Quotes for July 1348 quotes · 41 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every July 13: the anniversary does not move.

• ''How do you know so much about everything?'' was asked of a very wise and intelligent man; and the answer was ''By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

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  John Abbott

  LawyerCanadian1821 · 19th century

  4.9 · 54 votes · 16 reads

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• A lawyers dream of heaven; every man reclaimed his property at the resurrection, and each tried to recover it from all his forefathers.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  3.1 · 45 votes · 95 reads

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• A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

  

  Isaac Asimov

  ScientistAmerican1920 · 20th century

  4.1 · 43 votes · 192 reads

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• An evil life is a kind of death.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  3.3 · 45 votes · 118 reads

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• Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.1 · 54 votes · 0 reads

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• Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.

  

  José Ortega y Gasset

  PhilosopherSpanish1883 · 19th century

  4.7 · 56 votes · 159 reads

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• Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.9 · 64 votes · 186 reads

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• Business, that's easily defined - it's other people's money.

  

  Peter Drucker

  BusinessmanAmerican1909 · 20th century

  3.2 · 54 votes · 26 reads

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• Crime against the individual is the equivalent of crime against humanity.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  PoliticianIranian1956 · 20th century

  4.2 · 9 votes · 57 reads

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• Don't flatter yourself that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. The nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.7 · 43 votes · 114 reads

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• Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

  

  George Sand

  WriterFrench1804 · 19th century

  4.9 · 63 votes · 77 reads

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• He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  3.1 · 19 votes · 18 reads

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• How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  5.0 · 12 votes · 127 reads

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• I am deeply interested in the progress and elevation of journalism, having spent my life in that profession, regarding it as a noble profession and one of unequaled importance for its influence upon the minds and morals of the people.

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  Joseph Pulitzer

  PublisherAmerican1847 · 19th century

  4.8 · 13 votes · 6 reads

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• I am not young enough to know everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.1 · 29 votes · 147 reads

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• I try to build a full personality for each of our cartoon characters - to make them personalities.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  3.2 · 15 votes · 29 reads

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• In almost every job now, people use software and work with information to enable their organisation to operate more effectively.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.3 · 12 votes · 112 reads

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• Italy in the first years got food, for the first year or the first periods got food. Then we got raw materials and then we got tool machines, let's say, instruments for working.

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  Gianni Agnelli

  BusinessmanItalian1921 · 20th century

  3.6 · 16 votes · 4 reads

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• Man wants to live, but it is useless to hope that this desire will dictate all his actions.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  3.7 · 50 votes · 186 reads

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• Many of the phenomena of Winter are suggestive of an inexpressible tenderness and fragile delicacy. We are accustomed to hear this king described as a rude and boisterous tyrant; but with the gentleness of a lover he adorns the tresses of Summer.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.1 · 28 votes · 2 reads

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• Not just in commerce but in the world of ideas too our age is putting on a veritable clearance sale. Everything can be had so dirt cheap that one begins to wander whether in the end anyone will want to make a bid.

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  Sophocles

  PoetGreek

  3.0 · 19 votes · 135 reads

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• One is very crazy when in love.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.6 · 54 votes · 100 reads

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• One of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty-one that everything afterward savors of anti-climax.

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 26 votes · 47 reads

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• One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.4 · 50 votes · 4 reads

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• Sir, they are a race of convicts, and ought to be thankful for anything we allow them short of hanging.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.8 · 9 votes · 165 reads

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• Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 19 votes · 133 reads

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• That's why I hate to get started in these jam sessions. I'm always the last one to leave.

  

  Elvis Presley

  MusicianAmerican1935 · 20th century

  4.4 · 52 votes · 116 reads

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• The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

  

  Blaise Pascal

  PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century

  4.8 · 59 votes · 162 reads

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• The doctor sees all the weakness of mankind; the lawyer all the wickedness, the theologian all the stupidity.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  PhilosopherGerman1788 · 18th century

  3.2 · 58 votes · 25 reads

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• The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.2 · 26 votes · 83 reads

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• The last thing one discovers in composing a work is what to put first.

  

  Blaise Pascal

  PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century

  3.9 · 31 votes · 110 reads

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• The only thing grief as taught me is to know how shallow it is.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.7 · 26 votes · 132 reads

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• The rewards in life go to those who are willing to give up the past

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  Anonymous

  3.4 · 11 votes · 31 reads

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• The very nature of finance is that it cannot be profitable unless it is significantly leveraged... and as long as there is debt, there can be failure and contagion.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  3.7 · 58 votes · 64 reads

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• There is not Communism or Marxism, but representative democracy and social justice in a well-planned economy.

  

  Fidel Castro

  PoliticianCuba1926 · 20th century

  3.7 · 20 votes · 158 reads

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• There is nothing to which men, while they have food and drink, cannot reconcile themselves.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  4.0 · 18 votes · 187 reads

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• There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

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  Dale Carnegie

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  4.3 · 18 votes · 200 reads

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• This also - that I live, I consider a gift of God.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  4.2 · 18 votes · 96 reads

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• Those that are silent profess consent.

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 24 votes · 64 reads

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• Two dogs strive for a bone and the third one runs off with it.

  

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 29 votes · 101 reads

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• What is read twice is usually remembered more than what is once written.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.6 · 34 votes · 13 reads

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• What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.4 · 18 votes · 192 reads

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• What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity, intellect and resources - to do something about them.

  

  Henry Ford

  BusinessmanAmerican1863 · 19th century

  4.0 · 55 votes · 136 reads

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• When I started my life as a baby lawyer, I was interviewing with all the best firms then at the time, and one of them was, you know, probably the most reputable in France, and told me, 'You can join us tomorrow and be an associate, be given great tasks an

  

  Christine Lagarde

  EconomistFrench1956 · 20th century

  4.2 · 32 votes · 93 reads

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• Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

  

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  TheologianSwiss1741 · 18th century

  3.0 · 51 votes · 19 reads

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• Who would not rather trust and be deceived?

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  Eliza Cook

  AuthorEnglish1818 · 19th century

  4.1 · 31 votes · 94 reads

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• Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  5.0 · 20 votes · 162 reads

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