Quotes for June 645 quotes · 42 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every June 6: the anniversary does not move.

• A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  3.4 · 63 votes · 22 reads

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• A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.

  

  Stendhal

  NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

  3.7 · 11 votes · 178 reads

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• A friend who cannot at a pinch remember a thing or two that never happened is as bad as one who does not know how to forget.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  4.5 · 41 votes · 178 reads

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• A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

  

  Epictetus

  PhilosopherGreek55 · 1st century

  4.0 · 16 votes · 63 reads

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• A person can stand almost anything except a succession of ordinary days.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.4 · 64 votes · 170 reads

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• All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

  

  Leo Tolstoy

  WriterRussian1828 · 19th century

  3.0 · 61 votes · 183 reads

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• Being ''contented'' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.8 · 51 votes · 88 reads

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• Especially when you play at home, you need a good atmosphere behind you.

  

  Jose Mourinho

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  5.0 · 34 votes · 55 reads

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• Facebook was not originally created to be a company. It was built to accomplish a social mission - to make the world more open and connected.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg

  BusinessmanAmerican1984 · 20th century

  4.4 · 27 votes · 92 reads

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• Having thus chosen our course, without guile and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear and with manly hearts.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.0 · 38 votes · 53 reads

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• Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.3 · 11 votes · 133 reads

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• I was training to be an electrician. I suppose I got wired the wrong way round somewhere along the line.

  

  Elvis Presley

  MusicianAmerican1935 · 20th century

  3.3 · 63 votes · 78 reads

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• If female were working in the same proportion as men do, the level of GDP would be up 27 percent in a country like India, but also up 9 percent in Japan and up 5 percent in the United States of America. It's not just a moral issue, not just a philosophica

  

  Christine Lagarde

  EconomistFrench1956 · 20th century

  3.2 · 25 votes · 77 reads

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• In diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls.

  

  Honore de Balzac

  NovelistFrench1799 · 18th century

  4.4 · 12 votes · 172 reads

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• In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.6 · 27 votes · 3 reads

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• In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  4.9 · 63 votes · 41 reads

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• Mathematicians are born, not made.

  

  Henri Poincaré

  MathematicianFrench1854 · 19th century

  4.5 · 21 votes · 16 reads

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• Microsoft has had two goals in the last 10 years. One was to copy the Mac, and the other was to copy Lotus' success in the spreadsheet - basically, the applications business. And over the course of the last 10 years, Microsoft accomplished both of those g

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.7 · 32 votes · 184 reads

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• Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

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  Christian Nestell Bovee

  AuthorAmerican1820 · 19th century

  3.5 · 39 votes · 120 reads

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• My downfall raises me to infinite heights.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  3.4 · 41 votes · 120 reads

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• No motion has she now, no force; she neither hears nor sees; rolled around in earth's diurnal course, with rocks, and stones, and trees.

  

  William Wordsworth

  PoetEnglish1770 · 18th century

  4.2 · 16 votes · 109 reads

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• Oh yet we trust that somehow good will be the final goal of ill!

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  Lord Alfred Tennyson

  PoetBritish1809 · 19th century

  3.9 · 16 votes · 187 reads

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• One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other.

  

  Jane Austen

  NovelistEnglish1775 · 18th century

  3.6 · 42 votes · 122 reads

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• One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, a

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  4.9 · 57 votes · 42 reads

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• One should never risk a joke, even of the mildest and most unexceptional charters, except among people of culture and wit.

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  3.8 · 54 votes · 25 reads

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• Our notion of the perfect society embraces the family as its center and ornament, and this paradise is not secure until children appear to animate and complete the picture.

  

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  EducatorAmerican1799 · 18th century

  4.2 · 30 votes · 165 reads

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• Politeness: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  4.3 · 56 votes · 9 reads

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• Sincerity and truth are the basis of every virtue.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  3.7 · 5 votes · 34 reads

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• Take from the philosopher the pleasure of being heard and his desire for knowledge ceases.

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  4.5 · 24 votes · 9 reads

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• The gift of friendship is a wondrous thing with the joys and happiness good friends bring.

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 15 votes · 164 reads

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• The greatest genius is the most indebted person.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.6 · 9 votes · 104 reads

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• The significant problems we face today cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.1 · 45 votes · 104 reads

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• The team is completely close. Anything you say outside, there is no chance it will go inside. So the team is really strong and compact. We know what we want and how to achieve it on the pitch.

  

  Jose Mourinho

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  4.6 · 63 votes · 10 reads

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• There is no way to happiness. Happiness is the way.

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  3.3 · 18 votes · 23 reads

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• There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

  

  John Lennon

  MusicianBritish1940 · 20th century

  4.3 · 8 votes · 143 reads

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• Those who'll play with cats must expect to be scratched.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  4.3 · 63 votes · 191 reads

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• To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  4.6 · 35 votes · 94 reads

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• We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found; and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.0 · 59 votes · 190 reads

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• We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  4.5 · 53 votes · 3 reads

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• When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.2 · 57 votes · 80 reads

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• Who can direct when all pretend to know?

  

  Norman Vincent Peale

  AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century

  4.2 · 17 votes · 48 reads

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• Whores and writers, Mahound. We are the people you can't forgive.

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  Saint Thomas Aquinas

  TheologianRoman1224 · 13th century

  4.8 · 42 votes · 51 reads

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• Wicked men obey from fear; good men, from love.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  4.0 · 37 votes · 48 reads

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• You're entitled to your own opinions. Your are not entitled to your own facts.

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  Anonymous

  3.5 · 48 votes · 175 reads

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