Quotes for July 244 quotes · 41 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every July 2: the anniversary does not move.

• A good metaphor is something even the police should keep an eye on.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  3.8 · 22 votes · 19 reads

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• A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

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  Bernard M. Baruch

  PoliticianAmerican1870 · 19th century

  3.1 · 20 votes · 107 reads

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• A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  4.1 · 15 votes · 138 reads

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• As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.0 · 16 votes · 99 reads

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• Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage.

  

  Plutarch

  EssayistGreek46 · 1st century

  3.8 · 33 votes · 175 reads

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• Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

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  David Lloyd George

  PoliticianBritish1863 · 19th century

  4.7 · 45 votes · 13 reads

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• Do not wait for extraordinary circumstances to do good action; try to use ordinary situations.

  

  Jean Paul

  ComedianGerman1763 · 18th century

  3.3 · 27 votes · 113 reads

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• Drive thy business or it will drive thee.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.8 · 30 votes · 11 reads

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• Even those who write against fame wish for the fame of having written well, and those who read their works desire the fame of having read them.

  

  Blaise Pascal

  PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century

  5.0 · 53 votes · 48 reads

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• Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

  

  Charles Baudelaire

  PoetFrench1821 · 19th century

  4.8 · 38 votes · 133 reads

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• Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  4.8 · 42 votes · 135 reads

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• Great men never make bad use of their superiority. They see it and feel it and are not less modest. The more they have, the more they know their own deficiencies.

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  3.7 · 6 votes · 93 reads

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• Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 42 votes · 75 reads

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• Hope is the golden thread that should be woven into every experience of life.

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 16 votes · 98 reads

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• I asked God for all things , that I might enjoy life. God gave life, that I might enjoy all things.

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  Anonymous

  3.6 · 25 votes · 87 reads

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• I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  PoliticianIranian1956 · 20th century

  3.5 · 33 votes · 184 reads

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• I consider myself more of a visual comedian than a physical one.

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  4.6 · 6 votes · 158 reads

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• I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.5 · 5 votes · 109 reads

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• I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the wine that gives it.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.5 · 20 votes · 55 reads

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• Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

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  Joseph Stalin

  LeaderRussian1879 · 19th century

  4.4 · 40 votes · 2 reads

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• If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon-shots.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  4.0 · 12 votes · 14 reads

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• If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  4.8 · 8 votes · 58 reads

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• Light, God's eldest daughter, is a principal beauty in a building.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  3.8 · 43 votes · 89 reads

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• Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  4.7 · 6 votes · 37 reads

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• Melancholy men are of all others the most witty.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  4.1 · 31 votes · 83 reads

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• Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  3.3 · 27 votes · 70 reads

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• Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.

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  Sophocles

  PoetGreek

  3.6 · 23 votes · 119 reads

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• My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  4.9 · 41 votes · 108 reads

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• Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

  

  W. H. Auden

  PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

  4.6 · 55 votes · 13 reads

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• People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.9 · 17 votes · 3 reads

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• Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity -it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and appear almost a remembrance.

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  John Keats

  PoetBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.9 · 8 votes · 56 reads

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• Point me out the happy man and I will point you out either egotism, selfishness, evil -or else an absolute ignorance.

  

  Graham Greene

  WriterEnglish1904 · 20th century

  3.3 · 20 votes · 150 reads

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• Put it before them briefly so they will read it, clearly so they will appreciate it, picturesquely so they will remember it and, above all, accurately so they will be guided by its light.

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  Joseph Pulitzer

  PublisherAmerican1847 · 19th century

  4.1 · 37 votes · 63 reads

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• She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.3 · 21 votes · 31 reads

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• The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.4 · 39 votes · 25 reads

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• The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.4 · 26 votes · 79 reads

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• The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  4.7 · 27 votes · 70 reads

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• The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

  

  Peter Drucker

  BusinessmanAmerican1909 · 20th century

  4.0 · 18 votes · 66 reads

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• The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.

  

  David Cameron

  PoliticianBritish1966 · 20th century

  4.0 · 24 votes · 143 reads

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• The world is his who has money to go over it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.6 · 28 votes · 163 reads

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• To err is human, to forgive is divine.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  3.7 · 9 votes · 78 reads

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• When we speak the word ''life,'' it must be understood we are not referring to life as we know it from its surface of fact, but to that fragile, fluctuating center which forms never reach.

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  Antonin Artaud

  PoetFrench1896 · 19th century

  3.8 · 31 votes · 82 reads

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• You may either win your peace or buy it. Win it, by resistance to evil; buy it, by compromise with evil.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  3.7 · 60 votes · 107 reads

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