Quotes for April 447 quotes · 43 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every April 4: the anniversary does not move.

• A child cannot be taught by anyone who despises him, and a child cannot afford to be fooled.

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  James Baldwin

  WriterAmerican1924 · 20th century

  3.4 · 54 votes · 57 reads

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• A good composer does not imitate; he steals.

  

  Igor Stravinsky

  MusicianRussian1882 · 19th century

  3.4 · 41 votes · 41 reads

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• A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.

  

  Voltaire

  WriterFrench1694 · 17th century

  3.1 · 7 votes · 114 reads

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• A word is dead when it is said. Some say. I say it just, begins to live that day.

  

  Emily Dickinson

  PoetAmerican1830 · 19th century

  3.5 · 54 votes · 16 reads

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• An idea is salvation by imagination.

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  Frank Lloyd Wright

  ArchitectAmerican1867 · 19th century

  3.1 · 5 votes · 194 reads

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• Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.

  

  Jonathan Swift

  WriterIrish1667 · 17th century

  5.0 · 36 votes · 86 reads

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• Beauty is truth, truth beauty - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.

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  John Keats

  PoetBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.3 · 25 votes · 174 reads

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• Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe

  WriterAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.4 · 53 votes · 120 reads

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• Creation destroys as it goes, throws down one tree for the rise of another. But ideal mankind would abolish death, multiply itself million upon million, rear up city upon city, save every parasite alive, until the accumulation of mere existence is swollen

  

  D. H. Lawrence

  WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century

  3.0 · 11 votes · 45 reads

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• Education must have two foundations -morality as a support for virtue, prudence as a defense for self against the vices of others. By letting the balance incline to the side of morality, you only make dupes or martyrs; by letting it incline to the other,

  

  Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

  PoetFrench1636 · 17th century

  3.5 · 34 votes · 1 reads

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• For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  3.8 · 33 votes · 21 reads

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• God whispers in our pleasures, but shouts in our pain.

  

  C. S. Lewis

  AuthorIrish1898 · 19th century

  4.7 · 42 votes · 37 reads

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• Hard work keeps the wrinkles out of the mind and spirit.

  

  Helena Rubinstein

  BusinessmanPolish1870 · 19th century

  3.8 · 17 votes · 79 reads

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• I believe that what so saddens the reformer is not his sympathy with his fellows in distress, but, though he be the holiest son of God, is his private ail. Let this be righted, let the spring come to him, the morning rise over his couch, and he will forsa

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.7 · 53 votes · 48 reads

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• I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud

  PoetFrench1854 · 19th century

  3.2 · 15 votes · 128 reads

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• If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.

  

  Jean Paul Sartre

  WriterFrench1905 · 20th century

  4.9 · 6 votes · 67 reads

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• If you want to win friends, make it a point to remember them. If you remember my name, you pay me a subtle compliment; you indicate that I have made an impression on you. Remember my name and you add to my feeling of importance.

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  Dale Carnegie

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  4.7 · 28 votes · 122 reads

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• If you're in trouble, or hurt or need - go to the poor people. They're the only ones that'll help - the only ones.

  

  John Steinbeck

  WriterAmerican1902 · 20th century

  3.2 · 37 votes · 8 reads

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• In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature.

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  3.0 · 24 votes · 198 reads

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• It should be possible to explain the laws of physics to a barmaid.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  3.9 · 59 votes · 87 reads

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• Let me say this on a personal note. Without the United States of America, I would in all probably not be able to stand here before you today.

  

  Angela Merkel

  PoliticianGerman1954 · 20th century

  3.1 · 9 votes · 110 reads

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• Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do... but how much love we put in that action.

  

  Teresa of Calcutta

  MissionaryAlbanian1910 · 20th century

  4.5 · 14 votes · 72 reads

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• My salad days, when I was green in judgment.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.8 · 26 votes · 173 reads

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• Nothing is more humiliating than to see idiots succeed in enterprises we have failed in.

  

  Gustave Flaubert

  NovelistFrench1821 · 19th century

  3.6 · 9 votes · 131 reads

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• Putin is playing the long game. He has a strategic plan in mind: the Eurasian Union, which would be in competition to Europe.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.2 · 35 votes · 11 reads

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• Tact is the intelligence of the heart.

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  Anonymous

  3.4 · 38 votes · 38 reads

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• The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful -because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact.

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  4.9 · 54 votes · 86 reads

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• The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.4 · 35 votes · 105 reads

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• The first lesson I've learned is that no matter what you do in your life, you have to figure out your own internal rhythms - I mean, what works for you doesn't necessarily work for your friend.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.2 · 19 votes · 143 reads

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• The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.8 · 56 votes · 8 reads

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• The most eloquent eulogy of capitalism was made by its greatest enemy. Marx is only anti-capitalist in so far as capitalism is out of date.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  3.9 · 42 votes · 190 reads

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• The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character.

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  3.5 · 7 votes · 174 reads

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• The Supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things - the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.7 · 24 votes · 7 reads

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• There are few good women who do not tire of their role.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.8 · 38 votes · 145 reads

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• They are the weakest-minded and the hardest-hearted men that most love change.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  4.1 · 8 votes · 121 reads

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• To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection.

  

  Henri Poincaré

  MathematicianFrench1854 · 19th century

  4.0 · 18 votes · 44 reads

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• To find out what others are feeling, don't prod or poke. If you want play with a turtle, you can't get it to come out of its shell by prodding and poking it with a stick, you might kill it. Be gentle not harsh, hard or forceful.

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  Anonymous

  3.2 · 13 votes · 116 reads

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• To find recreation in amusement is not happiness.

  

  Blaise Pascal

  PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century

  4.1 · 27 votes · 174 reads

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• To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

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  Publius Cornelius Tacitus

  WriterRoman55 · 1st century

  4.3 · 54 votes · 144 reads

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• Want of money and the distress of a thief can never be alleged as the cause of his thieving, for many honest people endure greater hardships with fortitude. We must therefore seek the cause elsewhere than in want of money, for that is the miser's passion,

  

  Will Rogers

  ComedianAmerican1879 · 19th century

  4.1 · 23 votes · 59 reads

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• We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.7 · 56 votes · 173 reads

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• We awaken in others the same attitude of mind we hold toward them.

  

  Elbert Hubbard

  AuthorAmerican1856 · 19th century

  5.0 · 38 votes · 56 reads

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• We will not waver; we will not tire; we will not falter, and we will not fail. Peace and Freedom will prevail.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.6 · 56 votes · 125 reads

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• What the mind attends to, the mind considers. What the mind constantly considers, the mind believes. What the mind believes, the mind eventually does.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 57 votes · 122 reads

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• What you have to do is enter the fiction of America, enter America as fiction. It is, indeed, on this fictive basis that it dominates the world.

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  Jean Baudrillard

  PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century

  4.2 · 64 votes · 107 reads

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• Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a ''joke.''

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  4.7 · 8 votes · 125 reads

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