Quotes for March 449 quotes · 42 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every March 4: the anniversary does not move.

• A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiab

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.8 · 10 votes · 43 reads

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• Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

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  Dale Carnegie

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  4.3 · 23 votes · 177 reads

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• Dream the impossible dream, Fight the unbeatable foe, Strive with your last once of courage To reach the unreachable star.

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  Anonymous

  3.2 · 28 votes · 77 reads

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• Every law is an infraction of liberty.

  

  Jeremy Bentham

  PhilosopherBritish1748 · 18th century

  4.1 · 13 votes · 47 reads

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• Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  4.1 · 57 votes · 167 reads

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• Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival.

  

  C. S. Lewis

  AuthorIrish1898 · 19th century

  3.4 · 11 votes · 153 reads

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• He that will believe only what he can fully comprehend must have a long head or a very short creed.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  3.3 · 52 votes · 78 reads

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• He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

  

  Joseph Conrad

  NovelistBritish1857 · 19th century

  4.2 · 23 votes · 64 reads

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• He whose hand is clasped in friendship cannot throw mud.

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 60 votes · 130 reads

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• History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.8 · 60 votes · 87 reads

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• I paid too heavy a price for perestroika.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  3.0 · 41 votes · 133 reads

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• I pray Thee, O God, that I may be beautiful within.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  4.4 · 14 votes · 97 reads

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• I'm not denying that monopolies are terrible things, but I am denying that it is readily easy to resolve them through legislation of that nature.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.6 · 34 votes · 68 reads

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• If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself; all that runs over will be yours.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  3.1 · 18 votes · 128 reads

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• If you look into your own heart, you find nothing wrong there, what is there to fear?

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  4.4 · 55 votes · 17 reads

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• In the last analysis, our only freedom is the freedom to discipline ourselves.

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  Bernard M. Baruch

  PoliticianAmerican1870 · 19th century

  3.3 · 63 votes · 199 reads

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• It is not by the gray of the hair that one knows the age of the heart.

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  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

  PoliticianBritish1803 · 19th century

  3.8 · 23 votes · 91 reads

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• It is not reason which is the guide of life, but custom.

  

  David Hume

  PhilosopherScottish1711 · 18th century

  4.5 · 43 votes · 126 reads

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• Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  3.1 · 15 votes · 88 reads

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• Me fail english? Thats unpossible.

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  4.0 · 64 votes · 162 reads

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• Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.7 · 13 votes · 109 reads

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• Nothing destroys authority more than the unequal and untimely interchange of power stretched too far and relaxed too much.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  4.5 · 8 votes · 78 reads

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• One of the factors a country's economy depends on is human capital. If you don't provide women with adequate access to healthcare, education and employment, you lose at least half of your potential. So, gender equality and women's empowerment bring huge e

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  3.3 · 39 votes · 114 reads

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• Outstanding leaders appeal to the hearts of their followers - not their minds.

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 50 votes · 82 reads

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• People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  3.9 · 27 votes · 43 reads

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• Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.

  

  W. H. Auden

  PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

  3.6 · 25 votes · 170 reads

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• Plans are nothing; planning is everything.

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  PoliticianAmerican1890 · 19th century

  4.5 · 48 votes · 137 reads

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• Politics are such a torment that I would advise every one I love not to mix with them.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  5.0 · 5 votes · 29 reads

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• Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  4.0 · 49 votes · 152 reads

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• Sweet bird, that shun the noise of folly, most musical, most melancholy!

  

  John Milton

  PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

  4.3 · 42 votes · 66 reads

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• The Buddhas do but tell the way; it is for you to swelter at the task.

  

  Buddha

  LeaderNepal-563 · 6th century BC

  3.1 · 63 votes · 155 reads

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• The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard

  PhilosopherDanish1813 · 19th century

  3.4 · 33 votes · 44 reads

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• The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.6 · 62 votes · 173 reads

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• The leaders of the world's largest economies agreed during the November 2008 G20 summit not to create barriers hindering global trade and capital flows. Russia shares these principles.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  4.9 · 63 votes · 36 reads

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• The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.

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  William Cowper

  PoetBritish1731 · 18th century

  3.2 · 58 votes · 94 reads

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• The mantram becomes one's staff of life and carries one through every ordeal. Each repetition has a new meaning, carrying you nearer and nearer to God.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  5.0 · 48 votes · 119 reads

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• The public buys its opinions as it buys its meat, or takes in its milk, on the principle that it is cheaper to do this than to keep a cow. So it is, but the milk is more likely to be watered.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  3.4 · 15 votes · 73 reads

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• The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  3.0 · 50 votes · 16 reads

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• The tongue can paint what the eye can't see.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  3.2 · 61 votes · 111 reads

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• The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  4.5 · 39 votes · 199 reads

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• The volatile truth of our words should continually betray the inadequacy of the residual statement.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.6 · 14 votes · 80 reads

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• To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social obse

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  4.7 · 36 votes · 157 reads

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• We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  WriterFrench1900 · 19th century

  4.2 · 45 votes · 25 reads

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• We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.4 · 63 votes · 148 reads

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• What some people invent the rest enlarge.

  

  Jonathan Swift

  WriterIrish1667 · 17th century

  3.2 · 31 votes · 21 reads

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• When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  4.0 · 49 votes · 133 reads

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• You can stroke people with words.

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 18 votes · 2 reads

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• You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a BEER.

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  Frank Zappa

  MusicianAmerican1940 · 20th century

  3.3 · 59 votes · 140 reads

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