Quotes for February 2147 quotes · 43 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every February 21: the anniversary does not move.

• A feeling of sadness and longing that is not akin to pain, and resembles sorrow only as the mist resembles the rain.

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  3.0 · 31 votes · 70 reads

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• A friend in power is a friend lost.

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  Henry Brooks Adams

  NovelistAmerican1838 · 19th century

  3.3 · 51 votes · 145 reads

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• A man is not necessarily intelligent because he has plenty of ideas, any more than he is a good general because he has plenty of soldiers.

  

  Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

  PoetFrench1636 · 17th century

  4.9 · 56 votes · 132 reads

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• A poem is never finished, only abandoned.

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  Paul Goodman

  AuthorAmerican1911 · 20th century

  3.3 · 44 votes · 6 reads

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• After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.4 · 21 votes · 122 reads

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• All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy an

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.3 · 51 votes · 11 reads

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• America is not anything if it consists of each of us. It is something only if it consists of all of us.

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century

  3.9 · 28 votes · 61 reads

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• Economic activity is moving from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean... Russia has a certain natural advantage because it also borders the Pacific Ocean.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  4.9 · 55 votes · 44 reads

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• Formula 1 will always have high and strong investment. Who can't make these investments will race in other series.

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  Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

  BusinessmanItalian1947 · 20th century

  4.1 · 53 votes · 177 reads

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• Happiness is a how, not a what: a talent, not an object

  

  Hermann Hesse

  PoetGerman1877 · 19th century

  4.9 · 38 votes · 65 reads

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• He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.

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  Douglas Adams

  AuthorBritish1952 · 20th century

  4.1 · 31 votes · 94 reads

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• He mastered whatever was not worth the knowing.

  

  James Russell Lowell

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  4.9 · 50 votes · 87 reads

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• Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity.

  

  Hippocrates

  ScientistGreek-460 · 5th century BC

  4.9 · 13 votes · 60 reads

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• I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

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  Henry James

  AuthorAmerican-British1843 · 19th century

  3.8 · 39 votes · 38 reads

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• I have found that all ugly things are made by those who strive to make something beautiful, and that all beautiful things are made by those who strive to make something useful.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.5 · 17 votes · 96 reads

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• If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  5.0 · 37 votes · 12 reads

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• If you're a person struggling to eat and stay healthy, you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you'll never have heard of Bill Gates.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.2 · 52 votes · 146 reads

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• In all evils which admits a remedy, impatience should be avoided, because it wastes the time and attention in complaints which, if properly applied, might remove the cause.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.4 · 33 votes · 54 reads

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• It is a blessed thing that in every age some one has had the individuality enough and courage enough to stand by his own convictions.

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  Robert Frost

  PoetAmerican1874 · 19th century

  3.7 · 20 votes · 158 reads

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• It is not good to be too free. It is not good to have everything one wants.

  

  Blaise Pascal

  PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century

  3.2 · 24 votes · 72 reads

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• It's Russia some people would like to get rid of. They are still afraid of our nuclear deterrent. We have our own foreign policy whether they like it or not.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  4.5 · 50 votes · 191 reads

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• Let's make it clear: it's Ferrari I'm interested in. Drivers, we've had a lot, some very good, some great, but drivers come and go, while Ferrari remains.

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  Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

  BusinessmanItalian1947 · 20th century

  3.6 · 29 votes · 137 reads

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• Life is what happens while you're busy making other plans.

  

  John Lennon

  MusicianBritish1940 · 20th century

  3.2 · 5 votes · 126 reads

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• My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.1 · 54 votes · 143 reads

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• No one can be good for long if goodness is not in demand.

  

  Bertolt Brecht

  WriterGerman1898 · 19th century

  3.4 · 11 votes · 168 reads

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• Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  3.4 · 16 votes · 189 reads

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• On life's vast ocean diversely we sail. Reasons the card, but passion the gale.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  3.9 · 35 votes · 63 reads

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• Retaliation is related to nature and instinct, not to law. Law, by definition, cannot obey the same rules as nature.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  4.6 · 5 votes · 87 reads

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• Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.8 · 25 votes · 2 reads

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• Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

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  Anonymous

  3.7 · 58 votes · 100 reads

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• Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.

  

  George Herbert

  PoetBritish1593 · 16th century

  3.8 · 59 votes · 15 reads

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• Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.

  

  Jonathan Swift

  WriterIrish1667 · 17th century

  4.5 · 42 votes · 135 reads

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• The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment.

  

  Joseph Addison

  PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century

  4.1 · 46 votes · 178 reads

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• The golden rule for every business man is this: ''Put yourself in your customer's place.''

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.7 · 58 votes · 100 reads

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• The least one can say of power is that a vocation for it is suspicious.

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  Jean Rostand

  PhilosopherFrench1894 · 19th century

  4.6 · 49 votes · 137 reads

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• The more a man takes the needs of others on his own heart, the more he must take his own heart to God.

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 61 votes · 82 reads

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• The people are to be taken in small doses.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.9 · 53 votes · 120 reads

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• The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.8 · 17 votes · 111 reads

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• The president is the representative of the whole nation and he's the only lobbyist that all the one hundred and sixty million people in the country have.

  

  Harry S. Truman

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  3.3 · 26 votes · 157 reads

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• The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.0 · 25 votes · 71 reads

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• The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1882 · 19th century

  4.0 · 37 votes · 40 reads

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• To be young is all there is in the world. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) -but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. Telling people how nice it is, when, in

  

  W. Somerset Maugham

  WriterBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.3 · 58 votes · 97 reads

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• University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small.

  

  Henry A. Kissinger

  PoliticianGerman1923 · 20th century

  4.3 · 61 votes · 90 reads

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• We, Russia, are prepared to work with others. I am convinced that stability and security in Europe cannot be considered without taking Russia into account.

  

  Boris Yeltsin

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  4.3 · 15 votes · 101 reads

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• With these men and women who work-for the cause with all their hearts, with cool heads and skilled hands we will master every fate.

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  Gustav Krupp

  BusinessmanGerman1870 · 19th century

  4.8 · 63 votes · 121 reads

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• You must live for another if you wish to live for yourself.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.3 · 55 votes · 79 reads

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