Quotes for March 1949 quotes · 42 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every March 19: the anniversary does not move.

• All truly wise thoughts have been thoughts already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.3 · 47 votes · 42 reads

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• Anyone who doesn't regret the passing of the Soviet Union has no heart. Anyone who wants it restored has no brains.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  3.7 · 5 votes · 105 reads

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• By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in thy chest; for 'Tis thine own: And tumble up and down what thou findst there. Who cannot rest till he good fellows find, he breaks up house, turns out of

  

  George Herbert

  PoetBritish1593 · 16th century

  4.8 · 31 votes · 174 reads

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• Destiny. A tyrant's authority for crime and a fool's excuse for failure.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  3.5 · 44 votes · 42 reads

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• Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

  

  Robert Burton

  EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century

  3.4 · 18 votes · 102 reads

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• Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.5 · 60 votes · 179 reads

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• Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.3 · 8 votes · 99 reads

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• First I shake the whole [Apple] tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.

  

  Martin Luther

  LeaderGerman1483 · 15th century

  3.0 · 37 votes · 63 reads

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• George Bush was for me the most important ally on the road to German unity.

  

  Helmut Kohl

  PoliticianGerman1930 · 20th century

  4.2 · 12 votes · 187 reads

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• He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I ever met.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.3 · 35 votes · 92 reads

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• I don't have much positive to say about motor neuron disease, but it taught me not to pity myself because others were worse off, and to get on with what I still could do. I'm happier now than before I developed the condition.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.3 · 33 votes · 66 reads

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• I mean, honestly, we have to be clear that the life for many Afghan women is not that much different than it was a hundred years ago, 200 years ago. The country has lived with so much violence and conflict that many people, men and women, just want it to

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.8 · 56 votes · 66 reads

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• I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 21 votes · 173 reads

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• If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool.

  

  Carl Gustav Jung

  PsychiatristSwiss1875 · 19th century

  3.4 · 9 votes · 136 reads

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• It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.

  

  W. H. Auden

  PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

  3.4 · 16 votes · 15 reads

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• It is more of a disgrace to be robbed of what one has than to fail in some new undertaking.

  

  Pericles

  PoliticianGreek-495 · 5th century BC

  4.1 · 19 votes · 140 reads

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• Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  4.1 · 26 votes · 78 reads

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• Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  4.8 · 49 votes · 116 reads

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• Live, let live, and help live

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.6 · 35 votes · 115 reads

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• Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

  

  George Washington

  PoliticianAmerican1732 · 18th century

  4.7 · 43 votes · 104 reads

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• Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

  

  William James

  PhilosopherAmerican1842 · 19th century

  4.3 · 41 votes · 59 reads

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• My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

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  John Keats

  PoetBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.3 · 15 votes · 39 reads

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• No ear can hear nor tongue can tell the tortures of the inward hell!

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.0 · 49 votes · 87 reads

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• Not actual suffering but the hope of better things incites people to revolt.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  3.2 · 8 votes · 168 reads

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• Nothing can be meaner than the anxiety to live on, to live on anyhow and in any shape; a spirit with any honor is not willing to live except in its own way, and a spirit with any wisdom is not over-eager to live at all.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  3.1 · 47 votes · 180 reads

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• Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacle s, discouragement s, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things distinguishes the strong soul from the weak.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.9 · 53 votes · 182 reads

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• Power is not revealed by striking hard or often, but by striking true.

  

  Honore de Balzac

  NovelistFrench1799 · 18th century

  4.7 · 29 votes · 46 reads

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• Pretty much all the honest truth telling there is in the world is done by children.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.7 · 22 votes · 89 reads

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• Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  4.4 · 52 votes · 169 reads

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• Sometimes people ask me why I began perestroika. Were the causes basically domestic or foreign? The domestic reasons were undoubtedly the main ones, but the danger of nuclear war was so serious that it was a no less significant factor.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  3.5 · 27 votes · 118 reads

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• The essence of poetry is will and passion.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  4.7 · 23 votes · 144 reads

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• The highest happiness of man is to have probed what is knowable and quietly to revere what is unknowable.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.8 · 44 votes · 119 reads

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• The inquiry in England is not whether a man has talents and genius, but whether he is passive and polite and a virtuous ass and obedient to noblemen's opinions in art and science. If he is, he is a good man. If not, he must be starved.

  

  Will Rogers

  ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

  3.6 · 35 votes · 191 reads

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• The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.2 · 9 votes · 154 reads

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• The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  PoliticianFrench1769 · 18th century

  3.9 · 21 votes · 34 reads

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• The scripture in times of disputes is like an open town in times of war, which serves in differently the occasions of both parties.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  3.2 · 28 votes · 117 reads

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• The world is a republic of mediocrities, and always was.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.0 · 58 votes · 136 reads

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• There are no big problems, there are just a lot of little problems.

  

  Henry Ford

  BusinessmanAmerican1863 · 19th century

  3.4 · 27 votes · 137 reads

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• There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in a war, and some men are wounded, and some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or personal life to assure complete equality. Life

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  3.0 · 41 votes · 77 reads

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• Time is the king of all men, he is their parent and their grave, and gives them what he will and not what they crave.

  

  Pericles

  PoliticianGreek-495 · 5th century BC

  4.0 · 46 votes · 155 reads

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• Using a camera appeases the anxiety which the work-driven feel about not working when they are on vacation and supposed to be having fun. They have something to do that is like a friendly imitation of work: they can take pictures.

  

  Stendhal

  NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

  4.9 · 20 votes · 32 reads

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• We may live without her, and worship without her, but we cannot remember without her. How cold is all history, how lifeless all imagery, compared to that which the living nation writes, and the uncorrupted marble bears!

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  4.5 · 56 votes · 66 reads

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• We must become the change we want to see.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  4.3 · 14 votes · 60 reads

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• We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter.

  

  Denis Diderot

  PhilosopherFrench1713 · 18th century

  3.3 · 5 votes · 0 reads

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• Where we love is home, home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.7 · 53 votes · 132 reads

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• Who ever is out of patience is out of possession of their soul.

  

  Francis Bacon

  PhilosopherBritish1561 · 16th century

  3.6 · 16 votes · 61 reads

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• You can't put democracy and freedom back into a box.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.7 · 19 votes · 2 reads

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• You commit a sin of omission if you do not utilize all the power that is within you. All men have claims on man, and to the man with special talents, this is a very special claim. It is required that a man take part in the actions and clashes of his time

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.1 · 54 votes · 0 reads

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