Quotes for June 2351 quotes · 42 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every June 23: the anniversary does not move.

• 'Tis the mind that makes the body rich.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.9 · 6 votes · 126 reads

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• A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  3.6 · 23 votes · 24 reads

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• A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 8 votes · 89 reads

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• A man who is a politician at forty is a statesman at three score and ten. It is at this age, when he would be too old to be a clerk or a gardener or a police-court magistrate, that he is ripe to govern a country.

  

  W. H. Auden

  PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

  3.4 · 41 votes · 123 reads

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• A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends.

  

  George Washington

  PoliticianAmerican1732 · 18th century

  3.2 · 49 votes · 189 reads

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• Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  4.3 · 30 votes · 57 reads

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• America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college - the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes - the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That's what America

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.1 · 50 votes · 4 reads

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• Believe me, were I ever to accomplish anything, it would be in music, which has always attracted me; and, without overestimating myself, I am conscious of possessing a certain creative faculty.

  

  Robert Schumann

  MusicianGerman1810 · 19th century

  3.1 · 52 votes · 97 reads

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• Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity.

  

  John Lennon

  MusicianBritish1940 · 20th century

  3.1 · 42 votes · 91 reads

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• Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty -the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.3 · 18 votes · 138 reads

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• Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

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  Henry James

  AuthorAmerican-British1843 · 19th century

  4.0 · 27 votes · 62 reads

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• Father in Heaven! When the thought of thee wakes in our hearts let it not awaken like a frightened bird that flies about in dismay, but like a child waking from its sleep with a heavenly smile.

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  Sophocles

  PoetGreek

  3.0 · 41 votes · 25 reads

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• Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  5.0 · 17 votes · 177 reads

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• God is closest to those with broken hearts.

  

  Jewish proverb

  Jewish

  4.9 · 53 votes · 85 reads

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• Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

  

  Jane Austen

  NovelistEnglish1775 · 18th century

  3.1 · 41 votes · 17 reads

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• He that pursues fame with just claims, trusts his happiness to the winds; but he that endeavors after it by false merit, has to fear, not only the violence of the storm, but the leaks of his vessel.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.8 · 29 votes · 177 reads

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• He that would the daughter win must with the mother first begin.

  

  English proverb

  English

  4.3 · 13 votes · 12 reads

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• I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

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  Peter F. Drucker

  WriterAmerican1909 · 20th century

  3.7 · 9 votes · 76 reads

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• I enjoy the work, I enjoy every minute of my professional life.

  

  Jose Mourinho

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  3.2 · 5 votes · 187 reads

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• I hate this shallow Americanism which hopes to get rich by credit, to get knowledge by raps on midnight tables, to learn the economy of the mind by phrenology, or skill without study, or mastery without apprenticeship.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.7 · 46 votes · 169 reads

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• I just want you to know that, when we talk about war, we're really talking about peace.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.0 · 48 votes · 168 reads

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• If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power.

  

  Lionel Jospin

  PoliticianFrench1937 · 20th century

  4.1 · 19 votes · 27 reads

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• If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  3.5 · 63 votes · 11 reads

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• If that enabled us to predict the succeeding situation with the same approximation, that is all we require, and we should say that the phenomenon had been predicted, that it is governed by the laws.

  

  Henri Poincaré

  MathematicianFrench1854 · 19th century

  4.9 · 57 votes · 93 reads

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• It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do -or don't do.

  

  Sigmund Freud

  PhysicistAustrian1856 · 19th century

  4.6 · 31 votes · 135 reads

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• Life is not a series of gig lamps symmetrically arranged; life is a luminous halo, a semi-transparent envelope surrounding us from the beginning of consciousness to the end.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  4.1 · 41 votes · 167 reads

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• Life is the jailer, death the angel sent to draw the unwilling bolts and set us free.

  

  James Russell Lowell

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  4.8 · 11 votes · 79 reads

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• Most of us will do anything to become good except change our way of living.

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 41 votes · 9 reads

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• My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious.

  

  Karl Kraus

  WriterAustrian1874 · 19th century

  4.6 · 52 votes · 188 reads

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• Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

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  Anonymous

  3.5 · 29 votes · 160 reads

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• No one can transcend their own individuality.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  PhilosopherGerman1788 · 18th century

  4.0 · 10 votes · 106 reads

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• No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  4.6 · 61 votes · 153 reads

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• Old friendships are like meats served up repeatedly, cold, comfortless, and distasteful. The stomach turns against them.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  4.1 · 5 votes · 75 reads

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• Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.6 · 42 votes · 74 reads

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• Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the ''higher life.'

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  3.0 · 37 votes · 28 reads

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• The beginning of a habit is like an invisible thread, but every time we repeat the act we strengthen the strand, add to it another filament, until it becomes a great cable and binds us irrevocably thought and act.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.3 · 44 votes · 157 reads

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• The good man is the friend of all living things.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  4.0 · 28 votes · 16 reads

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• The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.

  

  Buddha

  LeaderNepal-563 · 6th century BC

  4.1 · 55 votes · 73 reads

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• There are always two choices. Two paths to take. One is easy. And its only reward is that it's easy.

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  Anonymous

  3.9 · 51 votes · 77 reads

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• There is genius in persistence. It conquers all opposers. It gives confidence. It annihilates obstacles. Everybody believes in a determined man. People know that when he undertakes a thing, the battle is half won, for his rule is to accomplish whatever he

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.5 · 17 votes · 199 reads

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• There is nothing bigger or older than the universe.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.1 · 60 votes · 70 reads

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• There is something wrong about the man who wants help. There is somewhere a deep defect, a want, in brief, a need, a crying need, somewhere about that man.

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  Herman Melville

  WriterAmerican1819 · 19th century

  3.0 · 5 votes · 200 reads

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• Treat your superior as a father, your equal as a brother, and your inferior as a son.

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  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  PoetEnglish1792 · 18th century

  3.2 · 25 votes · 163 reads

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• Truth makes many appeals, not the least of which is its power to shock.

  

  Jules Renard

  WriterFrench1864 · 19th century

  4.8 · 59 votes · 83 reads

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• Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.1 · 47 votes · 133 reads

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• Vulgarity is the rich man's modest contribution to democracy.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 42 votes · 192 reads

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• We still have a tradition certainly in English television; it's faded a bit in the last five years, but we still have a tradition where the important thing is the quality and the challenging nature of the programming.

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  4.2 · 62 votes · 77 reads

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• When a resolute young fellow steps up to the great bully, the world, and takes him boldly by the beard, he is often surprised to find it comes off in his hand, and that it was only tied on to scare away the timid adventurers.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.3 · 54 votes · 143 reads

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• You can fail so very often. But you are not a failure until you give up.

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 36 votes · 109 reads

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• You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

  

  John Lennon

  MusicianBritish1940 · 20th century

  4.4 · 61 votes · 72 reads

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