Explore every quote: themes, people, occupations and eras

Themes

What the quote is about

♥

Love & marriage
21 quotes

✦

Courage
22 quotes

❦

Nature & environment
9 quotes

♛

Leadership
16 quotes

✎

Education & learning
9 quotes

☺

Friendship
10 quotes

⚖

Justice & equality
15 quotes

✿

Grief & loss
9 quotes

☀

Hope
15 quotes

⌛

Time & mortality
29 quotes

✶

Freedom
20 quotes

◎

Truth & honesty
13 quotes

▲

Success & work
22 quotes

↻

Change
26 quotes

❀

Happiness
11 quotes

◈

Wisdom & self-knowledge
58 quotes

☻

Wit & humor
21 quotes

✝

Faith
23 quotes

⌂

Family & parents
18 quotes

☮

Peace & war
13 quotes

❤

Kindness & compassion
8 quotes

✧

Forgiveness
6 quotes

⛰

Failure & perseverance
9 quotes

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Money & wealth
6 quotes

✿

Art & creativity
8 quotes

⚛

Science & discovery
6 quotes

⚑

Sport & competition
6 quotes

✺

Gratitude
7 quotes

❁

Beauty
7 quotes

⚒

Work & careers
7 quotes

Eras

When it was said

Ancientbefore 500 · 24 Medieval500–1499 · 0 1500s–1600sRenaissance · 30 1700sEnlightenment · 18 1800sVictorian · Civil War · 43 1900–1945World wars · 20 1946–1999Cold War · civil rights · 17 2000sToday · 4

People

Who said it, with the quotes wrongly given to them · All 111 people →

William ShakespearePlaywright · 13

Benjamin FranklinPolitician · 5

Charles DickensWriter · 5

Abraham LincolnPolitician · 4

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King SolomonReligious figure · 4

Mark TwainWriter · 4

Photograph portrait of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo EmersonWriter · 4

Photograph portrait of Winston Churchill

Winston ChurchillPolitician · 4

Albert EinsteinScientist · 3

Julius CaesarMilitary leader · 3

Engraving of Juvenal being crowned with laurel

JuvenalPoet · 3

Oscar WildePlaywright · 3

Occupations

What they did

Presidents & politicians Activists & reformers Philosophers Scientists & inventors Poets Novelists & essayists Playwrights Business founders Athletes & coaches Military leaders Religious figures & texts Journalists & broadcasters Explorers & astronauts Kings, queens & rulers

For speeches

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Famous lines with the wrong name attached, traced back to whoever said them first.

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Latin & foreign phrases

Carpe diem, memento mori and other borrowed phrases: what they literally mean and who wrote them first.

Proverbs

Proverbs explained

Everyday sayings, what they mean, and the myths about where they came from.

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