Quotes for May 2344 quotes · 33 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every May 23: the anniversary does not move.

• A husband is what's left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted.

  

  Helen Rowland

  JournalistAmerican1875 · 19th century

  3.3 · 43 votes · 159 reads

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• A smart person knows what to say, a wise person knows whether or not to say it.

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 22 votes · 164 reads

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• Actors die so loud.

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  4.0 · 31 votes · 3 reads

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• An hour spent in the library is worth a month in the laboratory.

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  Anonymous

  3.2 · 12 votes · 17 reads

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• Civilization is the making of civil persons.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  4.4 · 43 votes · 136 reads

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• Classic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. ROLLING

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  3.7 · 30 votes · 54 reads

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• Conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long; even if it is, the consciousness of possessing and using it well should satisfy one, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

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  Louisa May Alcott

  AuthorAmerican1832 · 19th century

  4.6 · 34 votes · 174 reads

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• Criticism is the disapproval of people, not for having faults, but having faults different from your own.

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  Anonymous

  3.7 · 34 votes · 62 reads

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• Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

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  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

  PoliticianBritish1803 · 19th century

  4.6 · 35 votes · 165 reads

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• Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  5.0 · 54 votes · 30 reads

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• For a truly religious man nothing is tragic.

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  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  PhilosopherAustrian1889 · 19th century

  4.3 · 17 votes · 25 reads

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• Friendship should be more than biting time can sever.

  

  Susan Sontag

  AuthorAmerican1933 · 20th century

  3.1 · 23 votes · 17 reads

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• I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.7 · 13 votes · 100 reads

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• I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. An assault upon a town is a bad thing; but starving it is still worse.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.5 · 42 votes · 82 reads

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• If you only look at what is, you might never attain what could be.

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 63 votes · 60 reads

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• It is rare indeed that people give. Most people guard and keep; they suppose that it is they themselves and what they identify with themselves that they are guarding and keeping, whereas what they are actually guarding and keeping is their system of reali

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  James Baldwin

  WriterAmerican1924 · 20th century

  3.4 · 40 votes · 185 reads

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• It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

  

  Erasmus of Rotterdam

  TheologianDutch1466 · 15th century

  3.9 · 8 votes · 24 reads

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• Life's enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.7 · 58 votes · 95 reads

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• Love thou the rose, yet leave it on its stem.

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  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

  PoliticianBritish1803 · 19th century

  4.9 · 59 votes · 153 reads

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• Men are admitted into Heaven not because they have curbed and governed their passions or have no passions, but because they have cultivated their understandings. The treasures of Heaven are not negations of passion, but realities of intellect, from which

  

  Will Rogers

  ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

  3.3 · 9 votes · 66 reads

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• Nothing cannot exist forever.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.5 · 46 votes · 67 reads

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• One evening I sat Beauty on my knees -And I found her bitter -And I reviled her.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud

  PoetFrench1854 · 19th century

  3.1 · 64 votes · 174 reads

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• One often has need of one, inferior to himself.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine

  PoetFrench1621 · 17th century

  3.2 · 62 votes · 187 reads

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• Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  4.2 · 31 votes · 151 reads

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• Poverty has no greater foe than bashfulness.

  

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 30 votes · 23 reads

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• President Obama's approach embodies the values, the ideas, and the direction America must take to build a 21st century version of the American Dream in a nation of shared opportunities, shared prosperity and shared responsibilities.

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.2 · 37 votes · 106 reads

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• Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.7 · 36 votes · 124 reads

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• Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

  

  Jean Paul

  ComedianGerman1763 · 18th century

  4.1 · 30 votes · 133 reads

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• That low vice, curiosity!

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  4.2 · 39 votes · 186 reads

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• The anger of a person who is strong, can always bide its time.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  3.7 · 25 votes · 160 reads

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• The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  5.0 · 63 votes · 35 reads

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• The difference between what the most and the least learned people know is inexpressibly trivial in relation to that which is unknown.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.5 · 42 votes · 37 reads

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• The most fatal disease of friendship is gradual decay, or dislike hourly increased by causes too slender for complaint, and too numerous for removal.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.3 · 45 votes · 138 reads

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• The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people but if we tried to shut up the insane we would run out of building materials.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.9 · 48 votes · 192 reads

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• There is a ''sanctity'' involved with bringing a child into this world: it is better than bombing one out of it.

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  James Baldwin

  WriterAmerican1924 · 20th century

  4.9 · 45 votes · 1 reads

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• Through clever and constant application of propaganda, people can be made to see paradise as hell, and also the other way round, to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise.

  

  Adolf Hitler

  PoliticianGerman1889 · 19th century

  3.4 · 44 votes · 124 reads

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• To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.1 · 30 votes · 82 reads

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• To gain a crown by fighting is great, to reject it divine.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  4.6 · 49 votes · 122 reads

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• To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.8 · 25 votes · 176 reads

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• Yet it is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  4.8 · 25 votes · 171 reads

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• You are always a valuable, worthwhile human being - not because anybody says so, not because you're successful, not because you make a lot of money - but because you decide to believe it and for no other reason.

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  5.0 · 56 votes · 7 reads

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• You can't create experience. You must undergo it.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  3.0 · 38 votes · 107 reads

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• You have to see the sex act comically, as a child.

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  W. C. Fields

  ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.0 · 63 votes · 69 reads

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