Quotes for April 847 quotes · 40 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every April 8: the anniversary does not move.

• A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.1 · 62 votes · 57 reads

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• A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  3.0 · 5 votes · 38 reads

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• A soul that is reluctant to share does not as a rule have much of its own. Miserliness is here a symptom of meagerness.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  4.9 · 11 votes · 135 reads

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• Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.9 · 13 votes · 182 reads

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• Children should be led into the right paths, not by severity, but by persuasion.

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  Tennessee Williams

  PlaywrightAmerican1911 · 20th century

  3.1 · 12 votes · 123 reads

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• Executives owe it to the organization and to their fellow workers not to tolerate nonperforming individuals in important jobs.

  

  Peter Drucker

  BusinessmanAmerican1909 · 20th century

  3.6 · 43 votes · 14 reads

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• From the withered tree, a flower blooms.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 8 votes · 9 reads

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• God delays but doesn't forget.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard

  PhilosopherDanish1813 · 19th century

  3.8 · 30 votes · 89 reads

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• Hope is the last to abandon the unhappy.

  

  Italian proverb

  Italian

  3.4 · 49 votes · 200 reads

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• I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.2 · 34 votes · 106 reads

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• I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.2 · 20 votes · 67 reads

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• I'm not a traditional politician, and I have a sense of humor. I'll try to soften it and become boring, maybe even very boring, but I'm not sure if I'll be able to.

  

  Silvio Berlusconi

  PoliticianItalian1936 · 20th century

  4.8 · 64 votes · 128 reads

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• Ideas are invented only as correctives to the past. Through repeated rectification of this kind one may hope to disengage an idea that is valid.

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  Gaston Bachelard

  PoetFrench1884 · 19th century

  3.0 · 37 votes · 78 reads

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• In old times men used their powers of painting to show the objects of faith, in later times they use the objects of faith to show their powers of painting.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  5.0 · 43 votes · 165 reads

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• It's clearly a budget. It's got a lot of numbers in it.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.6 · 12 votes · 123 reads

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• Jesus Christ, the condescension of divinity, and the exaltation of humanity.

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  Peter Ustinov

  WriterBritish1921 · 20th century

  4.3 · 24 votes · 150 reads

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• Life without meaning cannot be borne. We find a mission to which we're sworn

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 50 votes · 80 reads

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• Man is by nature a political animal.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  3.1 · 18 votes · 189 reads

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• Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

  

  Carl Gustav Jung

  PsychiatristSwiss1875 · 19th century

  5.0 · 33 votes · 183 reads

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• Mr. Bean is essentially a child trapped in the body of a man. All cultures identify with children in a similar way, so he has this bizarre global outreach.

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  5.0 · 9 votes · 145 reads

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• My life's work has been accomplished. I did all that I could.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  PoliticianRussian1931 · 20th century

  4.5 · 19 votes · 173 reads

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• Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom. - A theme for a great poet would be God's boredom on the seventh day of creation.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.7 · 7 votes · 4 reads

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• Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.

  

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

  3.5 · 62 votes · 131 reads

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• Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.1 · 39 votes · 131 reads

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• People ask me where I got my singing style. I didn't copy my style from anybody.

  

  Elvis Presley

  MusicianAmerican1935 · 20th century

  3.2 · 23 votes · 72 reads

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• People can be divided into three classes, the few who make things happen, the many who watch things happen, and the overwhelming majority who have no idea what has happened.

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 47 votes · 35 reads

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• People think because I can make them laugh on the stage, I'll be able to make them laugh in person. That isn't the case at all. I am essentially a rather quiet, dull person who just happens to be a performer.

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  3.3 · 17 votes · 22 reads

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• The English people believes itself to be free; it is gravely mistaken; it is free only during election of members of parliament; as soon as the members are elected, the people is enslaved; it is nothing. In the brief moment of its freedom, the English peo

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  3.5 · 35 votes · 28 reads

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• The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.

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  Julius Robert Oppenheimer

  PhysicistAmerican1904 · 20th century

  4.9 · 45 votes · 163 reads

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• The most fearful unbelief is unbelief in your self.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.1 · 15 votes · 144 reads

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• The path of sorrow and that path alone, leads to a land where sorrow is unknown.

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  William Butler Yeats

  PoetIrish1865 · 19th century

  3.4 · 34 votes · 171 reads

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• The person who sends out positive thoughts activates the world around him positively and draws back to himself positive results.

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  Norman Mailer

  WriterAmerican1923 · 20th century

  4.4 · 29 votes · 15 reads

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• The present condition of fame is merely fashion.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.2 · 63 votes · 87 reads

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• There is no more independence in politics than there is in jail.

  

  Wentworth Dillon

  PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century

  3.1 · 22 votes · 123 reads

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• They that have lived a single day have lived an age.

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  4.7 · 11 votes · 181 reads

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• To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

  

  Isaac Newton

  MathematicianEnglish1643 · 17th century

  3.8 · 8 votes · 75 reads

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• Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now - always.

  

  Albert Schweitzer

  TheologianGerman-French1875 · 19th century

  4.5 · 12 votes · 47 reads

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• Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  4.9 · 22 votes · 159 reads

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• We are twice armed if we fight with faith.

  

  Pierre Beaumarchais

  PlaywrightFrench1732 · 18th century

  3.0 · 62 votes · 124 reads

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• We know in New York we have several million at any one time who are in New York illegally.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.2 · 9 votes · 66 reads

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• We must watch over our modesty in the presence of those who cannot understand its grounds.

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  Jean Rostand

  PhilosopherFrench1894 · 19th century

  4.9 · 27 votes · 113 reads

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• Well, real estate is always good, as far as I'm concerned.

  

  Donald Trump

  BusinessmanAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.7 · 38 votes · 6 reads

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• When I was a boy, I always saw myself as a hero in comic books and in movies. I grew up believing this dream.

  

  Elvis Presley

  MusicianAmerican1935 · 20th century

  3.5 · 39 votes · 1 reads

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• When the rich think about the poor, they have poor ideas.

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  Evita Peron

  PoliticianArgentinian1919 · 20th century

  4.8 · 49 votes · 200 reads

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• Where love rules, there is no will to power; where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.

  

  Carl Gustav Jung

  PsychiatristSwiss1875 · 19th century

  5.0 · 55 votes · 22 reads

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• You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the sa

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.8 · 5 votes · 83 reads

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