Quotes for February 1251 quotes · 46 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every February 12: the anniversary does not move.

• 'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body without any more ado, and without so much as a rap o'er the pate, or a kick of the guts; to go out like the snuff of a farthing candle, and die merely of

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  3.3 · 21 votes · 129 reads

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• A great thing can only be done by a great person; and they do it without effort.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  4.7 · 40 votes · 106 reads

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• Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering what average opinion believes average opinion to be...

  

  John Maynard Keynes

  EconomistBritish1883 · 19th century

  3.5 · 30 votes · 119 reads

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• An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  4.6 · 57 votes · 166 reads

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• Buying on the installment plan makes the months shorter and the years longer.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 32 votes · 168 reads

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• Capital is dead labor, which, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.

  

  Karl Marx

  EconomistGerman1818 · 19th century

  3.6 · 30 votes · 144 reads

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• Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  3.1 · 45 votes · 16 reads

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• Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation.

  

  Wentworth Dillon

  PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century

  4.4 · 38 votes · 40 reads

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• Conceit is a queer disease - it makes everyone Sick except the person who has it.

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 5 votes · 9 reads

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• Courage comes from wanting to do it well. Security comes from knowing you can do it well. Confidence comes from having done it well.

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 42 votes · 45 reads

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• Every economy exists, no matter what the level of democracy, has elements of crony capitalism. It's - given human nature and given the democratic structures, which we all, I assume, adhere to, that is an inevitable consequence.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  3.8 · 46 votes · 135 reads

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• Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope.

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  Herman Melville

  WriterAmerican1819 · 19th century

  4.5 · 8 votes · 9 reads

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• Fear is a far more dominant force in human behaviour than euphoria - I would never have expected that or given it a moment's thought before, but it shows up in the data in so many ways.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  3.5 · 7 votes · 148 reads

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• God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

  

  German proverb

  German

  4.7 · 37 votes · 100 reads

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• Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

  

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  WriterRussian1821 · 19th century

  4.0 · 26 votes · 127 reads

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• Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

  

  C. S. Lewis

  AuthorIrish1898 · 19th century

  4.6 · 26 votes · 185 reads

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• I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.

  

  Pearl S. Buck

  NovelistAmerican1892 · 19th century

  4.3 · 62 votes · 51 reads

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• If a man loves the labor of his trade apart from any question of success or fame, the Gods have called him.

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  Robert Green Ingersoll

  PoliticianAmerican1833 · 19th century

  3.2 · 27 votes · 2 reads

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• If you are poor, though you dwell in the busy marketplace, no one will inquire about you; if you are rich, though you dwell in the heart of the mountains, you will have distant relatives.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  5.0 · 57 votes · 191 reads

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• In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.

  

  George Herbert

  PoetBritish1593 · 16th century

  4.7 · 61 votes · 154 reads

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• Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  4.0 · 36 votes · 43 reads

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• It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

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  Cesare Pavese

  PoetItaly1908 · 20th century

  4.5 · 61 votes · 75 reads

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• It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

  

  Jane Austen

  NovelistEnglish1775 · 18th century

  5.0 · 35 votes · 38 reads

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• It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 28 votes · 182 reads

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• It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument will play itself.

  

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  MusicianGerman1685 · 17th century

  3.2 · 33 votes · 108 reads

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• Let the public mind become corrupt, and all efforts to secure property, liberty, or life by the force of laws written on paper will be as vain as putting up a sign in an apple orchard to exclude canker worms.

  

  Horace Mann

  EducatorAmerican1796 · 18th century

  4.0 · 5 votes · 185 reads

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• Mankind has grown strong in eternal struggles and it will only perish through eternal peace.

  

  Adolf Hitler

  PoliticianGerman1889 · 19th century

  3.7 · 39 votes · 190 reads

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• Marrying is easy, it's housework that's hard.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  3.5 · 31 votes · 89 reads

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• Medicine to produce health must examine disease; and music, to create harmony must investigate discord.

  

  Plutarch

  EssayistGreek46 · 1st century

  4.6 · 19 votes · 183 reads

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• One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

  

  Epictetus

  PhilosopherGreek55 · 1st century

  3.3 · 60 votes · 22 reads

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• Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together.

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  Anaïs Nin

  AuthorFrench1903 · 20th century

  4.6 · 30 votes · 92 reads

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• Our life is not really a mutual helpfulness; but rather, it's fair competition cloaked under due laws of war; it's a mutual hostility.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.7 · 34 votes · 175 reads

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• So many worlds, so much to do, so little done, such things to be.

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  Lord Alfred Tennyson

  PoetBritish1809 · 19th century

  4.4 · 50 votes · 57 reads

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• The Amen of nature is always a flower.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.4 · 33 votes · 34 reads

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• The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.

  

  Denis Diderot

  PhilosopherFrench1713 · 18th century

  4.6 · 43 votes · 75 reads

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• The fact is that my wife if she had common sense would have more power over me than any other whatsoever, for my heart always alights upon the nearest perch.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  4.7 · 8 votes · 8 reads

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• The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm that is not easily disturbed. It is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed to produce valuable and lasting results.

  

  Carl Gustav Jung

  PsychiatristSwiss1875 · 19th century

  4.5 · 44 votes · 76 reads

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• The primary use of conversation is to satisfy the impulse to talk.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  4.4 · 10 votes · 27 reads

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• The reason political party platforms are so long is that when you straddle anything it takes a long time to explain it.

  

  Wentworth Dillon

  PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century

  3.2 · 63 votes · 50 reads

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• This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring.

  

  John Milton

  PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

  4.7 · 8 votes · 80 reads

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• Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.8 · 41 votes · 13 reads

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• We learn our virtues from our friends who love us; our faults from the enemy who hates us. We cannot easily discover our real character from a friend. He is a mirror, on which the warmth of our breath impedes the clearness of the reflection.

  

  Jean Paul

  ComedianGerman1763 · 18th century

  3.5 · 61 votes · 164 reads

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• We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.7 · 13 votes · 128 reads

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• What really decides consumers to buy or not to buy is the content of your advertising, not its form.

  

  David Ogilvy

  BusinessmanEnglish1911 · 20th century

  4.5 · 20 votes · 39 reads

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• When I consider life, it is all a cheat. Yet fooled with hope, people favor this deceit.

  

  John Dryden

  PoetBritish1631 · 17th century

  3.4 · 58 votes · 188 reads

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• Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!

  

  Henry Ford

  BusinessmanAmerican1863 · 19th century

  4.3 · 61 votes · 29 reads

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• While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the celestial loveliness, the celestial self-sufficiency holds us back in awe.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  4.2 · 26 votes · 137 reads

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• Without friends no one would choose to live.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  3.8 · 53 votes · 121 reads

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• You don't walk away if you love someone. You help the person.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.8 · 41 votes · 200 reads

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• You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  4.1 · 15 votes · 116 reads

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