Quotes for March 1550 quotes · 43 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every March 15: the anniversary does not move.

• A perfect wife is one who helps her husband with the dishes.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 31 votes · 24 reads

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• And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race

  

  Jonathan Swift

  WriterIrish1667 · 17th century

  3.5 · 5 votes · 80 reads

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• Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.7 · 48 votes · 16 reads

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• Friendship should be a responsibility, never an opportunity.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 43 votes · 141 reads

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• God does not play dice with the universe.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  3.3 · 16 votes · 32 reads

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• Good habits result from resisting temptation.

  

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 30 votes · 83 reads

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• Gratitude is the fairest blossom which springs from the soul.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  4.2 · 19 votes · 141 reads

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• How a sickness enlarges the dimensions of a man's self to himself! He is his own exclusive object. Supreme selfishness is inculcated in him as his only duty,

  

  Charles Lamb

  EssayistEnglish1775 · 18th century

  4.3 · 47 votes · 102 reads

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• I do not understand where the backing of Bitcoin is coming from. There is no fundamental issue of capabilities of repaying it in anything which is universally acceptable, which is either intrinsic value of the currency or the credit or trust of the indivi

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.1 · 25 votes · 153 reads

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• I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.

  

  Donald Trump

  BusinessmanAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.0 · 64 votes · 148 reads

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• I was a kind of hyper-intense person in my twenties and very impatient.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.2 · 36 votes · 5 reads

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• If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.5 · 51 votes · 33 reads

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• If somebody had said to me in June or July of 1987, 'We'd like you to become chairman of the Federal Reserve, but you're never allowed to discuss any economics after you leave,' I'd have said, 'Forget it.' What do they want me to do? Become an anthropolog

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  5.0 · 63 votes · 44 reads

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• In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress.

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  Leonard Cohen

  WriterCanadian1934 · 20th century

  4.0 · 57 votes · 113 reads

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• In great cities men are brought together by the desire of gain. They are not in a state of co-operation, but of isolation, as to the making of fortunes; and for all the rest they are careless of neighbours. Christianity teaches us to love our neighbour as

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  4.0 · 14 votes · 81 reads

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• In Israel, a land lacking in natural resources, we learned to appreciate our greatest national advantage: our minds. Through creativity and innovation, we transformed barren deserts into flourishing fields and pioneered new frontiers in science and techno

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  Shimon Peres

  PoliticianIsraeli1923 · 20th century

  3.6 · 26 votes · 150 reads

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• In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you wake in the morning.

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  Carl Sandburg

  PoetAmerican1878 · 19th century

  4.7 · 63 votes · 150 reads

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• It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.

  

  Stendhal

  NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

  3.1 · 42 votes · 120 reads

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• It is the false shame of fools to try to conceal wounds that have not healed.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  4.3 · 41 votes · 17 reads

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• Manners are the happy way of doing things; each once a stroke of genius or of love -now repeated and hardened into usage. They form at last a rich varnish, with which the routine of life is washed, and its details adorned. If they are superficial, so are

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.1 · 50 votes · 30 reads

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• Nothing can be done quickly and prudently at the same time.

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  Publilius Syrus

  WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC

  4.9 · 61 votes · 75 reads

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• Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  4.5 · 31 votes · 65 reads

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• Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  3.7 · 44 votes · 47 reads

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• Pros are people who do jobs well even when they don't feel like it.

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 26 votes · 59 reads

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• The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature.

  

  George Orwell

  NovelistBritish1903 · 20th century

  3.2 · 8 votes · 104 reads

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• The buck stops here.

  

  Harry S. Truman

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  3.8 · 64 votes · 167 reads

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• The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.1 · 8 votes · 16 reads

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• The eye is easily frightened.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.5 · 51 votes · 4 reads

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• The great question is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with failure.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  3.9 · 46 votes · 107 reads

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• The hottest love has the coldest end.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  4.9 · 6 votes · 75 reads

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• The human race afraid of nothing, rushes on through every crime.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  3.8 · 57 votes · 23 reads

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• The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils. The motions of his spirit are dull as night, and his affections dark as Erebus. Let no such man be trusted.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.0 · 30 votes · 74 reads

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• The media need superheroes in science just as in every sphere of life, but there is really a continuous range of abilities with no clear dividing line.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.7 · 18 votes · 68 reads

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• The misconception that aid falls straight into the hands of dictators largely stems from the Cold War era.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.7 · 7 votes · 171 reads

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• The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

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  Peter de Vries

  NovelistAmerican1910 · 20th century

  5.0 · 15 votes · 188 reads

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• The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.0 · 15 votes · 102 reads

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• The Writeris more concerned to know than to judge.

  

  W. H. Auden

  PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

  3.4 · 64 votes · 11 reads

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• There is nothing fast or easy about diplomacy. I have no illusions about that.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  5.0 · 50 votes · 18 reads

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• Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.8 · 31 votes · 124 reads

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• To succeed in business it is necessary to make others see things as you see them.

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  Aristotle Onassis

  BusinessmanGreek1906 · 20th century

  4.6 · 8 votes · 8 reads

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• We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of the rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourse

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  3.8 · 48 votes · 70 reads

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• Weakness on both sides is, the motto of all quarrels.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  4.8 · 18 votes · 77 reads

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• What a grand thing it is to be clever and have common sense.

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  Tennessee Williams

  PlaywrightAmerican1911 · 20th century

  4.6 · 61 votes · 162 reads

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• What we want is not freedom but its appearances. It is for these simulacra that man has always striven. And since freedom, as has been said, is no more than a sensation, what difference is there between being free and believing ourselves free?

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  Emil Cioran

  PhilosopherRomanian1911 · 20th century

  4.7 · 46 votes · 125 reads

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• When every physical and mental resources is focused, one's power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.

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  Norman Mailer

  WriterAmerican1923 · 20th century

  4.2 · 50 votes · 42 reads

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• When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it-this is knowledge.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  3.8 · 57 votes · 1 reads

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• Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.7 · 22 votes · 96 reads

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• While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

  PainterItaly1452 · 15th century

  4.8 · 40 votes · 69 reads

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• You know, my main reaction to this money thing is that it's humorous, all the attention to it, because it's hardly the most insightful or valuable thing that's happened to me.

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.3 · 30 votes · 131 reads

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