Quotes for August 750 quotes · 43 authors

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

• 'Tis not need we know our every thought or see the work shop where each mask is wrought wherefrom we view the world of box and pit, careless of wear, just so the mask shall fit and serve our jape's turn for a night or two.

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  Ezra Pound

  PoetAmerican1885 · 19th century

  4.0 · 38 votes · 16 reads

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• All cruelty springs from weakness.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.4 · 13 votes · 126 reads

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• Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  4.7 · 16 votes · 143 reads

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• Art is a kind of illness.

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  Giacomo Puccini

  MusicianItalian1858 · 19th century

  3.8 · 9 votes · 34 reads

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• But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.5 · 62 votes · 196 reads

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• Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  3.5 · 44 votes · 93 reads

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• Facts are generally overesteemed. For most practical purposes, a thing is what men think it is. When they judged the earth flat, it was flat. As long as men thought slavery tolerable, tolerable it was. We live down here among shadows, shadows among shadow

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  John Updike

  WriterAmerican1932 · 20th century

  3.8 · 26 votes · 164 reads

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• For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.7 · 43 votes · 114 reads

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• Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.4 · 58 votes · 84 reads

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• Happiness is unrepentant pleasure.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  3.9 · 50 votes · 141 reads

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• He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.

  

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  TheologianSwiss1741 · 18th century

  3.1 · 26 votes · 114 reads

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• I am a kind of burr; I shall stick.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.4 · 22 votes · 8 reads

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• If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.2 · 19 votes · 105 reads

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• If you judge, investigate.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.5 · 22 votes · 47 reads

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• It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  4.8 · 23 votes · 94 reads

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• It was a Greek tragedy. Nixon was fulfilling his own nature. Once it started it could not end otherwise.

  

  Henry A. Kissinger

  PoliticianGerman1923 · 20th century

  3.1 · 60 votes · 68 reads

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• Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration. Capital has its rights, which ar

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.2 · 11 votes · 81 reads

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• Life, as it is called, is for most of us one long postponement.

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  4.9 · 48 votes · 58 reads

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• Little, vicious minds abound with anger and revenge, and are incapable of feeling the pleasure of forgiving their enemies.

  

  Lord Chesterfield

  PoliticianBritish1694 · 17th century

  4.1 · 20 votes · 194 reads

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• Money begets money.

  

  Italian proverb

  Italian

  4.1 · 47 votes · 49 reads

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• Never stop testing, and your advertising will never stop improving.

  

  David Ogilvy

  BusinessmanEnglish1911 · 20th century

  4.8 · 54 votes · 36 reads

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• No one finds life worth living; he must make it worth living.

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 56 votes · 184 reads

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• Oh, how cruelly sweet are the echoes that start when memory plays an old tune on the heart!

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  Eliza Cook

  AuthorEnglish1818 · 19th century

  4.2 · 33 votes · 104 reads

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• Old men are fond of giving good advice to console themselves for their inability to give bad examples.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.7 · 39 votes · 170 reads

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• One ABC of Christianity: ''Always Be Cheerful'' [1 Thessalonians 5:16]

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 15 votes · 163 reads

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• Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  4.1 · 42 votes · 5 reads

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• Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy; the mad daughter of a wise mother.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  3.1 · 33 votes · 5 reads

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• The art of letters will come to an end before A.D. 2000. I shall survive as a curiosity.

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  Ezra Pound

  PoetAmerican1885 · 19th century

  3.1 · 18 votes · 81 reads

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• The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds, they mature slowly.

  

  Peter Abelard

  TheologianFrench1079 · 11th century

  3.3 · 9 votes · 180 reads

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• The challenges of change are always hard. It is important that we begin to unpack those challenges that confront this nation and realize that we each have a role that requires us to change and become more responsible for shaping our own future.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.7 · 46 votes · 20 reads

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• The greatest remedy for anger is delay.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  5.0 · 28 votes · 99 reads

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• The heart always sees before than the head can see.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.2 · 35 votes · 95 reads

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• The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good.

  

  Gabriel García Márquez

  WriterColombian1927 · 20th century

  4.0 · 50 votes · 109 reads

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• The king goes as far as he may, not as far as he could.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard

  PhilosopherDanish1813 · 19th century

  4.0 · 33 votes · 28 reads

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• The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in an atmosphere of the marvelous; but we do not notice it.

  

  Charles Baudelaire

  PoetFrench1821 · 19th century

  3.0 · 24 votes · 195 reads

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• The more you reason the less you create.

  

  Raymond Chandler

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  4.5 · 58 votes · 174 reads

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• The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of them on occasion.

  

  Denis Diderot

  PhilosopherFrench1713 · 18th century

  4.5 · 45 votes · 165 reads

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• The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.5 · 32 votes · 38 reads

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• They were evidently small men, all wind and quibbles, flinging out their chuffy grain to us with far less interest than a farm-wife feels as she scatters corn to her fowls.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

  WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century

  4.3 · 41 votes · 186 reads

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• To reprove small faults within due vehemence, is as absurd as if a man should take a great hammer to kill a fly on his friend's forehead.

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 51 votes · 37 reads

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• Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.6 · 43 votes · 176 reads

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• We don't know one-millionth of one percent about anything.

  

  Theodore Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1858 · 19th century

  3.3 · 35 votes · 25 reads

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• We should not be so taken up in the search for truth, as to neglect the needful duties of active life; for it is only action that gives a true value and commendation to virtue.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.6 · 59 votes · 96 reads

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• What a life! True life is elsewhere. We are not in the world.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud

  PoetFrench1854 · 19th century

  3.8 · 31 votes · 81 reads

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• What is now reason was formerly impulse or instinct.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  3.8 · 18 votes · 49 reads

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• Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.8 · 57 votes · 34 reads

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• You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.1 · 41 votes · 59 reads

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• You see, the interesting thing about books, as opposed, say, to films, is that it's always just one person encountering the book, it's not an audience, it's one to one.

  

  Pablo Picasso

  PainterSpanish1881 · 19th century

  3.8 · 5 votes · 195 reads

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• Youth, large, lusty, loving - Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  3.5 · 21 votes · 56 reads

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