Quotes for April 1351 quotes · 43 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every April 13: the anniversary does not move.

• A book is like a man - clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers

  

  John Steinbeck

  WriterAmerican1902 · 20th century

  4.0 · 47 votes · 110 reads

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• A revolution does not last more than fifteen years, the period which coincides with the flourishing of a generation.

  

  José Ortega y Gasset

  PhilosopherSpanish1883 · 19th century

  4.9 · 58 votes · 171 reads

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• Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  3.7 · 34 votes · 49 reads

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• Do something. If it works, do more of it. If it doesn't, do something else.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1882 · 19th century

  3.1 · 10 votes · 110 reads

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• Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads and empty hearts can do that.

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  Norman Mailer

  WriterAmerican1923 · 20th century

  3.7 · 23 votes · 176 reads

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• Every man for himself and God for us all.

  

  Soren Kierkegaard

  PhilosopherDanish1813 · 19th century

  3.9 · 17 votes · 30 reads

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• Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.1 · 30 votes · 54 reads

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• For last year's words belong to last year's language and next year's words await another voice.

  

  Susan Sontag

  AuthorAmerican1933 · 20th century

  3.4 · 22 votes · 9 reads

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• Free nations are peaceful nations. Free nations don't attack each other. Free nations don't develop weapons of mass destruction.

  

  George W. Bush

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  4.6 · 35 votes · 105 reads

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• I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  3.8 · 32 votes · 1 reads

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• I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong, hit or miss, renders conversation insipid and vulgar.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes

  PoetSpanish1547 · 16th century

  4.1 · 36 votes · 191 reads

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• I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  4.0 · 21 votes · 58 reads

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• I have experienced failure as a politician and for that very reason, I am ready to give everything for Japan.

  

  Shinzo Abe

  PoliticianJapanese1954 · 20th century

  3.0 · 9 votes · 144 reads

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• I must lose myself in action, lest I wither in despair.

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  Lord Alfred Tennyson

  PoetBritish1809 · 19th century

  3.7 · 22 votes · 48 reads

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• I never loved another person the way I loved myself.

  

  Mae West

  ComedianAmerican1893 · 19th century

  3.7 · 21 votes · 27 reads

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• I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  3.1 · 43 votes · 10 reads

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• If life must not be taken too seriously - then so neither must death.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  4.9 · 60 votes · 20 reads

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• It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun.

  

  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  PoetAmerican1807 · 19th century

  4.0 · 5 votes · 162 reads

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• It is what we learn after we think we know it all, that counts.

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 9 votes · 84 reads

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• It makes a great difference in the force of a sentence, whether a man be behind it or no.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.5 · 26 votes · 8 reads

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• Love thy neighbour but keep your high.

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  Anonymous

  4.2 · 27 votes · 27 reads

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• Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

  

  Jean Jacques Rousseau

  PoliticianSwiss1712 · 18th century

  4.7 · 47 votes · 129 reads

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• Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow.

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.4 · 8 votes · 107 reads

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• Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.

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  James Baldwin

  WriterAmerican1924 · 20th century

  3.3 · 8 votes · 165 reads

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• Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that. Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world.

  

  Salvador Dalí

  PainterSpanish1904 · 20th century

  3.2 · 21 votes · 71 reads

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• One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.6 · 51 votes · 73 reads

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• Only those live who do good.

  

  Leo Tolstoy

  WriterRussian1828 · 19th century

  3.0 · 9 votes · 127 reads

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• People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time.

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  3.2 · 28 votes · 116 reads

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• Philosophy, like medicine, has plenty of drugs, few good remedies, and hardly any specific cures.

  

  Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

  PoetFrench1636 · 17th century

  3.6 · 35 votes · 50 reads

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• Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  3.9 · 19 votes · 151 reads

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• Quit not certainty for hope.

  

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 46 votes · 37 reads

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• Reality, if rightly interpreted, is grander than fiction.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.8 · 53 votes · 48 reads

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• Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  4.9 · 24 votes · 166 reads

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• So-called professional mathematicians have, in their reliance on the relative incapacity of the rest of mankind, acquired for themselves a reputation for profundity very similar to the reputation for sanctity possessed by theologians.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  3.2 · 43 votes · 122 reads

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• Success covers a multitude of blunders.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  5.0 · 18 votes · 36 reads

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• The conundrum that I face on a daily basis is that I have two sons who have grown up watching 'The Simpsons,' so they know exactly what buttons to push. They know how Bart irritates Homer, and they use these lines against me to tell me that I'm not funny

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  3.2 · 59 votes · 37 reads

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• The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

  

  Pearl S. Buck

  NovelistAmerican1892 · 19th century

  3.8 · 32 votes · 62 reads

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• The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  3.9 · 29 votes · 183 reads

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• The scary thing about the future... there will be tiny cameras everywhere, and they'll be flying around like mosquitoes and drones. That will be bad. Drones are scary. You can't reason with a drone.

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  3.8 · 5 votes · 117 reads

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• The United States has overstepped its borders in all spheres - economic, political and humanitarian - and has imposed itself on other states.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  4.6 · 26 votes · 8 reads

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• There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

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  Anonymous

  3.2 · 24 votes · 97 reads

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• There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

  

  Baltasar Gracián

  WriterSpanish1601 · 17th century

  3.0 · 54 votes · 159 reads

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• To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed.

  

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

  3.5 · 43 votes · 92 reads

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• We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.

  

  Ernest Hemingway

  WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

  3.2 · 38 votes · 186 reads

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• We are all of us the worse for too much liberty.

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  Tennessee Williams

  PlaywrightAmerican1911 · 20th century

  3.8 · 43 votes · 69 reads

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• We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.1 · 15 votes · 70 reads

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• We leave unmolested those who set the fire to the house, and prosecute those who sound the alarm.

  

  Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux

  PoetFrench1636 · 17th century

  4.4 · 64 votes · 83 reads

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• When the book comes out it may hurt you - but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first. I can only tell you about yourself as much as I can face about myself.

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  James Baldwin

  WriterAmerican1924 · 20th century

  3.1 · 48 votes · 112 reads

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• Women have served all these centuries as looking-glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

  

  Vincent van Gogh

  PainterDutch1853 · 19th century

  4.6 · 8 votes · 125 reads

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• You can protect your liberties in this world only by protecting the other man's freedom. You can be free only if I am free.

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  Clarence S. Darrow

  LawyerAmerican1857 · 19th century

  4.5 · 34 votes · 85 reads

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