Quotes for August 648 quotes · 39 authors

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

• A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

  

  Robert Burton

  EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century

  5.0 · 31 votes · 153 reads

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• Alas! all music jars when the soul's out of tune.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  3.1 · 49 votes · 111 reads

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• All things come to those who wait, but when they come they're out of date.

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  Anonymous

  3.5 · 35 votes · 42 reads

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• All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl.

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  Jean-Luc Godard

  AuthorFrench1930 · 20th century

  3.5 · 6 votes · 52 reads

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• An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery.

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  Joseph Pulitzer

  PublisherAmerican1847 · 19th century

  3.3 · 16 votes · 18 reads

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• Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.9 · 43 votes · 39 reads

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• Busy old fool, unruly Sun, why dost thou thus through windows and through curtains call on us? Must to thy motions lovers seasons run?

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  John Donne

  PoetEnglish1572 · 16th century

  4.9 · 64 votes · 200 reads

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• Christianity, above all, has given a clear-cut answer to the demands of the human soul.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 36 votes · 65 reads

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• Depend upon it that if a man talks of his misfortunes there is something in them that is not disagreeable to him.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.6 · 42 votes · 139 reads

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• Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table.

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  W. C. Fields

  ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.9 · 25 votes · 3 reads

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• Great intellects are skeptical.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.1 · 56 votes · 129 reads

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• How little is the promise of the child fulfilled in the man.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  4.1 · 56 votes · 195 reads

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• I believe in person to person. Every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is the one person in the world at that moment.

  

  Teresa of Calcutta

  MissionaryAlbanian1910 · 20th century

  4.3 · 35 votes · 96 reads

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• I can't say that my disability has helped my work, but it has allowed me to concentrate on research without having to lecture or sit on boring committees.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.2 · 33 votes · 62 reads

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• I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth.

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  Neil Armstrong

  AstronautAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.7 · 35 votes · 7 reads

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• I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  4.9 · 25 votes · 122 reads

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• I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.8 · 56 votes · 181 reads

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• If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

  

  André Maurois

  WriterFrench1885 · 19th century

  3.3 · 17 votes · 136 reads

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• Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.4 · 7 votes · 189 reads

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• Know thyself.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  4.7 · 47 votes · 198 reads

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• Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire called conscience

  

  George Washington

  PoliticianAmerican1732 · 18th century

  4.8 · 64 votes · 173 reads

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• Leave the table while you still feel you could eat a little more.

  

  Helena Rubinstein

  BusinessmanPolish1870 · 19th century

  4.6 · 61 votes · 129 reads

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• Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  4.0 · 6 votes · 27 reads

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• Men are respectable only as they respect.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.0 · 16 votes · 103 reads

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• No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my own constitution; the only wrong what is against it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.8 · 57 votes · 73 reads

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• No one doubts that poison gas was used in Syria. But there is every reason to believe it was used, not by the Syrian Army, but by opposition forces to provoke intervention by their powerful foreign patrons, who would be siding with the fundamentalists.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  3.2 · 11 votes · 188 reads

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• One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.0 · 34 votes · 103 reads

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• One would like to be grand and heroic, if one could; but if not, why try at all? One wants to be very something, very great, very heroic; or if not that, then at least very stylish and very fashionable. It is this everlasting mediocrity that bores me.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  WriterAmerican1811 · 19th century

  3.5 · 31 votes · 85 reads

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• Our pleasures are short, and can only charm at intervals; love is a method of protraction our greatest pleasure.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale

  AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century

  3.5 · 17 votes · 74 reads

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• Part of diplomacy is to open different definitions of self-interest.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.3 · 57 votes · 66 reads

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• Science has not yet mastered prophecy. We predict too much for the next year and yet far too little for the next 10.

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  Neil Armstrong

  AstronautAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.3 · 21 votes · 179 reads

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• Since people are going to be living longer and getting older, they'll just have to learn how to be babies longer.

  

  Andy Warhol

  PainterAmerican1928 · 20th century

  3.3 · 26 votes · 119 reads

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• Success makes success, like money makes money.

  

  Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

  PoetFrench1636 · 17th century

  3.8 · 35 votes · 199 reads

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• The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  5.0 · 52 votes · 119 reads

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• The fact is, you have fallen lately, Cecily, into a bad habit of thinking for yourself. You should give it up. It is not quite womanly... men don't like it.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.7 · 10 votes · 81 reads

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• The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.3 · 25 votes · 140 reads

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• The main target for the next years should be growth and job creation.

  

  Mariano Rajoy

  PoliticianSpanish1955 · 20th century

  3.9 · 36 votes · 41 reads

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• The most pressing question on the problem of faith is whether a man as a civilized being… can believe in the divinity of the Son of God, Jesus Christ, for therein rests the whole of our faith.

  

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  WriterRussian1821 · 19th century

  3.7 · 50 votes · 108 reads

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• The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

  

  Baltasar Gracián

  WriterSpanish1601 · 17th century

  4.5 · 62 votes · 178 reads

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• Understand this law and you will then know, beyond room for the slightest doubt, that you are constantly punishing yourself for every wrong you commit and rewarding yourself for every act of constructive conduct in which you indulge.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  4.2 · 55 votes · 197 reads

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• We must be as courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.9 · 38 votes · 186 reads

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• When I want your opinion I'll give it to you.

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  Laurence J. Peter

  WriterCanadian1919 · 20th century

  3.2 · 41 votes · 6 reads

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• When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet deep down in his private heart no man much respects himself.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.3 · 20 votes · 147 reads

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• When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.4 · 14 votes · 56 reads

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• Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.0 · 51 votes · 77 reads

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• Without tact you can learn nothing. Tact teaches you when to be silent. Inquirers who are always questioning never learn anything.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.4 · 54 votes · 149 reads

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• You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  4.1 · 25 votes · 32 reads

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