Quotes for April 1550 quotes · 41 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every April 15: the anniversary does not move.

• A cold in the head causes less suffering than an idea.

  

  Jules Renard

  WriterFrench1864 · 19th century

  4.7 · 31 votes · 131 reads

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• A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.6 · 50 votes · 66 reads

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• A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  4.2 · 20 votes · 149 reads

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• A useless life is an early death.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.7 · 9 votes · 101 reads

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• All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.

  

  Henry Miller

  AuthorAmerican1891 · 19th century

  4.3 · 8 votes · 28 reads

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• China is starting an English-speaking television network around the world, Russia is, Al Jazeera. And the BBC is cutting back on its many language services around the world.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  5.0 · 42 votes · 97 reads

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• Consider your breed; you were not made to live like beasts, but to follow virtue and knowledge.

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  Dante

  PoetItaly1265 · 13th century

  3.5 · 27 votes · 136 reads

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• Death be not proud, though some have called thee Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so. For, those, whom thou think'st thou dost overthrow. Die not, poor death, nor yet canst thou kill me.

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  John Donne

  PoetEnglish1572 · 16th century

  4.2 · 37 votes · 54 reads

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• Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them.

  

  George Orwell

  NovelistBritish1903 · 20th century

  3.8 · 47 votes · 70 reads

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• Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.

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  Diane Ackerman

  WriterAmerican1948 · 20th century

  4.3 · 57 votes · 5 reads

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• Formula 1 has to be more and more also a laboratory, a centre of advanced research for innovative technologies for tomorrow's cars. The KERS is very important in this context, and Ferrari as a manufacturer had, and has, extraordinary support in Formula 1.

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  Luca Cordero di Montezemolo

  BusinessmanItalian1947 · 20th century

  3.2 · 11 votes · 66 reads

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• Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

  

  Rudyard Kipling

  WriterBritish1865 · 19th century

  3.7 · 25 votes · 68 reads

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• Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.2 · 42 votes · 174 reads

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• I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation. A doctor who cannot take out your appendix properly will recommend you to a doctor who will be unable to remove your to

  

  Ernest Hemingway

  WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

  3.9 · 15 votes · 49 reads

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• I never could have done what I have done without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one subject at a time...

  

  Charles Dickens

  NovelistBritish1812 · 19th century

  4.2 · 42 votes · 113 reads

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• I never know when I press these whether I am going to blow up Massachusetts or start the project.

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  4.8 · 41 votes · 24 reads

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• I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of me

  

  Buddha

  LeaderNepal-563 · 6th century BC

  4.2 · 13 votes · 199 reads

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• I should like to lie at your feet and die in your arms.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  4.5 · 12 votes · 186 reads

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• I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes, and the f

  

  Barack Obama

  PoliticianAmerican1961 · 20th century

  4.4 · 57 votes · 40 reads

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• If all mankind were suddenly to practice honesty, many thousands of people would be sure to starve.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  3.6 · 30 votes · 113 reads

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• If you've enjoyed a little and endured a lot, you've really done pretty well.

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 27 votes · 55 reads

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• It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  PoliticianIranian1956 · 20th century

  3.0 · 6 votes · 51 reads

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• It is when we forget ourselves that we do things which will be remembered.

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  Anonymous

  5.0 · 9 votes · 157 reads

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• Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.5 · 30 votes · 96 reads

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• No rules exist, and examples are simply life-savers answering the appeals of rules making vain attempts to exist.

  

  André Breton

  WriterFrench1896 · 19th century

  3.9 · 46 votes · 98 reads

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• Nothing improves the memory more than trying to forget.

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 49 votes · 146 reads

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• Nuclear energy, in terms of an overall safety record, is better than other energy.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.7 · 18 votes · 55 reads

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• Opening amenities are often opening inanities.

  

  Winston Churchill

  PoliticianBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.2 · 29 votes · 64 reads

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• Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.

  

  Karl Marx

  EconomistGerman1818 · 19th century

  3.4 · 39 votes · 152 reads

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• She has lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.5 · 59 votes · 105 reads

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• Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.6 · 18 votes · 109 reads

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• Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

  

  Plutarch

  EssayistGreek46 · 1st century

  4.2 · 32 votes · 8 reads

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• Sooner or later that which is now life shall be poetry, and every fair and manly trait shall add a richer strain to the song.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.5 · 40 votes · 110 reads

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• Speak less but act more.

  

  Jose Maria Aznar

  PoliticianSpanish1953 · 20th century

  4.4 · 36 votes · 158 reads

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• The 2010 global gender gap report by the World Economic Forum shows that countries with better gender equality have faster-growing, more competitive economies.

  

  Michelle Bachelet

  PoliticianChilean1951 · 20th century

  4.2 · 23 votes · 128 reads

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• The hatred of relatives is the most violent.

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  Publius Cornelius Tacitus

  WriterRoman55 · 1st century

  4.5 · 30 votes · 184 reads

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• The Japan-U.S. alliance is an irreplaceable alliance. And I would like to further consolidate and broaden that alliance.

  

  Shinzo Abe

  PoliticianJapanese1954 · 20th century

  4.9 · 57 votes · 190 reads

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• The older author is constantly rediscovering himself in the more or less fossilized productions of his earlier years.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  3.0 · 52 votes · 63 reads

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• The weakest and most timorous are the most revengeful and implacable.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  3.5 · 50 votes · 189 reads

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• There is a huge need and a huge opportunity to get everyone in the world connected, to give everyone a voice and to help transform society for the future. The scale of the technology and infrastructure that must be built is unprecedented, and we believe t

  

  Mark Zuckerberg

  BusinessmanAmerican1984 · 20th century

  4.7 · 51 votes · 171 reads

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• There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!

  

  Mark Twain

  WriterAmerican1835 · 19th century

  4.1 · 52 votes · 188 reads

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• Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.'

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.2 · 12 votes · 182 reads

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• To announce truths is an infallible receipt for being persecuted.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  4.4 · 19 votes · 177 reads

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• Today we voted as Democrats and Republicans. Tomorrow we begin again as New Yorkers.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.0 · 64 votes · 20 reads

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• Towards evening the lazy person begins to get busy.

  

  German proverb

  German

  3.6 · 11 votes · 112 reads

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• We cannot go on as we are with 2.6 million people on incapacity benefit, 500,000 of them are under 35. Are we really saying there are half a million people in this country under 35 who are simply too ill to work? I don't think that's right.

  

  David Cameron

  PoliticianBritish1966 · 20th century

  3.8 · 50 votes · 87 reads

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• We grow by our dreams.

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century

  4.0 · 49 votes · 87 reads

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• We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  5.0 · 31 votes · 153 reads

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• We want to encourage those who are able to work, no question.

  

  Gerhard Schroder

  PoliticianGerman1944 · 20th century

  3.1 · 51 votes · 132 reads

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