Quotes for February 1349 quotes · 42 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every February 13: the anniversary does not move.

• A man who never made a mistake, never made anything worth a darn.

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  Anonymous

  3.5 · 19 votes · 5 reads

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• Enjoy what thou has inherited from thy sires if thou wouldn't really possess it. What we employ and use is never an oppressive burden; what the moment brings forth, that only can it profit by.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.8 · 51 votes · 146 reads

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• Even if it is to be, what end do you serve by running to distress?

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.6 · 8 votes · 176 reads

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• Every act of creation is first of all an act of destruction.

  

  Pablo Neruda

  PoetChilean1904 · 20th century

  4.2 · 35 votes · 107 reads

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• For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.

  

  John Milton

  PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

  4.0 · 60 votes · 143 reads

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• Grit your teeth and smile. In the face of adversity, go. They don't deserve you.

  

  Christine Lagarde

  EconomistFrench1956 · 20th century

  4.8 · 40 votes · 105 reads

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• Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  3.6 · 5 votes · 187 reads

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• He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

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  Roy Lichtenstein

  PainterAmerican1923 · 20th century

  4.2 · 54 votes · 162 reads

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• History is strewn thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill, but a lie, well told, is immortal.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.7 · 64 votes · 95 reads

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• I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.

  

  Henry A. Kissinger

  PoliticianGerman1923 · 20th century

  3.4 · 32 votes · 14 reads

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• I began revolution with 82 men. If I had to do it again, I do it with 10 or 15 and absolute faith. It does not matter how small you are if you have faith and plan of action.

  

  Fidel Castro

  PoliticianCuba1926 · 20th century

  4.9 · 30 votes · 136 reads

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• I keep reading between the lies.

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  Goodman Ace

  ComedianAmerican1899 · 19th century

  3.0 · 47 votes · 48 reads

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• I think I could, if I only knew how to begin. For, you see, so many out-of-the-way things had happened lately that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible.

  

  Lewis Carroll

  NovelistEnglish1832 · 19th century

  5.0 · 43 votes · 72 reads

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• I want American Dream growth - lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology.

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.6 · 31 votes · 177 reads

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• I would rather lose in a cause that will some day win, than win in a cause that will some day lose!

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century

  4.2 · 9 votes · 198 reads

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• If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.1 · 23 votes · 58 reads

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• Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  3.3 · 9 votes · 118 reads

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• In order to win, you must expect to win.

  

  Raymond Chandler

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  3.3 · 17 votes · 64 reads

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• In politics the middle way is none at all.

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  John Adams

  PoliticianAmerican1735 · 18th century

  5.0 · 45 votes · 38 reads

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• It always seems impossible until its done.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  4.5 · 48 votes · 101 reads

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• It is part of a poor spirit to undervalue himself and blush.

  

  George Herbert

  PoetBritish1593 · 16th century

  3.8 · 32 votes · 83 reads

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• Love is made by two people, in different kinds of solitude. It can be in a crowd, but in an oblivious crowd.

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  Louis Aragon

  PoetFrench1897 · 19th century

  3.9 · 55 votes · 192 reads

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• Money is like a sixth sense without which you cannot make a complete use of the other five.

  

  W. H. Auden

  PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

  3.3 · 11 votes · 101 reads

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• More than anything else, I want the folks back at home to think right of me.

  

  Elvis Presley

  MusicianAmerican1935 · 20th century

  3.7 · 35 votes · 187 reads

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• Never resist a sentence you like, in which language takes its own pleasure and in which, after having abused it for so long, you are stupefied by its innocence.

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  Jean Baudrillard

  PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century

  4.4 · 27 votes · 59 reads

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• No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Lif

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.8 · 45 votes · 17 reads

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• One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.

  

  Jean Paul Sartre

  WriterFrench1905 · 20th century

  4.3 · 36 votes · 35 reads

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• Ones best success comes after their greatest disappointments.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  4.5 · 49 votes · 129 reads

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• Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.0 · 29 votes · 194 reads

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• Silence is better than unmeaning words.

  

  Pythagoras

  MathematicianGreek-582 · 6th century BC

  4.4 · 55 votes · 97 reads

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• Simply the thing I am shall make me live.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.9 · 25 votes · 142 reads

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• The Arctic is going to be an area of intense interest. Russia has the longest coastline in the world with the Arctic.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.5 · 61 votes · 105 reads

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• The men with the muck-rake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck.

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  Terence

  PoetRoman

  4.8 · 62 votes · 175 reads

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• The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.

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  Hannah Arendt

  PoliticianGerman1906 · 20th century

  4.9 · 19 votes · 197 reads

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• The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.5 · 24 votes · 169 reads

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• The world loves a spice of wickedness.

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  4.8 · 42 votes · 65 reads

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• There is luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves, we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.0 · 13 votes · 149 reads

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• There isn't any finer folks living than a Republican that votes the Democratic ticket.

  

  Wentworth Dillon

  PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century

  3.5 · 44 votes · 9 reads

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• To bear other people's afflictions, everyone has courage and enough to spare.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.3 · 23 votes · 104 reads

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• Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.8 · 62 votes · 141 reads

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• We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  4.6 · 14 votes · 71 reads

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• What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  4.2 · 34 votes · 136 reads

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• What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

  

  Hippocrates

  ScientistGreek-460 · 5th century BC

  3.6 · 59 votes · 178 reads

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• What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted. [Henry Iv]

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.2 · 37 votes · 111 reads

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• What we learn only through the ears makes less impression upon our minds than what is presented to the trustworthy eye.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  5.0 · 45 votes · 43 reads

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• What's amazing is, if young people understood how doing well in school makes the rest of their life so much interesting, they would be more motivated. It's so far away in time that they can't appreciate what it means for their whole life.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.8 · 5 votes · 73 reads

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• When you're out of quality you're out of business.

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 34 votes · 54 reads

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• Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  4.1 · 60 votes · 23 reads

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