Quotes for March 2050 quotes · 40 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every March 20: the anniversary does not move.

• A ''No'' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a ''Yes'' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  3.4 · 40 votes · 49 reads

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• A sect or party is an incognito devised to save man from the vexation of thinking.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.2 · 60 votes · 117 reads

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• A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  4.4 · 54 votes · 199 reads

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• As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.6 · 37 votes · 79 reads

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• Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.9 · 19 votes · 189 reads

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• Call a truce, then, to our labors - let us feast with friends and neighbours, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past.

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  Roy Lichtenstein

  PainterAmerican1923 · 20th century

  4.5 · 6 votes · 199 reads

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• Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.

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  Publilius Syrus

  WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC

  4.5 · 22 votes · 76 reads

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• Enthusiasm is the leaping lightning, not to be measured by the horse-power of the understanding.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.0 · 48 votes · 36 reads

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• For they conquer who believe they can.

  

  John Dryden

  PoetBritish1631 · 17th century

  3.4 · 36 votes · 73 reads

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• Friendship is the only cement that will ever hold the world together.

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century

  4.4 · 32 votes · 107 reads

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• God supplies us with the opportunity, but He cannot take advantage of it for us.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 51 votes · 96 reads

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• Good strong thick stupefying incense-smoke!

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  Robert Bresson

  Film directorFrench1901 · 20th century

  3.3 · 64 votes · 15 reads

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• Good taste is either that which agrees with my taste or that which subjects itself to the rule of reason. From this we can see how useful it is to employ reason in seeking out the laws of taste.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  4.8 · 20 votes · 11 reads

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• He is the happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.5 · 53 votes · 41 reads

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• He knows the universe and does not know himself.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine

  PoetFrench1621 · 17th century

  4.5 · 57 votes · 79 reads

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• I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.7 · 9 votes · 67 reads

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• I have always regarded Mr. Bean as a timeless, ageless character, and I would rather he be remembered as a character mostly in his 30s and 40s.

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  4.6 · 17 votes · 170 reads

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• I have often thought the best way to define a man's character would be to seek out the particular mental or moral attitude in which, when it comes upon him, he felt himself most deeply and intensely active and alive. At such moments there is a voice insid

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  3.4 · 44 votes · 14 reads

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• I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

  

  Robert Burton

  EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century

  4.2 · 40 votes · 170 reads

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• If it weren't for marriage, men and women would have to fight with total strangers.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 61 votes · 36 reads

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• If pleasure was not followed by pain, who would forbear it?

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.6 · 22 votes · 86 reads

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• It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read a book of quotations.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.1 · 29 votes · 89 reads

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• It is very vulgar to talk about one's business. Only people like stockbrokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.9 · 5 votes · 20 reads

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• It is wonderful to think how men of very large estates not only spend their yearly income, but are often actually in want of money. It is clear, they have not value for what they spend.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.6 · 57 votes · 196 reads

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• Love thy neighbour - but don't pull down your hedge.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.8 · 41 votes · 55 reads

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• One can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.2 · 51 votes · 36 reads

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• One fool at least in every married couple.

  

  Henry Fielding

  NovelistEnglish1707 · 18th century

  4.8 · 61 votes · 130 reads

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• Our favorite attitude should be gratitude

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 20 votes · 18 reads

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• Success is the sole earthly judge of right and wrong.

  

  Adolf Hitler

  PoliticianGerman1889 · 19th century

  4.0 · 28 votes · 142 reads

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• That man's the true Conservative who lops the moldered branch away.

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  Lord Alfred Tennyson

  PoetBritish1809 · 19th century

  4.1 · 8 votes · 129 reads

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• The American people abhor a vacuum.

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  Terence

  PoetRoman

  3.9 · 27 votes · 69 reads

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• The great advantage of the Lib Dems is precisely that no-one knows what they stand for.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  3.3 · 26 votes · 13 reads

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• The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.

  

  Hermann Hesse

  PoetGerman1877 · 19th century

  3.1 · 57 votes · 200 reads

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• The men - the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.

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  Anonymous

  3.4 · 24 votes · 19 reads

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• The question is not whether we are able to change but whether we are changing fats enough.

  

  Angela Merkel

  PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century

  5.0 · 8 votes · 190 reads

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• The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.4 · 26 votes · 93 reads

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• The woman who tells her age is either too young to have anything to lose or too old to have anything to gain.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  4.9 · 7 votes · 30 reads

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• There are certain moments when we might wish the future were built by men of the past.

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  Jean Rostand

  PhilosopherFrench1894 · 19th century

  4.2 · 29 votes · 120 reads

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• They must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  5.0 · 30 votes · 68 reads

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• Thou ought to be nice, even to superstition, in keeping thy promises, and therefore equally cautious in making them.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  3.3 · 28 votes · 44 reads

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• Time is the justice that examines all offenders. [As You Like It]

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.8 · 48 votes · 56 reads

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• To be happy in this world, first you need a cell phone and then you need an airplane. Then you're truly wireless.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  3.6 · 23 votes · 112 reads

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• We become just by performing just action, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by performing brave action.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  4.8 · 7 votes · 46 reads

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• We can't allow the world's worst leaders to blackmail, threaten, hold freedom-loving nations hostage with the world's worst weapons.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.2 · 41 votes · 82 reads

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• We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.7 · 8 votes · 97 reads

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• What frightens us most in a madman is his sane conversation.

  

  Anatole France

  WriterFrench1844 · 19th century

  3.4 · 35 votes · 55 reads

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• When desire dies, fear is born.

  

  Baltasar Gracián

  WriterSpanish1601 · 17th century

  5.0 · 29 votes · 146 reads

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• Whenever you have truth it must be given with love, or the message and the messenger will be rejected.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  4.4 · 18 votes · 1 reads

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• You must look into people, as well as at them.

  

  Lord Chesterfield

  PoliticianBritish1694 · 17th century

  3.0 · 24 votes · 191 reads

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