Quotes for February 2246 quotes · 42 authors

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

• A good memory and a tongue tied in the middle is a combination which gives immortality to conversation.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.1 · 27 votes · 4 reads

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• A misty morning does not signify a cloudy day.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.6 · 29 votes · 43 reads

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• A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

  

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  EducatorAmerican1799 · 18th century

  3.3 · 43 votes · 135 reads

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• All the American women had purple noses and gray lips and their faces were chalk white from terrible powder. I recognized that the United States could be my life's work.

  

  Helena Rubinstein

  BusinessmanPolish1870 · 19th century

  3.9 · 23 votes · 4 reads

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• Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

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  W. C. Fields

  ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.9 · 36 votes · 82 reads

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• An eagle does not catch flies.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.8 · 55 votes · 109 reads

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• Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike becomes a little sad. You've got to be careful.

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  4.5 · 25 votes · 74 reads

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• Be careful what you set your heart upon, for it will surely be yours.

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  James Baldwin

  WriterAmerican1924 · 20th century

  3.3 · 21 votes · 174 reads

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• Compromise: An amiable arrangement between husband and wife whereby they agree to let her have her own way.

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 42 votes · 36 reads

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• Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  4.7 · 11 votes · 148 reads

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• Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits.

  

  Stendhal

  NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

  3.6 · 22 votes · 32 reads

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• Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  3.1 · 33 votes · 178 reads

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• I just miss - I miss being anonymous.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.3 · 56 votes · 38 reads

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• I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to create where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a li

  

  George Sand

  WriterFrench1804 · 19th century

  5.0 · 29 votes · 36 reads

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• I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd ever get paid for it, didn't think I drew well enough, but I knew it made me happy.

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  4.2 · 34 votes · 164 reads

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• If we are marked to die, we are enough to do our country loss; and if to live, the fewer men, the greater share of honor.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.6 · 5 votes · 70 reads

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• It is a wise person that adapts themselves to all contingencies; it's the fool who always struggles like a swimmer against the current.

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 44 votes · 1 reads

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• It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted.

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  Aeschylus

  WriterGreek-525 · 6th century BC

  4.9 · 17 votes · 0 reads

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• It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.

  

  Donald Trump

  BusinessmanAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.5 · 61 votes · 128 reads

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• Language most shows a man, speak that I may see thee.

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  Ben Johnson

  PoetEnglish1572 · 16th century

  3.4 · 15 votes · 133 reads

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• Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  4.7 · 8 votes · 46 reads

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• Men's arguments often prove nothing but their wishes.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  3.5 · 26 votes · 118 reads

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• No one can resist the idea of a crippled genius.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  5.0 · 43 votes · 116 reads

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• Not he who has little, but he whose wishes more, is poor.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.5 · 28 votes · 108 reads

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• Nothing more clearly shows how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other worldly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them.

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  3.7 · 63 votes · 109 reads

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• Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

  PainterItaly1452 · 15th century

  4.4 · 31 votes · 186 reads

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• Peace is liberty in tranquillity.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.3 · 31 votes · 187 reads

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• People should have freedom in their pilgrimages and tours. They should come and visit historical monuments and sites - let's say the sites around Iran - where they can easily engage in wide- scale contacts with others.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  PoliticianIranian1956 · 20th century

  4.1 · 58 votes · 191 reads

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• The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  4.2 · 24 votes · 106 reads

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• The passions grafted on wounded pride are the most inveterate; they are green and vigorous in old age.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  3.6 · 12 votes · 22 reads

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• The theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property.

  

  Karl Marx

  EconomistGerman1818 · 19th century

  4.3 · 57 votes · 165 reads

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• There can be no friendship without confidence, and no confidence without integrity.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.5 · 29 votes · 21 reads

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• There is no way you're going to have an event like 9/11 and expect things to remain the same. They killed 3,000 people in New York on that day, and if they could have they would've killed 300,000.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  3.0 · 63 votes · 113 reads

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• There is nothing that makes its way more directly to the soul than beauty.

  

  Joseph Addison

  PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century

  4.5 · 27 votes · 19 reads

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• Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.5 · 12 votes · 2 reads

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• To be omnipotent but friendless is to reign.

  

  Pearl S. Buck

  NovelistAmerican1892 · 19th century

  4.8 · 32 votes · 17 reads

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• Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

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  Anaïs Nin

  AuthorFrench1903 · 20th century

  4.3 · 52 votes · 73 reads

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• We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.1 · 7 votes · 2 reads

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• We talk of choosing our friends, but friends are self-elected

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  5.0 · 7 votes · 192 reads

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• What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  5.0 · 28 votes · 29 reads

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• When a great man dies, for years the light he leaves behind him, lies on the paths of men.

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  4.2 · 45 votes · 172 reads

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• When the going gets tough, the tough hang in there.

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 34 votes · 108 reads

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• When widows exclaim loudly against second marriages, I would always lay a wager than the man, If not the wedding day, is absolutely fixed on.

  

  Henry Fielding

  NovelistEnglish1707 · 18th century

  5.0 · 11 votes · 165 reads

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• Work is the province of cattle.

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  Dorothy Parker

  WriterAmerican1893 · 19th century

  3.0 · 42 votes · 15 reads

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• You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  4.3 · 5 votes · 2 reads

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