Quotes for May 753 quotes · 43 authors

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

• A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose of becoming better.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  4.6 · 46 votes · 27 reads

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• A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.0 · 51 votes · 121 reads

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• All things change, nothing is extinguished. There is nothing in the whole world which is permanent. Everything flows onward; all things are brought into being with a changing nature; the ages themselves glide by in constant movement.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  4.5 · 37 votes · 114 reads

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• But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and conceitedness who are extraordinarily presumptuous about the significance of their position in soc

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  4.0 · 6 votes · 174 reads

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• Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.0 · 39 votes · 117 reads

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• Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

  

  Euripides

  PoetGreek-484 · 5th century BC

  4.3 · 50 votes · 12 reads

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• Doubt can only be removed by action.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.7 · 24 votes · 194 reads

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• Education is the best provision for old age.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  3.7 · 17 votes · 163 reads

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• He insulted me, he cheated me, he beat me, he robbed me' - those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

  

  Buddha

  LeaderNepal-563 · 6th century BC

  4.2 · 38 votes · 133 reads

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• He receives comfort like cold porridge.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.3 · 16 votes · 0 reads

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• I dare say I am compelled, unconsciously compelled, now to write volume after volume, as in past years I was compelled to go to sea, voyage after voyage. Leaves must follow upon each other as leagues used to follow in the days gone by, on and on to the ap

  

  Joseph Conrad

  NovelistBritish1857 · 19th century

  3.1 · 13 votes · 86 reads

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• I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.6 · 55 votes · 144 reads

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• I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay

  

  Isaac Newton

  MathematicianEnglish1643 · 17th century

  3.8 · 11 votes · 19 reads

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• I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  5.0 · 45 votes · 140 reads

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• I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

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  Robert Green Ingersoll

  PoliticianAmerican1833 · 19th century

  4.0 · 31 votes · 133 reads

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• I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.5 · 12 votes · 53 reads

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• I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailin

  

  Edgar Allan Poe

  WriterAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.6 · 50 votes · 194 reads

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• I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.9 · 47 votes · 45 reads

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• I think patriotism is like charity - it begins at home.

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  Henry James

  AuthorAmerican-British1843 · 19th century

  4.7 · 57 votes · 129 reads

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• I've decided to discontinue my long talks. It's because of my throat. Someone threatened to cut it.

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  Anonymous

  3.9 · 46 votes · 114 reads

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• If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.3 · 64 votes · 149 reads

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• It must be awfully frustrating to get a small raise at work and then have it all eaten by a higher cost of commuting.

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  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  3.0 · 12 votes · 155 reads

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• Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.4 · 45 votes · 10 reads

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• Life without a friend is death without a witness.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard

  PhilosopherDanish1813 · 19th century

  3.8 · 36 votes · 142 reads

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• Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  4.3 · 40 votes · 60 reads

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• Men's activities are occupied into ways - in grappling with external circumstances and in striving to set things at one in their own topsy-turvy mind.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  4.1 · 44 votes · 108 reads

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• Money will buy a bed but not sleep; books but not brains; food but not appetite; finery but not beauty; a house but not a home; medicine but not health; luxuries but not culture; amusements but not happiness; religion but not salvation; a passport to ever

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 38 votes · 197 reads

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• Most discussions of decision making assume that only senior executives make decisions or that only senior executives' decisions matter. This is a dangerous mistake.

  

  Peter Drucker

  BusinessmanAmerican1909 · 20th century

  5.0 · 51 votes · 199 reads

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• Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.7 · 51 votes · 67 reads

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• No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.3 · 57 votes · 123 reads

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• No man is so exquisitely honest or upright in living, but that ten times in his life he might not lawfully be hanged.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  3.6 · 27 votes · 180 reads

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• No one becomes perfect, but some become great.

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  Anonymous

  3.9 · 5 votes · 0 reads

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• Prisons are built with stones of Law. Brothels with the bricks of religion.

  

  Will Rogers

  ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

  3.2 · 18 votes · 174 reads

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• Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.2 · 45 votes · 100 reads

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• The calmest husbands make the stormiest wives.

  

  English proverb

  English

  3.9 · 12 votes · 96 reads

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• The law always limits every power it gives.

  

  David Hume

  PhilosopherScottish1711 · 18th century

  3.7 · 62 votes · 49 reads

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• The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing.

  

  Martin Luther

  LeaderGerman1483 · 15th century

  4.5 · 21 votes · 183 reads

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• The one woman who never gives herself is your free woman, who is always giving herself.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

  WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century

  4.9 · 29 votes · 11 reads

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• The soul is not where it lives, but where it loves.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  3.4 · 8 votes · 171 reads

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• The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.4 · 56 votes · 76 reads

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• There are people who read too much: bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.7 · 24 votes · 22 reads

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• To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  3.1 · 34 votes · 100 reads

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• Truth is the greatest gift of life and love is the exercise of that truth.

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 46 votes · 77 reads

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• U.N. Women was created due to the acknowledgement that gender equality and women's empowerment was still, despite progress, far from what it should be. Transforming political will and decisions, such as the Member States creating U.N. Women, into concrete

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  4.4 · 39 votes · 136 reads

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• We don't remember days; we remember moments.

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  Cesare Pavese

  PoetItaly1908 · 20th century

  3.6 · 49 votes · 190 reads

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• We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation.

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  4.8 · 51 votes · 1 reads

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• What shall he fear that does not fear death.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  4.1 · 9 votes · 175 reads

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• What the eye does not admire the heart does not desire.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  3.5 · 57 votes · 91 reads

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• When I think of this life I have led; the desolation of solitude it has been; the masoned, walled-town of a Captain's exclusiveness, which admits but small entrance to any sympathy from the green country without - oh, weariness! heaviness! Guinea-coast sl

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  Herman Melville

  WriterAmerican1819 · 19th century

  3.2 · 9 votes · 63 reads

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• When the rich wage war it is the poor who die.

  

  Jean Paul Sartre

  WriterFrench1905 · 20th century

  3.4 · 32 votes · 151 reads

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• Whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  3.2 · 17 votes · 56 reads

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• Your work is to discover your work and then with all your heart to give yourself to it.

  

  Buddha

  LeaderNepal-563 · 6th century BC

  3.6 · 9 votes · 82 reads

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