Quotes for June 1648 quotes · 36 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every June 16: the anniversary does not move.

• A Freudian slip is when you say one thing but mean your mother.

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  Anonymous

  3.0 · 64 votes · 110 reads

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• Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.

  

  Lord Chesterfield

  PoliticianBritish1694 · 17th century

  3.7 · 63 votes · 26 reads

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• As long as I have health and strength, I will gladly work all my days.

  

  Frederic Chopin

  MusicianPolish1810 · 19th century

  3.4 · 25 votes · 38 reads

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• As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  3.8 · 56 votes · 74 reads

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• Aspire rather to be a hero than merely appear one.

  

  Baltasar Gracián

  WriterSpanish1601 · 17th century

  4.5 · 14 votes · 8 reads

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• Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

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  Queen Victoria

  RoyaltyBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.2 · 53 votes · 112 reads

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• Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfar

  

  Buddha

  LeaderNepal-563 · 6th century BC

  3.4 · 62 votes · 33 reads

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• Crime when it succeeds is called virtue.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.6 · 25 votes · 23 reads

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• Do good to your friends to keep them, to your enemies to win them.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  5.0 · 36 votes · 72 reads

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• Friends show me what I can do, foes teach me what I should do.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  3.9 · 47 votes · 145 reads

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• Growl all day and you'll feel dog tired all night.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 8 votes · 47 reads

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• He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.7 · 24 votes · 37 reads

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• Historians are prophets with their face turned backward.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  3.0 · 21 votes · 145 reads

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• I find that the Americans have no passions, they have appetites.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.7 · 10 votes · 196 reads

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• I will grow. I will become something new and grand, but no grander than I now am. Just as the sky will be different in a few hours, its present perfection and completeness is not deficient, so am I presently perfect and not deficient because I will be dif

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  3.0 · 20 votes · 89 reads

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• If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  4.4 · 16 votes · 182 reads

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• If you've never failed you've never tried.

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  Anonymous

  3.7 · 44 votes · 65 reads

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• It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  5.0 · 13 votes · 10 reads

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• It is foolish to lay out money for the purchase of repentance.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.7 · 9 votes · 158 reads

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• It is little that one gains by cleverness.

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 55 votes · 23 reads

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• Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.2 · 42 votes · 74 reads

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• Music should strike fire from the heart of man, and bring tears from the eyes of women.

  

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  MusicianGerman1770 · 18th century

  3.0 · 39 votes · 68 reads

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• My notion of the KGB came from romantic spy stories. I was a pure and utterly successful product of Soviet patriotic education.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  3.0 · 54 votes · 160 reads

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• Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.0 · 19 votes · 179 reads

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• One is not exposed to danger who, even when in safety is always on their guard.

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  Publilius Syrus

  WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC

  3.3 · 34 votes · 91 reads

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• Our ideals are our better selves.

  

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  EducatorAmerican1799 · 18th century

  3.4 · 26 votes · 64 reads

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• People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

  

  Isaac Asimov

  ScientistAmerican1920 · 20th century

  3.0 · 14 votes · 3 reads

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• Poetry is the achievement of the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.

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  Carl Sandburg

  PoetAmerican1878 · 19th century

  3.9 · 8 votes · 42 reads

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• Self-love is a balloon filled with wind, from which storms burst forth when one makes a puncture in it.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 63 votes · 89 reads

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• Soft pity enters an iron gate.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.6 · 38 votes · 140 reads

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• Tell the truth and shame the devil.

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  François Rabelais

  WriterFrench1495 · 15th century

  3.2 · 24 votes · 186 reads

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• The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.4 · 5 votes · 114 reads

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• The best teacher is very interactive.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.1 · 38 votes · 128 reads

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• The best way to end a war is not to begin it.

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 58 votes · 3 reads

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• The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose.

  

  Henry A. Kissinger

  PoliticianGerman1923 · 20th century

  5.0 · 20 votes · 158 reads

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• The effect of violent dislike between groups has always created an indifference to the welfare and honor of the state.

  

  Thomas Alva Edison

  ScientistAmerican1847 · 19th century

  4.0 · 16 votes · 59 reads

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• The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  3.9 · 63 votes · 1 reads

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• The thing about hip-hop today is it's smart, it's insightful. The way they can communicate a complex message in a very short space is remarkable.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  5.0 · 21 votes · 55 reads

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• The thing that we are trying to do at facebook, is just help people connect and communicate more efficiently.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg

  BusinessmanAmerican1984 · 20th century

  4.8 · 33 votes · 10 reads

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• The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

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  Paul Goodman

  AuthorAmerican1911 · 20th century

  3.7 · 31 votes · 72 reads

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• There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  3.9 · 38 votes · 80 reads

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• Think all you speak, but speak not all you think.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 40 votes · 2 reads

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• True contentment is a thing as active as agriculture. It is the power of getting out of any situation all that there is in it. It is arduous and it is rare.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.7 · 41 votes · 21 reads

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• We are only falsehood, duplicity, contradiction; we both conceal and disguise ourselves from ourselves.

  

  Blaise Pascal

  PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century

  4.1 · 47 votes · 55 reads

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• What is most original in a man's nature is often that which is most desperate. Thus new systems are forced on the world by men who simply cannot bear the pain of living with what is. Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique. If H

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  Leonard Cohen

  WriterCanadian1934 · 20th century

  3.7 · 10 votes · 99 reads

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• You may try but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's form of genius in you, and to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.8 · 58 votes · 177 reads

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• Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.5 · 59 votes · 194 reads

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