Quotes for April 245 quotes · 39 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every April 2: the anniversary does not move.

• 'Tis chastity, my brother, chastity. She that has that is clad in complete steel, and like a quivered nymph with arrows keen may trace huge forests and unharbored heaths, infamous hills and sandy perilous wilds, where through the sacred rays of chastity,

  

  John Milton

  PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

  3.8 · 64 votes · 84 reads

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• A good poet's made as well as born.

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  Ben Johnson

  PoetEnglish1572 · 16th century

  3.7 · 10 votes · 124 reads

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• After a Polish Pope, whose country was first to be invaded by the Germans in World War Two, we now have someone from the generation drafted at the close of the war.

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  Horst Koehler

  PoliticianGerman1943 · 20th century

  4.3 · 57 votes · 199 reads

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• After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The sense of excitement about the future. The knowledge that a great continent was coming together. Healing those wounds of our history is the centr

  

  David Cameron

  PoliticianBritish1966 · 20th century

  3.5 · 5 votes · 12 reads

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• All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.

  

  Pythagoras

  MathematicianGreek-582 · 6th century BC

  3.9 · 58 votes · 72 reads

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• Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can't expect an angel to look out.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  PhilosopherGerman1788 · 18th century

  3.6 · 17 votes · 126 reads

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• But learn that to die is a debt we must all pay.

  

  Euripides

  PoetGreek-484 · 5th century BC

  4.2 · 43 votes · 170 reads

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• But thousands die without or this or that, die, and endow a college, or a cat: To some, indeed, Heaven grants the happier fate, Tenrich a bastard, or a son they hate.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  4.8 · 35 votes · 4 reads

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• Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.

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  John Kenneth Galbraith

  EconomistAmerican1908 · 20th century

  3.9 · 46 votes · 186 reads

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• Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

  

  Albert Schweitzer

  TheologianGerman-French1875 · 19th century

  3.8 · 34 votes · 28 reads

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• Education can no longer be the sole property of the state.

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  Peter de Vries

  NovelistAmerican1910 · 20th century

  3.8 · 41 votes · 87 reads

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• Everyone knows that by far the happiest and universally enjoyable age of man is the first. What is there about babies which makes us hug and kiss and fondle them, so that even an enemy would give them help at that age?

  

  Erasmus of Rotterdam

  TheologianDutch1466 · 15th century

  4.0 · 7 votes · 24 reads

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• Fantasy love is much better than reality love. Never doing it is very exciting. The most exciting attractions are between two opposites that never meet.

  

  Andy Warhol

  PainterAmerican1928 · 20th century

  3.4 · 28 votes · 147 reads

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• Fashion wears out more clothes than the man.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.0 · 42 votes · 33 reads

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• Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  5.0 · 53 votes · 196 reads

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• Give me a one-handed economist! All my economics say, ''On the one hand… on the other.''

  

  Harry S. Truman

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  3.1 · 33 votes · 21 reads

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• Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  3.2 · 44 votes · 187 reads

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• I cannot accept the doctrine that in poetry there is a ''suspension of belief.'' A poet must never make a statement simply because it is sounds poetically exciting; he must also believe it to be true.

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  W. C. Fields

  ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.4 · 18 votes · 183 reads

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• I enjoy racing historic motorcars from the '50s and '60s. The seed of my interest was planted when I was about 12 years old and took over my mother's Morris Minor. I drove it around my father's farm. But my favorite car is still a McLaren F1, which I have

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  3.5 · 46 votes · 169 reads

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• I was a good amateur but only an average professional. I soon realized that there was a limit to how far I could rise in the music business, so I left the band and enrolled at New York University.

  

  Alan Greenspan

  EconomistAmerican1926 · 20th century

  4.2 · 57 votes · 93 reads

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• If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.0 · 8 votes · 107 reads

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• Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.0 · 35 votes · 134 reads

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• Luxury is the wolf at the door and its fangs are the vanities and conceits germinated by success. When an artist learns this, he knows where the danger is.

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  T. S. Eliot

  PoetAmerican1888 · 19th century

  3.7 · 5 votes · 72 reads

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• Many people find the universe confusing - it's not.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.6 · 45 votes · 146 reads

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• Masters who sacrifice for servants will receive the gift of loyalty.

  

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  Anonymous

  3.9 · 48 votes · 184 reads

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• One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics.

  

  Henri Poincaré

  MathematicianFrench1854 · 19th century

  4.9 · 55 votes · 101 reads

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• Some are so very studious of learning what was done by the ancients that they know not how to live with the moderns.

  

  William James

  PhilosopherAmerican1842 · 19th century

  3.2 · 42 votes · 13 reads

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• Squeeze human nature into the straitjacket of criminal justice and crime will appear.

  

  Karl Kraus

  WriterAustrian1874 · 19th century

  4.7 · 59 votes · 156 reads

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• Tell the truth, but tell it slant.

  

  Emily Dickinson

  PoetAmerican1830 · 19th century

  3.0 · 40 votes · 3 reads

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• The American ideal, after all, is that everyone should be as much alike as possible.

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  James Baldwin

  WriterAmerican1924 · 20th century

  3.2 · 23 votes · 152 reads

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• The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think.

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  Anonymous

  4.5 · 54 votes · 56 reads

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• The end of all good music is to affect the soul.

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  Claudio Monteverdi

  MusicianItalian1567 · 16th century

  4.0 · 53 votes · 159 reads

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• The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.8 · 18 votes · 108 reads

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• There are very few men of genius in advertising agencies. But we need all we can find. Almost without exception they are disagreeable. Don't destroy them. They lay golden eggs.

  

  David Ogilvy

  BusinessmanEnglish1911 · 20th century

  4.3 · 29 votes · 37 reads

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• There is geometry in the humming of the strings, there is music in the spacing of the spheres.

  

  Pythagoras

  MathematicianGreek-582 · 6th century BC

  3.4 · 60 votes · 158 reads

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• Things said for conversation are chalk eggs. Don't say things. What you are stands over you the while, and thunders so that I cannot hear what you say to the contrary.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.8 · 61 votes · 165 reads

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• This is a fantastic time to be entering the business world, because business is going to change more in the next 10 years than it has in the last 50.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.4 · 57 votes · 138 reads

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• To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days.

  

  Plutarch

  EssayistGreek46 · 1st century

  4.8 · 26 votes · 23 reads

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• We live by our imagination, our admiration, and our sentiments.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.3 · 46 votes · 10 reads

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• What a man calls his ''conscience'' is merely the mental action that follows a sentimental reaction after too much wine or love.

  

  Helen Rowland

  JournalistAmerican1875 · 19th century

  4.2 · 53 votes · 163 reads

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• When a person is down in the world, an ounce of help is better than a pound of preaching.

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  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

  PoliticianBritish1803 · 19th century

  4.6 · 45 votes · 93 reads

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• When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.6 · 47 votes · 95 reads

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• When two people decide to get a divorce, it isn't a sign that they ''don't understand'' one another, but a sign that they have, at last, begun to.

  

  Helen Rowland

  JournalistAmerican1875 · 19th century

  5.0 · 57 votes · 26 reads

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• With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.8 · 39 votes · 26 reads

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