Quotes for June 746 quotes · 41 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every June 7: the anniversary does not move.

• A committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but who, as a group, can meet and decide that nothing can be done.

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 8 votes · 144 reads

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• A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

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  Truman Capote

  AuthorAmerican1924 · 20th century

  3.2 · 9 votes · 143 reads

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• A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

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  Ezra Pound

  PoetAmerican1885 · 19th century

  3.9 · 40 votes · 177 reads

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• A man's character is the reality of himself; his reputation, the opinion others have formed about him; character resides in him, reputation in other people; that is the substance, this is the shadow.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  4.3 · 46 votes · 159 reads

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• An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  3.6 · 19 votes · 161 reads

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• Any genuine philosophy leads to action and from action back again to wonder, to the enduring fact of mystery.

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  4.0 · 24 votes · 124 reads

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• Any healthy man can go without food for two days - but not without poetry.

  

  Charles Baudelaire

  PoetFrench1821 · 19th century

  3.2 · 55 votes · 105 reads

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• Human progress has never been shaped by commentators, complainers or cynics.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  4.5 · 62 votes · 62 reads

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• I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top.

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  John Keats

  PoetBritish1795 · 18th century

  5.0 · 26 votes · 152 reads

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• I am the commander in chief of the United States armed forces, and Iraq is gonna have to ultimately provide for its own security.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.4 · 58 votes · 85 reads

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• I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity an obligation; every possession, a duty.

  

  Woody Allen

  ComedianAmerican1935 · 20th century

  4.8 · 21 votes · 143 reads

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• If you are ambitious of climbing up to the difficult, and in a manner inaccessible, summit of the Temple of Fame, your surest way is to leave on one hand the narrow path of Poetry, and follow the narrower track of Knight-Errantry, which in a trice may rai

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  3.5 · 7 votes · 37 reads

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• If you would attain greatness, think no little thoughts.

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  Anonymous

  3.7 · 41 votes · 30 reads

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• In preparing for battle I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  PoliticianAmerican1890 · 19th century

  4.6 · 41 votes · 176 reads

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• Incompatibility: In matrimony a similarity of tastes, particularly the taste for domination.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  4.7 · 16 votes · 43 reads

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• It still holds true that man is most uniquely human when he turns obstacles into opportunities.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  4.7 · 36 votes · 106 reads

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• Learn to follow counsel, serve faithfully, and magnify your calling, for God's kingdom is a kingdom of order.

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  Anonymous

  3.6 · 48 votes · 114 reads

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• Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  WriterFrench1900 · 19th century

  4.9 · 57 votes · 55 reads

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• Music is the one incorporeal entrance into the higher world of knowledge which comprehends mankind but which mankind cannot comprehend.

  

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  MusicianGerman1770 · 18th century

  3.5 · 33 votes · 167 reads

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• Never was a miser a brave soul.

  

  George Herbert

  PoetBritish1593 · 16th century

  3.8 · 13 votes · 44 reads

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• Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  4.3 · 10 votes · 28 reads

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• No one ever became great by imitation.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.8 · 52 votes · 131 reads

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• Oxford, the paradise of dead philosophies.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  4.3 · 30 votes · 142 reads

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• Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  3.0 · 30 votes · 133 reads

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• Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

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  Leonard Cohen

  WriterCanadian1934 · 20th century

  3.7 · 17 votes · 66 reads

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• Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

  

  John Locke

  PhilosopherEnglish1632 · 17th century

  3.5 · 11 votes · 14 reads

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• The American taxpayer should not be treated more shabbily than debtors from other nations and we should be encouraging other nations to help rebuild Iraq's economy.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.9 · 14 votes · 37 reads

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• The army is under orders to defend every place.

  

  Helmut Kohl

  PoliticianGerman1930 · 20th century

  3.1 · 38 votes · 52 reads

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• The child is not to be educated for the present, but for the remote future, and often is opposition to the immediate future.

  

  Jean Paul

  ComedianGerman1763 · 18th century

  3.3 · 30 votes · 39 reads

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• The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?'

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.7 · 8 votes · 91 reads

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• The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits whic

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.5 · 50 votes · 1 reads

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• The most dangerous people are the ignorant.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  3.7 · 35 votes · 139 reads

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• The only people who like change are wet babies.

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 59 votes · 197 reads

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• The strong man is strongest when alone.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  4.0 · 34 votes · 25 reads

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• There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.9 · 21 votes · 61 reads

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• There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  5.0 · 7 votes · 108 reads

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• Things must be done by parties, not by persons using parties as tools.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  4.1 · 39 votes · 200 reads

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• To be sure, nothing is more important to the integrity of the universities than a rigorously enforced divorce from war-oriented research and all connected enterprises.

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  Hannah Arendt

  PoliticianGerman1906 · 20th century

  4.9 · 60 votes · 125 reads

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• Today is not yesterday: we ourselves change; how can our works and thoughts, if they are always to be the fittest, continue always the same? Change, indeed is painful; yet ever needful; and if memory have its force and worth, so also has hope.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.4 · 56 votes · 58 reads

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• Usually the modest person passes for someone reserved, the silent for a sullen person

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  3.9 · 17 votes · 186 reads

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• War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost.

  

  Karl Kraus

  WriterAustrian1874 · 19th century

  4.9 · 63 votes · 139 reads

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• We are here on earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.

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  W. C. Fields

  ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.8 · 57 votes · 29 reads

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• We've all heard that we have to learn from our mistakes, but I think it's more important to learn from successes. If you learn only from your mistakes, you are inclined to learn only errors.

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  Norman Mailer

  WriterAmerican1923 · 20th century

  4.7 · 60 votes · 166 reads

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• When tolerance is not afforded to those so well-deserved, it speaks ill of the one who feels he cannot afford to give it.

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  Anonymous

  3.4 · 61 votes · 79 reads

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• Work is often the father of pleasure.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  4.2 · 31 votes · 135 reads

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