Quotes for March 1649 quotes · 43 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every March 16: the anniversary does not move.

• An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.

  

  José Ortega y Gasset

  PhilosopherSpanish1883 · 19th century

  3.6 · 38 votes · 152 reads

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• Art is not an end in itself, but a means of addressing humanity.

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  Modest Mussorgsky

  MusicianRussian1839 · 19th century

  3.7 · 7 votes · 43 reads

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• But we are the people of England; and we have not spoken yet. Smile at us, pay us, pass us. But do not quite forget.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.9 · 51 votes · 190 reads

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• Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.

  

  Pearl S. Buck

  NovelistAmerican1892 · 19th century

  3.5 · 64 votes · 112 reads

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• Deceive not thyself by over-expecting happiness in the married estate. Remember the nightingales which sing only some months in the spring, but commonly are silent when they have hatched their eggs, as if their mirth were turned into care for their young

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  4.0 · 50 votes · 87 reads

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• Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.

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  Anaïs Nin

  AuthorFrench1903 · 20th century

  5.0 · 23 votes · 171 reads

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• Govern thyself then you will be able to govern the world.

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 31 votes · 129 reads

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• Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

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  Edward Abbey

  WriterAmerican1927 · 20th century

  4.6 · 38 votes · 41 reads

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• He who allows his day to pass by without practicing generosity and enjoying life's pleasures is like a blacksmith's bellows. He breathes, but does not live.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.6 · 35 votes · 173 reads

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• Honesty is a question of right or wrong, not a matter of policy.

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 55 votes · 52 reads

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• I found you essay to be good and original. However, the part that was original was not good and the part that was good was not original.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.1 · 9 votes · 12 reads

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• I know that the twelve notes in each octave and the variety of rhythm offer me opportunities that all of human genius will never exhaust.

  

  Igor Stravinsky

  MusicianRussian1882 · 19th century

  4.4 · 55 votes · 163 reads

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• I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century

  5.0 · 52 votes · 147 reads

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• I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.5 · 47 votes · 170 reads

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• I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.2 · 43 votes · 184 reads

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• If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.6 · 7 votes · 149 reads

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• In case of doubt we should always lean on the side of mercy.

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 35 votes · 56 reads

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• In democratic ages men rarely sacrifice themselves for another, but they show a general compassion for all the human race. One never sees them inflict pointless suffering, and they are glad to relieve the sorrows of others when they can do so without much

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  PhilosopherFrench1805 · 19th century

  4.3 · 38 votes · 1 reads

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• It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.4 · 37 votes · 71 reads

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• It is not truth that matters, but victory.

  

  Adolf Hitler

  PoliticianGerman1889 · 19th century

  3.6 · 13 votes · 197 reads

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• It speaks volumes for a person that when placed in quite different situations, they display the same spirit of moderation.

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 13 votes · 50 reads

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• Just because you've lost doesn't necessarily mean you've failed.

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  Anonymous

  3.4 · 11 votes · 181 reads

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• More of the same will just produce more of the same: less competitiveness, less growth, fewer jobs.

  

  David Cameron

  PoliticianBritish1966 · 20th century

  3.6 · 60 votes · 184 reads

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• Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species - it is the tigress and lioness in you - which tends to defend when attacked.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  4.1 · 33 votes · 97 reads

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• My biggest fear in life is to be forgotten.

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  Evita Peron

  PoliticianArgentinian1919 · 20th century

  3.3 · 20 votes · 135 reads

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• No author can be as moral as his work and no preacher as pious as his sermons.

  

  Jean Paul

  ComedianGerman1763 · 18th century

  3.2 · 15 votes · 152 reads

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• No evil is without its compensation. The less money, the less trouble; the less favor, the less envy. Even in those cases which put us out of wits, it is not the loss itself, but the estimate of the loss that troubles us.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.7 · 15 votes · 138 reads

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• One must really have suffered oneself to help others.

  

  Teresa of Calcutta

  MissionaryAlbanian1910 · 20th century

  3.5 · 28 votes · 4 reads

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• Patience carries a lot of wait

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  Anonymous

  3.5 · 12 votes · 175 reads

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• Should you find yourself in a chronically leaking boat, energy devoted to changing vessels is likely to be more productive than energy devoted to patching leaks.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.0 · 34 votes · 140 reads

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• Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous- to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.

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  Thomas Kempis

  AuthorGerman1379 · 14th century

  3.9 · 53 votes · 75 reads

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• Success is counted sweetest by those who never succeed.

  

  Emily Dickinson

  PoetAmerican1830 · 19th century

  3.3 · 36 votes · 5 reads

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• The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so - or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.7 · 50 votes · 80 reads

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• The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

  

  Joseph Addison

  PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century

  4.1 · 6 votes · 126 reads

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• The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty. Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys base people as certa

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.7 · 14 votes · 15 reads

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• The worst old age is that of the mind.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  3.0 · 12 votes · 77 reads

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• There are fathers who do not love their children, but there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  3.7 · 51 votes · 78 reads

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• There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  4.0 · 8 votes · 126 reads

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• There is no heresy or no philosophy which is so abhorrent to the church as a human being.

  

  James Joyce

  AuthorIrish1882 · 19th century

  4.0 · 12 votes · 10 reads

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• There's no bigger task than protecting the homeland of our country.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.3 · 51 votes · 63 reads

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• These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  4.0 · 17 votes · 80 reads

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• Those thinkers who cannot believe in any gods often assert that the love of humanity would be in itself sufficient for them; and so, perhaps, it would, if they had it.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.4 · 16 votes · 87 reads

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• Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  4.1 · 26 votes · 135 reads

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• To go too far is as bad as to fall short.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  4.0 · 42 votes · 108 reads

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• True love makes the thought of death frequent, easy, without terrors; it merely becomes the standard of comparison, the price one would pay for many things.

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  Spanish proverb

  Spanish

  3.6 · 21 votes · 72 reads

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• Until it is kindled by a spirit as flamingly alive as the one which gave it birth a book is dead to us. Words divested of their magic are but dead hieroglyphs.

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  3.1 · 45 votes · 162 reads

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• Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.7 · 53 votes · 108 reads

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• We desire an expansion of relations with regional states and the establishment of extensive public contacts.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  PoliticianIranian1956 · 20th century

  5.0 · 21 votes · 40 reads

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