Quotes for June 948 quotes · 41 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every June 9: the anniversary does not move.

• 'Tis so much joy! 'Tis so much joy! If I should fail, what poverty! And yet, as poor as I Have ventured all upon a throw; Have gained! Yes! Hesitated so this side the victory!

  

  Emily Dickinson

  PoetAmerican1830 · 19th century

  4.3 · 33 votes · 91 reads

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• A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

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  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

  PoliticianBritish1803 · 19th century

  3.0 · 55 votes · 2 reads

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• A new idea is first condemned as ridiculous and then dismissed as trivial, until finally, it becomes what everybody knows.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  5.0 · 14 votes · 3 reads

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• Adjust your makeup to the light in which your wear it.

  

  Helena Rubinstein

  BusinessmanPolish1870 · 19th century

  4.2 · 6 votes · 78 reads

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• All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you; the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse, and s

  

  Ernest Hemingway

  WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

  4.6 · 42 votes · 134 reads

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• Any woman who understands the problems of running a home will be nearer to understanding the problems of running a country.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  3.8 · 35 votes · 76 reads

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• Art is man's expression of his joy in labor.

  

  Henry A. Kissinger

  PoliticianGerman1923 · 20th century

  4.8 · 39 votes · 188 reads

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• Be courageous. I have seen many depressions in business. Always America has emerged from these stronger and more prosperous. Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith! Go forward!

  

  Theodore Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1858 · 19th century

  4.6 · 25 votes · 6 reads

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• Conversation has a kind of charm about it, an insinuating and insidious something that elicits secrets just like love or liquor.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.0 · 60 votes · 88 reads

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• Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  3.0 · 10 votes · 185 reads

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• Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  3.5 · 64 votes · 128 reads

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• Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for all mankind.

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  Neil Armstrong

  AstronautAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.4 · 23 votes · 144 reads

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• I adore art... when I am alone with my notes, my heart pounds and the tears stream from my eyes, and my emotion and my joys are too much to bear.

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  Giuseppe Verdi

  MusicianItalian1813 · 19th century

  3.1 · 52 votes · 118 reads

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• If A equals success, then the formula is A equals X plus Y and Z, with X being work, Y play, and Z keeping your mouth shut.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.1 · 55 votes · 112 reads

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• If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

  

  Horace Mann

  EducatorAmerican1796 · 18th century

  3.1 · 58 votes · 6 reads

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• It is almost never when a state of things is the most detestable that it is smashed, but when, beginning to improve, it permits men to breathe, to reflect, to communicate their thoughts with each other, and to gauge by what they already have the extent of

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  PhilosopherFrench1805 · 19th century

  4.3 · 40 votes · 143 reads

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• It is, generally, in the season of prosperity that men discover their real temper, principles, and designs.

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  4.6 · 11 votes · 112 reads

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• Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  4.7 · 50 votes · 23 reads

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• Marriage: A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

  

  Herbert Spencer

  PhilosopherEnglish1820 · 19th century

  4.1 · 30 votes · 65 reads

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• Men are just as vain as women, and sometimes even more so.

  

  Helena Rubinstein

  BusinessmanPolish1870 · 19th century

  3.3 · 21 votes · 162 reads

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• Neither the sun nor death can be looked at with a steady eye

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.4 · 51 votes · 197 reads

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• Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it. Many will read the book before one thinks of quoting a passage. As soon as he has done this, that line will be quoted east and west.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.2 · 27 votes · 158 reads

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• No one as ever completed their apprenticeship.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  5.0 · 49 votes · 80 reads

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• Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.

  

  Benedict de Spinoza

  PhilosopherDutch1632 · 17th century

  4.7 · 32 votes · 7 reads

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• Our greatest stupidities may be very wise.

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  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  PhilosopherAustrian1889 · 19th century

  4.1 · 58 votes · 104 reads

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• People with good memories seldom remember anything worth remembering.

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  Anonymous

  3.9 · 18 votes · 51 reads

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• Philosophy is not a theory but an activity.

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  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  PhilosopherAustrian1889 · 19th century

  5.0 · 33 votes · 49 reads

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• Plodding wins the race.

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  Aesop

  WriterGreek-620 · 7th century BC

  5.0 · 30 votes · 87 reads

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• Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.

  

  Benedict de Spinoza

  PhilosopherDutch1632 · 17th century

  3.4 · 13 votes · 83 reads

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• So much of what we call management consists in making it difficult for people to work.

  

  Peter Drucker

  BusinessmanAmerican1909 · 20th century

  4.2 · 54 votes · 100 reads

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• Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues.

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  3.0 · 55 votes · 69 reads

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• The degree of one's emotions varies inversely with one's knowledge of the facts- the less you know the hotter you get.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  4.5 · 24 votes · 168 reads

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• The Fed is totally open.

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  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  3.2 · 6 votes · 26 reads

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• The hell of these days is the fear of not getting along, especially of not making money.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.1 · 6 votes · 126 reads

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• The law is reason, free from passion.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  3.9 · 5 votes · 57 reads

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• The link between my experience as an entrepreneur and that of a politician is all in one word: freedom.

  

  Silvio Berlusconi

  PoliticianItalian1936 · 20th century

  4.7 · 16 votes · 109 reads

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• The most dangerous word in any human tongue is the word for brother. It's inflammatory.

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  T. S. Eliot

  PoetAmerican1888 · 19th century

  3.4 · 36 votes · 37 reads

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• The most important thing in communication is hearing what isn't said.

  

  Peter Drucker

  BusinessmanAmerican1909 · 20th century

  4.8 · 7 votes · 38 reads

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• The question isn't, 'What do we want to know about people?', It's, 'What do people want to tell about themselves?'

  

  Mark Zuckerberg

  BusinessmanAmerican1984 · 20th century

  4.0 · 31 votes · 77 reads

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• The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves.

  

  George Washington

  PoliticianAmerican1732 · 18th century

  4.5 · 31 votes · 112 reads

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• The well being of the people is the supreme law.

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 24 votes · 182 reads

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• There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  5.0 · 57 votes · 82 reads

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• There is no such thing as part freedom.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  4.4 · 18 votes · 50 reads

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• This book is not to be tossed lightly aside, but to be hurled with great force.

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  Dorothy Parker

  WriterAmerican1893 · 19th century

  4.6 · 44 votes · 168 reads

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• When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  3.2 · 36 votes · 86 reads

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• Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age, and old men's nurses.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  5.0 · 45 votes · 68 reads

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• You, that are going to be married, think things can never be done too fast: but we that are old, and know what we are about, must elope methodically, madam.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale

  AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century

  3.8 · 39 votes · 27 reads

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