Quotes for April 2448 quotes · 43 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every April 24: the anniversary does not move.

• A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  3.2 · 40 votes · 28 reads

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• A Sunday well-spent brings a week of content.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.9 · 58 votes · 95 reads

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• A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard

  PhilosopherDanish1813 · 19th century

  3.0 · 31 votes · 179 reads

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• An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured.

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  Konrad Adenauer

  PoliticianGerman1876 · 19th century

  5.0 · 36 votes · 162 reads

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• And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin is pride that apes humility.

  

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

  4.0 · 31 votes · 127 reads

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• Argue for your limitations and sure enough they're yours

  

  Raymond Chandler

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  3.6 · 61 votes · 86 reads

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• Bernard Herrmann used to write all his scores by himself. So did Bach, Beethoven and Stravinsky. I don't understand why this happens in the movie industry.

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  Ennio Morricone

  MusicianItalian1928 · 20th century

  3.8 · 24 votes · 102 reads

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• Business is never so healthy as when, like a chicken, it must do a certain amount of scratching around for what it gets.

  

  Henry Ford

  BusinessmanAmerican1863 · 19th century

  4.6 · 47 votes · 91 reads

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• Drunkenness is nothing but voluntary madness.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.5 · 45 votes · 76 reads

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• Dynamism is a function of change.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.0 · 13 votes · 80 reads

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• Everybody feels they have been trespassed upon, and nearly everybody has trespassed on somebody else, maybe not intentionally.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.1 · 45 votes · 72 reads

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• Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  3.6 · 41 votes · 30 reads

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• For such will be our ruin if you, in the immensity of your public abstractions, forget the private figure, or if we in the intensity of our private emotions forget the public world. Both houses will be ruined, the public and the private, the material and

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  3.3 · 28 votes · 177 reads

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• I always prefer to believe the best of everybody - it saves so much trouble.

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  Roy Lichtenstein

  PainterAmerican1923 · 20th century

  4.9 · 60 votes · 82 reads

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• I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.4 · 9 votes · 115 reads

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• I have a different vision of leadership. A leader is someone who brings people together.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.6 · 39 votes · 110 reads

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• I want to put a ding in the universe.

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.2 · 53 votes · 60 reads

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• If music be the food of love; play on.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.9 · 15 votes · 170 reads

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• It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory.

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 17 votes · 93 reads

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• Knowledge of the world in only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

  

  Lord Chesterfield

  PoliticianBritish1694 · 17th century

  4.6 · 64 votes · 193 reads

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• Lawyers and painters can soon make what's black, white.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.2 · 51 votes · 11 reads

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• Let reason govern desire.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.4 · 29 votes · 100 reads

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• Life is short, but there is always time for courtesy.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.4 · 22 votes · 118 reads

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• Must be out-of-doors enough to get experience of wholesome reality, as a ballast to thought and sentiment. Health requires this relaxation, this aimless life.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.6 · 63 votes · 92 reads

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• My father was a small-businessman, and if he didn't get up and go to work, there would be no business.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.8 · 55 votes · 126 reads

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• Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine.

  

  David Ogilvy

  BusinessmanEnglish1911 · 20th century

  5.0 · 49 votes · 106 reads

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• No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.

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  Aesop

  WriterGreek-620 · 7th century BC

  3.5 · 51 votes · 7 reads

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• Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of

  

  Martin Luther King Jr.

  LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century

  5.0 · 27 votes · 15 reads

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• Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  4.0 · 33 votes · 94 reads

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• Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.

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  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

  PoliticianBritish1803 · 19th century

  3.7 · 31 votes · 151 reads

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• Remember, a dead fish can float downstream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.

  

  Voltaire

  WriterFrench1694 · 17th century

  5.0 · 33 votes · 91 reads

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• So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindst

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.5 · 38 votes · 74 reads

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• Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.

  

  Helen Rowland

  JournalistAmerican1875 · 19th century

  4.7 · 28 votes · 159 reads

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• Style is what gives value and currency to thoughts.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  PhilosopherGerman1788 · 18th century

  3.0 · 35 votes · 95 reads

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• The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

  

  Pericles

  PoliticianGreek-495 · 5th century BC

  3.5 · 32 votes · 194 reads

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• The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  3.7 · 7 votes · 113 reads

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• The holy passion of friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.5 · 11 votes · 154 reads

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• The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

  

  Thomas Alva Edison

  ScientistAmerican1847 · 19th century

  3.0 · 28 votes · 6 reads

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• The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

  

  Carl Gustav Jung

  PsychiatristSwiss1875 · 19th century

  3.7 · 36 votes · 146 reads

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• The words of the world want to make sentences.

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  Gaston Bachelard

  PoetFrench1884 · 19th century

  3.6 · 31 votes · 13 reads

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• There is no knowledge that is not power.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.1 · 36 votes · 117 reads

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• There is, so I believe, in the essence of everything, something that we cannot call learning. There is, my friend, only a knowledge - that is everywhere.

  

  Hermann Hesse

  PoetGerman1877 · 19th century

  4.2 · 39 votes · 191 reads

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• To love an idea is to love it a little more than one should.

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  Jean Rostand

  PhilosopherFrench1894 · 19th century

  4.1 · 28 votes · 107 reads

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• What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?

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  Henry James

  AuthorAmerican-British1843 · 19th century

  3.6 · 41 votes · 70 reads

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• What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  4.6 · 44 votes · 97 reads

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• Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

  

  Harry S. Truman

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  4.5 · 56 votes · 15 reads

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• With a brand - and I respect Porsche - but the Ferrari brand is more exclusive... We never do SUVs, we never do four doors, and we never exceed 7,000 cars per year. And 7,000 means 7,000.

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  Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

  BusinessmanItalian1947 · 20th century

  3.8 · 40 votes · 80 reads

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