Quotes for May 1949 quotes · 37 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every May 19: the anniversary does not move.

• Abscond. To ''move'' in a mysterious way, commonly with the property of another.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  4.7 · 21 votes · 68 reads

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• Certainty? In this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  5.0 · 11 votes · 100 reads

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• Children have neither a past nor a future. Thus they enjoy the present - which seldom happens to us.

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  3.4 · 18 votes · 107 reads

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• Common sense is only a modification of talent. Genius is an exaltation of it. The difference is, therefore, in degree, not nature.

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  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

  PoliticianBritish1803 · 19th century

  4.7 · 61 votes · 150 reads

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• Do I perform sometimes in a manic style? Yes. Am I manic all the time? No. Do I get sad? Oh yeah. Does it hit me hard? Oh yeah.

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  4.7 · 15 votes · 193 reads

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• Enthusiasm is that kindling spark which marks the difference between the leaders in every activity and the laggards who put in just enough to get by.

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 53 votes · 24 reads

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• Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other; given the upper, to find the under side.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.1 · 26 votes · 113 reads

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• Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 31 votes · 195 reads

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• Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.

  

  Martin Luther King Jr.

  LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century

  4.9 · 28 votes · 103 reads

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• Freedom means the right of people to assemble, organize, and debate openly.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.1 · 40 votes · 16 reads

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• Give us grace and strength to forbear and to persevere. Give us courage and gaiety and the quiet mind, spare to us our friends, soften to us our enemies.

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  Robert Green Ingersoll

  PoliticianAmerican1833 · 19th century

  3.7 · 50 votes · 135 reads

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• Glass, china, and reputation are easily cracked, and never mended well.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  5.0 · 31 votes · 187 reads

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• I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.8 · 56 votes · 194 reads

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• I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.

  

  Isaac Asimov

  ScientistAmerican1920 · 20th century

  3.8 · 37 votes · 93 reads

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• In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  PhilosopherGerman1788 · 18th century

  4.0 · 47 votes · 15 reads

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• In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  3.3 · 48 votes · 60 reads

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• In walking, the will and the muscles are so accustomed to working together and performing their task with so little expenditure of force that the intellect is left comparatively free.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.8 · 5 votes · 94 reads

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• Integrity simple means not violating one's own identity.

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  Erich Fromm

  PhilosopherGerman1900 · 19th century

  3.8 · 54 votes · 36 reads

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• It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  3.9 · 12 votes · 191 reads

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• It is not funny that anything else should fall down; only that a man should fall down. Why do we laugh? Because it is a gravely religious matter: it is the Fall of Man. Only man can be absurd: for only man can be dignified.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.8 · 44 votes · 88 reads

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• Minds, like bodies, will fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.

  

  Charles Dickens

  NovelistBritish1812 · 19th century

  4.4 · 53 votes · 94 reads

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• Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important.

  

  Susan Sontag

  AuthorAmerican1933 · 20th century

  4.4 · 16 votes · 51 reads

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• Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.4 · 64 votes · 105 reads

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• No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  4.9 · 43 votes · 46 reads

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• Religion is the opium of the masses.

  

  Karl Marx

  EconomistGerman1818 · 19th century

  3.6 · 48 votes · 64 reads

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• Some men go through a forest and see no firewood.

  

  English proverb

  English

  4.9 · 33 votes · 33 reads

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• Some people will never learn anything well, because they understand everything too soon.

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  Anonymous

  4.5 · 62 votes · 89 reads

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• The Christian Democrats always made you feel like the poor relation.

  

  Helmut Kohl

  PoliticianGerman1930 · 20th century

  4.6 · 17 votes · 76 reads

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• The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison.

  

  Karl Marx

  EconomistGerman1818 · 19th century

  3.5 · 63 votes · 181 reads

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• The difference between an itch and an allergy is about one hundred bucks.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 10 votes · 94 reads

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• The fame of great men ought to be judged always by the means they used to acquire it.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.7 · 5 votes · 91 reads

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• The future rewards those who press on. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.9 · 12 votes · 69 reads

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• The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.8 · 46 votes · 152 reads

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• The men and women of Afghanistan are building a nation that is free, and proud, and fighting terror - and America is honored to be their friend.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.8 · 38 votes · 80 reads

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• The passions are the only orators which always persuade.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.1 · 60 votes · 46 reads

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• The sleeping fox catches no poultry.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.5 · 40 votes · 67 reads

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• The Ten Commandments are not multiple choice

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 12 votes · 63 reads

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• The whole life of an American is passed like a game of chance, a revolutionary crisis, or a battle.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  PhilosopherFrench1805 · 19th century

  4.7 · 12 votes · 76 reads

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• The world of men is dreaming, it has gone mad in its sleep, and a snake is strangling it, but it can't wake up.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

  WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century

  4.5 · 57 votes · 199 reads

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• The world only goes round by misunderstanding.

  

  Charles Baudelaire

  PoetFrench1821 · 19th century

  3.2 · 57 votes · 153 reads

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• We are each of us angels with only one wing, to fly we need only embrace each other.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 51 votes · 182 reads

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• We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.

  

  José Ortega y Gasset

  PhilosopherSpanish1883 · 19th century

  4.0 · 29 votes · 172 reads

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• We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.

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  Norman Mailer

  WriterAmerican1923 · 20th century

  3.9 · 52 votes · 36 reads

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• What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say ''I know'' instead of ''I am learning,'' and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.0 · 13 votes · 119 reads

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• When great questions end, little parties begin.

  

  Walt Whitman

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  4.6 · 62 votes · 119 reads

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• When we are young we take pains to be agreeable, and when we are old we take pains not to be disagreeable.

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  Anonymous

  3.4 · 6 votes · 87 reads

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• Who feels no ills, should, therefore, fear them; and when fortune smiles, be doubly cautious, lest destruction come remorseless on him, and he fall unpitied.

  

  Socrates

  PhilosopherGreek-470 · 5th century BC

  3.2 · 32 votes · 147 reads

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• With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.2 · 57 votes · 66 reads

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