Quotes for April 1051 quotes · 42 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every April 10: the anniversary does not move.

• A child miseducated is a child lost.

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  4.1 · 64 votes · 30 reads

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• A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human.

  

  Alan Turing

  MathematicianEnglish1912 · 20th century

  3.5 · 60 votes · 143 reads

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• A mother's heart is always with her children.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  4.8 · 38 votes · 23 reads

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• A phoneless cord is a great device for people who love peace and quiet.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 29 votes · 148 reads

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• A state without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation.

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  4.9 · 58 votes · 177 reads

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• Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt.

  

  Henri Frédéric Amiel

  WriterSwiss1821 · 19th century

  4.0 · 23 votes · 54 reads

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• Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs.

  

  Karl Marx

  EconomistGerman1818 · 19th century

  4.4 · 8 votes · 46 reads

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• Clever liars give details, but the cleverest don't.

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 12 votes · 138 reads

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• Grant what thou commandest and then command what thou wilt.

  

  Rudyard Kipling

  WriterBritish1865 · 19th century

  3.7 · 41 votes · 123 reads

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• He didn't dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.4 · 59 votes · 80 reads

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• I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  4.4 · 11 votes · 161 reads

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• I guess the definition of a lunatic is a man surrounded by them.

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  Ezra Pound

  PoetAmerican1885 · 19th century

  4.3 · 7 votes · 80 reads

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• I'm not quite sure what the greatest achievement in a lifetime may be, but I am sure up there at the top of the list somewhere is to give pleasure to others.

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 60 votes · 116 reads

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• If men do not keep on speaking terms with children, they cease to be men, and become merely machines for eating and for earning money.

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  John Updike

  WriterAmerican1932 · 20th century

  4.1 · 23 votes · 198 reads

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• If you saw a dog going to be crushed under a car, wouldn't you help him?

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  Oskar Schindler

  BusinessmanCzechoslovakian1908 · 20th century

  4.6 · 64 votes · 64 reads

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• Impossible is a word only to be found in the dictionary of fools.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  3.2 · 59 votes · 3 reads

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• In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker.

  

  Plutarch

  EssayistGreek46 · 1st century

  4.0 · 47 votes · 40 reads

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• It is a cursed evil to any man to become as absorbed in any subject as I am in mine.

  

  Charles Darwin

  ScientistEnglish1809 · 19th century

  3.3 · 62 votes · 20 reads

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• Learning: The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

  

  Ambrose Bierce

  WriterAmerican1842 · 19th century

  3.2 · 32 votes · 123 reads

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• Liberation is not deliverance.

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  3.9 · 24 votes · 12 reads

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• Love the whole world as a mother lovers her only child.

  

  Buddha

  LeaderNepal-563 · 6th century BC

  4.4 · 21 votes · 177 reads

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• Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.8 · 55 votes · 21 reads

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• Money is a singular thing. It ranks with love as man's greatest source of joy. And with death as his greatest source of anxiety. Over all history it has oppressed nearly all people in one of two ways: either it has been abundant and very unreliable, or re

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  John Kenneth Galbraith

  EconomistAmerican1908 · 20th century

  4.5 · 13 votes · 166 reads

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• No answer is also an answer.

  

  German proverb

  German

  3.2 · 11 votes · 123 reads

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• No barber shaves so close but another finds his work.

  

  English proverb

  English

  3.3 · 7 votes · 129 reads

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• Noah was a brave man to sail in a wooden boat with two termites.

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 8 votes · 81 reads

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• Now, we are selling over 5 million songs a day now. Isn't that unbelievable? That's 58 songs every second of every minute of every hour of every day.

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.6 · 5 votes · 133 reads

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• O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.7 · 24 votes · 55 reads

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• Other men's sins are before our eyes; our own are behind our backs.

  

  Seneca

  PhilosopherRoman-4 · 1st century BC

  3.3 · 52 votes · 45 reads

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• Posthumous charities are the very essence of selfishness, when bequeathed by those who. when alive, would not have contributed.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  4.4 · 19 votes · 97 reads

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• Speech is of time, silence is of eternity.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  3.4 · 28 votes · 62 reads

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• Strong character is brought out by change, weak ones by permanence.

  

  Jean Paul

  ComedianGerman1763 · 18th century

  4.6 · 64 votes · 5 reads

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• The boisterous sea of liberty is never without a wave.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  4.4 · 35 votes · 148 reads

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• The center that I cannot find is known to my unconscious mind.

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  W. C. Fields

  ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.5 · 23 votes · 38 reads

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• The most glorious moments in your life are not the so-called days of success, but rather those days when out of dejection and despair you feel rise in you a challenge to life, and the promise of future accomplishments.

  

  Gustave Flaubert

  NovelistFrench1821 · 19th century

  3.0 · 25 votes · 173 reads

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• The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.7 · 23 votes · 134 reads

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• The real news is bad news.

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  Marshall Mcluhan

  EducatorCanadian1911 · 20th century

  3.4 · 12 votes · 182 reads

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• The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.

  

  C. S. Lewis

  AuthorIrish1898 · 19th century

  5.0 · 14 votes · 4 reads

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• The words which express our faith and piety are not definite; yet they are significant and fragrant like frankincense to superior natures.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.0 · 53 votes · 70 reads

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• There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.9 · 61 votes · 169 reads

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• Those who have free seats at a play hiss first.

  

  Chinese proverb

  Chinese

  3.8 · 34 votes · 107 reads

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• We ask advice but we mean approbation.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  3.5 · 20 votes · 104 reads

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• We can't go to people who have lost their job at GM and say, 'Oh, by the way, we are going to pay money to build a road here or inoculate children there,' unless we can demonstrate that it is in America's interest. I happen to think it is.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.8 · 17 votes · 157 reads

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• We must make automatic and habitual, as early as possible, as many useful actions as we can...in the acquisition of a new habit, we must take car to launch ourselves with as strong and decided initiative as possible. Never suffer an exception to occur til

  

  William Hazlitt

  EssayistBritish1778 · 18th century

  3.2 · 43 votes · 45 reads

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• We must treasure the achievers of our land because it's they who raise the sights of all the others.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 11 votes · 87 reads

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• When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.4 · 47 votes · 82 reads

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• When it becomes more difficult to suffer than change - then you will change.

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  Anonymous

  4.0 · 5 votes · 32 reads

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• Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.

  

  David Hume

  PhilosopherScottish1711 · 18th century

  3.5 · 38 votes · 97 reads

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• Yes! To this thought I hold with firm persistence; The last result of wisdom stamps it true; He only earns his freedom and existence Who daily conquers them anew.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.3 · 54 votes · 94 reads

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• You will always have to live with yourself, and it is to your best interest to see that you have good company - a clean, pure, straight, honest, upright, generous, magnanimous companion.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.6 · 13 votes · 195 reads

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