Quotes for May 1849 quotes · 46 authors

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

• A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

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  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

  PoliticianBritish1803 · 19th century

  4.8 · 19 votes · 81 reads

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• A sudden silence in the middle of a conversation suddenly brings us back to essentials: it reveals how dearly we must pay for the invention of speech.

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  Emil Cioran

  PhilosopherRomanian1911 · 20th century

  3.7 · 34 votes · 160 reads

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• A wise man will live as much within his wit as within his income.

  

  Lord Chesterfield

  PoliticianBritish1694 · 17th century

  4.3 · 52 votes · 86 reads

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• An empire is an immense egotism.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.3 · 11 votes · 98 reads

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• As he that fears God hears nothing else, so, he that sees God sees every thing else.

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  John Donne

  PoetEnglish1572 · 16th century

  5.0 · 19 votes · 190 reads

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• Don't let your mind go wandering, its too small to go out by itself.

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 58 votes · 102 reads

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• Dying is the most embarrassing thing that can ever happen to you, because someone's got to take care of all your details.

  

  Andy Warhol

  PainterAmerican1928 · 20th century

  3.6 · 17 votes · 133 reads

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• Every spoken word arouses our self-will.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.1 · 30 votes · 175 reads

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• Fortunately, Iranians are politically active worldwide.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  PoliticianIranian1956 · 20th century

  4.6 · 29 votes · 45 reads

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• Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  3.0 · 54 votes · 141 reads

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• Global equations undergo changes, this is their nature.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  PoliticianIranian1956 · 20th century

  4.7 · 51 votes · 65 reads

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• God is the immemorial refuge of the incompetent, the helpless, the miserable. They find not only sanctuary in His arms, but also a kind of superiority, soothing to their macerated egos: He will set them above their betters.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.7 · 36 votes · 78 reads

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• He who spares the bad injures the good.

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  Publilius Syrus

  WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC

  3.8 · 62 votes · 1 reads

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• I always remember an epitaph which is in the cemetery at Tombstone, Arizona. It says: ''Here lies Jack Williams. He done his damnedest.'' I think that is the greatest epitaph a man can have.

  

  Harry S. Truman

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  4.2 · 48 votes · 25 reads

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• I think the brain is essentially a computer and consciousness is like a computer program. It will cease to run when the computer is turned off. Theoretically, it could be re-created on a neural network, but that would be very difficult, as it would requir

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.9 · 23 votes · 4 reads

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• I... chose my wife as she did her wedding-gown, not for a fine glossy surface, but such qualities as would wear well.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale

  AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century

  3.2 · 34 votes · 112 reads

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• If you must speak ill of another, do not speak it, write it in the sand near the water's edge''

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  4.7 · 57 votes · 24 reads

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• In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way.

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  Iris Murdoch

  NovelistBritish1919 · 20th century

  4.6 · 26 votes · 28 reads

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• It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.

  

  Elbert Hubbard

  AuthorAmerican1856 · 19th century

  3.0 · 57 votes · 173 reads

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• It is faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth looking at.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.8 · 15 votes · 108 reads

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• It is flagrantly dishonest for an advertising agent to urge consumers to buy a product which he would not allow his own wife to buy.

  

  David Ogilvy

  BusinessmanEnglish1911 · 20th century

  3.0 · 53 votes · 120 reads

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• It is just the little difference between the good and the best that makes the difference between the artist and the artisan. It is just the little touches after the average man would quit that makes the master's fame.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.1 · 39 votes · 105 reads

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• It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

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  Jean Rostand

  PhilosopherFrench1894 · 19th century

  3.6 · 42 votes · 135 reads

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• Just as a small fire is extinguished by the storm whereas a large fire is enhanced by it-likewise a weak faith is weakened by predicament and catastrophes whereas a strong faith is strengthened by them.

  

  Victor Hugo

  PoetFrench1802 · 19th century

  4.3 · 18 votes · 69 reads

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• Keep your fears to yourself, but share your courage with others.

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  Robert Green Ingersoll

  PoliticianAmerican1833 · 19th century

  3.4 · 61 votes · 140 reads

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• No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

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  Bernard M. Baruch

  PoliticianAmerican1870 · 19th century

  4.6 · 7 votes · 176 reads

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• No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn't find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.3 · 6 votes · 164 reads

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• No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  4.0 · 20 votes · 59 reads

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• One aged man - one man - can't fill a house.

  

  Robert Burton

  EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century

  3.2 · 40 votes · 44 reads

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• People don't realize that we cannot forecast the future. What we can do is have probabilities of what causes what, but that's as far as we go. And I've had a very successful career as a forecaster, starting in 1948 forward. The number of mistakes I have m

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  5.0 · 53 votes · 162 reads

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• Price is what you pay. Value is what you get.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.0 · 37 votes · 69 reads

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• Tact is knowing how far to go too far.

  

  Jean Cocteau

  AuthorFrench1889 · 19th century

  4.9 · 15 votes · 165 reads

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• Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.8 · 62 votes · 121 reads

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• The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  4.6 · 46 votes · 90 reads

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• The Difficult is that which can be done immediately; the Impossible that which takes a little longer.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  3.6 · 48 votes · 97 reads

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• The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  PoliticianAmerican1890 · 19th century

  5.0 · 30 votes · 26 reads

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• The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.

  

  Jose Mourinho

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  3.1 · 22 votes · 153 reads

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• The only faith that wears well and holds its color in all weathers is that which is woven of conviction and set with the sharp mordant of experience.

  

  James Russell Lowell

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  3.7 · 41 votes · 75 reads

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• The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.

  

  Hernan Cortes

  LeaderSpanish1485 · 15th century

  4.7 · 44 votes · 116 reads

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• There are remarks that sow and remarks that reap.

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  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  PhilosopherAustrian1889 · 19th century

  3.1 · 31 votes · 148 reads

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• Turn on the prudent ant thy heedful eyes. Observe her labors, sluggard, and be wise.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.9 · 5 votes · 104 reads

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• We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  3.5 · 24 votes · 88 reads

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• We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

  

  John Locke

  PhilosopherEnglish1632 · 17th century

  4.0 · 12 votes · 60 reads

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• When a father gives to his son, both laugh; when a son gives to his father, both cry.

  

  Jewish proverb

  Jewish

  4.7 · 28 votes · 192 reads

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• When the body sinks into death, the essence of man is revealed. Man is a knot, a web, a mesh into which relationships are tied. Only those relationships matter. The body is an old crock that nobody will miss. I have never known a man to think of himself w

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  WriterFrench1900 · 19th century

  4.8 · 54 votes · 114 reads

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• When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

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  Joseph Stalin

  LeaderRussian1879 · 19th century

  3.2 · 10 votes · 174 reads

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• Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.8 · 37 votes · 6 reads

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• You must avoid sloth, that wicked siren.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  4.1 · 22 votes · 120 reads

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