Quotes for March 3047 quotes · 37 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every March 30: the anniversary does not move.

• A good man doubles the length of his existence, to have lived so as to look back with pleasure on our past life is to live twice.

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  Anonymous

  3.0 · 24 votes · 150 reads

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• Anything that we can do to raise personal savings is very much in the interest of this country.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  5.0 · 34 votes · 193 reads

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• But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die.

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  Roy Lichtenstein

  PainterAmerican1923 · 20th century

  3.0 · 61 votes · 33 reads

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• Difficulties mastered are opportunities won.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.5 · 33 votes · 30 reads

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• Gallantry to women - the sure road to their favor - is nothing but the appearance of extreme devotion to all their wants and wishes, a delight in their satisfaction, and a confidence in yourself as being able to contribute toward it.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  3.7 · 11 votes · 64 reads

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• Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more amiable than beauty.

  

  Joseph Addison

  PoetEnglish1672 · 17th century

  3.0 · 48 votes · 62 reads

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• However mean your life is, meet it and live it; do not shun it and call it hard names. It is not so bad as you are. It looks poorest when you are the richest.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.0 · 36 votes · 94 reads

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• I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?

  

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  PoliticianAmerican1890 · 19th century

  3.3 · 15 votes · 172 reads

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• I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  4.3 · 5 votes · 3 reads

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• I tell you folks, all politics is applesauce.

  

  Wentworth Dillon

  PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century

  3.4 · 46 votes · 172 reads

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• I think diversity can also be a resource, an asset, especially in a world that is becoming globalized, to deal with difference, to deal with variety, to deal with complexity.

  

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  PoliticianPortuguese1956 · 20th century

  4.3 · 55 votes · 176 reads

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• I'm hopeful. I know there is a lot of ambition in Washington, obviously. But I hope the ambitious realize that they are more likely to succeed with success as opposed to failure.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.1 · 38 votes · 95 reads

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• If you don't like your own character there may be a new one ready-made and waiting for you. The snake sheds its skin with impunity, relying on the same nature which you rely on.

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  Anonymous

  3.5 · 25 votes · 73 reads

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• It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century

  4.9 · 40 votes · 27 reads

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• It takes a politician to run a government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for fifteen years.

  

  Harry S. Truman

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  4.9 · 19 votes · 146 reads

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• It's motive alone which gives character to the actions of men.

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  4.2 · 19 votes · 199 reads

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• Life is like playing the violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  4.3 · 7 votes · 12 reads

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• Love can do much, but duty more.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.2 · 12 votes · 55 reads

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• Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes.

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 32 votes · 154 reads

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• Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.4 · 58 votes · 143 reads

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• Man is a useless passion.

  

  Jean Paul Sartre

  WriterFrench1905 · 20th century

  5.0 · 25 votes · 35 reads

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• Nature arms each man with some faculty which enables him to do easily some feat impossible to any other.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.2 · 52 votes · 44 reads

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• Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever they are.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  4.9 · 60 votes · 76 reads

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• Of all the things that tax a man's patience, there's nothing to compare with a stuck zipper.

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 62 votes · 77 reads

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• Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.0 · 62 votes · 99 reads

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• Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

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  Sophocles

  PoetGreek

  3.6 · 24 votes · 167 reads

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• One of the problems with hedge funds is that they are changing so rapidly. If you have the balance sheet that closed business last night, by 11 A.M. this morning, that won't tell you very much about what they're doing.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  3.5 · 23 votes · 17 reads

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• Our best thoughts come from others.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.0 · 47 votes · 105 reads

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• People of humor are always in some degree people of genius.

  

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

  3.4 · 23 votes · 193 reads

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• People who live in glass houses should take out insurance.

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 33 votes · 151 reads

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• Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing. The rest is mere sheep-herding.

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  Ezra Pound

  PoetAmerican1885 · 19th century

  3.4 · 48 votes · 43 reads

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• The first mistake are theirs who commit them, the second are theirs that permit them.

  

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 49 votes · 195 reads

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• The more we do, the more we can do; the more busy we are, the more leisure we have.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  3.4 · 16 votes · 181 reads

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• The source of our actions resides in an unconscious propensity to regard ourselves as the center, the cause, and the conclusion of time. Our reflexes and our pride transform into a planet the parcel of flesh and consciousness we are.

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  Emil Cioran

  PhilosopherRomanian1911 · 20th century

  3.3 · 39 votes · 8 reads

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• The true university of these days is a collection of books.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.8 · 60 votes · 7 reads

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• There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  4.4 · 20 votes · 78 reads

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• There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses.

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  Louis Aragon

  PoetFrench1897 · 19th century

  4.3 · 13 votes · 63 reads

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• There is in the act of preparing, the moment you start caring.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.1 · 47 votes · 115 reads

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• There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God.

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  4.2 · 18 votes · 174 reads

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• Times of great calamity and confusion have been productive for the greatest minds. The purest ore is produced from the hottest furnace. The brightest thunder-bolt is elicited from the darkest storm.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  3.1 · 45 votes · 131 reads

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• To do great things is difficult, but to command great things is more difficult.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.4 · 57 votes · 96 reads

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• To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  3.0 · 30 votes · 130 reads

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• Toleration is the best religion.

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  4.5 · 31 votes · 94 reads

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• True life is lived when tiny changes occur.

  

  Leo Tolstoy

  WriterRussian1828 · 19th century

  3.7 · 9 votes · 98 reads

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• We boil at different degrees.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.5 · 48 votes · 19 reads

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• Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.6 · 8 votes · 171 reads

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