianAmerican1890 · 19th century

  4.1 · 14 votes · 20 reads

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• People of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon and seldom drive business home to it's conclusion, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  4.2 · 63 votes · 104 reads

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• The characteristic of genuine heroism is its persistency. All men have wandering impulses, fits and starts of generosity. But when you have resolved to be great, abide by yourself, and do not weakly try to reconcile yourself with the world. The heroic can

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.3 · 25 votes · 100 reads

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• The Christian religion, though scattered and abroad will in the end gather itself together at the foot of the cross.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.9 · 60 votes · 19 reads

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• The end of man is action, and not thought, though it be of the noblest.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.1 · 60 votes · 198 reads

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• The injuries we do and the injuries we suffer are seldom weighed on the same scales.

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  Aesop

  WriterGreek-620 · 7th century BC

  3.6 · 9 votes · 13 reads

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• The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.7 · 29 votes · 93 reads

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• The true measure of a career is to be able to be content, even proud, that you succeeded through your own endeavors without leaving a trail of casualties in your wake.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.6 · 5 votes · 155 reads

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• To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.3 · 64 votes · 21 reads

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• Votes should be weighed not counted.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  3.5 · 30 votes · 135 reads

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• We become actors without realizing it, and actors without wanting to.

  

  Henri Frédéric Amiel

  WriterSwiss1821 · 19th century

  3.4 · 37 votes · 140 reads

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• When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds thinking about him and what he is going to say.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.0 · 26 votes · 4 reads

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• When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.8 · 51 votes · 23 reads

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• With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community colleges provide lifetime employability.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.8 · 27 votes · 37 reads

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