Quotes for March 1248 quotes · 40 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every March 12: the anniversary does not move.

• A lie told often enough becomes the truth.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  4.8 · 51 votes · 50 reads

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• A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.4 · 9 votes · 15 reads

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• American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.

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  Marshall Mcluhan

  EducatorCanadian1911 · 20th century

  3.1 · 58 votes · 74 reads

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• Because there is a law such as gravity, the universe can and will create itself from nothing.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.7 · 30 votes · 65 reads

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• Books, like friends, should be few and well chosen. Like friends, too, we should return to them again and again for, like true friends, they will never fail us, never cease to instruct, never cloy.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  4.0 · 16 votes · 23 reads

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• Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

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  Clarence S. Darrow

  LawyerAmerican1857 · 19th century

  4.3 · 33 votes · 183 reads

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• Democracy divides people into workers and loafers. It makes no provision for those who have no time to work.

  

  Karl Kraus

  WriterAustrian1874 · 19th century

  3.2 · 24 votes · 62 reads

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• Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century

  4.4 · 33 votes · 5 reads

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• Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  4.9 · 53 votes · 23 reads

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• Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.3 · 50 votes · 173 reads

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• For hundreds of years Iranians have been migrating to many parts of the world. They took Islamic culture to other parts of the world and established it there.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  PoliticianIranian1956 · 20th century

  4.6 · 54 votes · 4 reads

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• Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.

  

  Jean Paul Sartre

  WriterFrench1905 · 20th century

  4.2 · 60 votes · 118 reads

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• Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

  

  Baltasar Gracián

  WriterSpanish1601 · 17th century

  4.5 · 55 votes · 107 reads

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• From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

  

  Carl Gustav Jung

  PsychiatristSwiss1875 · 19th century

  4.4 · 19 votes · 199 reads

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• I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.1 · 61 votes · 177 reads

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• I don't have to be careful, I've got a gun.

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  3.6 · 46 votes · 198 reads

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• I like a friend the better for having faults that one can talk about.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  5.0 · 34 votes · 165 reads

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• I think; therefore I am.

  

  René Descartes

  MathematicianFrench1596 · 16th century

  3.0 · 42 votes · 5 reads

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• In the choice between changing one's mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.

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  John Kenneth Galbraith

  EconomistAmerican1908 · 20th century

  4.8 · 53 votes · 168 reads

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• It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak up and remove all doubt.

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 15 votes · 98 reads

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• Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another's sou

  

  James Joyce

  AuthorIrish1882 · 19th century

  4.8 · 47 votes · 1 reads

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• Many things difficult in design prove easy in performance.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.5 · 5 votes · 63 reads

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• Many times a day I realize how much my own life is built on the labors of my fellowmen, and how earnestly I must exert myself in order to give in return as much as I have received.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  3.7 · 62 votes · 129 reads

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• Never trust the man who tells you all his troubles but keeps from you all his joys.

  

  Jewish proverb

  Jewish

  3.8 · 31 votes · 55 reads

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• No ghost was every seen by two pair of eyes.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.2 · 43 votes · 102 reads

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• No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone, As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.0 · 63 votes · 4 reads

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• No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.

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  Nicola Abbagnano

  PhilosopherItaly1901 · 20th century

  4.7 · 20 votes · 133 reads

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• Nothing astonishes people so much as common sense and plain dealing.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  5.0 · 25 votes · 159 reads

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• One should always think of what one is about: when one is learning, one should not think of play: and when one is at play, one should not think of one's learning.

  

  Lord Chesterfield

  PoliticianBritish1694 · 17th century

  5.0 · 64 votes · 114 reads

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• Solitude is impractical and yet society is fatal.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.6 · 16 votes · 127 reads

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• Sometimes you have to make a movie to make money.

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  4.6 · 31 votes · 159 reads

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• The back of one door is the face of another.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.1 · 10 votes · 21 reads

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• The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  4.3 · 59 votes · 49 reads

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• The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.3 · 12 votes · 104 reads

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• The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

  

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  TheologianSwiss1741 · 18th century

  4.6 · 49 votes · 45 reads

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• The language of friendship is not words but meanings.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.8 · 16 votes · 95 reads

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• The whole world recognizes Russia's cultural achievements. It is impossible to imagine the world culture without Russian culture, without our music and literature.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  4.6 · 51 votes · 136 reads

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• There are three stages in a person's life, birth, their life and death. They are not conscious of birth submit to death and forget to live.

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  4.0 · 62 votes · 161 reads

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• To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

  

  Salvador Dalí

  PainterSpanish1904 · 20th century

  3.0 · 48 votes · 160 reads

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• We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together.

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  3.8 · 24 votes · 146 reads

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• We lose our hair, our teeth! Our bloom, our ideals.

  

  Salvador Dalí

  PainterSpanish1904 · 20th century

  4.7 · 19 votes · 176 reads

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• What reinforcement we may gain from hope; If not, what resolution from despair.

  

  John Milton

  PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

  4.3 · 44 votes · 101 reads

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• When in charge ponder. When in trouble delegate. When in doubt mumble.

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  Anonymous

  3.4 · 32 votes · 63 reads

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• When the will defies fear, when duty throws the gauntlet down to fate, when honor scorns to compromise with death - that is heroism.

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  Robert Frost

  PoetAmerican1874 · 19th century

  4.7 · 25 votes · 180 reads

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• Words convey the mental treasures of one period to the generations that follow; and laden with this, their precious freight, they sail safely across gulfs of time in which empires have suffered shipwreck and the languages of common life have sunk into obl

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 22 votes · 106 reads

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• You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self. Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them. You're always free to change your

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 26 votes · 187 reads

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• You can always tell a Harvard man, but you can't tell him much.

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  Anonymous

  3.9 · 49 votes · 75 reads

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