Quotes for May 2848 quotes · 43 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every May 28: the anniversary does not move.

• Action may not always bring happiness; but there is no happiness without action.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  4.6 · 7 votes · 63 reads

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• After a hard day of basic training, you could eat a rattlesnake.

  

  Elvis Presley

  MusicianAmerican1935 · 20th century

  3.6 · 50 votes · 95 reads

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• Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. Where be your jibes now, your gambols, your songs, your flashes of merriment that were wont to set the table on a roar?

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.2 · 8 votes · 131 reads

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• All growth is a leap in the dark, a spontaneous, unpremeditated act without benefit of experience.

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  4.1 · 23 votes · 39 reads

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• And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew, that one small head could carry all he knew.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale

  AuthorAmerican1898 · 19th century

  3.7 · 51 votes · 99 reads

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• Any idiot can face a crisis, it's the day to day living that wears you out.

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  Anton Chekhov

  AuthorRussian1860 · 19th century

  3.2 · 26 votes · 78 reads

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• Clothes don't tell the character of the man, but they just as well talk for him as against him.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 33 votes · 119 reads

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• Enthusiasm is contagious. You can start an epidemic.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 11 votes · 104 reads

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• Failing to be there when a man wants her is a woman's greatest sin, except to be there when he doesn't want her.

  

  Helen Rowland

  JournalistAmerican1875 · 19th century

  3.4 · 19 votes · 111 reads

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• Finance, like time, devours its own children.

  

  Honore de Balzac

  NovelistFrench1799 · 18th century

  3.5 · 55 votes · 129 reads

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• For suffering and enduring there is no remedy, but striving and doing.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.7 · 23 votes · 199 reads

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• Happiness consists more in small conveniences of pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.2 · 23 votes · 92 reads

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• He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him).

  

  George Orwell

  NovelistBritish1903 · 20th century

  4.3 · 21 votes · 83 reads

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• He who binds to himself a joy doth the winged life destroy. But he who kisses the joy as it flies lives in Eternity's sunrise.

  

  Will Rogers

  ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

  3.1 · 64 votes · 49 reads

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• He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  4.6 · 40 votes · 110 reads

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• Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised.

  

  Leo Tolstoy

  WriterRussian1828 · 19th century

  3.2 · 48 votes · 32 reads

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• I always say to my people, 'If you don't sell a Ferrari to a football player, you make a big present to me.' Really. Because they buy to just show off. I don't like.

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  Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

  BusinessmanItalian1947 · 20th century

  3.0 · 29 votes · 124 reads

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• I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion.

  

  Franz Schubert

  MusicianAustrian1797 · 18th century

  4.7 · 34 votes · 19 reads

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• I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  3.4 · 51 votes · 77 reads

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• I would define the poetic effect as the capacity that a text displays for continuing to generate different readings, without ever being completely consumed.

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  Truman Capote

  AuthorAmerican1924 · 20th century

  3.9 · 62 votes · 151 reads

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• In His will is our peace.

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  Dante

  PoetItaly1265 · 13th century

  4.3 · 18 votes · 117 reads

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• In some places women have all the rights they deserve and in others there are big restrictions - in some countries they even mutilate women.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  4.5 · 29 votes · 61 reads

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• It is not the want, but rather abundance that creates avarice.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  3.4 · 57 votes · 0 reads

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• It is not what he had, or even what he does which expresses the worth of a man, but what he is.

  

  Henri Frédéric Amiel

  WriterSwiss1821 · 19th century

  4.0 · 25 votes · 7 reads

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• Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  4.8 · 19 votes · 156 reads

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• Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.2 · 32 votes · 82 reads

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• Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.5 · 14 votes · 170 reads

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• Music is good to the melancholy, bad to those who mourn, and neither good or bad to the deaf.

  

  Benedict de Spinoza

  PhilosopherDutch1632 · 17th century

  3.7 · 6 votes · 75 reads

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• No one who lives in error is free.

  

  Euripides

  PoetGreek-484 · 5th century BC

  4.3 · 28 votes · 64 reads

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• Nothing ruins the truth like stretching it.

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  Anonymous

  3.0 · 64 votes · 79 reads

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• Our health always seems much more valuable after we lose it.

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 44 votes · 88 reads

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• Real love stories never have endings.

  

  Raymond Chandler

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  3.6 · 14 votes · 77 reads

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• The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

  

  Raymond Chandler

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  4.0 · 52 votes · 0 reads

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• The biggest risk is not taking any risk... In a world that changing really quickly, the only strategy that is guaranteed to fail is not taking risks.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg

  BusinessmanAmerican1984 · 20th century

  3.3 · 11 votes · 105 reads

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• The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  3.8 · 57 votes · 43 reads

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• The pursuit of what is true and the practice of what is good are the two most important objects of philosophy.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  3.6 · 19 votes · 89 reads

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• The security of Israel is a moral imperative for all free people.

  

  Henry A. Kissinger

  PoliticianGerman1923 · 20th century

  3.0 · 46 votes · 190 reads

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• There are no black holes in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.5 · 26 votes · 100 reads

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• There is no doubt that as an economy grows in a great way like India has, that you have to step back and change your tax systems, because you start to get more disparities of wealth.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.4 · 18 votes · 52 reads

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• There is the fear that we shan't prove worthy in the eyes of someone who knows us at least as well as we know ourselves. That is the fear of God. And there is the fear of Man -fear that men won't understand us and we shall be cut of from them.

  

  Robert Burton

  EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century

  5.0 · 60 votes · 141 reads

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• Things are more like they are now than they have ever been before.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  PoliticianAmerican1890 · 19th century

  4.7 · 28 votes · 59 reads

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• This idea of weapons of mass exterminations utterly horrible and is something which no one with one spark of humanity can tolerate. I will not pretend to obey a government which is organizing a mass massacre of mankind.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  5.0 · 28 votes · 49 reads

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• We can always redeem the man who aspires and strives.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.1 · 32 votes · 48 reads

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• Who digs a pit for others will fall in themselves.

  

  German proverb

  German

  4.0 · 33 votes · 107 reads

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• Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

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  Aeschylus

  WriterGreek-525 · 6th century BC

  4.5 · 40 votes · 18 reads

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• You have to test your ideas in a public forum.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.0 · 16 votes · 73 reads

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• You've got many refinements. I don't think you need to worry about your failure at long division. I mean, after all, you got through short division, and short division is all that a lady ought to be called on to cope with.

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  T. S. Eliot

  PoetAmerican1888 · 19th century

  4.8 · 51 votes · 28 reads

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