Quotes for March 2251 quotes · 38 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every March 22: the anniversary does not move.

• A beautiful woman should break her mirror early.

  

  Baltasar Gracián

  WriterSpanish1601 · 17th century

  4.7 · 57 votes · 16 reads

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• A man's limitations are not the things he wants to do and can t; they are the things he ought to do but doesn't. The difficult we will do eventually, the impossible will just take a little more time.

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 47 votes · 2 reads

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• Absolutely speaking, Do unto others as you would that they should do unto you is by no means a golden rule, but the best of current silver. An honest man would have but little occasion for it. It is golden not to have any rule at all in such a case.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.6 · 26 votes · 180 reads

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• At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.

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  Salman Rushdie

  NovelistIndian1947 · 20th century

  3.8 · 34 votes · 20 reads

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• Capitalists are no more capable of self-sacrifice than a man is capable of lifting himself up by his own bootstraps.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  4.4 · 55 votes · 84 reads

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• Do not worry about whether or not the sun will rise. Be prepared to enjoy it.

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 37 votes · 3 reads

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• Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence; but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity.

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  Anonymous

  4.5 · 48 votes · 61 reads

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• Every man has a right to be wrong in his opinions. But no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.

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  Bernard M. Baruch

  PoliticianAmerican1870 · 19th century

  3.3 · 10 votes · 185 reads

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• Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.4 · 40 votes · 3 reads

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• Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  3.8 · 39 votes · 121 reads

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• I don't do well with snakes and I can't dance.

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  4.4 · 27 votes · 184 reads

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• I sent one e-mail in my life. I sent it to Jeff Raikes at Microsoft, and it ended up in court in Minneapolis, so I am one for one.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  4.0 · 12 votes · 58 reads

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• I think that you can disagree with people and debate over their positions with issues without engaging in the politics of personal destruction.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.1 · 30 votes · 199 reads

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• I would venture to warn against too great intimacy with artists as it is very seductive and a little dangerous.

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  Queen Victoria

  RoyaltyBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.6 · 21 votes · 187 reads

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• I've always considered myself more of a mathematician than a psychologist.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.4 · 42 votes · 199 reads

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• If you cannot help worrying, remember that worrying cannot help you either.

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  Anonymous

  3.5 · 61 votes · 139 reads

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• If you care enough for a result, you will most certainly attain it.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  3.3 · 37 votes · 91 reads

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• If you're starting to look wrinkled, don't worry. It covers the scars.

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 32 votes · 138 reads

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• In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  3.1 · 52 votes · 62 reads

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• In the final analysis, ''style'' is art. And art is nothing more or less than various modes of stylized, dehumanized representation.

  

  Stendhal

  NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

  4.4 · 32 votes · 123 reads

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• It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.

  

  Anatole France

  WriterFrench1844 · 19th century

  3.3 · 22 votes · 93 reads

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• Live as brave men and face adversity with stout hearts.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  3.7 · 41 votes · 174 reads

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• Love and war are the same thing, and stratagems and policy are as allowable in the one as in the other.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  3.9 · 64 votes · 122 reads

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• Love, all alike, no season knows, nor clime, nor hours, days, months, which are the rags of time.

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  John Donne

  PoetEnglish1572 · 16th century

  3.7 · 22 votes · 103 reads

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• Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  3.1 · 8 votes · 158 reads

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• My friend, why have you drifted so far away? All motion is relative, maybe it is you who have moved away by standing still.

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 47 votes · 131 reads

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• Never, my dear Sir, do you take it into your head that I do not love you; you may settle yourself in full confidence both of my love and my esteem; I love you as a kind man, I value you as a worthy man, and hope in time to reverence you as a man of exempl

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.2 · 29 votes · 134 reads

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• Nope, I don't enjoy work generally. Not because I'm lazy; it's just all so stressful and worrying.

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  4.8 · 46 votes · 79 reads

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• One man's folly is often another man's wife.

  

  Helen Rowland

  JournalistAmerican1875 · 19th century

  4.8 · 57 votes · 76 reads

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• One recipe for a longer life; Never exceed the speed limit.

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 40 votes · 160 reads

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• Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.

  

  Walter Bagehot

  EconomistBritish1826 · 19th century

  4.7 · 41 votes · 196 reads

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• Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures.

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  3.2 · 12 votes · 69 reads

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• Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.1 · 50 votes · 107 reads

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• Prosperity begins with a state of mind.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 32 votes · 6 reads

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• Tell your boss what you think of him and the truth shall set you free.

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 57 votes · 166 reads

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• Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.

  

  Jacques Chirac

  PoliticianFrench1932 · 20th century

  4.4 · 45 votes · 80 reads

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• The culture of Greece is not the same as the culture of Germany, and to fuse them into a single unit is extremely difficult.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.4 · 32 votes · 53 reads

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• The movies today are too rich to have any room for genuine artists. They produce a few passable craftsmen, but no artists. Can you imagine a Beethoven making $100, 000 a year?

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.3 · 19 votes · 137 reads

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• The nation's honor is dearer than the nation's comfort; yes, than the nation's life itself.

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century

  3.7 · 55 votes · 187 reads

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• The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

  

  John Dryden

  PoetBritish1631 · 17th century

  3.6 · 47 votes · 74 reads

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• The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster.

  

  Stendhal

  NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

  3.1 · 17 votes · 149 reads

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• There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  4.1 · 6 votes · 171 reads

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• These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.9 · 44 votes · 169 reads

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• To the artist is sometimes granted a sudden, transient insight which serves in this matter for experience. A flash, and where previously the brain held a dead fact, the soul grasps a living truth! At moments we are all artists.

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  Arnold Bennett

  NovelistEnglish1867 · 19th century

  3.5 · 37 votes · 85 reads

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• We live in a bewildering world.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.5 · 64 votes · 94 reads

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• We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

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  Aesop

  WriterGreek-620 · 7th century BC

  3.5 · 23 votes · 106 reads

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• Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  3.7 · 16 votes · 25 reads

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• Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books are not in everybody's reach; and though it is better to know them thoroughly than to know them only here and there, yet it is a good work to give a little to those who h

  

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

  3.1 · 17 votes · 122 reads

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• Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.6 · 12 votes · 36 reads

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• Your dreams will come true... if you can see it... if you believe in it... then you can achieve it.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 36 votes · 68 reads

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