Quotes for May 447 quotes · 38 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every May 4: the anniversary does not move.

• A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.4 · 16 votes · 69 reads

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• An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  4.1 · 19 votes · 20 reads

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• Animals do not admire each other. A horse does not admire its companion.

  

  Blaise Pascal

  PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century

  4.7 · 19 votes · 72 reads

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• As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.

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  Sir John Eliot

  PoliticianBritish1592 · 16th century

  4.9 · 64 votes · 33 reads

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• Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a certain potency of life in them, to be as active as the soul whose progeny they are; they preserve, as in a vial, the purest efficacy and extraction of the living intellect that bred them.

  

  John Milton

  PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

  3.3 · 11 votes · 60 reads

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• Cheerfulness removes the rust from the mind, lubricates our inward machinery, and enables us to do our work with fewer creaks and ;groans. If people were universally cheerful, probably there wouldn't be half the quarreling or a tenth part of the wickednes

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 50 votes · 7 reads

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• Death is the solution to all problems. No man - no problem.

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  Joseph Stalin

  LeaderRussian1879 · 19th century

  4.4 · 25 votes · 103 reads

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• Don't wait. The time will never be just right.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  3.9 · 15 votes · 120 reads

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• Drinking, when we are not thirsty and making love all year round, madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals.

  

  Phillips Brooks

  TheologianAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.7 · 37 votes · 135 reads

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• Evil is done without effort, naturally, it is the working of fate; good is always the product of an art.

  

  Charles Baudelaire

  PoetFrench1821 · 19th century

  4.0 · 30 votes · 157 reads

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• Forcible ways make not an end of evil, but leave hatred and malice behind them.

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  Sir John Eliot

  PoliticianBritish1592 · 16th century

  4.8 · 21 votes · 10 reads

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• Get that right, then- if you get the quality right, then the marketability or whatever; your ability to sell videos or your ability to earn money or whatever, will follow naturally. But try to be creatively lead rather than market lead. And that's importa

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  4.8 · 29 votes · 35 reads

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• God is the name people give to the reason we are here. But I think that reason is the laws of physics rather than someone with whom one can have a personal relationship. An impersonal God.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.8 · 41 votes · 32 reads

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• How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.6 · 32 votes · 128 reads

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• I do hope that all nations can live in complete security and welfare.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  PoliticianIranian1956 · 20th century

  4.8 · 34 votes · 77 reads

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• I don't think I've ever worked so hard on something, but working on Macintosh was the neatest experience of my life. Almost everyone who worked on it will say that. None of us wanted to release it at the end. It was as though we knew that once it was out

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.4 · 55 votes · 110 reads

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• I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.4 · 64 votes · 77 reads

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• I think God has some mechanism that he uses to punish those that make mistakes.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  3.8 · 61 votes · 32 reads

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• I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything; there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but t

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  5.0 · 31 votes · 62 reads

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• I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process.

  

  Donald Trump

  BusinessmanAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.6 · 15 votes · 159 reads

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• I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity.

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  Eleanor Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  4.6 · 58 votes · 67 reads

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• I went through a phase where people would introduce me at parties as a cartoonist, and everybody felt sorry for me. 'Oh, Matt's a cartoonist.' Then people further feeling sorry for me would ask me to draw Garfield. Because I'm a cartoonist, draw Snoopy or

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  3.7 · 22 votes · 27 reads

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• If our life is unhappy it is painful to bear; if it is happy it is horrible to lose. So the one is pretty equal to the other.

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  3.6 · 5 votes · 124 reads

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• Ignorance is not bliss - ignorance is ignorance.

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 28 votes · 117 reads

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• In dreams begin responsibility.

  

  William Blake

  PainterBritish1757 · 18th century

  4.9 · 17 votes · 109 reads

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• In politics... shared hatreds are almost always the basis of friendships.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  PhilosopherFrench1805 · 19th century

  3.0 · 43 votes · 173 reads

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• Joint undertakings stand a better chance when they benefit both sides.

  

  Euripides

  PoetGreek-484 · 5th century BC

  4.3 · 6 votes · 36 reads

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• Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter. Sermons and soda water the day after.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.0 · 51 votes · 17 reads

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• Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  3.5 · 18 votes · 11 reads

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• No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were the only one alive, and quite a number fondly believe their wish has been granted.

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  W. C. Fields

  ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.3 · 19 votes · 92 reads

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• One dull pencil is worth two sharp minds.

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 40 votes · 19 reads

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• Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century

  4.8 · 59 votes · 112 reads

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• Risk is a part of God's game, alike for men and nations.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.9 · 56 votes · 149 reads

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• Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.

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  Terence

  PoetRoman

  3.0 · 37 votes · 195 reads

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• The most spiritual human beings, assuming they are the most courageous, also experience by far the most painful tragedies: but it is precisely for this reason that they honor life, because it brings against them its most formidable weapons.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.0 · 10 votes · 115 reads

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• The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.8 · 57 votes · 176 reads

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• The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds.

  

  David Hume

  PhilosopherScottish1711 · 18th century

  3.7 · 63 votes · 134 reads

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• The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.1 · 25 votes · 106 reads

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• There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.8 · 33 votes · 136 reads

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• To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult.

  

  Plutarch

  EssayistGreek46 · 1st century

  4.1 · 14 votes · 10 reads

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• Two people can do anything as long as one of them is the Lord.

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 49 votes · 177 reads

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• Very often as a little girl, then as a young woman, I have suffered my lot of discrimination. I was brought up with brothers; I grew up in a boys' world. You have to elbow your way in. When you come with that sentiment of having been in a minority for a l

  

  Christine Lagarde

  EconomistFrench1956 · 20th century

  4.0 · 16 votes · 12 reads

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• When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing on chat shows in character as Mr. Bean.

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  3.7 · 58 votes · 180 reads

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• When we can drain the Ocean into mill-ponds, and bottle up the Force of Gravity, to be sold by retail, in gas jars; then may we hope to comprehend the infinitudes of man's soul under formulas of Profit and Loss; and rule over this too, as over a patent en

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.8 · 53 votes · 114 reads

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• Whenever we read the obscene stories, the voluptuous debaucheries, the cruel and torturous executions, the unrelenting vindictiveness, with which more than half the Bible is filled, it would be more consistent that we called it the word of a demon than th

  

  Thomas Mann

  AuthorGerman1875 · 19th century

  4.8 · 9 votes · 149 reads

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• Whenever you are sincerely pleased you are nourished.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.9 · 33 votes · 41 reads

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