Quotes for June 1449 quotes · 43 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every June 14: the anniversary does not move.

• A man trying to sell a blind horse always praises its feet.

  

  German proverb

  German

  4.8 · 10 votes · 178 reads

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• All bodies are slow in growth but rapid in decay.

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  Publius Cornelius Tacitus

  WriterRoman55 · 1st century

  3.4 · 36 votes · 86 reads

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• America is the place where you cannot kill your government by killing the men who conduct it.

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century

  3.5 · 17 votes · 119 reads

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• Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 53 votes · 184 reads

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• Before you can do something you must first be something.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.4 · 58 votes · 186 reads

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• But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.3 · 19 votes · 84 reads

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• Egotist. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  3.1 · 48 votes · 173 reads

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• For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  4.0 · 11 votes · 35 reads

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• Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

  

  Theodore Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1858 · 19th century

  4.9 · 58 votes · 106 reads

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• Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.4 · 51 votes · 73 reads

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• Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.

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  Dean Acheson

  LawyerAmerican1893 · 19th century

  3.1 · 21 votes · 41 reads

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• I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don't know where I would be without it.

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  Thomas Kempis

  AuthorGerman1379 · 14th century

  4.4 · 14 votes · 91 reads

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• I have visited Japan several times and have always been shown wonderful hospitality.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.1 · 30 votes · 84 reads

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• If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.

  

  Woody Allen

  ComedianAmerican1935 · 20th century

  3.0 · 10 votes · 19 reads

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• If you're not comfortable with public speaking - and nobody starts out comfortable; you have to learn how to be comfortable - practice. I cannot overstate the importance of practicing. Get some close friends or family members to help evaluate you, or some

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.7 · 7 votes · 147 reads

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• In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll find out here's the other side. You'll be looking under the rock occasionally for the laughter.

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  3.5 · 32 votes · 31 reads

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• Let love give way to business; give attention to business and you will be safe.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  3.0 · 6 votes · 44 reads

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• Life has been compared to a race, but the allusion improves by observing, that the most swift are usually the least manageable and the most likely to stray from the course. Great abilities have always been less serviceable to the possessors than moderate

  

  Norman Vincent Peale

  AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century

  3.6 · 53 votes · 140 reads

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• Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. The nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of Balzac.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.1 · 13 votes · 37 reads

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• Love cannot express the idea of music, while music may give an idea of love.

  

  Hector Berlioz

  MusicianFrench1803 · 19th century

  4.7 · 40 votes · 113 reads

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• Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

  

  Mae West

  ComedianAmerican1893 · 19th century

  3.9 · 23 votes · 138 reads

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• Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  5.0 · 6 votes · 43 reads

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• Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  4.1 · 19 votes · 166 reads

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• Nothing is so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it to be expecting evil before it comes.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.5 · 41 votes · 39 reads

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• One must pass through the circumference of time before arriving at the center of opportunity.

  

  Baltasar Gracián

  WriterSpanish1601 · 17th century

  3.3 · 18 votes · 122 reads

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• People can be divided into two classes: those who go ahead and do something, and those who sit still and inquire, why wasn't it done the other way?

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.8 · 37 votes · 149 reads

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• Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  PoliticianAmerican1890 · 19th century

  3.6 · 54 votes · 71 reads

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• Reality is a prison, where one vegetates and always will. All the rest -thought, action -is just a pastime, mental or physical. What counts then, is to come to grips with reality. The rest can go.

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  Cesare Pavese

  PoetItaly1908 · 20th century

  5.0 · 10 votes · 91 reads

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• Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  4.3 · 27 votes · 191 reads

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• Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.

  

  David Ogilvy

  BusinessmanEnglish1911 · 20th century

  3.9 · 36 votes · 199 reads

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• Stung by the splendor of a sudden thought.

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  Robert Bresson

  Film directorFrench1901 · 20th century

  3.7 · 31 votes · 112 reads

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• Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.9 · 64 votes · 185 reads

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• The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.8 · 43 votes · 68 reads

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• The darkest hour is just before the dawn.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  3.8 · 36 votes · 44 reads

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• The Declaration on Strategic Partnership between India and Russia signed in October 2000 became a truly historic step. The developments in the first decade of the 21 century confirmed that it was a particularly significant and timely step.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  4.0 · 33 votes · 13 reads

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• The first evil those who are prone to talk suffer, is that they hear nothing.

  

  Plutarch

  EssayistGreek46 · 1st century

  3.9 · 46 votes · 7 reads

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• The mansion should not be graced by its master, the master should grace the mansion.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  3.3 · 43 votes · 157 reads

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• The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  5.0 · 33 votes · 46 reads

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• The unjustifiable severity of a parent is loaded with this aggravation, that those whom he injures are always in his sight.

  

  Joseph Addison

  PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century

  4.1 · 18 votes · 30 reads

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• There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.8 · 42 votes · 129 reads

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• There is a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  3.4 · 23 votes · 19 reads

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• We are all ruled in what we do by impulses; and these impulses are so organized that our actions in general serve for our self preservation and that of the race.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.0 · 22 votes · 154 reads

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• We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  3.6 · 44 votes · 64 reads

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• We reproach people for talking about themselves; but it is the subject they treat best.

  

  Anatole France

  WriterFrench1844 · 19th century

  3.1 · 17 votes · 38 reads

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• We, when we sow the seeds of doubt deeper than the most up-to-date and modish free-thought has ever dreamed of doing, we well know what we are about. Only out of radical skeptics, out of moral chaos, can the Absolute spring, the anointed Terror of which t

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  Thomas Kempis

  AuthorGerman1379 · 14th century

  4.0 · 38 votes · 42 reads

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• Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  5.0 · 18 votes · 14 reads

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• Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.

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  Neil Armstrong

  AstronautAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.9 · 31 votes · 158 reads

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• Where no hope is left, is left no fear.

  

  John Milton

  PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

  4.2 · 30 votes · 132 reads

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