Quotes for May 2949 quotes · 38 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every May 29: the anniversary does not move.

• A man's conscience and his judgment is the same thing; and as the judgment, so also the conscience, may be erroneous.

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  Thomas Hardy

  WriterBritish1840 · 19th century

  4.8 · 44 votes · 61 reads

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• Action is the real measure of intelligence.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  4.5 · 25 votes · 27 reads

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• All my adult life people have been helping me.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.8 · 64 votes · 133 reads

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• Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them.

  

  Stendhal

  NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

  4.4 · 5 votes · 78 reads

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• An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run.

  

  James Russell Lowell

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  4.0 · 13 votes · 106 reads

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• As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.3 · 18 votes · 116 reads

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• As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children

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  John Adams

  PoliticianAmerican1735 · 18th century

  5.0 · 32 votes · 9 reads

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• As the old joke goes, I have all the sins together. I am a woman, a Socialist, separated and agnostic.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  4.2 · 9 votes · 71 reads

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• Beauty in art is often nothing but ugliness subdued.

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  Jean Rostand

  PhilosopherFrench1894 · 19th century

  3.3 · 61 votes · 69 reads

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• Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.

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  Henry James

  AuthorAmerican-British1843 · 19th century

  4.7 · 7 votes · 76 reads

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• Children see in their parents the past, their parents see in them the future; and if we find more love in the parents for their children than in children for their parents, this is sad but natural. Who does not entertain his hopes more than his recollecti

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  3.9 · 18 votes · 165 reads

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• Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know.

  

  André Maurois

  WriterFrench1885 · 19th century

  3.2 · 59 votes · 19 reads

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• Every man thinks God is on his side. The rich and powerful know he is.

  

  Jean Anouilh

  PlaywrightFrench1910 · 20th century

  3.9 · 33 votes · 124 reads

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• Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  3.4 · 57 votes · 200 reads

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• Fame, we may understand, is no sure test of merit, but only a probability of such; it is an accident, not a property of man.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.9 · 63 votes · 2 reads

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• He is mad past recovery, but yet he has lucid intervals.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  4.6 · 18 votes · 162 reads

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• I dare to do all that may become a man: who dares do more is none.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.5 · 6 votes · 67 reads

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• I do have my ducks in line if I want to do it, but I'd love to see the Republicans pick somebody that was going to win and take over this country and frankly, to use the expression, 'Make America great again.'

  

  Donald Trump

  BusinessmanAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.1 · 64 votes · 21 reads

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• I doubt anyone will ever see - anywhere - a memorial to a pessimist.

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 21 votes · 143 reads

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• I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.4 · 33 votes · 34 reads

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• If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want.

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 10 votes · 44 reads

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• Integrity has no need of rules.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  3.3 · 19 votes · 60 reads

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• It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide what to do.

  

  Elbert Hubbard

  AuthorAmerican1856 · 19th century

  3.1 · 62 votes · 176 reads

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• It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1882 · 19th century

  3.9 · 39 votes · 109 reads

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• Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

  

  Carl Gustav Jung

  PsychiatristSwiss1875 · 19th century

  3.4 · 25 votes · 14 reads

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• No legacy is so rich as honestly.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.6 · 21 votes · 141 reads

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• No man is so perfect, so necessary to his friends, as to give them no cause to miss him less.

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  3.0 · 41 votes · 65 reads

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• No mans error becomes his own Law; nor obliges him to persist in it.

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  Thomas Hardy

  WriterBritish1840 · 19th century

  3.0 · 51 votes · 124 reads

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• No one can be profoundly original who does not avoid eccentricity.

  

  André Maurois

  WriterFrench1885 · 19th century

  4.7 · 28 votes · 193 reads

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• No one does anything from a single motive.

  

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

  4.0 · 14 votes · 120 reads

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• Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

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  Guillaume Apollinaire

  WriterFrench1880 · 19th century

  3.7 · 31 votes · 149 reads

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• Oppression that is clearly inexorable and invincible does not give rise to revolt but to submission.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  4.3 · 26 votes · 41 reads

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• Physical strength is measured by what we can carry; spiritual by what we can bear.

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 23 votes · 169 reads

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• Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat.

  

  Robert Burton

  EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century

  3.7 · 61 votes · 45 reads

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• Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with the public will convince them as he himself appears convinced.

  

  Jonathan Swift

  WriterIrish1667 · 17th century

  4.0 · 19 votes · 172 reads

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• Prejudice and self-sufficiency naturally proceed from inexperience of the world, and ignorance of mankind.

  

  Joseph Addison

  PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century

  3.6 · 61 votes · 142 reads

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• Seeing is believing, but feeling's the truth.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  4.7 · 62 votes · 60 reads

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• The novice in advertising frequently gives the public credit, for too much intelligence.

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 7 votes · 142 reads

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• The two most beautiful words in the English language are: ''Check Enclosed.''

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  Dorothy Parker

  WriterAmerican1893 · 19th century

  4.5 · 12 votes · 148 reads

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• Those who have lived a good life do not fear death, but meet it calmly, and even long for it in the face of great suffering. But those who do not have a peaceful conscience, dread death as though life means nothing but physical torment. The challenge is t

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  Anonymous

  3.2 · 8 votes · 109 reads

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• To live is to function. That is all there is in living.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.7 · 33 votes · 29 reads

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• Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  3.6 · 39 votes · 56 reads

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• We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1882 · 19th century

  3.6 · 48 votes · 152 reads

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• We seldom find people ungrateful so long as it is thought we can serve them.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.2 · 18 votes · 140 reads

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• What makes people happy is activity; changing evil itself into good by power, working in a God like manner.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.7 · 54 votes · 107 reads

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• What you are will show in what you do.

  

  Theodore Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1858 · 19th century

  4.1 · 22 votes · 147 reads

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• When you believe in a thing, believe in it all the way, implicitly and unquestionable.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  4.0 · 28 votes · 117 reads

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• You don't have to deserve your mother's love. You have to deserve your father s. He's more particular. The father is always a Republican towards his son, and his mother's always a Democrat.

  

  Robert Burton

  EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century

  4.2 · 10 votes · 59 reads

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