Quotes for February 2747 quotes · 44 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every February 27: the anniversary does not move.

• A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.8 · 59 votes · 60 reads

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• A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.9 · 5 votes · 188 reads

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• A new state, if it wants to join the European Union, has to apply to become a member of the European Union like any state.

  

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  PoliticianPortuguese1956 · 20th century

  4.6 · 29 votes · 109 reads

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• All great truths begin as blasphemies.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.5 · 51 votes · 110 reads

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• Appeal: In law, to put the dice into the box for another throw.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  3.0 · 48 votes · 56 reads

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• Beware of assumptions! Whatever you ''assume'' to be possible - or impossible will have a tendency to become real for you.

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 46 votes · 71 reads

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• Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 46 votes · 78 reads

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• Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future.

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  3.2 · 13 votes · 64 reads

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• Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it.

  

  Woody Allen

  ComedianAmerican1935 · 20th century

  3.5 · 45 votes · 103 reads

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• Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.

  

  René Descartes

  MathematicianFrench1596 · 16th century

  4.0 · 6 votes · 141 reads

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• For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.2 · 50 votes · 24 reads

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• Give us the child for 8 years and it will be a Bolshevik forever.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  3.4 · 43 votes · 187 reads

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• Giving The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all me

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  3.5 · 36 votes · 83 reads

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• Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalized.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.0 · 18 votes · 72 reads

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• I believe there are no questions that science can't answer about a physical universe.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.9 · 49 votes · 198 reads

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• I have always been of the mind that in a democracy manners are the only effective weapons against the bowie-knife.

  

  James Russell Lowell

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  3.2 · 24 votes · 159 reads

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• I swear I will do everything in my power to change the situation in Tibet where human rights are being suppressed. Tibet seeks freedom and democracy and we agree on those values.

  

  Shinzo Abe

  PoliticianJapanese1954 · 20th century

  3.4 · 43 votes · 109 reads

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• I was a God-fearing child, innocent and physically attractive.

  

  Robert Schumann

  MusicianGerman1810 · 19th century

  3.7 · 20 votes · 55 reads

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• I who have been involved with all styles of painting can assure you that the only things that fluctuate are the waves of fashion which carry the snobs and speculators; the number of true connoisseurs remains more or less the same.

  

  Pablo Neruda

  PoetChilean1904 · 20th century

  4.9 · 23 votes · 28 reads

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• It is easier to go down a hill than up, but the view is from the top.

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  Arnold Bennett

  NovelistEnglish1867 · 19th century

  3.2 · 44 votes · 144 reads

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• It is medicine, not scenery, for which a sick man must go searching.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.7 · 58 votes · 195 reads

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• It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  4.1 · 13 votes · 71 reads

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• It is our relation to circumstances that determine their influence over us. The same wind that blows one ship into port may blow another off shore.

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  Christian Nestell Bovee

  AuthorAmerican1820 · 19th century

  3.9 · 60 votes · 197 reads

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• It requires nothing less than a chivalric feeling to sustain a conversation with a lady.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.2 · 61 votes · 165 reads

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• Jokes are grievances.

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  Marshall Mcluhan

  EducatorCanadian1911 · 20th century

  4.2 · 51 votes · 80 reads

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• Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; Wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

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  William Butler Yeats

  PoetIrish1865 · 19th century

  3.6 · 57 votes · 63 reads

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• Man is distinguished, not only by his reason; but also by this singular passion from other animals... which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceeds the short vehemence of

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  Thomas Hardy

  WriterBritish1840 · 19th century

  4.6 · 62 votes · 157 reads

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• Marriage is one long conversation, checkered by disputes.

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  Robert Green Ingersoll

  PoliticianAmerican1833 · 19th century

  3.0 · 40 votes · 16 reads

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• My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.5 · 26 votes · 99 reads

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• Never repeat old grievances.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.4 · 21 votes · 169 reads

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• One enemy is too much.

  

  George Herbert

  PoetBritish1593 · 16th century

  3.8 · 51 votes · 194 reads

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• One of the pleas you get when you're talking to the tourist industry or the energy industry or the whoever is, 'Please, can we just have the same minister for longer than five minutes?'

  

  David Cameron

  PoliticianBritish1966 · 20th century

  4.0 · 27 votes · 125 reads

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• Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.3 · 60 votes · 38 reads

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• Poor men's reasons are not heard.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  4.9 · 24 votes · 94 reads

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• Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. Happiness consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.0 · 35 votes · 167 reads

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• So by all means let's have a television show quick and long, even if the commercial has to be delivered by a man in a white coat with a stethoscope hanging around his neck, selling ergot pills. After all the public is entitled to what it wants, isn't it?

  

  Raymond Chandler

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  5.0 · 61 votes · 153 reads

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• The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  3.5 · 5 votes · 44 reads

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• The downtrodden, who are the great creators of slang.

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  Anthony Burgess

  AuthorEnglish1917 · 20th century

  3.1 · 29 votes · 129 reads

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• The ideal, without doubt, varies, but its enemies, alas, are always the same.

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  Jean Rostand

  PhilosopherFrench1894 · 19th century

  4.6 · 43 votes · 187 reads

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• The most original of authors are not so because they advance what is new, but more because they know how to say something, as if it had never been said before.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.8 · 44 votes · 157 reads

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• The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things

  

  Pythagoras

  MathematicianGreek-582 · 6th century BC

  3.3 · 43 votes · 48 reads

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• The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord.

  

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 28 votes · 176 reads

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• Though God's attributes are equal, yet his mercy is more attractive and pleasing in our eyes than his justice.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  3.4 · 24 votes · 70 reads

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• We do not remember days, we remember moments. The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten.

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  Cesare Pavese

  PoetItaly1908 · 20th century

  4.5 · 32 votes · 93 reads

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• With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us finish the work ;we are in.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.3 · 9 votes · 71 reads

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• You didn't just pay lip service to the goal of overcoming the division of Europe and Germany... Rather, you put yourself at the forefront of those who encouraged us on the way to unity.

  

  Helmut Kohl

  PoliticianGerman1930 · 20th century

  4.2 · 11 votes · 143 reads

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