Quotes for May 1151 quotes · 44 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every May 11: the anniversary does not move.

• A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weathe

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  4.0 · 11 votes · 20 reads

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• A successful lawsuit is the one worn by a policeman.

  

  Robert Burton

  EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century

  4.1 · 49 votes · 87 reads

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• A Writeris someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

  

  Karl Kraus

  WriterAustrian1874 · 19th century

  3.0 · 34 votes · 50 reads

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• Americans are like a rich father who wishes he knew how to give his son the hardships that made him rich.

  

  Robert Burton

  EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century

  4.2 · 21 votes · 14 reads

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• Any man with a fine shock of hair, a good set of teeth, and a bewitching smile can park his brains, if he has any, and run for public office.

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  Anonymous

  3.6 · 47 votes · 163 reads

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• Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.3 · 18 votes · 46 reads

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• Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour. -

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.1 · 27 votes · 26 reads

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• Burning lies led to my silent cries Keeping it inside I've got everything to hide. lustful desire, a burning fire You are the flame, You are to blame. Beautiful light deliver me from fright dreams full of lust. Or is the dream dreaming us? PHYSICAL PAIN d

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  Anonymous

  3.0 · 9 votes · 24 reads

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• Daylight reveals color; artificial light drains it.

  

  Helena Rubinstein

  BusinessmanPolish1870 · 19th century

  3.1 · 56 votes · 183 reads

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• Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.

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  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  4.3 · 56 votes · 100 reads

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• Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

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  Christian Nestell Bovee

  AuthorAmerican1820 · 19th century

  4.2 · 56 votes · 111 reads

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• Executives are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an executive away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and

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  Jean Baudrillard

  PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century

  4.3 · 37 votes · 143 reads

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• Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want.

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 23 votes · 66 reads

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• Exuberance is beauty.

  

  Will Rogers

  ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

  3.4 · 33 votes · 115 reads

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• Families are about love overcoming emotional torture.

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  3.4 · 15 votes · 90 reads

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• For cowards the road of desertion should be left open; they will carry over to the enemy nothing, but their fears.

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  Christian Nestell Bovee

  AuthorAmerican1820 · 19th century

  3.6 · 10 votes · 179 reads

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• Forgiveness is the remission of sins. For it is by this that what has been lost, and was found, is saved from being lost again.

  

  Rudyard Kipling

  WriterBritish1865 · 19th century

  3.7 · 18 votes · 180 reads

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• Gossip is what no one claims to like, but everybody enjoys.

  

  Joseph Conrad

  NovelistBritish1857 · 19th century

  4.9 · 45 votes · 131 reads

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• Hell, there are no rules here, we are trying to accomplish something.

  

  Theodore Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1858 · 19th century

  3.5 · 47 votes · 148 reads

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• I have a very positive attitude to anyone who is protecting the environment, but it's inadmissible when people are using it as a means of promoting themselves, using it as a source of self-enrichment. I don't want to name any specific examples... but ofte

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  3.4 · 61 votes · 184 reads

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• I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.8 · 29 votes · 126 reads

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• Intuition is what tells a wife her husband has done wrong before he thinks of doing it.

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  Anonymous

  4.5 · 62 votes · 178 reads

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• Keeping books on social aid is capitalistic nonsense. I just use the money for the poor. I can't stop to count it.

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  Evita Peron

  PoliticianArgentinian1919 · 20th century

  4.1 · 49 votes · 80 reads

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• Liberty is God's gift, liberties the devil's.

  

  German proverb

  German

  4.8 · 51 votes · 67 reads

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• Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves, without any insistence that they satisfy you.

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  3.8 · 18 votes · 179 reads

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• No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  4.7 · 64 votes · 172 reads

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• No rock so hard but that a little wave may beat admission in a thousand years.

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  Lord Alfred Tennyson

  PoetBritish1809 · 19th century

  4.7 · 59 votes · 1 reads

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• Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together yield themselves up when taken little by little.

  

  Plutarch

  EssayistGreek46 · 1st century

  3.7 · 21 votes · 76 reads

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• Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of their inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is in their power to

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  3.1 · 33 votes · 130 reads

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• Satan is wiser now than before, and tempts by making rich instead of poor.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  3.6 · 38 votes · 91 reads

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• Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.

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  William Butler Yeats

  PoetIrish1865 · 19th century

  3.6 · 54 votes · 169 reads

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• Soft words win hard hearts.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  3.3 · 6 votes · 3 reads

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• Sometimes I've believed as many as six possible things before breakfast.

  

  Lewis Carroll

  NovelistEnglish1832 · 19th century

  3.6 · 34 votes · 63 reads

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• The difference is wide that sheets will not decide.

  

  English proverb

  English

  3.3 · 30 votes · 185 reads

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• The freeman, casting with unpurchased hand the vote that shakes the turrets of the land.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.2 · 22 votes · 9 reads

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• The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

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  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  PhilosopherAustrian1889 · 19th century

  4.5 · 26 votes · 113 reads

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• The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  3.1 · 6 votes · 63 reads

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• The journalists have constructed for themselves a little wooden chapel, which they also call the Temple of Fame, in which they put up and take down portraits all day long and make such a hammering you can't hear yourself speak.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  4.0 · 20 votes · 166 reads

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• The only vice which cannot be forgiven is hypocrisy. The repentance of a hypocrite is itself hypocrisy.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  4.9 · 47 votes · 134 reads

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• The reluctant obedience of distant provinces generally costs more than it [The Territory] is worth. Empires which branch out widely are often more flourishing for a little timely pruning.

  

  Thomas Alva Edison

  ScientistAmerican1847 · 19th century

  3.7 · 14 votes · 8 reads

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• The road to learning by precept is long, but by example short and effective.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.7 · 22 votes · 101 reads

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• The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.9 · 43 votes · 155 reads

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• The world resembles a stage on which every man is playing a part.

  

  Franz Schubert

  MusicianAustrian1797 · 18th century

  4.7 · 31 votes · 172 reads

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• There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.7 · 64 votes · 31 reads

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• Think in the morning. Act in the noon. Eat in the evening. Sleep in the night.

  

  Will Rogers

  ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

  4.2 · 19 votes · 176 reads

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• To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.3 · 43 votes · 131 reads

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• We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.

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  Queen Victoria

  RoyaltyBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.6 · 56 votes · 109 reads

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• We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  3.5 · 37 votes · 54 reads

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• Where love is concerned, too much is not even enough.

  

  Phillips Brooks

  TheologianAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.5 · 61 votes · 182 reads

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• You are a king by your own fireside, as much as any monarch in his throne.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  4.4 · 50 votes · 87 reads

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