Quotes for March 2147 quotes · 43 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every March 21: the anniversary does not move.

• A life of ease is a difficult pursuit.

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  William Butler Yeats

  PoetIrish1865 · 19th century

  5.0 · 31 votes · 62 reads

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• According to 'M' theory, ours is not the only universe. Instead, 'M' theory predicts that a great many universes were created out of nothing.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.6 · 26 votes · 81 reads

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• Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  3.3 · 44 votes · 188 reads

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• An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.7 · 55 votes · 102 reads

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• Are we interested in sight seeing or soul saving?

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 10 votes · 54 reads

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• As to the adjective, when in doubt strike it out.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.1 · 28 votes · 5 reads

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• Belief is with them mechanical, voluntary: they believe what they are paid for - they swear to that which turns to account. Do you suppose, that after years spent in this manner, they have any feeling left answering to the difference between truth and fal

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  4.7 · 33 votes · 200 reads

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• Choose your wife as you wish your children to be.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  3.5 · 64 votes · 17 reads

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• Every effort needs to be made to try and offset the costs of Katrina and Rita by reductions in other government programs, especially those that are wasteful, duplicative and ineffective.

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  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  3.9 · 43 votes · 174 reads

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• Get in touch with the way the other person feels. Feelings are 55% body language, 38% tone and 7% words.

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  Anonymous

  3.7 · 13 votes · 108 reads

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• Habits in writing as in life are only useful if they are broken as soon as they cease to be advantageous.

  

  W. H. Auden

  PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

  3.5 · 24 votes · 107 reads

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• He who undertakes to be his own teacher has a fool for a pupil.

  

  German proverb

  German

  3.0 · 46 votes · 123 reads

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• I am a huge bull on this country. We will not have a double-dip recession at all. I see our businesses coming back almost across the board.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.4 · 14 votes · 184 reads

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• I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure.

  

  Woody Allen

  ComedianAmerican1935 · 20th century

  3.5 · 16 votes · 10 reads

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• I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  4.7 · 30 votes · 85 reads

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• I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

  

  George Washington

  PoliticianAmerican1732 · 18th century

  4.4 · 38 votes · 62 reads

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• I will show you fear in a handful of dust.

  

  Susan Sontag

  AuthorAmerican1933 · 20th century

  4.6 · 28 votes · 98 reads

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• If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.

  

  Anatole France

  WriterFrench1844 · 19th century

  5.0 · 46 votes · 52 reads

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• In ourselves are triumph and defeat.

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  3.4 · 48 votes · 82 reads

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• Moderation in people who are contented comes from that calm that good fortune lends to their spirit.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.3 · 49 votes · 29 reads

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• Not to watch your workmen is to lose your money.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard

  PhilosopherDanish1813 · 19th century

  3.5 · 63 votes · 50 reads

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• Of the wealth of the world each has as much as they take.

  

  Italian proverb

  Italian

  3.2 · 7 votes · 117 reads

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• One can't judge Wagner's opera Lohengrin after a first hearing, and I certainly don't intend to hear it a second time.

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  Gioachino Rossini

  MusicianItalian1792 · 18th century

  4.2 · 44 votes · 146 reads

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• Our faith comes in moments... yet there is a depth in those brief moments which constrains us to ascribe more reality to them than to all other experiences.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.6 · 61 votes · 41 reads

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• Our nation is today a powerful nation.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  PoliticianIranian1956 · 20th century

  4.0 · 31 votes · 4 reads

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• Politeness is the flower of humanity.

  

  Joseph Joubert

  French1754 · 18th century

  3.0 · 49 votes · 116 reads

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• Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

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  Francesco Petrarch

  PoetItaly1034 · 11th century

  4.0 · 15 votes · 122 reads

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• The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  4.7 · 14 votes · 77 reads

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• The coin that is most current among mankind is flattery: the only benefit of which is that by hearing what we are not, we may be instructed on what to become.

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 16 votes · 96 reads

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• The greatest achievement of the human spirit is to live up to one's opportunities and make the most of one's resources.

  

  Marquis de Vauvenargues

  WriterFrench1715 · 18th century

  4.9 · 13 votes · 65 reads

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• The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed.

  

  Carl Gustav Jung

  PsychiatristSwiss1875 · 19th century

  3.5 · 23 votes · 15 reads

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• The principle of the endless melody is the perpetual becoming of a music that never had any reason for starting, any more than it has any reason for ending.

  

  Igor Stravinsky

  MusicianRussian1882 · 19th century

  3.8 · 58 votes · 14 reads

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• The remarkable thing is that we really love our neighbour as ourselves: we do unto others as we do unto ourselves. We hate others when we hate ourselves. We are tolerant toward others when we tolerate ourselves. We forgive others when we forgive ourselves

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  4.4 · 41 votes · 18 reads

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• The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.

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  Erich Fromm

  PhilosopherGerman1900 · 19th century

  4.3 · 33 votes · 29 reads

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• The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna.

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  Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  PoetBritish1806 · 19th century

  3.8 · 52 votes · 8 reads

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• There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  4.2 · 15 votes · 153 reads

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• They are good furniture pictures, unworthy of praise, and undeserving of blame.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  3.6 · 49 votes · 119 reads

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• Those whom true love has held, it will go on holding.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.5 · 33 votes · 99 reads

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• Truly has it been said; that all that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

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  Anonymous

  3.4 · 40 votes · 171 reads

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• We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  5.0 · 17 votes · 76 reads

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• We don't let them have ideas. Why would we let them have guns?

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  Joseph Stalin

  LeaderRussian1879 · 19th century

  4.5 · 63 votes · 57 reads

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• We shall be better prepared for the future if we see how terrible, how doomed the present is.

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  Iris Murdoch

  NovelistBritish1919 · 20th century

  3.7 · 54 votes · 84 reads

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• When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  3.3 · 14 votes · 27 reads

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• You believe happiness to be derived from the place in which once you have been happy, but in truth it is centered in ourselves.

  

  Franz Schubert

  MusicianAustrian1797 · 18th century

  3.9 · 9 votes · 167 reads

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• You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.3 · 29 votes · 24 reads

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• You teach best what you most need to learn.

  

  Raymond Chandler

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  4.8 · 20 votes · 70 reads

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