Quotes for April 349 quotes · 40 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every April 3: the anniversary does not move.

• A manager is responsible for the application and performance of knowledge.

  

  Peter Drucker

  BusinessmanAmerican1909 · 20th century

  3.6 · 20 votes · 87 reads

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• A nuclear-weapons armed Iran is not in anyone's human-rights interests. That is a direct threat to the lives and the livelihoods and the stability not only of the region but beyond.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.7 · 14 votes · 181 reads

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• Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.0 · 26 votes · 169 reads

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• Beauty is a harmonious relation between something in our nature and the quality of the object which delights us.

  

  Blaise Pascal

  PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century

  3.8 · 23 votes · 88 reads

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• Beauty rests on necessities.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  5.0 · 33 votes · 38 reads

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• Everything must degenerate into work if anything is to happen.

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  Peter de Vries

  NovelistAmerican1910 · 20th century

  3.2 · 7 votes · 167 reads

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• For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It has two hands, two feet, two tails, two, indeed, of every member and each one is the exact opposite of the other. Yet, so strictly are they joined together

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  3.6 · 5 votes · 92 reads

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• For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbours, and laugh at them in our turn?

  

  Jane Austen

  NovelistEnglish1775 · 18th century

  3.0 · 15 votes · 137 reads

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• Free speech is the whole thing, the whole ball game. Free speech is life itself.

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  Saint Thomas Aquinas

  TheologianRoman1224 · 13th century

  5.0 · 64 votes · 164 reads

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• Give a critic an inch, he'll write a play.

  

  John Steinbeck

  WriterAmerican1902 · 20th century

  4.8 · 44 votes · 13 reads

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• Honor is simply the morality of superior men.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.7 · 35 votes · 32 reads

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• Humor is consistent with pathos, whilst wit is not.

  

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

  4.6 · 53 votes · 75 reads

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• I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.7 · 15 votes · 43 reads

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• I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  4.6 · 53 votes · 167 reads

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• I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.0 · 15 votes · 112 reads

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• If a woman possesses manly virtues one should run away from her; and if she does not possess them she runs away from herself.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.0 · 16 votes · 102 reads

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• If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  3.2 · 29 votes · 30 reads

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• If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.6 · 58 votes · 12 reads

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• In every loving woman there is a priestess of the past - a pious guardian of some affection, of which the object has disappeared.

  

  Henri Frédéric Amiel

  WriterSwiss1821 · 19th century

  4.2 · 58 votes · 161 reads

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• It is the heart that makes a man rich. He is rich according to what he is, not according to what he has.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  4.5 · 25 votes · 20 reads

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• Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.2 · 5 votes · 95 reads

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• Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

  

  Pythagoras

  MathematicianGreek-582 · 6th century BC

  5.0 · 27 votes · 138 reads

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• Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.7 · 16 votes · 97 reads

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• More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  WriterFrench1900 · 19th century

  3.2 · 16 votes · 72 reads

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• None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  3.5 · 15 votes · 72 reads

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• Nothing can be said about our politics that has not already been said about hemorrhoids.

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  Anonymous

  3.6 · 37 votes · 8 reads

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• One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  4.3 · 49 votes · 117 reads

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• Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  4.3 · 15 votes · 82 reads

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• Precept guides, but example draws.

  

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 5 votes · 142 reads

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• Reading the Scriptures is an uplifting experience.

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 13 votes · 163 reads

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• So I know all about the ups and downs of football, I know that one day I will be sacked.

  

  Jose Mourinho

  CoachPortuguese1963 · 20th century

  4.1 · 27 votes · 125 reads

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• Success occurs when opportunity meets preparation.

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 17 votes · 93 reads

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• That fellow seems to me to possess but one idea, and that is a wrong one.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.0 · 49 votes · 35 reads

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• That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.7 · 63 votes · 91 reads

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• The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  3.4 · 17 votes · 195 reads

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• The original is unfaithful to the translation.

  

  Jorge Luis Borges

  WriterArgentinian1899 · 19th century

  3.3 · 33 votes · 183 reads

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• The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.

  

  Karl Marx

  EconomistGerman1818 · 19th century

  3.2 · 52 votes · 181 reads

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• The soul's emphasis is always right.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.7 · 38 votes · 144 reads

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• The squeaking wheel doesn't always get the grease. Sometimes it gets replaced.

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  Anonymous

  3.0 · 49 votes · 12 reads

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• There's nothing wrong with anger provided you use it constructively.

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  3.7 · 24 votes · 109 reads

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• This country has gotten where it is in spite of politics, not by the aid of it. That we have carried as much political bunk as we have and still survived shows we are a super nation.

  

  Wentworth Dillon

  PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century

  5.0 · 32 votes · 197 reads

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• Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate President Obama and the Democrats.

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.2 · 24 votes · 49 reads

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• We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.2 · 46 votes · 134 reads

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• Weak eyes are fondest of glittering objects.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.1 · 64 votes · 176 reads

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• When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  4.9 · 44 votes · 130 reads

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• Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  3.0 · 61 votes · 128 reads

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• With affection beaming in one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.

  

  Charles Dickens

  NovelistBritish1812 · 19th century

  4.5 · 62 votes · 193 reads

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• You know, one of the things I think you understand as president is you're held responsible for everything, but you don't always have control of everything, right?

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.0 · 64 votes · 9 reads

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