Quotes for February 1949 quotes · 39 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every February 19: the anniversary does not move.

• A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

  

  Robert Burton

  EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century

  5.0 · 39 votes · 159 reads

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• A prejudice is a vagrant opinion without visible means of support.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  3.9 · 38 votes · 171 reads

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• Any change, even for the better, is always accompanied by drawbacks and discomforts.

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  Arnold Bennett

  NovelistEnglish1867 · 19th century

  3.4 · 21 votes · 121 reads

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• Can there be greater foolishness than the respect you pay to people collectively when you despise them individually?

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.9 · 44 votes · 17 reads

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• City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.9 · 37 votes · 18 reads

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• Confidante. One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  4.7 · 41 votes · 106 reads

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• Don't be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.0 · 54 votes · 30 reads

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• Every flatterer lives at the expense of him who listens to him.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine

  PoetFrench1621 · 17th century

  3.4 · 42 votes · 136 reads

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• Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less. One is always living a little more or dying a little bit.

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  Niels Bohr

  PhysicistDanish1885 · 19th century

  5.0 · 30 votes · 185 reads

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• For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.

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  Anonymous

  3.6 · 45 votes · 97 reads

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• He who has provoked the shaft of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.5 · 16 votes · 198 reads

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• I am always doing things I can't do, that's how I get to do them.

  

  Pablo Neruda

  PoetChilean1904 · 20th century

  3.2 · 25 votes · 182 reads

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• I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

  

  Hermann Hesse

  PoetGerman1877 · 19th century

  3.7 · 52 votes · 56 reads

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• I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.8 · 15 votes · 24 reads

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• If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.2 · 11 votes · 141 reads

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• In times of trouble leniency becomes crime.

  

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 5 votes · 164 reads

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• In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.9 · 27 votes · 60 reads

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• Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.8 · 11 votes · 193 reads

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• It may be the cock that crows, but it is the hen that lays the eggs.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  3.1 · 22 votes · 57 reads

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• Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  4.3 · 38 votes · 141 reads

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• Life is a constant oscillation between the sharp horns of dilemmas.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.7 · 19 votes · 144 reads

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• Lovers never get tired of each other because they are forever talking about themselves.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.6 · 53 votes · 19 reads

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• Morality is contraband in war.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  3.0 · 55 votes · 13 reads

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• My books are water; those of the great geniuses are wine - everybody drinks water.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.4 · 7 votes · 126 reads

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• No one can make you jealous, angry, vengeful, or greedy, unless you let him.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  4.1 · 62 votes · 27 reads

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• One may make their house a palace of sham, or they can make it a home, a refuge.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.0 · 13 votes · 18 reads

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• Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

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  John Adams

  PoliticianAmerican1735 · 18th century

  4.7 · 54 votes · 194 reads

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• People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  5.0 · 53 votes · 38 reads

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• Poverty is the worst form of violence.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  3.4 · 10 votes · 14 reads

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• Such is the role of poetry. It unveils, in the strict sense of the word. It lays bare, under a light which shakes off torpor, the surprising things which surround us and which our senses record mechanically.

  

  Jean Cocteau

  AuthorFrench1889 · 19th century

  4.8 · 45 votes · 155 reads

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• Surgeons must be very careful. When they take the knife!, underneath their fine incisions, stirs the Culprit - Life!

  

  Emily Dickinson

  PoetAmerican1830 · 19th century

  5.0 · 58 votes · 144 reads

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• The coward threatens when he is safe.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.9 · 64 votes · 123 reads

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• The first duty of a lecturer is to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece forever.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  3.9 · 55 votes · 182 reads

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• The studious class are their own victims: they are thin and pale, their feet are cold, their heads are hot, the night is without sleep, the day a fear of interruption -pallor, squalor, hunger, and egotism.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.6 · 5 votes · 72 reads

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• The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.0 · 20 votes · 17 reads

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• The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living.

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  W. C. Fields

  ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.1 · 35 votes · 176 reads

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• There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.2 · 14 votes · 38 reads

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• There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe

  WriterAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.8 · 62 votes · 168 reads

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• Thinkers think and doers do. But until the thinkers do and the doers think, progress will be just another word in the already overburdened vocabulary of the talkers who talk.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 63 votes · 103 reads

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• Thought expands, but paralyzes; action animates, but narrows.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.1 · 62 votes · 99 reads

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• To be a successful hostess, when guest arrive say, ''At last!'' and when they leave say, ''So soon!''

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 8 votes · 98 reads

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• Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.9 · 44 votes · 59 reads

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• We know no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodical fits of morality.

  

  Thomas Alva Edison

  ScientistAmerican1847 · 19th century

  4.3 · 45 votes · 42 reads

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• We used to think that revolutions are the cause of change. Actually it is the other way around: change prepares the ground for revolution.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  4.3 · 40 votes · 137 reads

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• What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

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  David Lloyd George

  PoliticianBritish1863 · 19th century

  4.1 · 22 votes · 6 reads

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• What we do not see, what most of us never suspect of existing, is the silent but irresistible power which comes to the rescue of those who fight on in the face of discouragement.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  4.6 · 28 votes · 36 reads

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• Who had deceived thee so often as thyself?

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.5 · 62 votes · 1 reads

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• Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world.

  

  Epictetus

  PhilosopherGreek55 · 1st century

  4.8 · 37 votes · 53 reads

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