Quotes for June 2450 quotes · 43 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every June 24: the anniversary does not move.

• A Christian is like a tea bag - he's not worth much until he's been through some hot water.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 9 votes · 99 reads

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• A good painter is to paint two main things, men and the working of man's mind.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

  PainterItaly1452 · 15th century

  4.9 · 46 votes · 180 reads

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• A good wife and health is a mans best wealth.

  

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 46 votes · 154 reads

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• A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

  

  Fidel Castro

  PoliticianCuba1926 · 20th century

  4.6 · 40 votes · 134 reads

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• America must not ignore the threat gathering against us. Facing clear evidence of peril, we cannot wait for the final proof, the smoking gun that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.4 · 12 votes · 132 reads

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• Any nation has the right and will indeed defend herself.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  PoliticianIranian1956 · 20th century

  4.2 · 63 votes · 59 reads

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• As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have it's fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.1 · 48 votes · 59 reads

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• At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading is not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction.

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  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  PoetBritish1806 · 19th century

  4.7 · 6 votes · 30 reads

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• Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable; what it is or what it means can never be said.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  3.1 · 26 votes · 123 reads

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• But I will be a bridegroom in my death, and run into a lover's bed.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.9 · 58 votes · 0 reads

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• By a Carpenter mankind was made, and only by that Carpenter can mankind be remade.

  

  Erasmus of Rotterdam

  TheologianDutch1466 · 15th century

  4.3 · 40 votes · 145 reads

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• Creditors have better memories than debtors.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.8 · 61 votes · 71 reads

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• Criticism is often not a science; it is a craft, requiring more good health than wit, more hard work than talent, more habit than native genius. In the hands of a man who has read widely but lacks judgment, applied to certain subjects it can corrupt both

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  4.8 · 47 votes · 163 reads

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• Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait. The grip of your hand, the irresistible surge of will and energy to execute your ideas.

  

  Henry Ford

  BusinessmanAmerican1863 · 19th century

  3.9 · 45 votes · 160 reads

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• Even moderation ought not to be practiced to excess.

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 37 votes · 130 reads

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• Every revolutionary ends up by becoming either an oppressor or a heretic.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  4.4 · 63 votes · 5 reads

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• I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use being anything else.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.2 · 46 votes · 35 reads

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• I am shocked at how much time I spend in the White House. I mean, you know, for people on the outside, the idea of going to the White House for a meeting must seem like the most important, serious, even glamorous kind of thing to do.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.6 · 15 votes · 86 reads

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• I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.3 · 52 votes · 63 reads

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• I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophists, economists and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is gone forever

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  4.3 · 50 votes · 23 reads

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• If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.3 · 51 votes · 35 reads

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• Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey, where wealth accumulates, and men decay.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale

  AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century

  3.5 · 21 votes · 170 reads

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• In the German football team players from different clubs need to get on with each other both on and off the pitch. In the grand coalition Christian Democrats and Social Democrats sit in the same boat and need to pull in the same direction.

  

  Angela Merkel

  PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century

  3.5 · 45 votes · 178 reads

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• It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.

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  Aeschylus

  WriterGreek-525 · 6th century BC

  4.1 · 50 votes · 66 reads

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• It is kind of happiness to know to what extent we may be unhappy.

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 18 votes · 127 reads

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• It was once said that if you took all of the people who fell asleep in church and laid them end to end they would be more comfortable.

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 46 votes · 166 reads

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• Kindness is the sunshine in which virtue grows.

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  Robert Frost

  PoetAmerican1874 · 19th century

  4.3 · 20 votes · 21 reads

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• Love laughs at locksmiths.

  

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 63 votes · 197 reads

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• Old age, especially an honored old age, has so great authority, that this is of more value than all the pleasures of youth.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.1 · 42 votes · 178 reads

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• Out of suffering comes the serious mind; out of salvation, the grateful heart; out of endurance, fortitude; out of deliverance faith.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  4.1 · 15 votes · 59 reads

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• Patience. A minor form of despair disguised as a virtue.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  4.7 · 39 votes · 198 reads

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• Resentment or grudges do no harm to the person against whom you hold these feelings but every day and every night of your life, they are eating at you.

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  Norman Mailer

  WriterAmerican1923 · 20th century

  3.4 · 38 votes · 12 reads

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• Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.9 · 57 votes · 30 reads

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• The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.2 · 27 votes · 21 reads

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• The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

  

  Walter Bagehot

  EconomistBritish1826 · 19th century

  4.8 · 55 votes · 81 reads

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• The real trouble with war (modern war) is that it gives no one a chance to kill the right people.

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  Ezra Pound

  PoetAmerican1885 · 19th century

  3.8 · 59 votes · 45 reads

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• The Russians and the Chinese have been absolutely clear they don't want to see Iran with a nuclear weapon.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.9 · 33 votes · 53 reads

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• The stupidity of men always invites the insolence of power.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.1 · 8 votes · 72 reads

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• The trouble with law is lawyers.

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  Clarence S. Darrow

  LawyerAmerican1857 · 19th century

  3.2 · 36 votes · 145 reads

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• The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.3 · 36 votes · 35 reads

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• There is no unique picture of reality.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.5 · 15 votes · 182 reads

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• There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.6 · 15 votes · 160 reads

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• Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  3.5 · 26 votes · 3 reads

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• Those who talk about individuality the most are the ones who most object to deviation, and in a few years it may be the other way around. Some day everybody will just think what they want to think, and then everybody will probably be thinking alike; that

  

  Andy Warhol

  PainterAmerican1928 · 20th century

  3.0 · 7 votes · 24 reads

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• Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy.

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  Publilius Syrus

  WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC

  3.3 · 55 votes · 28 reads

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• When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.3 · 42 votes · 43 reads

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• Whenever you get red in the face, whenever you raise your voice, whenever you get hot under the collar or angry, rebellious or negative in spirit, then know that the spirit of God is leaving you and the spirit of Satan is beginning to take over.

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  Anonymous

  4.5 · 14 votes · 167 reads

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• You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

  

  Hermann Hesse

  PoetGerman1877 · 19th century

  4.8 · 48 votes · 76 reads

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• Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  4.9 · 42 votes · 166 reads

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