Quotes for February 847 quotes · 36 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every February 8: the anniversary does not move.

• A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.9 · 64 votes · 32 reads

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• A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  4.2 · 33 votes · 71 reads

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• Age withers only the outside.

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  Anonymous

  3.7 · 51 votes · 10 reads

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• All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  3.6 · 12 votes · 24 reads

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• All great men are gifted with intuition. They know without reasoning or analysis, what they need to know.

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  Alexis Carrel

  ScientistFrench1873 · 19th century

  3.7 · 21 votes · 3 reads

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• As president, I'm committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.7 · 12 votes · 143 reads

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• Climate change is a terrible problem, and it absolutely needs to be solved. It deserves to be a huge priority.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.6 · 9 votes · 131 reads

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• Doubt, of whatever kind, can be ended by action alone.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.6 · 29 votes · 98 reads

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• Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

  

  Henry Ford

  BusinessmanAmerican1863 · 19th century

  4.7 · 51 votes · 58 reads

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• Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

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  Terence

  PoetRoman

  3.9 · 9 votes · 196 reads

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• Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.2 · 59 votes · 193 reads

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• I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played.

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  François Rabelais

  WriterFrench1495 · 15th century

  4.5 · 14 votes · 57 reads

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• I teach that all men are mad.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  3.2 · 14 votes · 116 reads

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• I tried to change the world, but I was outnumbered.

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  Anonymous

  3.2 · 40 votes · 181 reads

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• If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

  

  Thomas Fuller

  AuthorBritish1608 · 17th century

  3.9 · 12 votes · 110 reads

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• If you want a trait, act as if you already have the trait.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  5.0 · 25 votes · 131 reads

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• Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose, but their chains. .Workers of the world unite!

  

  Karl Marx

  EconomistGerman1818 · 19th century

  3.2 · 13 votes · 59 reads

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• Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.0 · 52 votes · 188 reads

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• Men over forty are no judges of a book written in a new spirit.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.9 · 40 votes · 82 reads

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• My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.8 · 12 votes · 11 reads

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• No individual raindrop ever considers itself responsible for the flood.

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 36 votes · 149 reads

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• Our minds work in real time, which begins at the Big Bang and will end, if there is a Big Crunch - which seems unlikely, now, from the latest data showing accelerating expansion. Consciousness would come to an end at a singularity.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.6 · 50 votes · 62 reads

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• People might not think that, but the Republicans have all of the cards. And this is the time to get rid of Obamacare. This is the time to make the great deal.

  

  Donald Trump

  BusinessmanAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.8 · 15 votes · 97 reads

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• Perhaps our originality manifests itself most strikingly in what we do with that which we did not originate. To discover something wholly new can be a matter of chance, of idle tinkering, or even of the chronic dissatisfaction of the untalented.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  5.0 · 25 votes · 115 reads

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• Read much, but not many books.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.1 · 49 votes · 190 reads

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• Relationships based on obligation lack dignity.

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  3.8 · 10 votes · 118 reads

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• So, for example, a country was into recession right after I was sworn in, a dot-com bust had taken place. Then the attacks of September the 11th, and then of course the great financial meltdown -the fundamental question facing any presidency is how do you

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.4 · 60 votes · 120 reads

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• Temper gets you into trouble. Pride keeps you there.

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 14 votes · 57 reads

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• The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.

  

  John Milton

  PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

  4.0 · 44 votes · 99 reads

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• The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  PhilosopherGerman1788 · 18th century

  4.2 · 12 votes · 155 reads

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• The fish only knows that it lives in the water, after it is already on the river bank. Without our awareness of another world out there, it would never occur to us to change.

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  Anonymous

  3.9 · 39 votes · 86 reads

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• The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as som

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  Günter Grass

  AuthorGerman1927 · 20th century

  4.5 · 62 votes · 27 reads

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• The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.9 · 55 votes · 156 reads

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• The worst superstition is to consider our own tolerable.

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  Doris Lessing

  WriterBritish1919 · 20th century

  4.2 · 31 votes · 136 reads

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• There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.1 · 30 votes · 25 reads

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• There is something greater than wealth, grander even than fame, manhood, character, stand for success... nothing else really does.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.6 · 45 votes · 198 reads

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• To the excessively fearful the chief characteristic of power is its arbitrariness. Man had to gain enormously in confidence before he could conceive an all-powerful God who obeys his own laws.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  4.2 · 38 votes · 2 reads

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• Wall Street is the only place that people ride to in a Rolls Royce to get advice from those who take the subway.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  4.4 · 10 votes · 117 reads

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• Water, air, and cleanness are the chief articles in my pharmacy.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  3.1 · 10 votes · 154 reads

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• We cannot let terrorists hold this nation hostile or hold our allies hostile.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.7 · 42 votes · 27 reads

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• When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.9 · 24 votes · 138 reads

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• Without lies humanity would perish of despair and boredom.

  

  Anatole France

  WriterFrench1844 · 19th century

  3.0 · 8 votes · 55 reads

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• You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the re

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  Dale Carnegie

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  3.1 · 55 votes · 166 reads

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• You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  3.9 · 45 votes · 26 reads

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• You may tell a man thou art a fiend, but not your nose wants blowing; to him alone who can bear a thing of that kind, you may tell all.

  

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  TheologianSwiss1741 · 18th century

  3.3 · 22 votes · 101 reads

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• Your old virginity is like one of our French withered pears: it looks ill, it eats dryly.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.3 · 21 votes · 90 reads

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