Quotes for June 1251 quotes · 43 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every June 12: the anniversary does not move.

• A fool always finds a greater fool to admire him.

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  Nicola Abbagnano

  PhilosopherItaly1901 · 20th century

  4.3 · 11 votes · 24 reads

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• A wise man is he who does not grieve for the thing which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

  

  Epictetus

  PhilosopherGreek55 · 1st century

  3.0 · 25 votes · 192 reads

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• And what's interesting about him as a comic character is that the custard pie hardly ever ends up on his face.

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  4.0 · 58 votes · 61 reads

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• Better do a good deed near at home than go far away to burn incense.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  4.5 · 53 votes · 179 reads

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• Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  4.6 · 34 votes · 98 reads

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• Children are natural mimics - they act like their parents in spite of every attempt to teach them good manners.

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 15 votes · 100 reads

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• Debt is the worst poverty.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  4.7 · 55 votes · 36 reads

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• Democracy must learn to defend itself.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  4.1 · 58 votes · 1 reads

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• For a country to have a great Writeris like having another government. That's why no régime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.

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  Alexander Solzhenitsyn

  NovelistRussian1918 · 20th century

  3.7 · 38 votes · 148 reads

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• For a creative Writerpossession of the ''truth'' is less important than emotional sincerity.

  

  George Orwell

  NovelistBritish1903 · 20th century

  4.2 · 61 votes · 9 reads

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• He travels best that knows when to return. Middleton For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

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  Robert Green Ingersoll

  PoliticianAmerican1833 · 19th century

  3.3 · 40 votes · 22 reads

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• Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.3 · 59 votes · 35 reads

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• Hopes are planted in friendship's garden where dreams blossom into priceless treasures.

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 16 votes · 169 reads

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• How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a Writeris driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one c

  

  Ernest Hemingway

  WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

  3.7 · 25 votes · 150 reads

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• I am a person that when I go in the street, everybody knows me and goes: 'Oh, you are entering politics.' I want to do something positive for the future. It doesn't mean to become a leader of a party.

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  Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

  BusinessmanItalian1947 · 20th century

  4.0 · 11 votes · 27 reads

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• I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes - and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.8 · 50 votes · 68 reads

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• I define love for our purpose as the passion of one being for another in the hope of being loved in return.

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  Anonymous

  3.7 · 20 votes · 105 reads

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• I do not regard advertising as entertainment or an art form, but as a medium of information.

  

  David Ogilvy

  BusinessmanEnglish1911 · 20th century

  5.0 · 55 votes · 65 reads

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• I don't want to own anything that won't fit into my coffin.

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  Fred A. Allen

  ComedianAmerican1894 · 19th century

  3.2 · 64 votes · 96 reads

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• I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.1 · 35 votes · 18 reads

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• I love the Russian classics very much, the Russian classical literature. But I also read modern literature. As far as Russian literature is concerned, I am very fond of Tolstoy and Chekhov, and I also enjoy reading Gogol very much.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  5.0 · 53 votes · 104 reads

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• If all men knew what each said of the other, there would not be four friends in the world.

  

  Blaise Pascal

  PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century

  4.6 · 49 votes · 155 reads

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• If we did not flatter ourselves the flattery from others would not harm us.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.6 · 59 votes · 199 reads

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• In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.6 · 57 votes · 97 reads

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• Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.5 · 9 votes · 74 reads

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• It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.

  

  Epictetus

  PhilosopherGreek55 · 1st century

  3.6 · 15 votes · 179 reads

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• It is easier to rob by setting up a bank than by holding up a bank clerk.

  

  Bertolt Brecht

  WriterGerman1898 · 19th century

  4.8 · 18 votes · 84 reads

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• Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  4.1 · 47 votes · 150 reads

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• Let the people know the truth and the country is safe.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.0 · 52 votes · 1 reads

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• Liberty has never come from government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century

  3.3 · 40 votes · 65 reads

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• Man arrives as a novice at each age of his life.

  

  Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

  PoetFrench1636 · 17th century

  3.1 · 42 votes · 129 reads

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• Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world; One that hath barely learned to shape a smile, though yet irrational of soul, to grasp with tiny finger - to let fall a tear; And, as the heavy cloud of sleep dissolves, To stretch his limbs, beco

  

  William Wordsworth

  PoetEnglish1770 · 18th century

  3.4 · 60 votes · 5 reads

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• Men talk as if victory were something fortunate. Work is victory.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.5 · 61 votes · 193 reads

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• Of all the ways of acquiring books, writing them oneself is regarded as the most praiseworthy method. Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy but do not lik

  

  Walter Bagehot

  EconomistBritish1826 · 19th century

  4.8 · 38 votes · 144 reads

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• Order your soul; reduce your wants; live in charity; associate in Christian community; obey the laws; trust in Providence.

  

  Rudyard Kipling

  WriterBritish1865 · 19th century

  4.2 · 39 votes · 143 reads

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• Poverty is the step-mother of genius.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  4.3 · 50 votes · 169 reads

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• The devil himself is good when he is pleased.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  5.0 · 31 votes · 150 reads

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• The greatest act of faith is when a man understands he is not God.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.4 · 45 votes · 127 reads

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• The mind of man is like a clock that is always running down, and requires to be constantly wound up.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  3.7 · 47 votes · 139 reads

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• The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.6 · 38 votes · 88 reads

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• Theories are private property, but truth is common stock.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  3.6 · 10 votes · 156 reads

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• There should be less talk; a preaching point is not a meeting point. What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough.

  

  Teresa of Calcutta

  MissionaryAlbanian1910 · 20th century

  3.5 · 41 votes · 63 reads

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• To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today.

  

  Isaac Asimov

  ScientistAmerican1920 · 20th century

  4.4 · 21 votes · 15 reads

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• To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes.

  

  Will Rogers

  ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

  3.3 · 51 votes · 38 reads

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• We never know how high we are till we are called to rise; and then, if we are true to plan, our stature's touch the skies.

  

  Emily Dickinson

  PoetAmerican1830 · 19th century

  3.3 · 40 votes · 46 reads

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• We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  3.6 · 34 votes · 163 reads

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• We're all of us guinea pigs in the laboratory of God. Humanity is just a work in progress.

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  T. S. Eliot

  PoetAmerican1888 · 19th century

  3.7 · 7 votes · 54 reads

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• What a country calls its vital economic interests are not the things which enable its citizens to live, but the things which enable it to make war. Petrol is more likely than wheat to be a cause of international conflict.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  3.5 · 23 votes · 126 reads

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• Who speaks to the instincts speaks to the deepest in mankind, and finds the readiest response.

  

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  EducatorAmerican1799 · 18th century

  4.1 · 52 votes · 55 reads

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• With children... it is a fact that most parents criticize children more than they laud or congratulate them. We tend to be quick to criticize, slow to praise. We should be careful to keep the praise and the expectations far ahead of the criticism.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 31 votes · 55 reads

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