Quotes for June 443 quotes · 39 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every June 4: the anniversary does not move.

• ''My country, right or wrong'' is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying ''My mother, drunk or sober.''

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.1 · 57 votes · 112 reads

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• Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

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  Henry Brooks Adams

  NovelistAmerican1838 · 19th century

  4.9 · 21 votes · 163 reads

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• Anyone who has struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.

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  James Baldwin

  WriterAmerican1924 · 20th century

  4.1 · 56 votes · 81 reads

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• At the outset of the creation of the euro in 1999, it was expected that the southern eurozone economies would behave like those in the north; the Italians would behave like Germans. They didn't. Instead, northern Europe fell into subsidizing southern Euro

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.4 · 30 votes · 47 reads

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• Be sure that you go to the author to get at his meaning, not to find yours.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  3.2 · 43 votes · 137 reads

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• Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.9 · 38 votes · 42 reads

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• Every reasonable human being should be a moderate Socialist.

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  Thomas Kempis

  AuthorGerman1379 · 14th century

  3.7 · 12 votes · 194 reads

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• Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories... We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that's

  

  Mark Zuckerberg

  BusinessmanAmerican1984 · 20th century

  3.6 · 11 votes · 123 reads

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• He who has a mind to do mischief will always find a pretense.

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  Publilius Syrus

  WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC

  4.6 · 34 votes · 8 reads

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• Heat cannot be separated from fire, or beauty from the eternal.

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  Dante

  PoetItaly1265 · 13th century

  3.4 · 24 votes · 60 reads

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• Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  3.2 · 58 votes · 25 reads

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• I don't do any vulgar movements.

  

  Elvis Presley

  MusicianAmerican1935 · 20th century

  4.9 · 55 votes · 141 reads

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• I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.

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  Emily Bronte

  PoetBritish1818 · 19th century

  4.8 · 26 votes · 57 reads

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• If money be not they servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  4.4 · 17 votes · 177 reads

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• Importantly, in the 1930s, in the Great Depression, the Federal Reserve, despite its mandate, was quite passive and, as a result, financial crisis became very severe, lasted essentially from 1929 to 1933.

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  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  3.8 · 61 votes · 76 reads

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• In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

  

  René Descartes

  MathematicianFrench1596 · 16th century

  4.1 · 7 votes · 193 reads

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• In the future, my communications with the public and with the markets will be entirely through regular and formal channels.

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  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  4.2 · 6 votes · 170 reads

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• Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well-timed.

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  3.0 · 63 votes · 116 reads

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• Literature is analysis after the event.

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  Doris Lessing

  WriterBritish1919 · 20th century

  4.1 · 32 votes · 129 reads

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• Men have become the tools of their trade.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.3 · 57 votes · 132 reads

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• Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.6 · 35 votes · 17 reads

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• No one can be brave who considers pain to be the greatest evil in life, or can they be temperate who considers pleasure to be the highest good.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.9 · 40 votes · 16 reads

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• One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  3.0 · 20 votes · 59 reads

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• Our prejudices are our robbers, they rob us valuable things in life.

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  Anonymous

  4.5 · 13 votes · 164 reads

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• Patience, money and time bring all things to past.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  3.6 · 8 votes · 19 reads

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• People who wait for changes to occur on the outside before they commit to making changes on the inside will never make any changes at all.

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  Anonymous

  3.2 · 27 votes · 24 reads

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• Russia does not have in its possession any trustworthy data that supports the existence of nuclear weapons or any weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and we have not received any such information from our partners as yet.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  4.4 · 25 votes · 157 reads

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• Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

  

  Woody Allen

  ComedianAmerican1935 · 20th century

  3.4 · 20 votes · 152 reads

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• Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

  

  Donald Trump

  BusinessmanAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.9 · 14 votes · 67 reads

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• The best way to know God is to love many things.

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  Vilfredo Pareto

  EconomistItaly1848 · 19th century

  3.5 · 8 votes · 23 reads

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• The sway of alcohol over mankind is unquestionably due to its power to stimulate the mystical faculties of human nature, usually crushed to earth by the cold facts and dry criticisms of the sober hour. Sobriety diminishes, discriminates, and says no; drun

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  3.6 · 27 votes · 28 reads

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• The wisest have the most authority.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  3.5 · 28 votes · 58 reads

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• There are countries that are near ours which are in the situation which we all know. I want to say that this is not the case of Spain now and it will not be in the future.

  

  Mariano Rajoy

  PoliticianSpanish1955 · 20th century

  5.0 · 48 votes · 65 reads

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• There is no greater mistake than the hasty conclusion that opinions are worthless because they are badly argued.

  

  Thomas Fuller

  AuthorBritish1608 · 17th century

  3.6 · 34 votes · 131 reads

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• Things have never been more like the way they are today in history.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  PoliticianAmerican1890 · 19th century

  4.9 · 26 votes · 136 reads

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• To kill a relative of whom you are tired is something. But to inherit his property afterwards, that is genuine pleasure.

  

  Honore de Balzac

  NovelistFrench1799 · 18th century

  4.0 · 48 votes · 76 reads

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• Understanding is nothing else than conception caused by speech.

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  Thomas Hardy

  WriterBritish1840 · 19th century

  4.5 · 36 votes · 77 reads

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• We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.2 · 45 votes · 56 reads

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• When one has tasted it he knows what the angels eat.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.8 · 54 votes · 24 reads

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• Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which, before their union, were not perceived to have any relation.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.2 · 11 votes · 1 reads

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• Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  4.5 · 64 votes · 145 reads

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• You know, everybody makes mistakes when they are president.

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.1 · 9 votes · 177 reads

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