Quotes for June 1852 quotes · 45 authors

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

• A collections of anecdotes and maxims is the greatest of treasures for the man of the world, for he knows how to intersperse conversation with the former in fit places, and to recollect the latter on proper occasions.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.7 · 54 votes · 154 reads

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• Abuse if you slight it, will gradually die away; but if you show yourself irritated, you will be thought to have deserved it.

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  Publius Cornelius Tacitus

  WriterRoman55 · 1st century

  3.3 · 21 votes · 87 reads

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• All kinds are good except the kind that bores you.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  4.1 · 35 votes · 79 reads

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• Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.1 · 56 votes · 26 reads

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• An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.6 · 45 votes · 32 reads

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• Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

  

  Buddha

  LeaderNepal-563 · 6th century BC

  3.2 · 27 votes · 10 reads

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• Be interesting, be enthusiastic... and don't talk to much.

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  Norman Mailer

  WriterAmerican1923 · 20th century

  3.8 · 23 votes · 7 reads

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• Because there is very little honor left in American life, there is a certain built-in tendency to destroy masculinity in American men.

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  Niels Bohr

  PhysicistDanish1885 · 19th century

  3.9 · 12 votes · 19 reads

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• Before marriage, a man will go home and lie awake all night thinking about something you said; after marriage, he'll go to sleep before you finish saying it.

  

  Helen Rowland

  JournalistAmerican1875 · 19th century

  4.8 · 60 votes · 129 reads

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• Every man is the son of his own works.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  4.1 · 18 votes · 87 reads

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• Friendship is Love without his wings!

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.2 · 45 votes · 100 reads

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• His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.9 · 52 votes · 177 reads

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• However much I dislike the idea of abortion, you should not criminalize a woman who, in very difficult circumstances, makes that choice.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  4.1 · 34 votes · 172 reads

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• I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.

  

  Elvis Presley

  MusicianAmerican1935 · 20th century

  4.3 · 22 votes · 16 reads

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• I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

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  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  WriterAmerican1896 · 19th century

  3.7 · 59 votes · 39 reads

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• If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  3.2 · 6 votes · 36 reads

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• If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.8 · 35 votes · 26 reads

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• In addition to building better products, a more open world will also encourage businesses to engage with their customers directly and authentically. More than four million businesses have Pages on Facebook that they use to have a dialogue with their custo

  

  Mark Zuckerberg

  BusinessmanAmerican1984 · 20th century

  3.9 · 21 votes · 29 reads

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• In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  3.2 · 60 votes · 142 reads

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• In every age of well-marked transition, there is the pattern of habitual dumb practice and emotion which is passing and there is oncoming a new complex of habit.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead

  MathematicianEnglish1861 · 19th century

  3.7 · 15 votes · 172 reads

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• In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.9 · 30 votes · 195 reads

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• It is the dull man who is always sure, and the sure man who is always dull.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.5 · 9 votes · 26 reads

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• It is time in the West to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.

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  Alexander Solzhenitsyn

  NovelistRussian1918 · 20th century

  3.2 · 44 votes · 75 reads

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• Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  3.9 · 13 votes · 107 reads

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• Knowledge is the small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  3.3 · 21 votes · 182 reads

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• Live poor so you can die rich.

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  Anonymous

  3.7 · 56 votes · 37 reads

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• Look at market fluctuations as your friend rather than your enemy; profit from folly rather than participate in it.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.5 · 56 votes · 139 reads

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• Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.3 · 34 votes · 9 reads

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• On the pinnacle of success man does not stand firm long.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.2 · 45 votes · 101 reads

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• One sword keeps another in the sheath.

  

  George Herbert

  PoetBritish1593 · 16th century

  4.5 · 44 votes · 114 reads

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• Passions are the only orators to always convinces us.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.8 · 26 votes · 92 reads

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• Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale

  AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century

  4.8 · 19 votes · 11 reads

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• Revenge is barren of itself: it is the dreadful food it feeds on; its delight is murder, and its end is despair.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  3.5 · 32 votes · 37 reads

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• Some men are like musical glasses; to produce their finest tones you must keep them wet.

  

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

  3.9 · 17 votes · 195 reads

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• The dog is the god of frolic.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  3.9 · 9 votes · 168 reads

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• The energy of the mind is the essence of life.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  4.5 · 24 votes · 61 reads

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• The fatal metaphor of progress, which means leaving things behind us, has utterly obscured the real idea of growth, which means leaving things inside us.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.7 · 32 votes · 36 reads

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• The mind is a wonderful thing. It starts working the minute you're born and never stops working until you get up to speak in public.

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 15 votes · 114 reads

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• The one thing people are the most liberal with, is their advice.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.7 · 50 votes · 34 reads

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• The person who lives with cripples will soon learn to limp.

  

  Italian proverb

  Italian

  3.6 · 58 votes · 84 reads

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• The proverb is something musty.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.5 · 58 votes · 120 reads

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• The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life. But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the one, and the weakest weapon of the other.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  3.2 · 24 votes · 84 reads

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• This is the test of your manhood: How much is there left in you after you have lost everything outside of yourself?

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.5 · 51 votes · 32 reads

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• To each one of us friendship has a different meaning. For all of us it is a gift. Friendship needs to be cherished and nurtured. It needs to be cultivated on a daily basis. Then shall it germinate and yield its fruit.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 52 votes · 141 reads

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• Two things are bad for the heart - running up stairs and running down people.

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  Bernard M. Baruch

  PoliticianAmerican1870 · 19th century

  3.0 · 49 votes · 45 reads

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• Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.3 · 56 votes · 117 reads

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• We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.

  

  Boris Yeltsin

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  4.5 · 22 votes · 196 reads

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• What is meant by ''reality''? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found in a dusty road, now in a scrap of newspaper in the street, now a daffodil in the sun. It lights up a group in a room and stamps some casual sayi

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  4.2 · 57 votes · 110 reads

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• When I became secretary of state, I felt one of my primary jobs was building relationships around the world.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.6 · 57 votes · 173 reads

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• When you just work tactically, in pure football sessions, you can see the way they can think football.

  

  Jose Mourinho

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  3.4 · 54 votes · 117 reads

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• Work is a refuge of people who have nothing better to do.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.6 · 21 votes · 4 reads

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