Quotes for July 2249 quotes · 43 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every July 22: the anniversary does not move.

• A burnt child dreads the fire.

  

  English proverb

  English

  4.0 · 63 votes · 99 reads

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• A new word is like a fresh seed sewn on the ground of the discussion.

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  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  PhilosopherAustrian1889 · 19th century

  4.6 · 7 votes · 191 reads

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• A person dishonored is worst than dead.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  4.1 · 50 votes · 144 reads

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• Chose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  3.0 · 44 votes · 3 reads

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• Consider the postage stamp, my son. It secures success through its ability to stick to one thing till it gets there.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  4.4 · 44 votes · 122 reads

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• Cricket is basically baseball on valium.

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  3.8 · 36 votes · 63 reads

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• Death always comes too early or too late.

  

  English proverb

  English

  3.5 · 7 votes · 82 reads

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• Experience is in the fingers and head. The heart is inexperienced.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.4 · 53 votes · 45 reads

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• Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

  

  Emily Dickinson

  PoetAmerican1830 · 19th century

  4.3 · 48 votes · 177 reads

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• For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived.

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  4.3 · 12 votes · 131 reads

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• Forecasting our futures is built into our psyches because we will soon have to manage that future. We have no choice. No matter how often we fail, we can never stop trying.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.2 · 36 votes · 99 reads

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• God is only a great imaginative experience.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

  WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century

  3.9 · 44 votes · 92 reads

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• He gains a great deal who loses a vain hope.

  

  Italian proverb

  Italian

  3.5 · 9 votes · 72 reads

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• He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  3.4 · 22 votes · 81 reads

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• He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.0 · 41 votes · 61 reads

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• I can sympathize with people's pains, but not with their pleasures. There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  4.5 · 59 votes · 158 reads

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• I never did a day's work in my life. It was all fun.

  

  Theodore Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1858 · 19th century

  4.3 · 41 votes · 11 reads

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• I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; -poetry = the best words in the best order.

  

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

  4.1 · 34 votes · 14 reads

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• If Columbus had turned back, no one would have blamed him. Of course, no one would have remembered him either.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 44 votes · 127 reads

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• In science read the newest works, in literature read the oldest.

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  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

  PoliticianBritish1803 · 19th century

  4.1 · 21 votes · 21 reads

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• It is because the body is a machine that education is possible. Education is the formation of habits, a superinducing of an artificial organization upon the natural organization of the body.

  

  Thomas Fuller

  AuthorBritish1608 · 17th century

  4.9 · 34 votes · 108 reads

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• It is natural to die as to be born.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  3.3 · 35 votes · 122 reads

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• It takes about two and a half percent growth just to keep unemployment stable.

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  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  4.0 · 59 votes · 4 reads

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• It would be naive to think that the problems plaguing mankind today can be solved with means and methods which were applied or seemed to work in the past.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  3.3 · 45 votes · 67 reads

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• It's no good agreeing with a person who can't make up his mind.

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  Anonymous

  3.0 · 55 votes · 113 reads

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• Men can acquire knowledge, but not wisdom. Some of the greatest fools ever known were learned men.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard

  PhilosopherDanish1813 · 19th century

  4.5 · 60 votes · 75 reads

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• Nothing can come of nothing.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.7 · 19 votes · 2 reads

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• On the one hand we have got to ask, are there some areas of universal benefits that are no longer affordable? But on the other hand let us look at the issue of dependency where we have trapped people in poverty through the extent of welfare that they have

  

  David Cameron

  PoliticianBritish1966 · 20th century

  3.1 · 43 votes · 22 reads

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• Once a newspaper touches a story the facts are lost forever, even to the protagonists.

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  Niels Bohr

  PhysicistDanish1885 · 19th century

  4.9 · 24 votes · 76 reads

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• One who never turned his back but marched breast forward, never doubted clouds would break, Never dreamed, though right were worsted, wrong would triumph,

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  Robert Bresson

  Film directorFrench1901 · 20th century

  3.4 · 44 votes · 89 reads

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• Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.5 · 40 votes · 58 reads

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• Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

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  Lord Alfred Tennyson

  PoetBritish1809 · 19th century

  4.9 · 32 votes · 58 reads

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• The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  3.3 · 18 votes · 125 reads

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• The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  5.0 · 28 votes · 65 reads

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• The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.

  

  Pearl S. Buck

  NovelistAmerican1892 · 19th century

  4.1 · 56 votes · 181 reads

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• The ultimate search engine would basically understand everything in the world, and it would always give you the right thing. And we're a long, long ways from that.

  

  Larry Page

  BusinessmanAmerican1973 · 20th century

  5.0 · 40 votes · 53 reads

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• There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.

  

  Jonathan Swift

  WriterIrish1667 · 17th century

  3.1 · 60 votes · 70 reads

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• There can be no friendship where there is no freedom. Friendship loves a free air, and will not be fenced up in straight and narrow enclosures.

  

  William James

  PhilosopherAmerican1842 · 19th century

  3.2 · 36 votes · 151 reads

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• There was a theft! But, of course, if it was up to me, every two years I would win an Oscar.

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  Ennio Morricone

  MusicianItalian1928 · 20th century

  3.0 · 61 votes · 109 reads

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• There's a helluva distance between wisecracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.

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  Dorothy Parker

  WriterAmerican1893 · 19th century

  3.4 · 44 votes · 116 reads

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• Throughout history, people have studied pure science from a desire to understand the universe rather than practical applications for commercial gain. But their discoveries later turned out to have great practical benefits.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.3 · 39 votes · 148 reads

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• Using e-mail, I can communicate with scientists all over the world.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.1 · 15 votes · 38 reads

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• We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.9 · 24 votes · 90 reads

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• What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.

  

  Adolf Hitler

  PoliticianGerman1889 · 19th century

  3.3 · 27 votes · 102 reads

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• When you have two alternatives, the first thing you have to do is to look for the third that you didn't think about, that doesn't exist.

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  Shimon Peres

  PoliticianIsraeli1923 · 20th century

  3.0 · 41 votes · 150 reads

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• Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  3.6 · 49 votes · 72 reads

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• You can see my decision as either a distinctive factor or as a limitation. I don't feel it is a limitation.

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  Ennio Morricone

  MusicianItalian1928 · 20th century

  4.7 · 36 votes · 5 reads

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• You must do the thing that you think you cannot do.

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  Eleanor Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  3.1 · 49 votes · 146 reads

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