Quotes for March 1148 quotes · 44 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every March 11: the anniversary does not move.

• A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction.

  

  Graham Greene

  WriterEnglish1904 · 20th century

  4.2 · 60 votes · 82 reads

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• Always have your hook baited, in the pool you least think, there will be a fish.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  4.6 · 18 votes · 6 reads

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• An early-rising man... a good spouse but a bad husband.

  

  Gabriel García Márquez

  WriterColombian1927 · 20th century

  4.0 · 20 votes · 80 reads

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• An important antidote to American democracy is American gerontocracy. The positions of eminence and authority in Congress are allotted in accordance with length of service, regardless of quality. Superficial observers have long criticized the United State

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  John Kenneth Galbraith

  EconomistAmerican1908 · 20th century

  4.8 · 28 votes · 129 reads

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• As a vibrant force in civil society, women continue to press for their rights, equal participation in decision-making, and the upholding of the principles of the revolution by the highest levels of leadership in Egypt.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  4.5 · 58 votes · 73 reads

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• Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

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  Elizabeth Bowen

  WriterIrish1899 · 19th century

  4.3 · 8 votes · 80 reads

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• Celebrity is never more admired than by the negligent.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.7 · 19 votes · 182 reads

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• Criticism of others is futile and if you indulge in it often you should be warned that it can be fatal to your career.

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  Dale Carnegie

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  4.1 · 22 votes · 5 reads

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• Every time history repeats itself the price goes up.

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 40 votes · 17 reads

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• Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy.

  

  Karl Marx

  EconomistGerman1818 · 19th century

  4.2 · 59 votes · 169 reads

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• Fear of becoming a 'has-been' keeps some people from becoming anything.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  3.2 · 17 votes · 13 reads

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• Finance is wholly different from the rest the economy.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.8 · 61 votes · 85 reads

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• For other nations, utopia is a blessed past never to be recovered; for Americans it is just beyond the horizon.

  

  Henry A. Kissinger

  PoliticianGerman1923 · 20th century

  3.9 · 15 votes · 73 reads

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• He who knows little knows enough if he knows how to hold is tongue.

  

  Italian proverb

  Italian

  5.0 · 21 votes · 161 reads

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• He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  4.1 · 26 votes · 81 reads

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• Human beings are born into this little span of life of which the best thing is its friendship and intimacies, and soon their places will know them no more, and yet they leave their friendships and intimacies with no cultivation, to grow as they will by th

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  4.3 · 34 votes · 1 reads

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• I can't stand the kind of paralysis that some people fall into because they're not happy with the choices they've made.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.8 · 7 votes · 76 reads

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• I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, e

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  3.6 · 40 votes · 121 reads

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• I don't believe in an after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

  

  Woodrow T. Wilson

  PoliticianAmerican1856 · 19th century

  3.9 · 16 votes · 127 reads

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• I would not like to see a person who is sober, moderate, chaste and just say that there is no God. They would speak disinterestedly at least, but such a person is not to be found.

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  3.6 · 63 votes · 83 reads

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• Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

  

  Thomas Fuller

  AuthorBritish1608 · 17th century

  3.9 · 47 votes · 195 reads

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• It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end

  

  Ernest Hemingway

  WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

  3.4 · 12 votes · 121 reads

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• It was not a religion that attacked us that September day. It was al-Qaeda. We will not sacrifice the liberties we cherish or hunker down behind walls of suspicion and mistrust.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.8 · 38 votes · 42 reads

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• Japan's beautiful seas and its territory are under threat, and young people are having trouble finding hope in the future amid economic slump. I promise to protect Japan's land and sea, and the lives of the Japanese people no matter what.

  

  Shinzo Abe

  PoliticianJapanese1954 · 20th century

  4.2 · 20 votes · 135 reads

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• Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.9 · 30 votes · 200 reads

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• Man... knows only when he is satisfied and when he suffers, and only his sufferings and his satisfactions instruct him concerning himself, teach him what to seek and what to avoid. For the rest, man is a confused creature; he knows not whence he comes or

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.0 · 9 votes · 200 reads

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• Money can't buy happiness; it can, however, rent it.

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 57 votes · 190 reads

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• No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

  

  John Locke

  PhilosopherEnglish1632 · 17th century

  3.5 · 23 votes · 147 reads

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• Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it.

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  John Keats

  PoetBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.6 · 11 votes · 151 reads

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• One has to pay dearly for immortality; one has to die several times while one is still alive.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.6 · 15 votes · 190 reads

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• She fights and vanquishes in me, and I live and breathe in her, and I have life and being.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  5.0 · 19 votes · 128 reads

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• Tears are nature's lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

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  Christian Nestell Bovee

  AuthorAmerican1820 · 19th century

  5.0 · 49 votes · 89 reads

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• The Brain is wider than the sky-.

  

  Emily Dickinson

  PoetAmerican1830 · 19th century

  4.3 · 31 votes · 152 reads

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• The condition of the most passionate enthusiast is to be preferred over the individual who, because of the fear of making a mistake, won't in the end affirm or deny anything.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.2 · 34 votes · 28 reads

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• The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.7 · 17 votes · 190 reads

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• The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly.

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 14 votes · 136 reads

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• The only way to start is to start.

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 21 votes · 27 reads

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• There is a great deal of human nature in people.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.2 · 11 votes · 109 reads

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• There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.7 · 62 votes · 98 reads

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• There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  4.5 · 22 votes · 55 reads

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• To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  4.2 · 18 votes · 105 reads

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• Truth alone wounds.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  3.8 · 64 votes · 189 reads

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• Values unrelated to modern reality are not just electorally hopeless, the values themselves become devalued. They have no purchase on the real world.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  3.8 · 10 votes · 136 reads

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• Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate for a moment to prefer the latter.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  3.0 · 17 votes · 79 reads

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• Whatever I will become will be what God has chosen for me.

  

  Elvis Presley

  MusicianAmerican1935 · 20th century

  4.6 · 5 votes · 41 reads

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• When men and women agree, it is only in their conclusions; their reasons are always different.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  3.2 · 42 votes · 101 reads

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• Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory - the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended.

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  Herman Melville

  WriterAmerican1819 · 19th century

  4.9 · 20 votes · 174 reads

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