Quotes for June 252 quotes · 45 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every June 2: the anniversary does not move.

• A man too busy to take care of his health is like a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard

  PhilosopherDanish1813 · 19th century

  4.8 · 42 votes · 144 reads

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• A successful marriage is an edifice that must be rebuilt every day.

  

  André Maurois

  WriterFrench1885 · 19th century

  4.0 · 26 votes · 111 reads

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• Advertising people who ignore research are as dangerous as generals who ignore decodes of enemy signals.

  

  David Ogilvy

  BusinessmanEnglish1911 · 20th century

  4.7 · 28 votes · 52 reads

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• Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken.

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  Abigail Adams

  PoliticianAmerican1744 · 18th century

  4.4 · 7 votes · 25 reads

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• Be curious, not judgmental.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  3.3 · 26 votes · 52 reads

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• Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  3.6 · 51 votes · 179 reads

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• Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

  

  Joseph Addison

  PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century

  4.8 · 39 votes · 54 reads

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• Commerce is a game of skill which everyone cannot play and few can play well.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.7 · 38 votes · 14 reads

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• Consul. In American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  3.6 · 56 votes · 12 reads

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• Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.6 · 13 votes · 107 reads

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• Egotism is the source and summary of all faults and miseries.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.6 · 49 votes · 88 reads

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• Facts and truth really don't have much to do with each other.

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  William Cowper

  PoetBritish1731 · 18th century

  3.3 · 10 votes · 0 reads

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• For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot an

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  Robert Green Ingersoll

  PoliticianAmerican1833 · 19th century

  3.7 · 20 votes · 189 reads

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• Happiness and virtue rest upon each other; the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

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  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

  PoliticianBritish1803 · 19th century

  4.5 · 16 votes · 56 reads

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• He who cannot limit himself will never know how to write.

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  Nicola Abbagnano

  PhilosopherItaly1901 · 20th century

  3.5 · 43 votes · 200 reads

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• I attempt an arduous task; but there is no worth in that which is not a difficult achievement.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  4.6 · 26 votes · 169 reads

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• I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a Writerhas to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.

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  Ezra Pound

  PoetAmerican1885 · 19th century

  4.1 · 63 votes · 128 reads

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• I look on that man as happy, who, when there is question of success, looks into his work for a reply.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.7 · 14 votes · 130 reads

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• I think more of the little kids from a school in a little village in Niger who get teaching two hours a day, sharing one chair for three of them, and who are very keen to get an education. I have them in my mind all the time. Because I think they need eve

  

  Christine Lagarde

  EconomistFrench1956 · 20th century

  4.1 · 13 votes · 121 reads

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• If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  3.0 · 44 votes · 138 reads

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• If an educational act is to be efficacious, it will be only that one which tends to help toward the complete unfolding of life. To be thus helpful it is necessary rigorously to avoid the arrest of spontaneous movements and the imposition of arbitrary task

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  Maria Montessori

  EducatorItaly1870 · 19th century

  4.6 · 26 votes · 173 reads

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• Imagination rules the world.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  4.0 · 18 votes · 18 reads

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• Indeed, in general, healthy investment returns cannot be sustained in a weak economy, and of course it is difficult to save for retirement or other goals without the income from a job.

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  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  5.0 · 26 votes · 27 reads

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• Life never becomes a habit to me. It's always a marvel.

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  Katherine Mansfield

  WriterEnglish1888 · 19th century

  3.0 · 19 votes · 198 reads

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• Man is emphatically a proselytizing creature.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.6 · 52 votes · 89 reads

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• Marriage is the operation by which a woman's vanity and a man's egotism are extracted without an anaesthetic.

  

  Helen Rowland

  JournalistAmerican1875 · 19th century

  3.2 · 29 votes · 24 reads

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• Nature, more of a stepmother than a mother in several ways, has sown a seed of evil in the hearts of mortals, especially in the more thoughtful men, which makes them dissatisfied with their own lot and envious of another s.

  

  Erasmus of Rotterdam

  TheologianDutch1466 · 15th century

  3.4 · 31 votes · 149 reads

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• Old books, you know well, are books of the world's youth, and new books are the fruits of its age.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.6 · 18 votes · 58 reads

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• Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.3 · 53 votes · 16 reads

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• People love conspiracy theories.

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  Neil Armstrong

  AstronautAmerican1930 · 20th century

  4.4 · 14 votes · 53 reads

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• Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  3.9 · 35 votes · 140 reads

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• Politicians - power itself - are abject because they merely embody the profound contempt people have for their own lives. One should be grateful to the politicians for accepting the abstractness of power, and ridding others of its burden. This inevitably

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  Jean Baudrillard

  PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century

  3.3 · 53 votes · 8 reads

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• Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  4.9 · 35 votes · 193 reads

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• Rage cannot be hidden, it can only be dissembled. This dissembling deludes the thoughtless, and strengthens rage and adds, to rage, contempt.

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  James Baldwin

  WriterAmerican1924 · 20th century

  3.6 · 39 votes · 41 reads

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• Seek the friend who's hand helped you and tell them what they mean to you.

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 9 votes · 25 reads

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• Simple solutions seldom are. It takes a very unusual mind to undertake analysis of the obvious.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead

  MathematicianEnglish1861 · 19th century

  5.0 · 63 votes · 74 reads

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• Some people lose their health getting wealth and then lose their wealth gaining health.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 44 votes · 120 reads

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• The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actor

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  W. C. Fields

  ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.3 · 27 votes · 163 reads

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• The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

  

  Joseph Joubert

  French1754 · 18th century

  4.8 · 61 votes · 89 reads

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• The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.4 · 5 votes · 71 reads

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• The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.2 · 36 votes · 72 reads

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• The Galilean is not a favorite of mine. So far from owing him any thanks for his favor, I cannot avoid confessing that I owe a secret grudge to his carpentership.

  

  Pearl S. Buck

  NovelistAmerican1892 · 19th century

  4.6 · 47 votes · 79 reads

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• The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  4.3 · 24 votes · 184 reads

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• There is a strange charm in the thoughts of a good legacy, or the hopes of an estate, which wondrously removes or at least alleviates the sorrow that men would otherwise feel for the death of friends.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  3.3 · 51 votes · 46 reads

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• Thoughts is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible; thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  4.0 · 35 votes · 126 reads

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• Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.0 · 29 votes · 120 reads

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• We have inherited the past; we can create the future.

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  Anonymous

  3.5 · 63 votes · 186 reads

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• We were united not only by political respect for each other, but also by deep mutual sympathy as people.

  

  Helmut Kohl

  PoliticianGerman1930 · 20th century

  3.8 · 20 votes · 18 reads

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• What ever the motive for the insult, it is always best to overlook it; for folly doesn't deserve resentment, and malice is punished by neglect.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.0 · 62 votes · 56 reads

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• When angry, count four; when very angry, swear.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.3 · 50 votes · 188 reads

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• Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.0 · 22 votes · 96 reads

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