Quotes for July 1848 quotes · 43 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every July 18: the anniversary does not move.

• A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.

  

  Robert Burton

  EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century

  4.3 · 19 votes · 139 reads

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• A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, ''Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?'' holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. ''Yet,'' added he, ''none of you can t

  

  Plutarch

  EssayistGreek46 · 1st century

  3.9 · 23 votes · 192 reads

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• An honest man is the best thing on the sod; but a mother and her babe is the noblest work of God.

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 26 votes · 149 reads

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• Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.0 · 14 votes · 140 reads

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• Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music - the world is so rich, simply throbbing with rich treasures, beautiful souls and interesting people. Forget yourself.

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  3.4 · 9 votes · 45 reads

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• Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.0 · 27 votes · 102 reads

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• Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  4.1 · 25 votes · 170 reads

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• Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  3.5 · 21 votes · 148 reads

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• Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  3.1 · 24 votes · 200 reads

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• I am a lie who always speaks the truth.

  

  Jean Cocteau

  AuthorFrench1889 · 19th century

  5.0 · 23 votes · 86 reads

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• I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.7 · 61 votes · 57 reads

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• I said something which gave you to think I hated cats. But gad, sir, I am one of the most fanatical cat lovers in the business. If you hate them, I may learn to hate you. If your allergies hate them, I will tolerate the situation to the best of my ability

  

  Raymond Chandler

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  3.0 · 45 votes · 50 reads

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• If I have to apply five turns to the screw each day for the happiness of Argentina, I will do it.

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  Evita Peron

  PoliticianArgentinian1919 · 20th century

  3.1 · 8 votes · 97 reads

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• If literature isn't everything, it's not worth a single hour of someone's trouble.

  

  Jean Paul Sartre

  WriterFrench1905 · 20th century

  3.6 · 42 votes · 182 reads

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• If the young knew and the old could, there is nothing that couldn't be done.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.3 · 32 votes · 53 reads

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• In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  4.1 · 44 votes · 30 reads

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• It takes two people to ruin a perfectly good day. First a person who says something downright nasty about you, and second, a dear friend who makes sure you hear about it immediately.

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 7 votes · 196 reads

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• Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth.

  

  Will Rogers

  ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

  4.7 · 52 votes · 170 reads

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• Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.8 · 54 votes · 66 reads

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• Men are lead by trifles.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  3.4 · 22 votes · 191 reads

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• Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  3.9 · 24 votes · 178 reads

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• Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  5.0 · 14 votes · 10 reads

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• Spirit borrows from matter the perceptions on which it feeds and restores them to matter in the form of movements which it has stamped with its own freedom.

  

  Henri Bergson

  PhilosopherFrench1859 · 19th century

  4.2 · 17 votes · 74 reads

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• The average man is proof enough that a woman can take a joke.

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 33 votes · 36 reads

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• The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.

  

  John Maynard Keynes

  EconomistBritish1883 · 19th century

  4.4 · 34 votes · 105 reads

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• The extreme limit of wisdom -that's what the public calls madness.

  

  Jean Cocteau

  AuthorFrench1889 · 19th century

  3.3 · 18 votes · 186 reads

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• The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  3.1 · 17 votes · 47 reads

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• The only immorality is not to do what one has to do when one has to do it.

  

  Jean Anouilh

  PlaywrightFrench1910 · 20th century

  3.8 · 11 votes · 162 reads

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• The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.0 · 18 votes · 106 reads

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• The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized.

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  3.3 · 14 votes · 168 reads

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• The truth is that we live out our lives putting off all that can be put off; perhaps we all know deep down that we are immortal and that sooner or later all men will do and know all things.

  

  Jorge Luis Borges

  WriterArgentinian1899 · 19th century

  3.6 · 45 votes · 109 reads

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• There is a growing frustration that the EU is seen as something that is done to people rather than acting on their behalf. And this is being intensified by the very solutions required to resolve the economic problems.

  

  David Cameron

  PoliticianBritish1966 · 20th century

  4.1 · 50 votes · 1 reads

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• There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  3.0 · 15 votes · 75 reads

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• There is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  4.5 · 55 votes · 109 reads

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• Those who believe in their truth - the only ones whose imprint is retained by the memory of men - leave the earth behind them strewn with corpses. Religions number in their ledgers more murders than the bloodiest tyrannies account for, and those whom huma

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  Emil Cioran

  PhilosopherRomanian1911 · 20th century

  3.8 · 58 votes · 89 reads

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• Today is life-the only life you are sure of. Make the most of today. Get interested in something. Shake yourself awake. Develop a hobby. Let the winds of enthusiasm sweep through you. Live today with gusto.

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  Dale Carnegie

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  4.1 · 43 votes · 130 reads

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• Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.3 · 21 votes · 122 reads

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• Use power to help people. For we are given power not to advance our own purposes nor to make a great show in the world, nor a name. There is but one just use of power and it is to serve people.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.7 · 8 votes · 9 reads

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• We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.1 · 9 votes · 15 reads

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• We made a decision that monetary policy will be made by an independent European Central Bank.

  

  Gerhard Schroder

  PoliticianGerman1944 · 20th century

  4.2 · 40 votes · 190 reads

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• We will never allow anybody to separate Taiwan from China.

  

  Hu Jintao

  PoliticianChinese1942 · 20th century

  4.4 · 42 votes · 128 reads

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• What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.4 · 26 votes · 89 reads

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• What is uttered is finished and done with.

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  Thomas Kempis

  AuthorGerman1379 · 14th century

  3.5 · 63 votes · 78 reads

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• What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham

  WriterBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.3 · 28 votes · 29 reads

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• When a man feels throbbing within him the power to do what he undertakes as well as it can possibly be done, and all of his faculties say ''amen'' to what he is doing, and give their unqualified approval to his efforts, - this is happiness, this is succes

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.9 · 22 votes · 25 reads

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• When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

  

  Otto von Bismarck

  PoliticianGerman1815 · 19th century

  3.9 · 51 votes · 168 reads

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• Work with some men is as besetting a sin as idleness.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  5.0 · 40 votes · 56 reads

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