Quotes for March 148 quotes · 39 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every March 1: the anniversary does not move.

• ''One can't believe impossible things. I dare say you haven't had much practice,'' said the Queen. ''When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.''

  

  Lewis Carroll

  NovelistEnglish1832 · 19th century

  4.6 · 49 votes · 117 reads

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• A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.

  

  Joseph Conrad

  NovelistBritish1857 · 19th century

  3.2 · 37 votes · 172 reads

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• Adam inquires concerning celestial motions, is doubtfully answered, and exhorted to search rather things more worthy of knowledge.

  

  John Milton

  PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

  5.0 · 62 votes · 144 reads

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• An iPod, a phone, an internet mobile communicator... these are NOT three separate devices! And we are calling it iPhone! Today Apple is going to reinvent the phone. And here it is.

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.6 · 41 votes · 61 reads

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• Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.7 · 15 votes · 169 reads

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• By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  3.4 · 23 votes · 22 reads

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• Covetousness like jealousy, when it has taken root, never leaves a person, but with their life. Cowardice is the dread of what will happen.

  

  Epictetus

  PhilosopherGreek55 · 1st century

  4.1 · 22 votes · 18 reads

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• Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  3.0 · 27 votes · 178 reads

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• Fame is the thirst of youth.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  4.2 · 50 votes · 87 reads

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• Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  4.2 · 58 votes · 130 reads

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• He who is enamored of himself will at least have the advantage of being inconvenienced by few rivals.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  4.3 · 18 votes · 168 reads

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• I love Mickey Mouse more than any woman I have ever known.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  4.7 · 9 votes · 9 reads

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• If the nation is not capable of preserving itself and reproducing, if it loses it vital bearings and ideals, then it doesn't need foreign enemies - it will fall apart on its own.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  3.8 · 26 votes · 191 reads

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• If we know where we want to go, then even a stony road is bearable.

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  Horst Koehler

  PoliticianGerman1943 · 20th century

  5.0 · 14 votes · 20 reads

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• Increased means and increased leisure are the two civilizers of man.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  4.7 · 59 votes · 137 reads

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• It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

  

  Charles Darwin

  ScientistEnglish1809 · 19th century

  4.6 · 19 votes · 72 reads

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• It is the story-teller's task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

  

  Graham Greene

  WriterEnglish1904 · 20th century

  4.6 · 62 votes · 157 reads

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• Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

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  David Lloyd George

  PoliticianBritish1863 · 19th century

  4.1 · 19 votes · 123 reads

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• Living the truth in your heart without compromise brings kindness into the world. Attempts at kindness that compromise your heart cause only sadness.

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  Anonymous

  3.2 · 30 votes · 173 reads

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• Man strives for glory, honor, fame, so that all the world may know his name. Amasses wealth by brain and hand. Becomes a power in the land. But when he nears the end of life and looks back over the years of strife. He finds that happiness depends on none

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  Anonymous

  3.0 · 7 votes · 44 reads

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• Many can brook the weather that love not the wind.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.7 · 32 votes · 151 reads

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• Men are disturbed not by things, but by the view which they take of them.

  

  Epictetus

  PhilosopherGreek55 · 1st century

  3.2 · 54 votes · 155 reads

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• My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  4.2 · 5 votes · 70 reads

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• No decent career was ever founded on a public.

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  Anonymous

  4.5 · 22 votes · 91 reads

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• No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  4.7 · 62 votes · 133 reads

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• Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

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  John Adams

  PoliticianAmerican1735 · 18th century

  3.7 · 63 votes · 175 reads

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• Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it.

  

  John Lennon

  MusicianBritish1940 · 20th century

  3.6 · 15 votes · 200 reads

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• The gambling known as business looks with severe disfavor on the business known as gambling.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  3.3 · 48 votes · 184 reads

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• The great masses of the people will more easily fall victims to a big lie than to a small one.

  

  Adolf Hitler

  PoliticianGerman1889 · 19th century

  4.7 · 28 votes · 155 reads

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• The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too

  

  Ernest Hemingway

  WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

  3.6 · 53 votes · 3 reads

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• The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

  

  Elvis Presley

  MusicianAmerican1935 · 20th century

  4.4 · 47 votes · 99 reads

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• The more humble a man is before God the more he will be exalted; the more humble he is before man, the more he will get rode roughshod.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  3.5 · 9 votes · 44 reads

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• They are the only honest hypocrites, their life is a voluntary dream, a studied madness.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  4.1 · 27 votes · 173 reads

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• They do injury to the good who spares the bad.

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  Publilius Syrus

  WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC

  4.8 · 14 votes · 105 reads

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• They put me on television. And the whole thing broke loose. It was wild, I tell ya for sure.

  

  Elvis Presley

  MusicianAmerican1935 · 20th century

  3.9 · 7 votes · 60 reads

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• They said, ''You have a blue guitar, you do not play things as they are. The man replied, ''Things as they are changed upon a blue guitar.''

  

  W. Somerset Maugham

  WriterBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.0 · 51 votes · 159 reads

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• They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  5.0 · 8 votes · 190 reads

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• To be able to say how much love, is love but little.

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  Francesco Petrarch

  PoetItaly1034 · 11th century

  3.4 · 62 votes · 22 reads

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• We are not interested in the fact that the brain has the consistency of cold porridge.

  

  Alan Turing

  MathematicianEnglish1912 · 20th century

  4.8 · 19 votes · 89 reads

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• We die as often as we lose a friend.

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  Publilius Syrus

  WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC

  3.9 · 25 votes · 164 reads

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• We should not only master questions, but also act upon them, and act definitely.

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century

  3.8 · 22 votes · 48 reads

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• What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward our fellows, beautiful imaginings thou hast crushed under thy heel, without remorse or pause!

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  5.0 · 50 votes · 72 reads

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• What about Jesus Christ? I say that he was a precursor of idealists; a precursor of socialists.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  4.3 · 38 votes · 150 reads

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• What little Jack does not learn, big John will never.

  

  German proverb

  German

  3.0 · 28 votes · 55 reads

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• When a diplomat says yes he means perhaps; when he says perhaps he means no; when he says no he is no diplomat.

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 37 votes · 44 reads

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• Where there is devotional music, God is always at hand with His gracious presence.

  

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  MusicianGerman1685 · 17th century

  3.0 · 43 votes · 149 reads

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• You teach your daughters the diameters of the planets and wonder when you are done that they do not delight in your company.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.0 · 34 votes · 64 reads

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