Quotes for February 751 quotes · 45 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every February 7: the anniversary does not move.

• A diplomat these days in nothing, but a head waiter who is allowed to sit down occasionally.

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  Peter F. Drucker

  WriterAmerican1909 · 20th century

  3.7 · 7 votes · 137 reads

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• A mistress never is nor can be a friend. While you agree, you are lovers; and when it is over, anything but friends.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  4.7 · 11 votes · 102 reads

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• A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.

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  Lord Acton

  WriterEnglish1834 · 19th century

  3.4 · 30 votes · 107 reads

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• A Writermust teach himself that the basest of all things is to be afraid.

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  William Cowper

  PoetBritish1731 · 18th century

  4.0 · 48 votes · 39 reads

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• All people are your relatives, therefore expect only trouble from them.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  3.0 · 5 votes · 68 reads

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• All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but must wait until what he believes to be a good idea for a work ''comes'' to him.

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  W. C. Fields

  ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.0 · 35 votes · 59 reads

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• As more and more women, men and young people raise their voices and become active in local government, and more local leaders take action for the safety of women and girls, change happens.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  4.0 · 22 votes · 129 reads

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• Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.2 · 17 votes · 19 reads

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• Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.

  

  Robert Burton

  EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century

  4.5 · 33 votes · 102 reads

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• Every time that I think of the crucifixion of Christ, I commit the sin of envy.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  3.8 · 34 votes · 90 reads

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• Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man could stake his life on it a thousand times.

  

  Martin Luther

  LeaderGerman1483 · 15th century

  3.6 · 39 votes · 175 reads

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• Freedom is not the right to do what we want, but what we ought. Let us have faith that right makes might and in that faith let us; to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.8 · 47 votes · 48 reads

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• Gratitude is a duty which ought to be paid, but which none have a right to expect.

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  4.0 · 57 votes · 53 reads

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• He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients, no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.8 · 41 votes · 154 reads

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• He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  4.7 · 57 votes · 66 reads

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• He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  4.0 · 13 votes · 64 reads

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• Her eyes are homes of silent prayers.

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  Lord Alfred Tennyson

  PoetBritish1809 · 19th century

  3.5 · 38 votes · 44 reads

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• Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one getting burned.

  

  Buddha

  LeaderNepal-563 · 6th century BC

  4.5 · 17 votes · 86 reads

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• I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander, that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  4.5 · 50 votes · 63 reads

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• I believe something very deeply. That Britain's national interest is best served in a flexible, adaptable and open European Union and that such a European Union is best with Britain in it.

  

  David Cameron

  PoliticianBritish1966 · 20th century

  3.8 · 57 votes · 43 reads

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• I hate mankind, for I think of myself as one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.7 · 37 votes · 115 reads

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• I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same kind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of literature and speech and I shall take leave to tell you that yo

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.8 · 54 votes · 86 reads

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• I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  3.0 · 56 votes · 13 reads

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• I was not born in a home where there were stereotypes. So that was very useful because it gave me the sense of possibilities, of flying, if I may say, of making my hopes and dreams a reality.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  4.0 · 51 votes · 190 reads

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• If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

  

  Hippocrates

  ScientistGreek-460 · 5th century BC

  3.5 · 9 votes · 57 reads

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• Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

  

  John Lennon

  MusicianBritish1940 · 20th century

  4.2 · 33 votes · 24 reads

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• It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  PoliticianFrench1769 · 18th century

  4.8 · 11 votes · 177 reads

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• It took us three years to build the NeXT computer. If we'd given customers what they said they wanted, we'd have built a computer they'd have been happy with a year after we spoke to them - not something they'd want now.

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.3 · 17 votes · 169 reads

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• Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  4.0 · 54 votes · 32 reads

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• Look closely at those who patronize you. Half are unfeeling, half untaught.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.8 · 44 votes · 170 reads

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• Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  5.0 · 5 votes · 116 reads

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• No such thing as a man willing to be honest -that would be like a blind man willing to see.

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  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  WriterAmerican1896 · 19th century

  4.2 · 16 votes · 173 reads

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• No work of art ever puts forward views. Views belong to people who are not artists.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.2 · 14 votes · 9 reads

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• Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.

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  Eleanor Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  3.2 · 56 votes · 74 reads

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• O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind?

  

  Pearl S. Buck

  NovelistAmerican1892 · 19th century

  3.8 · 9 votes · 172 reads

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• One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

  

  James Russell Lowell

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  3.2 · 11 votes · 106 reads

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• Oppose not rage while rage is in its force, but give it way a while and let it waste.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.3 · 57 votes · 34 reads

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• Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha lost my reputation, I ha lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.1 · 52 votes · 50 reads

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• The highest function of the teacher consists not so much in imparting knowledge as in stimulating the pupil in its love and pursuit.

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  Anonymous

  3.6 · 42 votes · 106 reads

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• The lesson of history is that you do not get a sustained economic recovery as long as the financial system is in crisis.

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  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  4.4 · 17 votes · 180 reads

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• The mind conceives with pain, but it brings forth with delight.

  

  Joseph Joubert

  French1754 · 18th century

  4.8 · 26 votes · 134 reads

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• The worst thing a government can do now in Spain is to do nothing.

  

  Mariano Rajoy

  PoliticianSpanish1955 · 20th century

  3.7 · 12 votes · 56 reads

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• There is such a thing as a general revolution which changes the taste of men as it changes the fortunes of the world.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.2 · 28 votes · 183 reads

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• Traveling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.3 · 15 votes · 34 reads

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• We all have an equal interest in stability and security throughout Europe. The years the OSCE has existed, and particularly this year, have given rise to great expectations and at the same time to powerful disappointments.

  

  Boris Yeltsin

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  3.2 · 26 votes · 50 reads

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• We cling nervously to the melody, but we don't handle it freely, we don't really make anything new out of it, we merely overload it.

  

  Johannes Brahms

  MusicianGerman1833 · 19th century

  5.0 · 11 votes · 158 reads

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• We want all our friends to tell us our bad qualities; it is only the particular ass that does so whom we can't tolerate.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  3.4 · 20 votes · 23 reads

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• Well, I wouldn't say that I was in the great class, but I had a great time while I was trying to be great.

  

  Harry S. Truman

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  4.8 · 45 votes · 90 reads

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• When Demosthenes was asked what were the three most important aspects of oratory, he answered, ''Action, Action, Action.''

  

  Plutarch

  EssayistGreek46 · 1st century

  3.2 · 11 votes · 140 reads

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• Whenever I make a bum decision, I go out and make another one.

  

  Harry S. Truman

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  3.2 · 56 votes · 41 reads

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