Quotes for May 646 quotes · 36 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every May 6: the anniversary does not move.

• A library implies an act of faith.

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  3.7 · 60 votes · 83 reads

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• A man who exposes himself when he is intoxicated, has not the art of getting drunk.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.1 · 51 votes · 56 reads

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• A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

  

  Walt Whitman

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  3.0 · 54 votes · 160 reads

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• A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  4.5 · 37 votes · 102 reads

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• Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.1 · 41 votes · 12 reads

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• An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions.

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 34 votes · 62 reads

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• Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

  

  Wentworth Dillon

  PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century

  3.0 · 47 votes · 28 reads

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• Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there.

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  Anonymous

  3.5 · 10 votes · 22 reads

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• Columbus discovered no isle or key so lonely as himself.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.9 · 56 votes · 197 reads

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• Die and endow a college or a cat.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  3.7 · 53 votes · 4 reads

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• Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.

  

  Erasmus of Rotterdam

  TheologianDutch1466 · 15th century

  3.1 · 40 votes · 35 reads

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• Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.

  

  Georges Clemenceau

  JournalistFrench1841 · 19th century

  3.2 · 25 votes · 29 reads

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• From our ancestors come our names from our virtues our honor.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  3.2 · 19 votes · 135 reads

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• Good deeds from good intentions flow; but good intentions only; build for us a place below.

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 10 votes · 16 reads

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• Habit is a shackle for the free.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  4.6 · 25 votes · 141 reads

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• I am not ashamed to confess I am ignorant of what I do not know.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  3.1 · 58 votes · 140 reads

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• I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.4 · 35 votes · 127 reads

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• If there is no God, everything is permitted.

  

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  WriterRussian1821 · 19th century

  3.1 · 6 votes · 37 reads

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• If you're interested in 'balancing' work and pleasure, stop trying to balance them. Instead make your work more pleasurable.

  

  Donald Trump

  BusinessmanAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.3 · 45 votes · 30 reads

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• It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies; seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  3.4 · 34 votes · 160 reads

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• Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  3.1 · 48 votes · 7 reads

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• Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.6 · 34 votes · 162 reads

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• Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

  PainterItaly1452 · 15th century

  3.7 · 37 votes · 66 reads

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• Move fast and break things. Unless you are breaking stuff, you are not moving fast enough.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg

  BusinessmanAmerican1984 · 20th century

  3.2 · 48 votes · 74 reads

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• My father passed away after three years of debilitating disease, which transformed a very strong and bright man into a real wreck. And that is hard. You have to get out of that stronger, if you can, which I was lucky to be able to. I was the eldest of the

  

  Christine Lagarde

  EconomistFrench1956 · 20th century

  4.6 · 62 votes · 80 reads

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• Never do that by proxy which you can do yourself.

  

  Italian proverb

  Italian

  5.0 · 60 votes · 192 reads

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• Reason is immortal, all else mortal.

  

  Pythagoras

  MathematicianGreek-582 · 6th century BC

  3.8 · 33 votes · 90 reads

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• Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs.

  

  W. H. Auden

  PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

  3.8 · 9 votes · 188 reads

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• Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel. It is to bring another out of his bad sense into your good sense.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.1 · 25 votes · 41 reads

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• Such sweet compulsion doth in music lie.

  

  John Milton

  PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

  3.0 · 61 votes · 152 reads

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• Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.5 · 62 votes · 143 reads

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• Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water-bath is to the body.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.4 · 44 votes · 120 reads

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• The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  3.4 · 27 votes · 71 reads

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• The era of the political was one of anomie: crisis, violence, madness and revolution. The era of the trans-political is that of anomaly: an aberration of no consequence, contemporaneous with the event of no consequence.

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  Jean Baudrillard

  PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century

  5.0 · 10 votes · 97 reads

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• The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule...

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  3.4 · 5 votes · 6 reads

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• The more I think about it, the more I realize there is nothing more artistic that to love others.

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  Vilfredo Pareto

  EconomistItaly1848 · 19th century

  3.6 · 33 votes · 71 reads

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• The Second Amendment says we have the right to bear arms, not to bear artillery.

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  4.7 · 56 votes · 133 reads

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• The vulgar man is always the most distinguished, for the very desire to be distinguished is vulgar.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.4 · 11 votes · 103 reads

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• To live is to go on a journey; to die is to come back home.

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  Anonymous

  3.7 · 31 votes · 127 reads

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• To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires some of the same courage that a soldier needs.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.3 · 35 votes · 151 reads

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• Virtue is harmony.

  

  Pythagoras

  MathematicianGreek-582 · 6th century BC

  3.2 · 44 votes · 195 reads

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• We are born crying, live complaining, and die disappointed.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  5.0 · 35 votes · 181 reads

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• Wine is bottled poetry.

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  Robert Green Ingersoll

  PoliticianAmerican1833 · 19th century

  4.1 · 24 votes · 60 reads

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• Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow.

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  Anonymous

  3.4 · 48 votes · 143 reads

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• Youth is too tumultuous for felicity; old age too insecure for happiness. The period most favorable to enjoyment, in a vigorous, fortunate, and generous life, is that between forty and sixty.

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  Christian Nestell Bovee

  AuthorAmerican1820 · 19th century

  3.2 · 36 votes · 62 reads

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