Quotes for March 646 quotes · 40 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every March 6: the anniversary does not move.

• A minute's success pays the failure of years.

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  Robert Bresson

  Film directorFrench1901 · 20th century

  3.6 · 12 votes · 42 reads

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• A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

  

  Thomas Mann

  AuthorGerman1875 · 19th century

  4.5 · 11 votes · 120 reads

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• A well begun is half ended.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  4.4 · 9 votes · 154 reads

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• As fire when thrown into water is cooled down and put out, so also a false accusation when brought against a man of the purest and holiest character, boils over and is at once dissipated, and vanishes and threats of heaven and sea, himself standing unmove

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.9 · 45 votes · 83 reads

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• As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

  

  English proverb

  English

  3.0 · 50 votes · 119 reads

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• Books are the best of things if well used; if abused, among the worst. They are good for nothing but to inspire. I had better never see a book than be warped by its attraction clean out of my own orbit, and made a satellite instead of a system.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.7 · 56 votes · 85 reads

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• Criticism is a study by which men grow important and formidable at very small expense. He whom nature has made weak, and idleness keeps ignorant, may yet support his vanity by the name of a critic.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.3 · 17 votes · 88 reads

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• Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

  

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

  WriterRussian1821 · 19th century

  4.2 · 13 votes · 43 reads

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• For who is pleased with himself.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.6 · 23 votes · 6 reads

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• History has not dealt kindly with the aftermath of protracted periods of low risk premiums.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.1 · 23 votes · 73 reads

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• I am blackly bored when they are at large and at work; but somehow I am still more blackly bored when they are shut up in Holloway and we are deprived of them.

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  Henry James

  AuthorAmerican-British1843 · 19th century

  3.0 · 63 votes · 163 reads

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• I generally leave the details of fiscal programs to the Administration and Congress. That's really their area of authority and responsibility, and I don't think it's appropriate for me to second guess.

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  Ben Bernanke

  EconomistAmerican1953 · 20th century

  4.7 · 6 votes · 46 reads

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• I was obliged to be industrious. Whoever is equally industrious will succeed equally well.

  

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  MusicianGerman1685 · 17th century

  4.1 · 38 votes · 28 reads

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• If a man constantly aspires is he not elevated?

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.3 · 45 votes · 43 reads

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• If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revol

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.7 · 57 votes · 178 reads

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• In law, nothing is certain but the expense.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  3.5 · 5 votes · 187 reads

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• Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  3.1 · 58 votes · 187 reads

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• It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  3.7 · 58 votes · 82 reads

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• It is not the employer who pays wages - he only handles the money. It is the product who pays the wages.

  

  Henry Ford

  BusinessmanAmerican1863 · 19th century

  3.5 · 32 votes · 111 reads

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• It's heartbreaking to see so many people trapped in a web of enforced idleness, deep debt, and gnawing self-doubt.

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.6 · 46 votes · 186 reads

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• Madam, I have come from a country where people are hanged if they talk.

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  Leonhard Euler

  MathematicianSwiss1707 · 18th century

  4.4 · 18 votes · 160 reads

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• Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  4.1 · 40 votes · 145 reads

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• Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.2 · 43 votes · 91 reads

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• Never put off today what you can put off tomorrow.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard

  PhilosopherDanish1813 · 19th century

  4.1 · 39 votes · 133 reads

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• Nothing more completely baffles one who is full of tricks and duplicity than straight forward and simple integrity in another.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  3.6 · 39 votes · 130 reads

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• One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession.

  

  Socrates

  PhilosopherGreek-470 · 5th century BC

  3.3 · 30 votes · 154 reads

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• Our enemies come nearer the truth in the opinions they form of us than we do in our opinion of ourselves.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.5 · 33 votes · 188 reads

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• Public sentiment is everything, without it nothing can fail, without it nothing can succeed.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.4 · 8 votes · 87 reads

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• Russia also declared its independence. This was approved by the Supreme Soviet, and you know and remember that there was the Declaration on the Independence of Russia.

  

  Boris Yeltsin

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  4.8 · 17 votes · 111 reads

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• So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

  

  Susan Sontag

  AuthorAmerican1933 · 20th century

  4.5 · 5 votes · 130 reads

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• Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

  

  Pythagoras

  MathematicianGreek-582 · 6th century BC

  4.3 · 6 votes · 171 reads

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• The better I know men the more I admire dogs.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 11 votes · 59 reads

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• The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

  

  Plutarch

  EssayistGreek46 · 1st century

  4.9 · 43 votes · 110 reads

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• This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess.

  

  Pythagoras

  MathematicianGreek-582 · 6th century BC

  5.0 · 57 votes · 175 reads

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• To look back to antiquity is one thing, to go back to it is another.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  3.4 · 5 votes · 42 reads

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• Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.2 · 34 votes · 146 reads

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• We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.

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  T. S. Eliot

  PoetAmerican1888 · 19th century

  4.0 · 20 votes · 64 reads

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• We come and cry and that is life, we cry and go and that is death.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.4 · 21 votes · 176 reads

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• We have created characters and animated them in the dimension of depth, revealing through them to our perturbed world that the things we have in common far outnumber and outweigh those that divide us.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  3.4 · 37 votes · 75 reads

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• We must admit with humility that, while number is purely a product of our minds, space has a reality outside our minds, so that we cannot completely prescribe its properties a priori.

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  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  MathematicianGerman1777 · 18th century

  3.5 · 62 votes · 146 reads

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• We never desire strongly, what we desire rationally.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.1 · 53 votes · 158 reads

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• What I possess I would gladly retain. Change amuses the mind, yet scarcely profits.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  4.7 · 6 votes · 9 reads

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• Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  5.0 · 59 votes · 146 reads

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• You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.6 · 12 votes · 181 reads

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• You now have to decide what 'image' you want for your brand. Image means personality. Products, like people, have personalities, and they can make or break them in the market place.

  

  David Ogilvy

  BusinessmanEnglish1911 · 20th century

  3.6 · 47 votes · 191 reads

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