Quotes for February 2046 quotes · 36 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every February 20: the anniversary does not move.

• A few more days, and this essay will follow the Defensio Populi to the dust and silence of the upper shelf... For a month or two it will occupy a few minutes of chat in every drawing-room, and a few columns in every magazine; and it will then be withdrawn

  

  Thomas Alva Edison

  ScientistAmerican1847 · 19th century

  4.5 · 22 votes · 80 reads

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• A Friendship that's sincere are true. Gives joy like nothing else will do; That's why glad hearts look up and send A prayer of thanks for faithful friends.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 49 votes · 148 reads

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• Back of every creation, supporting it like an arch, is faith. Enthusiasm is nothing: it comes and goes. But if one believes, then miracles occur.

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  3.7 · 53 votes · 164 reads

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• Be generous with kindly words, especially about those who are absent.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.1 · 22 votes · 20 reads

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• Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: The one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.7 · 18 votes · 165 reads

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• Culture, the acquainting ourselves with the best that has been known and said in the world, and thus with the history of the human spirit.

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  Matthew Arnold

  PoetBritish1822 · 19th century

  4.7 · 58 votes · 121 reads

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• For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.7 · 64 votes · 116 reads

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• Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  3.4 · 64 votes · 142 reads

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• Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  4.3 · 35 votes · 14 reads

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• I have somewhere met with the epitaph on a charitable man which has pleased me very much. I cannot recollect the words, but here is the sense of it: ''What I spent I lost; what I possessed is left to others; what I gave away remains with me.''

  

  Joseph Addison

  PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century

  3.9 · 16 votes · 180 reads

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• I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.7 · 29 votes · 35 reads

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• Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud

  PoetFrench1854 · 19th century

  3.7 · 49 votes · 24 reads

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• If what you have done is unjust, you have not succeeded.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.3 · 18 votes · 43 reads

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• It is the trade of lawyers to question everything, yield nothing, and talk by the hour.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  4.1 · 25 votes · 149 reads

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• It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.

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  Anonymous

  4.5 · 12 votes · 102 reads

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• Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forward.

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  Sophocles

  PoetGreek

  3.1 · 9 votes · 125 reads

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• Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve.

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  Erich Fromm

  PhilosopherGerman1900 · 19th century

  3.7 · 6 votes · 173 reads

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• Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.

  

  Martin Luther King Jr.

  LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century

  5.0 · 51 votes · 0 reads

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• Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.8 · 56 votes · 142 reads

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• One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well.

  

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  EducatorAmerican1799 · 18th century

  4.7 · 54 votes · 138 reads

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• One never needs their humor as much a when they argue with a fool.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  3.2 · 54 votes · 3 reads

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• Only the mediocre are always at their best.

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  Jean Giraudoux

  NovelistFrench1882 · 19th century

  4.6 · 54 votes · 80 reads

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• Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.7 · 44 votes · 168 reads

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• Sometimes our light goes out but is blown into flame by another human being. Each of us owes deepest thanks to those who have rekindled this light.

  

  Albert Schweitzer

  TheologianGerman-French1875 · 19th century

  3.7 · 29 votes · 84 reads

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• Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.4 · 22 votes · 193 reads

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• That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.

  

  Ernest Hemingway

  WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

  3.7 · 7 votes · 168 reads

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• The battle that never ends is the battle of belief against unbelief.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.3 · 31 votes · 105 reads

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• The best place to find a helping hand is at the end of your own arm.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 45 votes · 5 reads

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• The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  3.3 · 57 votes · 155 reads

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• The great destroyers of nations and men are comfort, plenty and security. A coward gets scared and quits. A hero gets scared, but still goes on.

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  Anonymous

  3.6 · 17 votes · 2 reads

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• The innocent are free from fear, but the guilty always the dread of punishment before their eyes.

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 33 votes · 69 reads

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• The largest barrier to success is removing the mattress from one's back in the morning.

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 56 votes · 48 reads

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• The poor man's budget is full of schemes.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.0 · 25 votes · 177 reads

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• The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.1 · 23 votes · 94 reads

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• There is no education like adversity.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.2 · 31 votes · 48 reads

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• There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.

  

  Thomas Fuller

  AuthorBritish1608 · 17th century

  3.0 · 29 votes · 87 reads

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• There must be something solemn, serious, and tender about any attitude which we denominate religious. If glad, it must not grin or snicker; if sad, it must not scream or curse.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  3.8 · 11 votes · 34 reads

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• To become different from what we are, we must have some awareness of what we are.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  4.4 · 42 votes · 96 reads

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• To delight in war is a merit in the soldier, a dangerous quality in the captain, and a positive crime in the statesman.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  3.1 · 10 votes · 64 reads

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• To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  4.3 · 61 votes · 113 reads

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• We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.6 · 32 votes · 199 reads

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• We do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true; they ruin our dreams.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  4.0 · 64 votes · 154 reads

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• When I died last, and, Dear, I die as often as from thee I go though it be but an hour ago and lovers hours be full eternity.

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  John Donne

  PoetEnglish1572 · 16th century

  4.1 · 5 votes · 47 reads

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• When the solution is simple, God is answering.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.4 · 61 votes · 115 reads

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• With our technology, with objects, literally three people in a garage can blow away what 200 people at Microsoft can do. Literally can blow it away. Corporate America has a need that is so huge and can save them so much money, or make them so much money,

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.1 · 32 votes · 134 reads

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