Quotes for May 2253 quotes · 49 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every May 22: the anniversary does not move.

• A beautiful line of verse has twelve feet, and two wings.

  

  Jules Renard

  WriterFrench1864 · 19th century

  5.0 · 7 votes · 98 reads

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• A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

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  J. P. Morgan

  BusinessmanAmerican1837 · 19th century

  3.7 · 55 votes · 115 reads

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• A woman must be a genius to create a good husband.

  

  Honore de Balzac

  NovelistFrench1799 · 18th century

  4.4 · 42 votes · 74 reads

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• Age will not be defied.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  4.8 · 26 votes · 76 reads

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• Believing: it means believing in our own lies. And I can say that I am grateful that I got this lesson very early.

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  Günter Grass

  AuthorGerman1927 · 20th century

  3.7 · 11 votes · 44 reads

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• Every advertisement should be thought of as a contribution to the complex symbol which is the brand image.

  

  David Ogilvy

  BusinessmanEnglish1911 · 20th century

  5.0 · 40 votes · 112 reads

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• Few sometimes may know, when thousands err.

  

  John Milton

  PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

  4.1 · 8 votes · 178 reads

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• Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise. For envy is a kind of praise.

  

  John Gay

  PoetEnglish1685 · 17th century

  4.2 · 33 votes · 153 reads

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• Free people, remember this maxim: We may acquire liberty, but it is never recovered if it is once lost.

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  3.8 · 27 votes · 0 reads

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• Give a man health and a course to steer; and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.3 · 12 votes · 169 reads

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• History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  4.1 · 63 votes · 57 reads

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• How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.2 · 7 votes · 14 reads

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• I always supported the women I worked with having time off to go to parent-teacher conferences and doctors' appointments or bringing their infants into the office.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.9 · 59 votes · 12 reads

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• I'm 68 and a half years old; I grew up with newspapers; I love newspapers; I love the news business. I started CNN; I'm a journalist and proud of it.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  4.8 · 19 votes · 82 reads

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• It is living and ceasing to live that are imaginary solutions. Existence is elsewhere.

  

  André Breton

  WriterFrench1896 · 19th century

  3.2 · 40 votes · 139 reads

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• It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe

  WriterAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.7 · 45 votes · 1 reads

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• Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old.

  

  Elvis Presley

  MusicianAmerican1935 · 20th century

  4.5 · 48 votes · 139 reads

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• Let me not to the marriage of true minds admit impediments. Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds, or bends with the remover to remove.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.1 · 30 votes · 194 reads

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• Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.5 · 53 votes · 74 reads

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• My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.

  

  Martin Luther

  LeaderGerman1483 · 15th century

  4.9 · 33 votes · 85 reads

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• National Missile Defense is of a nature to retrigger a proliferation of weapons, notably nuclear missiles. Everything that goes in the direction of proliferation is a bad direction.

  

  Jacques Chirac

  PoliticianFrench1932 · 20th century

  4.6 · 6 votes · 63 reads

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• No man is an island entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main.

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  John Donne

  PoetEnglish1572 · 16th century

  4.0 · 14 votes · 0 reads

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• No man is so foolish but he may sometimes give another good counsel, and no man so wise that he may not easily err if he takes no other counsel than his own. He that is taught only by himself has a fool for a master.

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  Ben Johnson

  PoetEnglish1572 · 16th century

  4.4 · 63 votes · 182 reads

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• Nothing can be love or hated unless it is first known.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

  PainterItaly1452 · 15th century

  3.0 · 21 votes · 18 reads

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• Of what does not concern you say nothing good or bad.

  

  Italian proverb

  Italian

  3.6 · 39 votes · 110 reads

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• Only by acceptance of the past, can you alter it.

  

  Susan Sontag

  AuthorAmerican1933 · 20th century

  4.1 · 18 votes · 35 reads

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• Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity.

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  Christian Nestell Bovee

  AuthorAmerican1820 · 19th century

  3.6 · 42 votes · 130 reads

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• Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.

  

  W. H. Auden

  PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

  4.9 · 15 votes · 83 reads

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• Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.

  

  George Herbert

  PoetBritish1593 · 16th century

  3.7 · 59 votes · 138 reads

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• Sir, you have but two topics, yourself and me. I am sick of both.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.9 · 14 votes · 76 reads

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• Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so. Such a thought is the love of the universal and eternal beauty.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.6 · 63 votes · 176 reads

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• The bad thing about being a famous comedian is that every now and then someone approaches me to tell an old joke. Don't tell me jokes - I have that. People also say the weirdest things, sometimes sarcastic things, and even evil things. They like to provok

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  3.2 · 56 votes · 152 reads

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• The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around

  

  Theodore Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1858 · 19th century

  4.5 · 50 votes · 140 reads

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• The fibers of all things have their tension and are strained like the strings of an instrument.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.5 · 14 votes · 18 reads

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• The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.5 · 30 votes · 92 reads

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• The laboring man has not leisure for a true integrity day by day.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  5.0 · 51 votes · 134 reads

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• The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.6 · 33 votes · 13 reads

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• The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital

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  Terence

  PoetRoman

  4.0 · 18 votes · 105 reads

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• The pretentiously - named ensuite bathroom is a major factor in divorce. Privacy is paramount in marriage.

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 20 votes · 132 reads

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• The punishment of criminals should serve a purpose. When a man is hanged he is useless.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  4.4 · 12 votes · 50 reads

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• The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.

  

  Milan Kundera

  WriterCzech1929 · 20th century

  4.8 · 49 votes · 156 reads

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• The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  4.8 · 58 votes · 158 reads

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• There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.

  

  Helena Rubinstein

  BusinessmanPolish1870 · 19th century

  3.4 · 21 votes · 156 reads

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• There is great force hidden in a gentle command.

  

  George Herbert

  PoetBritish1593 · 16th century

  4.0 · 26 votes · 136 reads

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• To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.6 · 7 votes · 17 reads

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• We're more popular than Jesus Christ now. I don't know which will go first; rock and roll or Christianity.

  

  John Lennon

  MusicianBritish1940 · 20th century

  4.4 · 39 votes · 186 reads

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• When we are not sure, we are alive.

  

  Graham Greene

  WriterEnglish1904 · 20th century

  3.8 · 20 votes · 10 reads

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• Whenever you are to do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  3.8 · 25 votes · 19 reads

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• Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.5 · 32 votes · 156 reads

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• Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being.

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  Hannah Arendt

  PoliticianGerman1906 · 20th century

  4.5 · 12 votes · 107 reads

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• You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing on.

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  Heraclitus

  PhilosopherGreek-535 · 6th century BC

  3.0 · 50 votes · 27 reads

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• You may be the only standard work somebody ever reads.

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  Anonymous

  3.2 · 49 votes · 173 reads

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