Quotes for April 2648 quotes · 38 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every April 26: the anniversary does not move.

• 'Smart power' is the use of American power in ways that would help prevent and resolve conflict - not just send our military in.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.0 · 12 votes · 20 reads

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• A civilization is built on what is required of men, not on that which is provided for them.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  WriterFrench1900 · 19th century

  4.4 · 56 votes · 176 reads

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• An old-timer is one who remembers when it cost more to run a car than to park it.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 14 votes · 36 reads

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• Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

  

  Stendhal

  NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

  3.8 · 64 votes · 161 reads

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• Base souls have no faith in great individuals.

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  3.6 · 61 votes · 20 reads

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• But an old age serene and bright, and lovely as a Lapland night, shall lead thee to thy grave.

  

  William Wordsworth

  PoetEnglish1770 · 18th century

  4.6 · 60 votes · 185 reads

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• Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.

  

  Henri Frédéric Amiel

  WriterSwiss1821 · 19th century

  4.2 · 58 votes · 8 reads

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• Do the thing and you will have the power. But they that do not the thing, had not the power.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.8 · 56 votes · 71 reads

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• Early in the morning, at break of day, in all the freshness and dawn of one's strength, to read a book -I call that vicious!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.8 · 37 votes · 118 reads

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• Eaten bread is soon forgotten.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  3.6 · 30 votes · 91 reads

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• For what is the best choice, for each individual is the highest it is possible for him to achieve.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  3.5 · 23 votes · 155 reads

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• From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  4.0 · 44 votes · 9 reads

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• How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.4 · 27 votes · 144 reads

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• I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores as in these United States. No man can form an adequate idea of the real meaning of the word, without coming here.

  

  Charles Dickens

  NovelistBritish1812 · 19th century

  3.8 · 20 votes · 10 reads

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• I don't think feminism, as I understand the definition, implies the rejection of maternal values, nurturing children, caring about the men in your life. That is just nonsense to me.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.4 · 50 votes · 102 reads

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• I never called my work an 'art'. It's part of show business, the business of building entertainment.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  3.4 · 60 votes · 72 reads

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• I want to work with my husband and my daughter on our mutual foundation interests.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  5.0 · 18 votes · 167 reads

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• If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.8 · 27 votes · 42 reads

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• If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living.

  

  Henri Poincaré

  MathematicianFrench1854 · 19th century

  3.6 · 12 votes · 27 reads

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• If you want a future of shared prosperity, where the middle class is growing and poverty is declining, where the American Dream is alive and well, and where the United States remains the leading force for peace and prosperity in a highly competitive world

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.3 · 36 votes · 140 reads

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• In time we hate that which we often fear.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.8 · 32 votes · 60 reads

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• It is a common seen by experience that excellent memories do often accompany weak judgments.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  4.0 · 53 votes · 185 reads

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• It is quite possible to work without results, but never will there be results without work.

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 39 votes · 133 reads

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• Let him that would move the world, first move himself.

  

  Sir Thomas Browne

  AuthorEnglish1605 · 17th century

  3.1 · 26 votes · 23 reads

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• Let us consider the critic, therefore, as a discoverer of discoveries.

  

  Milan Kundera

  WriterCzech1929 · 20th century

  4.5 · 52 votes · 137 reads

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• Letters are among the most significant memorial a person can leave behind them.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.9 · 30 votes · 169 reads

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• Life and love are life and love, a bunch of violets is a bunch of violets, and to drag in the idea of a point is to ruin everything. Live and let live, love and let love, flower and fade, and follow the natural curve, which flows on, pointless.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

  WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century

  3.1 · 58 votes · 61 reads

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• Man is a two-legged animal without feathers.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  3.5 · 36 votes · 24 reads

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• Music hath the charm to soothe a savage beast, but I'd try a revolver first.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  3.7 · 41 votes · 200 reads

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• One of these days, is none of these days.

  

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 11 votes · 10 reads

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• Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.

  

  Horace

  PoetRoman-65 · 1st century BC

  3.6 · 36 votes · 50 reads

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• Professionalism: It's NOT the job you DO, It's HOW you DO the job.

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 47 votes · 76 reads

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• The advice that is wanted is commonly not welcome and that which is not wanted, evidently an effrontery.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.0 · 51 votes · 128 reads

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• The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.3 · 13 votes · 2 reads

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• The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.6 · 58 votes · 179 reads

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• The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. Albert Einstein It is the function of art to renew

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  Anaïs Nin

  AuthorFrench1903 · 20th century

  4.4 · 42 votes · 11 reads

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• The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1882 · 19th century

  4.0 · 44 votes · 68 reads

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• The new narrative for Europe should be about the need to have a responsible organisation, the need to be able to defend our interests and promote our values, like human rights.

  

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  PoliticianPortuguese1956 · 20th century

  3.9 · 38 votes · 109 reads

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• There are two levers for moving men - interest and fear.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  4.5 · 39 votes · 75 reads

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• There is no one thoroughly despicable. We cannot descend much lower than an idiot; and an idiot has some advantages over a wise man.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  4.0 · 5 votes · 38 reads

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• There is one subtle but important difference between genius and stupidity and that is that genius has its limits. You'll see yourself clearest in the eyes of your friends.

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  Anonymous

  3.4 · 10 votes · 114 reads

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• To apologize is to lay the foundation for a future offense.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  4.3 · 17 votes · 64 reads

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• To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years.

  

  Ernest Hemingway

  WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

  5.0 · 32 votes · 97 reads

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• Traveling makes a man wiser, but less happy.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  4.5 · 43 votes · 175 reads

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• Up until the 1920s, everyone thought the universe was essentially static and unchanging in time.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.0 · 10 votes · 164 reads

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• War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight, The lawyer's jest, the hired assassin's trade.

  

  Pearl S. Buck

  NovelistAmerican1892 · 19th century

  3.0 · 41 votes · 114 reads

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• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  3.5 · 28 votes · 29 reads

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