Quotes for May 2450 quotes · 38 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every May 24: the anniversary does not move.

• A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt.

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  4.7 · 53 votes · 104 reads

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• A professional Writeris an amateur who didn't quit.

  

  Raymond Chandler

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  3.8 · 39 votes · 182 reads

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• A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  4.0 · 61 votes · 62 reads

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• Between friends differences in taste or opinion are irritating in direct proportion to their triviality.

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  W. C. Fields

  ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.1 · 56 votes · 115 reads

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• Breed is stronger than pasture.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.3 · 49 votes · 62 reads

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• By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.7 · 16 votes · 56 reads

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• Commerce is so far from being beneficial to arts, or to empire, that it is destructive of both, as all their history shows, for the above reason of individual merit being its great hatred. Empires flourish till they become commercial, and then they are sc

  

  Will Rogers

  ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

  4.8 · 62 votes · 164 reads

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• Doubt obscures the true vision of the heart.

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  Anonymous

  4.5 · 49 votes · 45 reads

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• Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away.

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  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  PoetEnglish1792 · 18th century

  4.7 · 13 votes · 61 reads

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• Fishes live in the sea, as men do on land: the great ones eat up the little ones.

  

  Pericles

  PoliticianGreek-495 · 5th century BC

  4.2 · 19 votes · 142 reads

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• Happiness consists of three things; Someone to love, work to do, and a clear conscience.

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 17 votes · 42 reads

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• Happiness is the act of being tough with ourselves and tender with others.

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  Anonymous

  3.4 · 18 votes · 89 reads

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• He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride.

  

  John Lennon

  MusicianBritish1940 · 20th century

  4.6 · 20 votes · 74 reads

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• Home is a name, a word, it is a strong one; stronger than magician ever spoke, or spirit ever answered to, in the strongest conjuration.

  

  Charles Dickens

  NovelistBritish1812 · 19th century

  4.3 · 35 votes · 185 reads

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• Humans are amphibians, half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time.

  

  C. S. Lewis

  AuthorIrish1898 · 19th century

  3.1 · 13 votes · 39 reads

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• I am already kindly disposed towards you. My friendship it is not in my power to give: this is a gift which no man can make, it is not in our own power: a sound and healthy friendship is the growth of time and circumstance, it will spring up and thrive li

  

  William Wordsworth

  PoetEnglish1770 · 18th century

  4.7 · 11 votes · 77 reads

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• I happen to have given lots of free speeches.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.0 · 36 votes · 124 reads

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• I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, beli

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.3 · 56 votes · 192 reads

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• I often wish that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.

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  Anonymous

  3.0 · 46 votes · 8 reads

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• I've been around long enough to know that a good deal of the praise heaped on me I had nothing to do with. The only thing I did object to was the fact that where the criticism was actually wrong. Did it bother me? Of course it bothered me. But I've been a

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.2 · 30 votes · 48 reads

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• If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.8 · 41 votes · 22 reads

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• In view of the fact that God limited the intelligence of man, it seems unfair that He did not also limit his stupidity.

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  Konrad Adenauer

  PoliticianGerman1876 · 19th century

  3.1 · 41 votes · 168 reads

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• It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man is in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife.

  

  Jane Austen

  NovelistEnglish1775 · 18th century

  4.2 · 64 votes · 87 reads

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• It is generally a feminine eye that first detects the moral deficiencies hidden under the ''dear deceit'' of beauty.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.9 · 21 votes · 95 reads

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• It is the only sensual pleasure without vice.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.3 · 34 votes · 151 reads

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• Literature is where I go to explore the highest and lowest places in human society and in the human spirit, where I hope to find not absolute truth but the truth of the tale, of the imagination and of the heart.

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  Saint Thomas Aquinas

  TheologianRoman1224 · 13th century

  3.1 · 35 votes · 117 reads

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• Mankind is divided into rich and poor, into property owners and exploited; and to abstract oneself from this fundamental division; and from the antagonism between poor and rich means abstracting oneself from fundamental facts.

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  Joseph Stalin

  LeaderRussian1879 · 19th century

  4.2 · 27 votes · 99 reads

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• Marriage is like a cage; one sees the birds outside desperate to get in, and those inside desperate to get out.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  4.7 · 62 votes · 182 reads

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• Men are disturbed not by things that happen, but by their opinion of the things that happen.

  

  Epictetus

  PhilosopherGreek55 · 1st century

  5.0 · 52 votes · 77 reads

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• Money does not guarantee success.

  

  Jose Mourinho

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  4.8 · 52 votes · 80 reads

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• Nationalist pride, like other variants of pride, can be a substitute for self-respect.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  4.6 · 14 votes · 7 reads

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• Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.7 · 46 votes · 107 reads

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• Reason is a harmonizing, controlling force rather than a creative one.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  3.1 · 56 votes · 194 reads

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• The best answer to answer to anger is silence.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 13 votes · 68 reads

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• The difference between writing a book and being on television is the difference between conceiving a child and having a baby made in a test tube.

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  Niels Bohr

  PhysicistDanish1885 · 19th century

  4.6 · 19 votes · 145 reads

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• The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

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  Aeschylus

  WriterGreek-525 · 6th century BC

  3.2 · 16 votes · 161 reads

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• The mind is ever ingenious in making its own distress.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale

  AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century

  3.0 · 28 votes · 0 reads

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• The pest of society are the egotist, they are dull and bright, sacred and profane, course and fine. It is a disease that like the flu falls on all constitutions.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.2 · 61 votes · 62 reads

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• The public is a ferocious beast. One must either chain it up or flee from it.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  4.9 · 20 votes · 67 reads

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• The United States, obviously, has a great interest in helping to maintain peace and security in Europe, and we have a formal alliance, NATO, to do so.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.6 · 45 votes · 178 reads

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• The whole past is the procession of the present.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.3 · 60 votes · 160 reads

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• This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.4 · 39 votes · 165 reads

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• Thunder is impressive, but it is lightning that does the work.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.5 · 55 votes · 160 reads

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• To advise is not to compel.

  

  German proverb

  German

  4.2 · 28 votes · 100 reads

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• Today's dime is really a dollar with all the taxes deducted.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 38 votes · 54 reads

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• True heroism consists in being superior to the ills of life, in whatever shape they may challenge us to combat.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  3.5 · 59 votes · 92 reads

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• We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  4.1 · 37 votes · 133 reads

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• Who can guess how much industry and providence and affection we have caught from the pantomime of brutes?

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.1 · 12 votes · 92 reads

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• Without wisdom, knowledge is either useless or destructive.

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 48 votes · 124 reads

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