Quotes for April 1145 quotes · 40 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every April 11: the anniversary does not move.

• A champion of the working man has never yet been known to die of overwork.

  

  Robert Burton

  EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century

  3.2 · 5 votes · 41 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.9 · 60 votes · 177 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• A true friend is somebody who can make us do what we can.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.7 · 56 votes · 44 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  3.8 · 26 votes · 105 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• Anyone can be polite to a king. It takes a gentleman to be polite to a beggar.

  A

  Anonymous

  4.8 · 60 votes · 4 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• As peace is the end of war, so to be idle is the ultimate purpose of the busy.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.5 · 46 votes · 7 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

  

  Thomas Fuller

  AuthorBritish1608 · 17th century

  4.9 · 37 votes · 12 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• By including women in decision-making, city governments will be in a better position to fulfill their responsibility to ensure the safety of their residents, especially women and girls.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  4.7 · 14 votes · 54 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  4.4 · 62 votes · 58 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• Economic medicine that was previously meted out by the cupful has recently been dispensed by the barrel. These once unthinkable dosages will almost certainly bring on unwelcome after-effects. Their precise nature is anyone's guess, though one likely conse

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  4.1 · 33 votes · 126 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage... true success follows every right step.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.3 · 33 votes · 86 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

  

  William Faulkner

  WriterAmerican1897 · 19th century

  3.3 · 59 votes · 111 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• Grace is the beauty of form under the influence of freedom.

  

  Friedrich Schiller

  PoetGerman1759 · 18th century

  4.4 · 54 votes · 32 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• Gray hairs seem to my fancy like the soft light of the moon, silvering over the evening of life.

  

  Jean Paul

  ComedianGerman1763 · 18th century

  3.0 · 48 votes · 133 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.6 · 16 votes · 13 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• He that knows himself, knows others; and he that is ignorant of himself, could not write a very profound lecture on other men's heads.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  4.9 · 31 votes · 15 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• He who is false to present duty breaks a thread in the loom, and will find the flaw when he may have forgotten its cause.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher

  PoliticianAmerican1813 · 19th century

  4.6 · 63 votes · 108 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• Heroism feels and never reasons, and therefore is always right.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.1 · 23 votes · 37 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• I do believe in love; it's wonderful - especially love third time around, it's even more precious; it's kind of amazing.

  

  Robin Williams

  ComedianAmerican1952 · 20th century

  3.0 · 24 votes · 141 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• I don't care how much a person talks, if they only say it in a few words.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  3.6 · 55 votes · 50 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• I fear we are not getting rid of God because we still believe in grammar.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.6 · 45 votes · 159 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  4.0 · 52 votes · 200 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• I have never yet seen any plan which has not been mended by the observations of those who were much inferior in understanding to the person who took the lead in the business.

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  4.5 · 7 votes · 200 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• I never worry about action, but only inaction.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.4 · 40 votes · 143 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

  

  Joseph Heller

  AuthorAmerican1923 · 20th century

  3.6 · 25 votes · 149 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• It is better to conquer yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then the victory is yours. It cannot be taken from you, not by angels or by demons, heaven or hell.

  

  Buddha

  LeaderNepal-563 · 6th century BC

  4.7 · 63 votes · 144 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

  S

  Salman Rushdie

  NovelistIndian1947 · 20th century

  4.8 · 54 votes · 107 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• Most men would feel insulted if it were proposed to employ them in throwing stones over a wall, and then in throwing them back, merely that they might earn their wages. But many are no more worthily employed now.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.1 · 24 votes · 66 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reach

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.6 · 27 votes · 24 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• Our judgments judge us, and nothing reveals us, exposes our weaknesses, more ingeniously than the attitude of pronouncing upon our fellows.

  P

  Paul Goodman

  AuthorAmerican1911 · 20th century

  3.8 · 50 votes · 177 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.8 · 37 votes · 57 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• Since the beginning of time, children have not liked to study. They would much rather play, and if you have their interests at heart, you will let them learn while they play; they will find that what they have mastered is child's play.

  C

  Carl Orff

  MusicianGerman1895 · 19th century

  3.4 · 7 votes · 169 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• Teaching is of more importance than urging.

  

  Martin Luther

  LeaderGerman1483 · 15th century

  3.6 · 22 votes · 73 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  4.2 · 32 votes · 113 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

  

  Luis Buñuel

  Film directorSpanish1900 · 19th century

  4.6 · 7 votes · 199 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• The freedom now desired by many is not freedom to do and dare but freedom from care and worry.

  J

  James Truslow Adams

  WriterAmerican1878 · 19th century

  4.1 · 62 votes · 53 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.7 · 58 votes · 24 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time has come.

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  3.9 · 64 votes · 131 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• Those comfortably padded lunatic asylums which are known, euphemistically, as the stately homes of England.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  3.8 · 38 votes · 139 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  4.8 · 5 votes · 20 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• To honor him whom we have made is far from honoring him that hath made us.

  M

  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  4.7 · 38 votes · 52 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• Try to become the kind of person that people are anxious to see you as, and after you leave, they will have a lot of thinking to do.

  A

  Anonymous

  3.6 · 32 votes · 144 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

  G

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  4.5 · 28 votes · 128 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X
• Woman's first duty in life is to her dressmaker. What the second duty is no one has yet discovered.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.3 · 23 votes · 117 reads

  Share on WhatsAppShare on FacebookShare on X