Quotes · Skopia

591 quotes

First Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt · 1933

★ 9.6

The greatest country, the richest country, is not that which has the most capitalists, monopolists, immense grabbings, vast fortunes, with its sad, sad foil of extreme, degrading, damning poverty, but the land in which there are the most homesteads, freeholds-where wealth does not show such contrasts high and low, where all men have enough-a modest living-and no man is made possessor beyond the sane and beautiful necessities of the simple body and the simple soul.

Walt Whitman

1888

★ 9.4

Speech · Political speech

Yesterday, December 7, 1941-a date which will live in infamy-the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

1941

★ 8.8

Everybody has plans until they get hit for the first time.

Mike Tyson

1987

★ 8.5

Newspaper

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus... Thank God! he lives, and he lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay ten times ten thousand years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

Francis Pharcellus Church

1897

★ 8.3

Poem

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

Walt Whitman

Song of Myself · 1855

★ 8.1

Poem

I celebrate myself, and sing myself.

Walt Whitman

Song of Myself · 1855

★ 8.1

Poem

Do I contradict myself? Very well then I contradict myself, (I am large, I contain multitudes.)

Walt Whitman

Song of Myself · 1855

★ 8.0

TV program · Sitcom · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

He’s nice, bit of a close talker.

Jerry Seinfeld

Seinfeld · 1994

★ 7.9

Essay · Political literature

America, if eligible at all to downfall and ruin, is eligible within herself, not without.

Walt Whitman

Democratic Vistas · 1871

★ 7.6

Poem

I celebrate myself and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

Walt Whitman

Song of Myself · 1855

★ 7.4

TV program · Sitcom · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

If every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right.

Jerry Seinfeld

Seinfeld · 1994

★ 7.4

Poem

When I heard the learn'd astronomer, When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me, When I was shown the charts and diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them, When I sitting heard the astronomer where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room, How soon unaccountable I became tired and sick, Till rising and gliding out I wander'd off by myself, In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time, Look'd up in perfect silence at the stars.

Walt Whitman

When I Heard the Learn'd Astronomer · 1867

★ 7.3

TV program · Sitcom · Comedy (TV) · Comedy

You can't believe this woman. She's one of these low-talkers. You can't hear a word she's saying! You're always going "excuse me?", "what was that?"

Jerry Seinfeld

Seinfeld · 1993

★ 7.2

Poem

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door!

Emma Lazarus

The New Colossus · 1883

★ 7.2

Motto · Newspaper

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.

Susan B. Anthony

1868

★ 7.1

Letter

Speak softly and carry a big stick.

Theodore Roosevelt

1900

★ 7.1

Novel

There is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men.

Herman Melville

Moby-Dick; or, The Whale · 1851

★ 7.1

Essay

Freedom is not something that anybody can be given; freedom is something people take and people are as free as they want to be.

James Baldwin

1961

★ 7.0

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

Mae West

1959

★ 7.0

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