Quotes for March 1851 quotes · 43 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every March 18: the anniversary does not move.

• A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired Writerof any kind.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  3.5 · 42 votes · 148 reads

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• A solution of two national states - a Jewish state, Israel; an Arab state, Palestine. The Palestinians are our closest neighbors. I believe they may become our closest friends.

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  Shimon Peres

  PoliticianIsraeli1923 · 20th century

  4.2 · 58 votes · 123 reads

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• A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other s

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  Jimmy Carter

  PoliticianAmerican1924 · 20th century

  4.3 · 36 votes · 131 reads

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• A test of what is real is that it is hard and rough. Joys are found in it, not pleasure. What is pleasant belongs to dreams.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  3.9 · 60 votes · 20 reads

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• All say, How hard it is that we have to die - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.2 · 51 votes · 187 reads

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• Charity separates the rich from the poor; aid raises the needy and sets him on the same level with the rich.

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  Evita Peron

  PoliticianArgentinian1919 · 20th century

  3.0 · 50 votes · 77 reads

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• Cooperation and collaboration among nations and countries can help in the process of development of promoting welfare as well as bringing peace and stability.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  PoliticianIranian1956 · 20th century

  3.9 · 52 votes · 197 reads

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• Courage enlarges, cowardice diminishes resources. In desperate straits the fears of the timid aggravate the dangers that imperil the brave.

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  Christian Nestell Bovee

  AuthorAmerican1820 · 19th century

  4.3 · 62 votes · 13 reads

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• Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.

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  Aeschylus

  WriterGreek-525 · 6th century BC

  3.1 · 34 votes · 160 reads

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• Fame and power are the objects of all men. Even their partial fruition is gained by very few; and that, too, at the expense of social pleasure, health, conscience, life.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  4.8 · 38 votes · 107 reads

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• Fear has its use but cowardice has none.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  3.7 · 57 votes · 15 reads

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• He was always smoothing and polishing himself, and in the end he became blunt before he was sharp.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  3.7 · 9 votes · 197 reads

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• I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.2 · 36 votes · 115 reads

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• I have written some poetry that I don't understand myself.

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  Carl Sandburg

  PoetAmerican1878 · 19th century

  4.1 · 48 votes · 57 reads

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• I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

  

  Victor Hugo

  PoetFrench1802 · 19th century

  4.3 · 19 votes · 158 reads

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• I wanted to better inform the world.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  4.2 · 17 votes · 61 reads

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• I would as soon write free verse as play tennis with the net down.

  

  Robert Burton

  EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century

  3.3 · 39 votes · 102 reads

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• If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have paradise in a few years.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  3.4 · 13 votes · 20 reads

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• If we were all determined to play the first violin we should never have an ensemble. therefore, respect every musician in his proper place.

  

  Robert Schumann

  MusicianGerman1810 · 19th century

  4.2 · 25 votes · 92 reads

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• If you think you have trouble supporting a wife, try not supporting her.

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  Anonymous

  3.3 · 41 votes · 86 reads

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• It is understanding that gives us an ability to have peace. When we understand the other fellow's viewpoint, and he understands ours, then we can sit down and work out our differences.

  

  Harry S. Truman

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  3.6 · 45 votes · 102 reads

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• It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.

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  Daniel Bernoulli

  MathematicianDutch1700 · 17th century

  4.1 · 13 votes · 110 reads

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• Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

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  Edmond de Goncourt

  WriterFrench1822 · 19th century

  3.6 · 29 votes · 159 reads

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• Never forget the facts are important but it's the opinion of the facts that causes comment.

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 62 votes · 104 reads

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• No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  5.0 · 61 votes · 79 reads

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• Nothing mattered except states of mind, chiefly our own.

  

  John Maynard Keynes

  EconomistBritish1883 · 19th century

  3.4 · 16 votes · 192 reads

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• O Lord, how many read the Word, and yet from vice are not deterred.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 37 votes · 66 reads

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• On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily as lying down.

  

  Woodrow T. Wilson

  PoliticianAmerican1856 · 19th century

  4.6 · 6 votes · 98 reads

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• Sex without love is an empty experience, but as empty experiences go it's one of the best.

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 41 votes · 89 reads

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• Smart, sustainable, inclusive growth is the key to job-creation and the future prosperity of Europe.

  

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  PoliticianPortuguese1956 · 20th century

  4.9 · 30 votes · 22 reads

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• That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.

  

  Angela Merkel

  PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century

  4.0 · 50 votes · 60 reads

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• The genuine artist is never ''true to life.'' He sees what is real, but not as we are normally aware of it. We do not go storming through life like actors in a play. Art is never real life.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham

  WriterBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.8 · 19 votes · 93 reads

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• The greatest man in history was the poorest.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.1 · 37 votes · 98 reads

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• The little unremembered acts of kindness and love are the best parts of a person's life.

  

  William Wordsworth

  PoetEnglish1770 · 18th century

  4.7 · 60 votes · 10 reads

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• The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

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  David Lloyd George

  PoliticianBritish1863 · 19th century

  3.8 · 8 votes · 43 reads

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• The Public is a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.

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  John Keats

  PoetBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.0 · 35 votes · 16 reads

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• The worst of my actions or conditions seem not so ugly unto me as I find it both ugly and base not to dare to avouch for them.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  5.0 · 43 votes · 104 reads

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• There are two great rules of life; the one general and the other particular. The first is that everyone can, in the end, get what he wants, if he only tries. That is the general rule. The particular rule is that every individual is, more or less, an excep

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  4.2 · 12 votes · 165 reads

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• There used to be a thing or a commodity we put great store by. It was called the People. Find out where the People have gone. I don't mean the square-eyed toothpaste-and-hair-dye people or the new-car-or-bust people, or the success-and-coronary people. Ma

  

  John Steinbeck

  WriterAmerican1902 · 20th century

  4.3 · 39 votes · 167 reads

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• There's a tendency in many politicians to become inward-looking, more protectionist, more nationalistic and more defensive, in the bad sense of the word.

  

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  PoliticianPortuguese1956 · 20th century

  4.8 · 34 votes · 6 reads

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• This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back in again.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.4 · 62 votes · 83 reads

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• Thou hast seen nothing yet.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  4.2 · 8 votes · 167 reads

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• To confess a fault freely is the next thing to being innocent of it.

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  Publilius Syrus

  WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC

  3.5 · 37 votes · 102 reads

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• Tomorrow do thy worst, I have lived today.

  

  John Dryden

  PoetBritish1631 · 17th century

  5.0 · 34 votes · 187 reads

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• We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.5 · 44 votes · 58 reads

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• We hold the view that the people make the best judgment in the long run.

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  4.1 · 23 votes · 199 reads

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• What separates the winners from the losers is how a person reacts to each new twist of fate.

  

  Donald Trump

  BusinessmanAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.2 · 43 votes · 114 reads

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• Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  3.3 · 39 votes · 81 reads

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• Why does God endow us with compassion?

  

  Franz Schubert

  MusicianAustrian1797 · 18th century

  3.4 · 39 votes · 146 reads

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• Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.3 · 39 votes · 89 reads

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