Quotes for August 1249 quotes · 41 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every August 12: the anniversary does not move.

• A friend you have to buy; enemies you get for nothing.

  

  Jewish proverb

  Jewish

  4.9 · 19 votes · 0 reads

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• A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  3.1 · 38 votes · 35 reads

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• A man may be in as just possession of truth as of a city, and yet be forced to surrender.

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  Sir John Eliot

  PoliticianBritish1592 · 16th century

  3.3 · 33 votes · 93 reads

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• A multitude of books distracts the mind.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  3.6 · 34 votes · 169 reads

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• As far as my relationship with President Putin is concerned, it's fine.

  

  Gerhard Schroder

  PoliticianGerman1944 · 20th century

  3.1 · 48 votes · 180 reads

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• Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

  

  Larry Page

  BusinessmanAmerican1973 · 20th century

  4.6 · 36 votes · 75 reads

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• Being ignorant is not so much a shame as being unwilling to learn.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.4 · 56 votes · 81 reads

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• Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  3.1 · 11 votes · 164 reads

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• Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga.

  

  David Ogilvy

  BusinessmanEnglish1911 · 20th century

  3.8 · 64 votes · 57 reads

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• Good management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

  

  Woody Allen

  ComedianAmerican1935 · 20th century

  3.2 · 16 votes · 11 reads

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• He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.

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  Herman Melville

  WriterAmerican1819 · 19th century

  4.3 · 11 votes · 52 reads

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• I will act as if what I do makes a difference.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  4.2 · 60 votes · 187 reads

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• If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.3 · 26 votes · 102 reads

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• If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead, either write things worth reading or do things worth writing.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.7 · 32 votes · 86 reads

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• It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  3.1 · 51 votes · 113 reads

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• It is said that only a fool learns from his own mistakes, a wise man from the mistakes of others.

  

  Otto von Bismarck

  PoliticianGerman1815 · 19th century

  3.3 · 12 votes · 189 reads

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• It is very nearly impossible... to become an educated person in a country so distrustful of the independent mind.

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  James Baldwin

  WriterAmerican1924 · 20th century

  3.2 · 43 votes · 158 reads

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• It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.0 · 57 votes · 140 reads

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• Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

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  James Baldwin

  WriterAmerican1924 · 20th century

  3.1 · 62 votes · 183 reads

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• Science does not know its debt to imagination.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.6 · 23 votes · 4 reads

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• Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.4 · 32 votes · 88 reads

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• The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, acc

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  3.3 · 21 votes · 186 reads

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• The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution's in the soul.

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  Niels Bohr

  PhysicistDanish1885 · 19th century

  3.9 · 30 votes · 85 reads

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• The dew of compassion is a tear.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  4.2 · 20 votes · 150 reads

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• The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.4 · 29 votes · 109 reads

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• The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

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  H. G. Wells

  AuthorAmerican1866 · 19th century

  4.3 · 37 votes · 110 reads

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• The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

  

  George Orwell

  NovelistBritish1903 · 20th century

  5.0 · 12 votes · 185 reads

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• The man who really wants to do something finds a way, the other finds an excuse.

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 57 votes · 157 reads

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• The mind, like the dyer's hand, is colored by what it holds.

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  Anonymous

  3.0 · 49 votes · 133 reads

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• The more you are talked about the less powerful you are.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  4.0 · 6 votes · 54 reads

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• The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.0 · 54 votes · 199 reads

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• The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  3.1 · 30 votes · 144 reads

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• The truest end of life, is to find the life that doesn't end.

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  Anonymous

  3.7 · 30 votes · 192 reads

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• The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.5 · 55 votes · 62 reads

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• There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader can claim: 'this is not happening in my backyard.'

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  4.8 · 5 votes · 17 reads

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• To expect a personality to survive the disintegration of the brain is like expecting a cricket club to survive when all of its members are dead.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  3.7 · 26 votes · 172 reads

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• We hate the kindness which we understand.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.2 · 24 votes · 112 reads

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• We love those who admire us, but not those whom we admire.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.6 · 16 votes · 17 reads

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• We must laugh at man to avoid crying for him.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  3.6 · 29 votes · 84 reads

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• We must reckon with the possibility that something in the nature of the sexual instinct itself is unfavorable to the realization of complete satisfaction.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.3 · 10 votes · 104 reads

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• What call thou solitude? Is not the earth with various living creatures, and the air replenished, and all these at thy command to come and play before thee?

  

  John Milton

  PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

  4.3 · 43 votes · 99 reads

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• What is not fully understood is not possessed.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.6 · 37 votes · 187 reads

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• Whenever I go on a ride, I'm always thinking of what's wrong with the thing and how it can be improved.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  4.6 · 30 votes · 147 reads

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• Without economic development, any potential for political openness and freedom will be questionable.

  

  Jose Maria Aznar

  PoliticianSpanish1953 · 20th century

  4.6 · 48 votes · 126 reads

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• You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all. If a man carries many such memories into life with him, he is saved for the rest of his days. And even if only one

  

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  WriterRussian1821 · 19th century

  4.6 · 37 votes · 176 reads

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• You can take a chance with any man who pays his bills on time.

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  Tennessee Williams

  PlaywrightAmerican1911 · 20th century

  4.1 · 56 votes · 49 reads

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• You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.

  

  Pablo Neruda

  PoetChilean1904 · 20th century

  3.4 · 26 votes · 24 reads

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• Young man, there is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners.

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  3.1 · 32 votes · 105 reads

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