Quotes for June 2050 quotes · 43 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every June 20: the anniversary does not move.

• A clever man commits no minor blunders.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.8 · 29 votes · 158 reads

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• A judge who cannot punish, in the end associates themselves with the criminal.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.1 · 64 votes · 4 reads

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• Build bridges instead of walls and you will have a friend.

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  Anonymous

  3.6 · 15 votes · 176 reads

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• Comedy naturally wears itself out - destroys the very food on which it lives; and by constantly and successfully exposing the follies and weaknesses of mankind to ridicule, in the end leaves itself nothing worth laughing at.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  4.1 · 55 votes · 78 reads

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• Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.9 · 30 votes · 151 reads

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• Democracy give every man the right to be his own oppressor.

  

  James Russell Lowell

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  3.6 · 18 votes · 196 reads

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• Don't take the bull by the horns, take him by the tail; then you can let go when you want to.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  3.4 · 13 votes · 95 reads

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• Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.2 · 22 votes · 64 reads

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• Every right implies a responsibility; Every opportunity, an obligation, Every possession, a duty.

  

  Woody Allen

  ComedianAmerican1935 · 20th century

  4.8 · 41 votes · 73 reads

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• God, that checkroom of our dreams.

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  Jean Rostand

  PhilosopherFrench1894 · 19th century

  3.1 · 47 votes · 177 reads

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• Habits are cobwebs at first; cables at last.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  3.0 · 17 votes · 142 reads

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• Happiness is an agreeable sensation, arising from contemplating the misery of others.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  3.1 · 61 votes · 200 reads

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• I like snakes. I like hummingbirds. There's nothing on earth I don't like. Frogs. Salamanders. The bunnies, the giraffes, the hippopotamuses.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  4.1 · 56 votes · 158 reads

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• I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.5 · 38 votes · 163 reads

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• I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country.

  

  Silvio Berlusconi

  PoliticianItalian1936 · 20th century

  4.6 · 28 votes · 146 reads

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• If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.

  

  Paul Válery

  PoetFrench1871 · 19th century

  5.0 · 38 votes · 168 reads

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• In modern business it is not the crook who is to be feared most, it is the honest man who doesn't know what he is doing.

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  Owen D. Young

  LawyerAmerican1874 · 19th century

  3.9 · 7 votes · 114 reads

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• Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.6 · 19 votes · 29 reads

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• Let us be silent that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  5.0 · 10 votes · 183 reads

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• Lying and stealing are next door neighbours.

  

  Arabian proverb

  Arabian

  4.6 · 39 votes · 182 reads

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• Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  PoliticianFrench1769 · 18th century

  3.7 · 39 votes · 70 reads

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• Mind like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

  

  Charles Dickens

  NovelistBritish1812 · 19th century

  4.1 · 5 votes · 133 reads

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• Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them.

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  Richard Strauss

  MusicianGerman1864 · 19th century

  3.7 · 54 votes · 41 reads

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• Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society.

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  3.4 · 24 votes · 85 reads

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• Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.7 · 32 votes · 181 reads

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• One day your life will flash before your eyes. Make sure its worth watching.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 43 votes · 18 reads

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• One man gets nothing but discord out of a piano; another gets harmony. No one claims the piano is at fault. Life is about the same. The discord is there, and the harmony is there. Study to play it correctly, and it will give forth the beauty; play it fals

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 38 votes · 172 reads

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• People who make puns are like wanton boys that put coppers on the railroad tracks. They amuse themselves and other children, but their little trick may upset a freight train of conversation for the sake of a battered witticism.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.9 · 52 votes · 198 reads

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• Small debts are like small gun shot; they are rattling around us on all sides and one can scarcely escape being wounded. Large debts are like canons, they produce a loud noise, but are of little danger.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.3 · 12 votes · 82 reads

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• The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.3 · 28 votes · 17 reads

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• The highest reward for a person's toil is not what they get for it, but what they become by it.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  4.3 · 51 votes · 69 reads

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• The only true measure of success is the ratio between what we might have done and what we might have been on the one hand, and the thing we have made and the things we have made of ourselves on the other.

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  H. G. Wells

  AuthorAmerican1866 · 19th century

  4.2 · 61 votes · 92 reads

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• The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

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  William Cowper

  PoetBritish1731 · 18th century

  4.8 · 13 votes · 181 reads

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• The tools I need for my work are paper, tobacco, food, and a little whiskey.

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  William Cowper

  PoetBritish1731 · 18th century

  3.3 · 8 votes · 140 reads

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• There is no Frigate like a book to take us lands away nor any coursers like a page of prancing Poetry.

  

  Emily Dickinson

  PoetAmerican1830 · 19th century

  3.7 · 60 votes · 181 reads

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• This sort of adoration of the real is but a heightening of the beau ideal.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.4 · 54 votes · 78 reads

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• To be humble to superiors is duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.7 · 6 votes · 199 reads

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• To disregard what the world thinks of us is not only arrogant but utterly shameless.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.1 · 38 votes · 154 reads

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• Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes... but no plans.

  

  Peter Drucker

  BusinessmanAmerican1909 · 20th century

  3.2 · 61 votes · 11 reads

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• We must interpret a bad temper as a sign of inferiority.

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  Alfred Adler

  ScientistAustrian1870 · 19th century

  4.3 · 23 votes · 139 reads

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• What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?

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  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  PoetBritish1806 · 19th century

  3.0 · 7 votes · 111 reads

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• Whatever the dangers of the action we take, the dangers of inaction are far, far greater.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  3.0 · 52 votes · 41 reads

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• When I'm speaking of love, when I'm speaking of reversing hate, I'm speaking not only of reconciliation - even I don't use that word - I use another word in Spanish, that's called 'reencuentro' - it's not reconciliation.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  4.3 · 24 votes · 13 reads

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• Why are women so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  3.2 · 48 votes · 88 reads

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• Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  5.0 · 43 votes · 49 reads

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• Write without pay until somebody offers to pay you. If nobody offers within three years, sawing wood is what you were intended for.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.7 · 59 votes · 136 reads

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• You are merely not feeling equal to the tasks before you.

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  Dale Carnegie

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  4.1 · 44 votes · 24 reads

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• You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something - your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has n

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.5 · 29 votes · 159 reads

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• Young men know the rules, but old men know the exceptions.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.1 · 46 votes · 68 reads

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