Quotes for April 150 quotes · 41 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every April 1: the anniversary does not move.

• A nation is the same people living in the same place.

  

  James Joyce

  AuthorIrish1882 · 19th century

  4.1 · 60 votes · 37 reads

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• All beliefs are bald ideas.

  

  Francis Picabia

  PainterFrench1879 · 19th century

  3.6 · 26 votes · 162 reads

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• And, we put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities.

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  3.7 · 27 votes · 179 reads

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• Be good. And if you can't be good, be careful. And if you can't be careful, name it after me.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 36 votes · 60 reads

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• Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.

  

  Peter Drucker

  BusinessmanAmerican1909 · 20th century

  3.7 · 39 votes · 40 reads

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• Everything that I understand, I understand only because I love.

  

  Leo Tolstoy

  WriterRussian1828 · 19th century

  3.2 · 53 votes · 169 reads

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• Experience is a wonderful thing, it enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

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  Anonymous

  3.5 · 42 votes · 136 reads

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• Finality is not the language of politics.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.3 · 10 votes · 87 reads

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• For me it is completely clear that our air bases in Germany would be available to the Americans.

  

  Helmut Kohl

  PoliticianGerman1930 · 20th century

  3.6 · 12 votes · 105 reads

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• Happiness is in the heart, not in the circumstances.

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 55 votes · 184 reads

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• He entered the territory of lies without a passport for return.

  

  Graham Greene

  WriterEnglish1904 · 20th century

  3.4 · 43 votes · 55 reads

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• He has left off reading altogether, to the great improvement of his originality.

  

  Charles Lamb

  EssayistEnglish1775 · 18th century

  4.6 · 33 votes · 27 reads

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• He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  4.9 · 38 votes · 4 reads

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• I don't have to look up my family tree, because I know that I'm the sap.

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  Fred A. Allen

  ComedianAmerican1894 · 19th century

  3.7 · 13 votes · 145 reads

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• I updated my grilling app, iGrill, today and it now has Facebook integration that lets you see what other people are grilling right now around the world. Awesome.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg

  BusinessmanAmerican1984 · 20th century

  3.3 · 23 votes · 185 reads

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• If everybody is looking for it, then nobody is finding it. If we were cultured, we would not be conscious of lacking culture. We would regard it as something natural and would not make so much fuss about it. And if we knew the real value of this word we w

  

  Pablo Neruda

  PoetChilean1904 · 20th century

  3.8 · 7 votes · 70 reads

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• If merely ''feeling good'' could decide, drunkenness would be the supremely valid human experience.

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  4.2 · 7 votes · 94 reads

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• If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, then ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.5 · 10 votes · 154 reads

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• If you aspire to be a leader of your own country, you must speak your own language, for God's sake.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  4.0 · 50 votes · 145 reads

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• In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.9 · 27 votes · 134 reads

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• It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.2 · 54 votes · 30 reads

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• It is not how much one makes but to what purpose one spends.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  3.8 · 39 votes · 68 reads

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• It's my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.

  

  Charles Dickens

  NovelistBritish1812 · 19th century

  4.2 · 33 votes · 144 reads

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• It's never too late to start planning for the future.

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  Anonymous

  3.0 · 43 votes · 102 reads

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• Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.0 · 36 votes · 36 reads

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• Only as you do know yourself can your brain serve you as a sharp and efficient tool. Know your failings, passions, and prejudices so you can separate them from what you see. Know also when you actually have thought through to the nature of the thing with

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  Bernard M. Baruch

  PoliticianAmerican1870 · 19th century

  3.8 · 12 votes · 151 reads

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• Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.9 · 10 votes · 11 reads

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• Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

  

  Pearl S. Buck

  NovelistAmerican1892 · 19th century

  4.0 · 61 votes · 47 reads

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• Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked.

  

  Paul Válery

  PoetFrench1871 · 19th century

  4.0 · 63 votes · 104 reads

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• Slavery it is that makes slavery; freedom, freedom. The slavery of women happened when the men were slaves of kings.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.1 · 41 votes · 48 reads

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• The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.

  

  Joseph Conrad

  NovelistBritish1857 · 19th century

  4.5 · 40 votes · 181 reads

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• The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  4.1 · 8 votes · 45 reads

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• The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.2 · 39 votes · 165 reads

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• The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.2 · 50 votes · 157 reads

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• The public is the only critic whose opinion is worth anything at all.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.4 · 9 votes · 183 reads

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• The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

  

  George Orwell

  NovelistBritish1903 · 20th century

  3.6 · 48 votes · 115 reads

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• The religion that is afraid of science dishonors God and commits suicide.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.4 · 42 votes · 163 reads

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• The spirit of envy can destroy; it can never build.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  5.0 · 46 votes · 107 reads

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• The water we drink has to be purified, but look at the trash we feed our minds.

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 42 votes · 127 reads

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• The wretched have no compassion, they can do good only from strong principles of duty.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.9 · 26 votes · 56 reads

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• There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  4.3 · 51 votes · 4 reads

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• These technologies can make life easier, can let us touch people we might not otherwise. You may have a child with a birth defect and be able to get in touch with other parents and support groups, get medical information, the latest experimental drugs. Th

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.8 · 32 votes · 63 reads

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• Time is the wisest counselor of all.

  

  Pericles

  PoliticianGreek-495 · 5th century BC

  3.2 · 10 votes · 86 reads

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• To be in love is merely to be in a perpetual state of anesthesia.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.8 · 32 votes · 105 reads

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• We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.7 · 61 votes · 129 reads

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• What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

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  Nicola Abbagnano

  PhilosopherItaly1901 · 20th century

  3.6 · 50 votes · 185 reads

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• When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

  

  Martin Luther

  LeaderGerman1483 · 15th century

  4.3 · 43 votes · 62 reads

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• Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?

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  Eliza Cook

  AuthorEnglish1818 · 19th century

  3.8 · 41 votes · 110 reads

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• Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.0 · 22 votes · 145 reads

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