Quotes for July 1649 quotes · 41 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every July 16: the anniversary does not move.

• Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.0 · 39 votes · 89 reads

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• Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches.

  

  Otto von Bismarck

  PoliticianGerman1815 · 19th century

  4.0 · 34 votes · 81 reads

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• Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them.

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  James Baldwin

  WriterAmerican1924 · 20th century

  3.5 · 39 votes · 26 reads

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• Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.3 · 15 votes · 26 reads

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• Do not wait for ideal circumstances nor for the best opportunities; they will never come.

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  Anonymous

  3.4 · 59 votes · 155 reads

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• Every man can tell how many goats or sheep he possesses, but not how many friends.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.3 · 30 votes · 80 reads

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• Fear may come true that which one is afraid of.

  

  Victor Hugo

  PoetFrench1802 · 19th century

  3.2 · 42 votes · 162 reads

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• For every why he had a wherefore.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  3.6 · 20 votes · 38 reads

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• Give me the poverty that enjoys true wealth.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.3 · 12 votes · 91 reads

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• History is more or less bunk.

  

  Henry Ford

  BusinessmanAmerican1863 · 19th century

  4.4 · 49 votes · 20 reads

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• I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.7 · 6 votes · 146 reads

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• I bought one of the first Nintendo systems and brought that home, and we were playing 'Legend of Zelda' at the time, and it was addicting, and I was playing it for hours and hours and hours.

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  4.4 · 43 votes · 123 reads

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• I don't think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.

  

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  PoetScottish1850 · 19th century

  4.2 · 56 votes · 200 reads

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• I read a lot of obscure books and it is nice to open a book.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.0 · 14 votes · 0 reads

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• I used to think that the worst thing in life was to end up alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel alone.

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  5.0 · 16 votes · 40 reads

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• If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.1 · 60 votes · 103 reads

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• If it were not for hopes, the heart would break.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  3.9 · 56 votes · 161 reads

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• If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.2 · 48 votes · 133 reads

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• If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.8 · 64 votes · 6 reads

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• Instruction does much, but encouragement does everything.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.3 · 24 votes · 80 reads

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• It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not bel

  

  Thomas Mann

  AuthorGerman1875 · 19th century

  3.3 · 21 votes · 83 reads

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• It is particularly moving, and I can say this also as a Protestant Christian, that a German - one of us - has been made Pope.

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  Horst Koehler

  PoliticianGerman1943 · 20th century

  3.8 · 21 votes · 8 reads

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• It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once.

  

  David Hume

  PhilosopherScottish1711 · 18th century

  3.2 · 44 votes · 43 reads

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• Learning is a treasure that will follow its owner everywhere.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  3.0 · 29 votes · 19 reads

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• Let us, if we must have great actions, make our own so. All action is of infinite elasticity, and the least admits of being inflated with celestial air, until it eclipses the sun and moon.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.2 · 62 votes · 142 reads

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• Napoleon affords us an example of the danger of elevating one's self to the absolute, and sacrificing everything to the carrying out of an idea.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.1 · 30 votes · 65 reads

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• No man will ever bring out of the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  4.1 · 45 votes · 96 reads

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• Only those who know the supremacy of the intellectual life can understand the grief of one who falls from that serene activity into the absorbing soul-wasting struggle with worldly annoyances.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.2 · 22 votes · 64 reads

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• Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.6 · 60 votes · 189 reads

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• Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  4.4 · 50 votes · 31 reads

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• Ready money is Aladdin's lamp.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.8 · 23 votes · 122 reads

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• Responsibility and respect of others and their religious beliefs are also part of freedom.

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  Horst Koehler

  PoliticianGerman1943 · 20th century

  4.1 · 51 votes · 199 reads

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• Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle.

  

  Adolf Hitler

  PoliticianGerman1889 · 19th century

  3.8 · 6 votes · 98 reads

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• Superstition, idolatry and hypocrisy have ample wages, but the truth goes begging.

  

  Martin Luther

  LeaderGerman1483 · 15th century

  4.7 · 37 votes · 160 reads

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• The ability to express an idea is well nigh as important as the idea itself.

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  Bernard M. Baruch

  PoliticianAmerican1870 · 19th century

  3.6 · 32 votes · 118 reads

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• The judge is found guilty when a criminal is acquitted.

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  Publilius Syrus

  WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC

  4.3 · 23 votes · 100 reads

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• The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.

  

  Henri Bergson

  PhilosopherFrench1859 · 19th century

  4.0 · 48 votes · 55 reads

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• The world of knowledge takes a crazy turn when teachers themselves are taught to learn.

  

  Bertolt Brecht

  WriterGerman1898 · 19th century

  4.0 · 13 votes · 90 reads

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• There is no question what the roll of honor in America is. The roll of honor consists of the names of men who have squared their conduct by ideals of duty.

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century

  3.0 · 10 votes · 13 reads

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• Too much TV hurts movies.

  

  Elvis Presley

  MusicianAmerican1935 · 20th century

  4.3 · 59 votes · 156 reads

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• True politeness consists in being easy one's self, and in making every one about one as easy as one can.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  3.6 · 52 votes · 124 reads

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• We do not imitate, but are a model to others.

  

  Pericles

  PoliticianGreek-495 · 5th century BC

  5.0 · 14 votes · 156 reads

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• We learn by teaching.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  3.9 · 21 votes · 75 reads

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• What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.9 · 62 votes · 177 reads

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• When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favor of the belief which he finds in himself.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  3.5 · 48 votes · 0 reads

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• Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

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  Roy Lichtenstein

  PainterAmerican1923 · 20th century

  4.6 · 9 votes · 91 reads

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• Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.6 · 47 votes · 69 reads

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• You see how Spanish, Italians, Portuguese play football. I don't say they are perfect, I say English football has a few things to learn from them in the same way they have a lot of things to learn from English football.

  

  Jose Mourinho

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  3.6 · 18 votes · 200 reads

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