Quotes for February 1452 quotes · 48 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every February 14: the anniversary does not move.

• All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  3.3 · 35 votes · 39 reads

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• Being good is just a matter of temperament in the end.

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  Iris Murdoch

  NovelistBritish1919 · 20th century

  4.5 · 9 votes · 35 reads

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• Energy is eternal delight.

  

  Will Rogers

  ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

  3.9 · 62 votes · 131 reads

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• Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest!

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  3.2 · 47 votes · 79 reads

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• Every man is an impossibility until he is born.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.5 · 35 votes · 153 reads

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• Fame is an illusive thing - here today, gone tomorrow. The fickle, shallow mob raises its heroes to the pinnacle of approval today and hurls them into oblivion tomorrow at the slightest whim; cheers today, hisses tomorrow; utter forgetfulness in a few mon

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  3.7 · 52 votes · 116 reads

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• For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  3.0 · 47 votes · 126 reads

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• Great and good are seldom the same man.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.5 · 63 votes · 11 reads

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• Great souls endure in silence.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  4.7 · 7 votes · 102 reads

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• He who hesitates is a damned fool.

  

  Mae West

  ComedianAmerican1893 · 19th century

  4.7 · 10 votes · 113 reads

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• Human beliefs, like all other natural growths, elude the barrier of systems.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.9 · 46 votes · 100 reads

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• I observe the physician with the same diligence as the disease.

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  John Donne

  PoetEnglish1572 · 16th century

  3.2 · 17 votes · 155 reads

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• I would suggest that barbarism be considered as a permanent and universal human characteristic which becomes more or less pronounced according to the play of circumstances.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  4.1 · 48 votes · 169 reads

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• If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

  

  Isaac Newton

  MathematicianEnglish1643 · 17th century

  3.1 · 26 votes · 69 reads

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• In less than a hundred years, we have found a new way to think of ourselves. From sitting at the center of the universe, we now find ourselves orbiting an average-sized sun, which is just one of millions of stars in our own Milky Way galaxy.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.4 · 34 votes · 109 reads

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• It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war.

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  3.3 · 23 votes · 82 reads

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• It is easier for a Russian to become an atheist than for anyone else in the world.

  

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  WriterRussian1821 · 19th century

  3.9 · 11 votes · 145 reads

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• It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.

  

  Anatole France

  WriterFrench1844 · 19th century

  4.0 · 6 votes · 95 reads

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• It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.6 · 29 votes · 75 reads

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• It is your work in life that is your ultimate seduction.

  

  Pablo Neruda

  PoetChilean1904 · 20th century

  3.9 · 31 votes · 119 reads

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• Let them hate, so long as they fear.

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  Lucius Accius

  PoetRoman-170 · 2nd century BC

  3.6 · 7 votes · 66 reads

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• Life is a video game. No matter how good you get, you are always zapped in the end

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  Anonymous

  3.5 · 16 votes · 101 reads

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• Mankind has a free will; but it is free to milk cows and to build houses, nothing more.

  

  Martin Luther

  LeaderGerman1483 · 15th century

  3.9 · 34 votes · 140 reads

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• Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.8 · 62 votes · 21 reads

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• More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

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  Roy Lichtenstein

  PainterAmerican1923 · 20th century

  4.0 · 28 votes · 183 reads

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• Most human beings have an infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  4.3 · 53 votes · 66 reads

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• Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.2 · 19 votes · 111 reads

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• Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.1 · 64 votes · 155 reads

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• Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love.

  

  Karl Marx

  EconomistGerman1818 · 19th century

  4.5 · 42 votes · 57 reads

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• Since it is the Other within us who is old, it is natural that the revelation of our age should come to us from outside -from others. We do not accept it willingly.

  

  Sigmund Freud

  PhysicistAustrian1856 · 19th century

  3.7 · 50 votes · 145 reads

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• The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is a book side for everything.

  

  Robert Burton

  EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century

  3.8 · 23 votes · 30 reads

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• The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.

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  Jean Rostand

  PhilosopherFrench1894 · 19th century

  4.2 · 7 votes · 144 reads

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• The main thing about being a hero is to know when to die.

  

  Wentworth Dillon

  PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century

  3.2 · 13 votes · 175 reads

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• The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it will contract.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.0 · 38 votes · 37 reads

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• The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply the instinct in man for expansion.

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  Matthew Arnold

  PoetBritish1822 · 19th century

  4.4 · 60 votes · 179 reads

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• The only way to have several currencies from divergent nations lumped together is if they are culturally close, such as Germany, the Netherlands and Austria. If they aren't, it simply can't continue to work.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  3.6 · 60 votes · 198 reads

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• The skylines lit up at dead of night, the air-conditioning systems cooling empty hotels in the desert and artificial light in the middle of the day all have something both demented and admirable about them. The mindless luxury of a rich civilization, and

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  Jean Baudrillard

  PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century

  3.1 · 24 votes · 184 reads

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• The Statue of Liberty is no longer saying, 'Give me your poor, your tired, your huddled masses.' She's got a baseball bat and yelling, 'You want a piece of me?'

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  3.9 · 35 votes · 56 reads

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• The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  3.1 · 32 votes · 130 reads

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• The trouble with most folks ain't so much their ignorance as knowing so many things that ain't so.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  3.1 · 6 votes · 3 reads

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• There can be no failure to a man who has not lost his courage, his character, his self respect, or his self-confidence. He is still a King.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.6 · 58 votes · 70 reads

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• There is a sense that things, if you keep positive and optimistic about what can be done, do work out.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.4 · 47 votes · 93 reads

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• There is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness and truth.

  

  Leo Tolstoy

  WriterRussian1828 · 19th century

  4.7 · 34 votes · 8 reads

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• Those who know nothing of foreign languages, knows nothing of their own.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.8 · 49 votes · 7 reads

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• To choose a hardship for ourselves is our only defense against that hardship. This is what is meant by accepting suffering. Those who, by their very nature, can suffer completely, utterly, have an advantage. That is how we can disarm the power of sufferin

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  Cesare Pavese

  PoetItaly1908 · 20th century

  4.5 · 63 votes · 162 reads

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• To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.

  

  Saint Augustine

  TheologianRoman354 · 4th century

  3.0 · 25 votes · 161 reads

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• To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing,

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.0 · 22 votes · 74 reads

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• Unhappy the land that is in need of heroes.

  

  Bertolt Brecht

  WriterGerman1898 · 19th century

  3.7 · 28 votes · 41 reads

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• We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life.

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.1 · 58 votes · 72 reads

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• We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the cause of disaster.

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  Terence

  PoetRoman

  3.6 · 18 votes · 170 reads

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• Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  4.2 · 32 votes · 172 reads

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