Quotes for February 249 quotes · 47 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every February 2: the anniversary does not move.

• 'The Simpsons' from the very beginning was based on our memories of brash '60s sitcoms - you had a main title theme that was bombastic and grabbed your attention - and when you look at TV shows of the 1970s and '80s, things got very mild and toned down an

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  4.7 · 61 votes · 9 reads

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• A fool must now and then be right, by chance.

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  William Butler Yeats

  PoetIrish1865 · 19th century

  4.7 · 24 votes · 67 reads

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• And where the offence is, let the great axe fall.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.7 · 17 votes · 150 reads

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• As to conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I have not a very high opinion of that course.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.3 · 49 votes · 9 reads

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• As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more mysterious.

  

  Albert Schweitzer

  TheologianGerman-French1875 · 19th century

  4.6 · 22 votes · 93 reads

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• Bad laws are the worst form of tyranny.

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  3.3 · 24 votes · 157 reads

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• Be thrifty, but not covetous.

  

  George Herbert

  PoetBritish1593 · 16th century

  3.0 · 15 votes · 170 reads

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• Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  4.1 · 15 votes · 88 reads

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• Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

  

  Francis Picabia

  PainterFrench1879 · 19th century

  4.7 · 47 votes · 50 reads

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• Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.1 · 9 votes · 43 reads

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• Diplomacy is really far less important than the stock movements within Russia.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.8 · 26 votes · 174 reads

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• Drunkenness is temporary suicide.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  5.0 · 11 votes · 89 reads

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• I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

  

  Wentworth Dillon

  PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century

  3.6 · 46 votes · 73 reads

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• I have met the enemy, and it is the eyes of other people.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.2 · 53 votes · 71 reads

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• I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

  

  Theodore Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1858 · 19th century

  3.6 · 12 votes · 40 reads

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• In a world with no systems, with chaos, everything becomes a guerrilla struggle, and this predictability is not there. And it becomes almost impossible to save lives, educate kids, develop economies, whatever.

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.1 · 62 votes · 191 reads

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• In this life we cannot do great things. We can only do small things with great love

  

  Teresa of Calcutta

  MissionaryAlbanian1910 · 20th century

  3.5 · 55 votes · 166 reads

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• It is impossible that anything so natural, so necessary, and so universal as death, should ever have been designed by providence as an evil to mankind.

  

  Jonathan Swift

  WriterIrish1667 · 17th century

  4.4 · 32 votes · 96 reads

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• It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

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  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  PhilosopherAustrian1889 · 19th century

  3.0 · 28 votes · 91 reads

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• It's a pretty good idea to be of good cheer but not all the time. Just at the most unexpected times.

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 29 votes · 0 reads

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• Money is the representative of a certain quantity of corn or other commodity. It is so much warmth, so much bread.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.0 · 48 votes · 144 reads

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• Most people would rather die than think: many do.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  4.9 · 31 votes · 170 reads

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• Not necessity, not desire -no, the love of power is the demon of men. Let them have everything -health, food, a place to live, entertainment -they are and remain unhappy and low-spirited: for the demon waits and waits and will be satisfied.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  5.0 · 6 votes · 62 reads

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• Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply ho

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.8 · 16 votes · 119 reads

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• Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

  

  George Orwell

  NovelistBritish1903 · 20th century

  4.4 · 37 votes · 81 reads

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• Riches enlarge rather than satisfy appetites.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  3.1 · 39 votes · 72 reads

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• Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

  

  Isaac Asimov

  ScientistAmerican1920 · 20th century

  5.0 · 51 votes · 41 reads

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• Scratch a lover, and find a foe.

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  Dorothy Parker

  WriterAmerican1893 · 19th century

  3.3 · 48 votes · 155 reads

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• The fewer our wants the more we resemble the Gods.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  3.2 · 47 votes · 123 reads

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• The formulation of a problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  3.5 · 58 votes · 38 reads

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• The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  3.3 · 40 votes · 101 reads

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• The most common cause of fear of old age is associated with the possibility of poverty.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  3.1 · 13 votes · 122 reads

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• The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  3.4 · 27 votes · 2 reads

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• The past is all holy to us; the dead are all holy; even they that were wicked when alive.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.1 · 18 votes · 92 reads

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• The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  4.2 · 36 votes · 2 reads

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• There are people who possess not so much genius as a certain talent for perceiving the desires of the century, or even of the decade, before it has done so itself.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  4.0 · 48 votes · 175 reads

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• There is no fortune so strong that money cannot take it.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.4 · 5 votes · 38 reads

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• There is no success without hardship.

  

  Socrates

  PhilosopherGreek-470 · 5th century BC

  3.2 · 41 votes · 154 reads

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• This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us. If one has the courage to ask her what she thinks, she is always saying the very opposite to what other people say.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  3.8 · 61 votes · 57 reads

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• Thy friendship oft has made my heart to ache; do be my enemy for friendship's sake.

  

  Will Rogers

  ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

  3.3 · 21 votes · 41 reads

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• To go beyond the bounds of moderation is to outrage humanity.

  

  Blaise Pascal

  PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century

  4.4 · 61 votes · 98 reads

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• We are not afraid of nuclear weapons. The point is that if we had in fact wanted to build a nuclear bomb, we are brave enough to say that we want it. But we never do that.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  PoliticianIranian1956 · 20th century

  3.1 · 19 votes · 152 reads

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• We are often deterred from crime by the disgrace of others.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  4.1 · 43 votes · 173 reads

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• When Europe and America stand together the world is a better and more prosperous place.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  4.7 · 55 votes · 116 reads

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• When I get a little money, I buy books; and if any is left I buy food and clothes.

  

  Erasmus of Rotterdam

  TheologianDutch1466 · 15th century

  3.3 · 39 votes · 32 reads

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• When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  4.6 · 30 votes · 103 reads

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• Why should the composer be more guilty than the poet who warms to fantasy by a strange flame, making an idea that inspires him the subject of his own very different treatment?

  

  Franz Schubert

  MusicianAustrian1797 · 18th century

  4.4 · 23 votes · 37 reads

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• You can't force anyone to love you or lend you money.

  

  Jewish proverb

  Jewish

  3.4 · 5 votes · 127 reads

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