Quotes for February 1550 quotes · 42 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every February 15: the anniversary does not move.

• A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of ''spirit'' over matter.

  

  Stendhal

  NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

  3.5 · 38 votes · 172 reads

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• A mind enclosed in language is in prison.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  3.5 · 32 votes · 163 reads

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• Admiration is the daughter of ignorance.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.6 · 59 votes · 145 reads

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• Any man who can write a page of living prose adds something to our life, and the man who can, as I can, is surely the last to resent someone who can do it even better. An artist cannot deny art, nor would he want to. A lover cannot deny love.

  

  Raymond Chandler

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  3.2 · 19 votes · 39 reads

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• Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness; its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

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  John Updike

  WriterAmerican1932 · 20th century

  5.0 · 15 votes · 108 reads

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• I am a great friend to public amusements, for they keep people from vice.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.4 · 38 votes · 197 reads

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• I believe the returns on investment in the poor are just as exciting as successes achieved in the business arena, and they are even more meaningful!

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.1 · 9 votes · 103 reads

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• I do not know anyone who has got to the top without hard work. That is the recipe. It will not always get you to the top, but should get you pretty near.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  3.4 · 54 votes · 5 reads

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• I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

  

  Harry S. Truman

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  4.6 · 15 votes · 187 reads

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• I look under the skin of countries' economies, and I help them make better decisions and be stronger, to prosper and create employment.

  

  Christine Lagarde

  EconomistFrench1956 · 20th century

  4.3 · 9 votes · 150 reads

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• I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.

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  Jean Rostand

  PhilosopherFrench1894 · 19th century

  4.0 · 35 votes · 118 reads

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• I'm substantially concerned about the policy directions of the space agency. We have a situation in the U.S. where the White House and Congress are at odds over what the future direction should be. They're sort of playing a game and NASA is the shuttlecoc

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  Neil Armstrong

  AstronautAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.5 · 29 votes · 132 reads

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• If you see one cold and vehement at the same time, set him down for a fanatic.

  

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  TheologianSwiss1741 · 18th century

  3.7 · 58 votes · 124 reads

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• It is following the line of least resistance that makes men and rivers crooked.

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 64 votes · 78 reads

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• It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  4.6 · 15 votes · 192 reads

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• Life is largely a matter of expectation.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  3.8 · 21 votes · 118 reads

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• Little other than a red tape Talking-machine, and unhappy Bag of Parliamentary Eloquence.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.9 · 39 votes · 85 reads

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• Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.6 · 13 votes · 55 reads

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• My father taught me to work, but he did not teach me to love it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.2 · 15 votes · 104 reads

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• My life is a battle.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  4.2 · 54 votes · 83 reads

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• Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.4 · 56 votes · 13 reads

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• Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.4 · 17 votes · 174 reads

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• Not so much in Canada, but certainly in the US, as I'm sure you know, money is all, and if they can get another 26 programs of the same thing even though it advances the culture or those actor's careers not at all it doesn't matter.

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  3.5 · 61 votes · 124 reads

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• Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.

  

  Jonathan Swift

  WriterIrish1667 · 17th century

  5.0 · 52 votes · 107 reads

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• O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.4 · 43 votes · 106 reads

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• Oblivion is the rule and fame the exception, of humanity.

  

  Antoine Rivarol

  WriterFrench1753 · 18th century

  3.7 · 28 votes · 133 reads

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• One can find women who have never had one love affair, but it is rare indeed to find any who have had only one.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.1 · 34 votes · 192 reads

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• Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap.

  

  Sigmund Freud

  PhysicistAustrian1856 · 19th century

  5.0 · 18 votes · 133 reads

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• So live that your memories will be part of your happiness.

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 12 votes · 35 reads

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• The biggest room in the world, is the room for improvement. - Unknown, Source

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 14 votes · 62 reads

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• The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul...

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  Leonard Cohen

  WriterCanadian1934 · 20th century

  3.9 · 59 votes · 143 reads

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• The good Lord gave me a brain that works so fast that in one moment I can worry as much as it would take others a whole year to achieve.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 45 votes · 119 reads

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• The person with the best job in the country is the vice president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, ''How is the president?''

  

  Wentworth Dillon

  PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century

  5.0 · 58 votes · 145 reads

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• There are four things every person has more of than they know; sins, debt, years, and foes.

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  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  PoetEnglish1792 · 18th century

  3.0 · 41 votes · 87 reads

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• There is no philosophy which is not founded upon knowledge of the phenomena, but to get any profit from this knowledge it is absolutely necessary to be a mathematician.

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  Daniel Bernoulli

  MathematicianDutch1700 · 17th century

  4.7 · 55 votes · 37 reads

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• To be remembered after we are dead, is but poor recompense for being treated with contempt while we are living.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  4.2 · 23 votes · 66 reads

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• Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.4 · 56 votes · 25 reads

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• Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't goin' away.

  

  Elvis Presley

  MusicianAmerican1935 · 20th century

  3.8 · 50 votes · 128 reads

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• We are citizens of an age, as well as of a State; and if it is held to be unseemly, or even inadmissible, for a man to cut himself off from the customs and manners of the circle in which he lives, why should it be less of a duty, in the choice of his acti

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  4.0 · 36 votes · 141 reads

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• We can scarcely hate anyone that we know.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  3.5 · 56 votes · 183 reads

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• We cannot always oblige; but we can always speak obligingly.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  4.4 · 59 votes · 49 reads

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• We should be ashamed of our pride, but never proud of our shame.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 16 votes · 118 reads

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• We should take care not to make the intellect our god: it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.9 · 28 votes · 123 reads

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• Wealth lost is something lost, honor lost is something lost: Courage lost all is lost.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  5.0 · 45 votes · 88 reads

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• Wealth unused might as well not exist.

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  Aesop

  WriterGreek-620 · 7th century BC

  3.6 · 5 votes · 149 reads

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• What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.

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  John Keats

  PoetBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.4 · 37 votes · 171 reads

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• Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  3.1 · 57 votes · 48 reads

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• You cannot be friends upon any other terms than upon the terms of equality.

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century

  3.1 · 8 votes · 96 reads

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• You know, when I sit in meetings and things are very tense and people take things extremely seriously and they invest a lot of their ego, I sometimes think to myself, 'Come on, you know, there's life and there's death and there is love.' And all of that e

  

  Christine Lagarde

  EconomistFrench1956 · 20th century

  5.0 · 46 votes · 95 reads

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