Quotes for June 3047 quotes · 37 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every June 30: the anniversary does not move.

• A man's feet must be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  3.2 · 14 votes · 68 reads

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• A person is never happy till their vague strivings has itself marked out its proper limitations.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.9 · 14 votes · 188 reads

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• An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense... that gold and economic freedom are inseparable.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.2 · 5 votes · 18 reads

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• Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.5 · 26 votes · 61 reads

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• Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.1 · 23 votes · 74 reads

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• But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  4.3 · 34 votes · 157 reads

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• By the work one knows the workmen.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine

  PoetFrench1621 · 17th century

  3.7 · 5 votes · 154 reads

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• Grief that is dazed and speechless is out of fashion: the modern woman mourns her husband loudly and tells you the whole story of his death, which distresses her so much that she forgets not the slightest detail about it.

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  4.8 · 23 votes · 55 reads

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• Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  3.8 · 21 votes · 187 reads

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• Hundreds of thousands of American servicemen and women are deployed across the world in the war on terror. By bringing hope to the oppressed, and delivering justice to the violent, they are making America more secure.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.8 · 14 votes · 153 reads

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• I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4 will be fought with sticks and stones.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  3.8 · 52 votes · 13 reads

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• I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.7 · 11 votes · 59 reads

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• I sometimes lack confidence in public, although I am proud enough inwardly.

  

  Robert Schumann

  MusicianGerman1810 · 19th century

  4.9 · 10 votes · 83 reads

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• I think that more flow of information, the ability to stay connected to more people makes people more effective as people. And I mean, that's true socially. It makes you have more fun, right. It feels better to be more connected to all these people. You h

  

  Mark Zuckerberg

  BusinessmanAmerican1984 · 20th century

  3.2 · 62 votes · 110 reads

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• If nobody dropped out of eighth grade, who would hire the college graduates?

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 28 votes · 56 reads

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• If you believe you can make a difference, not just in politics, in public service, in advocacy around all these important issues, then you have to be prepared to accept that you are not going to get 100 percent approval.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.2 · 25 votes · 11 reads

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• In my opinion, the most fruitful and natural play of the mind is in conversation. I find it sweeter than any other action in life; and if I were forced to choose, I think I would rather lose my sight than my hearing and voice. The study of books is a drow

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  4.0 · 18 votes · 156 reads

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• In order to create there must be a dynamic force, and what force is more potent than love?

  

  Igor Stravinsky

  MusicianRussian1882 · 19th century

  5.0 · 51 votes · 64 reads

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• It is psychological law that whatever we desire to accomplish we must impress upon the subjective or subconscious mind.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.6 · 25 votes · 13 reads

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• Look at climate change; don't put your head in the sand. Understand that it is going to have profound effects on our resources and so much else.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.0 · 13 votes · 182 reads

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• Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise.

  

  George Orwell

  NovelistBritish1903 · 20th century

  4.0 · 20 votes · 137 reads

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• Never work before breakfast. If you have to work before breakfast, get your breakfast first.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  4.9 · 27 votes · 83 reads

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• No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  5.0 · 39 votes · 149 reads

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• Nobody should have any illusion about the possibility of gaining military superiority over Russia. We will never allow this to happen.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  4.2 · 12 votes · 159 reads

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• Nothing is so contagious as enthusiasm.

  

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

  4.5 · 46 votes · 57 reads

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• Of what worth are convictions that bring not suffering?

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  WriterFrench1900 · 19th century

  4.7 · 17 votes · 146 reads

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• One man with a gun can control 100 without one.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  3.6 · 48 votes · 23 reads

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• One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.1 · 9 votes · 79 reads

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• People are much more willing to lend you books than bookcases.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.3 · 53 votes · 136 reads

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• People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be ''consistent.''

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.9 · 58 votes · 174 reads

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• Recommend virtue to your children; it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.

  

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  MusicianGerman1770 · 18th century

  3.2 · 18 votes · 7 reads

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• Rough diamonds may sometimes be mistaken for worthless pebbles.

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  Sir John Eliot

  PoliticianBritish1592 · 16th century

  4.1 · 16 votes · 10 reads

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• Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.1 · 38 votes · 172 reads

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• That must be wonderful; I have no idea of what it means.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  5.0 · 43 votes · 123 reads

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• The best way to make children good is to make them happy.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.8 · 47 votes · 121 reads

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• The mind is the result of the torments the flesh undergoes or inflicts upon itself.

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  Emil Cioran

  PhilosopherRomanian1911 · 20th century

  4.4 · 19 votes · 35 reads

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• The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.2 · 33 votes · 184 reads

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• The trouble with parents is that by the time they are experienced, they are unemployed.

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 18 votes · 191 reads

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• There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.

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  H. G. Wells

  AuthorAmerican1866 · 19th century

  3.9 · 32 votes · 163 reads

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• There is such a thing as food and such a thing as poison. But the damage done by those who pass off poison as food is far less than that done by those who generation after generation convince people that food is poison.

  

  Paul Géraldy

  PoetFrench1885 · 19th century

  3.8 · 52 votes · 53 reads

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• Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty.

  

  Rudyard Kipling

  WriterBritish1865 · 19th century

  3.9 · 54 votes · 42 reads

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• To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  4.5 · 11 votes · 166 reads

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• To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  4.8 · 26 votes · 179 reads

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• To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.1 · 62 votes · 48 reads

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• We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.2 · 39 votes · 124 reads

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• Wisdom is found only in truth.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.4 · 58 votes · 30 reads

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