Quotes for February 2348 quotes · 36 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every February 23: the anniversary does not move.

• A man is known by the company he avoids.

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 61 votes · 80 reads

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• A man of genius is privileged only as far as he is genius. His dullness is as insupportable as any other dullness.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.5 · 22 votes · 113 reads

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• A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

  

  Joseph Joubert

  French1754 · 18th century

  3.2 · 47 votes · 52 reads

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• Celebrity is a mask that eats into the face. As soon as one is aware of being ''somebody,'' to be watched and listened to with extra interest, input ceases, and the performer goes blind and deaf in his over-animation. One can either see or be seen.

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  John Updike

  WriterAmerican1932 · 20th century

  3.0 · 49 votes · 73 reads

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• Do not tell me of my obligation to put all poor men in good situations. Are they my poor? I tell thee, thou foolish philanthropist, that I grudge the dollar, the dime, the cent, I give to such men as do not belong to me and to whom I do not belong.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.5 · 51 votes · 115 reads

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• Don't dig your grave with your knife and fork.

  

  English proverb

  English

  3.7 · 61 votes · 80 reads

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• Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  3.9 · 64 votes · 70 reads

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• God will not look you over for medal, degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

  

  Elbert Hubbard

  AuthorAmerican1856 · 19th century

  4.8 · 36 votes · 138 reads

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• Great nations need organizing principles, and 'Don't do stupid stuff' is not an organizing principle.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.7 · 59 votes · 131 reads

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• Having a sharp tongue will cut your throat

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 36 votes · 191 reads

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• Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

  

  Buddha

  LeaderNepal-563 · 6th century BC

  4.0 · 43 votes · 195 reads

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• I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.0 · 45 votes · 177 reads

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• I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I have just lived the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

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  Diane Ackerman

  WriterAmerican1948 · 20th century

  3.8 · 16 votes · 145 reads

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• I think that if you live long enough, you realize that so much of what happens in life is out of your control, but how you respond to it is in your control. That's what I try to remember.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.8 · 29 votes · 53 reads

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• If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  4.0 · 47 votes · 154 reads

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• If you believe in an unseen Christ, you will believe in the unseen Christlike potential of others.

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 10 votes · 11 reads

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  3.4 · 50 votes · 62 reads

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• It is nonsense to say that Germans are unable to change.

  

  Angela Merkel

  PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century

  4.3 · 26 votes · 60 reads

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• It's absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.9 · 64 votes · 4 reads

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• Life is like wine, the longer you take to enjoy it the more chance you've got of tasting vinegar.

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  Anonymous

  3.5 · 22 votes · 59 reads

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• Look through the whole history of countries professing the Romish religion, and you will uniformly find the leaven of this besetting and accursed principle of action - that the end will sanction any means.

  

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

  3.1 · 61 votes · 57 reads

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• Many of us don't have to turn out the lights to be in the dark.

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 55 votes · 108 reads

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• Naturally we are aware of the strength of our economy and naturally we don't want to downplay it.

  

  Gerhard Schroder

  PoliticianGerman1944 · 20th century

  3.6 · 17 votes · 90 reads

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• No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.8 · 33 votes · 44 reads

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• Nothing else so destroys the power to stand alone as the habit of leaning upon others. If you lean, you will never be strong or original. Stand alone or bury your ambition to be somebody in the world.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.8 · 37 votes · 195 reads

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• Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century

  5.0 · 42 votes · 89 reads

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• One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.

  

  Carl Gustav Jung

  PsychiatristSwiss1875 · 19th century

  3.1 · 64 votes · 68 reads

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• Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God. I plead not for the supp

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  3.0 · 14 votes · 61 reads

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• Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.0 · 27 votes · 197 reads

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• Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.9 · 9 votes · 133 reads

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• The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather loved in spite of ourselves. - Hugo, Victor

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  3.4 · 34 votes · 185 reads

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• The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.1 · 27 votes · 59 reads

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• The opera is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.7 · 37 votes · 140 reads

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• The people never give up their liberties, but under some delusion.

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  4.5 · 23 votes · 159 reads

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• The real leader has no need to lead - he is content to point the way.

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  4.9 · 49 votes · 55 reads

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• The sense of obligation to continue is present in all of us. A duty to strive is the duty of us all. I felt a call to that duty.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.0 · 29 votes · 186 reads

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• The suspense is terrible, I hope it will last.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.0 · 56 votes · 73 reads

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• There is no such thing as no chance.

  

  Henry Ford

  BusinessmanAmerican1863 · 19th century

  3.8 · 7 votes · 12 reads

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• There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  3.5 · 10 votes · 190 reads

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• To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  3.6 · 64 votes · 174 reads

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• Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believed.

  

  Will Rogers

  ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

  4.9 · 54 votes · 11 reads

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• We know nothing about motivation. All we can do is write books about it.

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  Peter de Vries

  NovelistAmerican1910 · 20th century

  4.3 · 23 votes · 104 reads

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• We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.6 · 58 votes · 164 reads

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• Well, the U.S., of course, is the world's largest economy. It's about a quarter of the world's output. It's also home to many of the largest financial institutions and financial markets.

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  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  4.2 · 22 votes · 65 reads

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• Whenever you are asked if you can do a job, tell em, ''Certainly I can!'' - and get busy and find out how to do it.

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  Terence

  PoetRoman

  3.3 · 33 votes · 182 reads

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• Within our mandate, the ECB is ready to do whatever it takes to preserve the euro. Believe me, it will be enough.

  

  Mario Draghi

  EconomistItalian1947 · 20th century

  4.5 · 38 votes · 130 reads

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• You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  3.9 · 38 votes · 52 reads

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