Quotes for April 1951 quotes · 41 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every April 19: the anniversary does not move.

• A crown, golden in show is but a wreath of thorns.

  

  John Milton

  PoetEnglish1608 · 17th century

  3.7 · 8 votes · 24 reads

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• A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  4.4 · 41 votes · 35 reads

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• An angry father is most cruel toward himself.

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  Publilius Syrus

  WriterRoman-46 · 1st century BC

  3.1 · 7 votes · 100 reads

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• Being too good is apt to be uninteresting.

  

  Harry S. Truman

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  3.4 · 23 votes · 141 reads

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• Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question.

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 39 votes · 189 reads

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• Certainly one of the highest duties of the citizen is a scrupulous obedience to the laws of the nation. But it is not the highest duty.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  4.1 · 33 votes · 4 reads

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• Come, fair repentance, daughter of the skies! Soft harbinger of soon returning virtue; The weeping messenger of grace from heaven.

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  Sir John Eliot

  PoliticianBritish1592 · 16th century

  4.1 · 40 votes · 77 reads

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• Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter.

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  3.0 · 47 votes · 190 reads

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• Easy mind, light heart. A mind that is too easy hides a heart that is too heavy.

  

  Franz Schubert

  MusicianAustrian1797 · 18th century

  3.9 · 14 votes · 102 reads

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• Every American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated. this is not the case.

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  3.1 · 8 votes · 165 reads

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• Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.3 · 16 votes · 184 reads

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• Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  3.2 · 60 votes · 3 reads

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• Evil is neither suffering nor sin; it is both at the same time, it is something common to them both. For they are linked together; sin makes us suffer and suffering makes us evil, and this indissoluble complex of suffering and sin is the evil in which we

  

  Simone de Beauvoir

  NovelistFrench1908 · 20th century

  3.8 · 60 votes · 92 reads

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• Fortune befriends the bold.

  

  John Dryden

  PoetBritish1631 · 17th century

  4.8 · 46 votes · 109 reads

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• Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.

  

  George Orwell

  NovelistBritish1903 · 20th century

  3.9 · 31 votes · 52 reads

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• I believe in getting into hot water. I think it keeps you clean.

  

  Gilbert Keith Chesterton

  PoetBritish1874 · 19th century

  3.4 · 49 votes · 7 reads

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• I don't ask anyone else to live my life. I have enough trouble doing that.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.4 · 11 votes · 71 reads

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• I suppose I have a really loose interpretation of ''work,'' because I think that just being alive is so much work at something you don't always want to do. The machinery is always going. Even when you sleep.

  

  Andy Warhol

  PainterAmerican1928 · 20th century

  3.5 · 54 votes · 189 reads

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• I'm sorry, it's true. Having children really changes your view on these things. We're born, we live for a brief instant, and we die. It's been happening for a long time. Technology is not changing it much - if at all.

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.0 · 19 votes · 40 reads

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• I'm treating you as a friend asking you to share my present minuses in the hope that I can ask you to share my future pluses

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  Katherine Mansfield

  WriterEnglish1888 · 19th century

  4.4 · 11 votes · 190 reads

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• I'm trying to keep a level head. You have to be careful out in the world. It's so easy to get turned.

  

  Elvis Presley

  MusicianAmerican1935 · 20th century

  4.2 · 58 votes · 105 reads

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• It is excellent discipline for an author to feel that he must say all that he has to say in the fewest possible words, or his readers is sure to skip them.

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  4.3 · 12 votes · 176 reads

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• It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakeni

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  H. G. Wells

  AuthorAmerican1866 · 19th century

  3.8 · 37 votes · 139 reads

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• Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of lif

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  5.0 · 62 votes · 54 reads

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• Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat... the redeeming things are not ''happiness and pleasure'' but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

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  Anonymous

  3.5 · 7 votes · 180 reads

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• May you live all the days of your life.

  

  Jonathan Swift

  WriterIrish1667 · 17th century

  4.9 · 5 votes · 69 reads

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• My mission is to eradicate poverty.

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  Dilma Rousseff

  PoliticianBrazilian1947 · 20th century

  3.0 · 35 votes · 178 reads

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• No more we meet in yonder bowers Absence has made me prone to roving; But older, firmer hearts than ours, Have found monotony in loving.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  4.6 · 64 votes · 145 reads

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• One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century

  3.9 · 18 votes · 11 reads

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• One day after laying a wreath at the tomb of Martin Luther King Jr., President Bush appoints a federal judge who has built his career around dismantling Dr. King's legacy.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.6 · 32 votes · 95 reads

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• Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  4.6 · 31 votes · 37 reads

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• Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.7 · 31 votes · 183 reads

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• People at Facebook are fairly used to the press being nice to us or not nice to us.

  

  Mark Zuckerberg

  BusinessmanAmerican1984 · 20th century

  3.6 · 12 votes · 80 reads

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• People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  4.2 · 63 votes · 109 reads

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• People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress o

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  3.1 · 37 votes · 195 reads

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• Poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is.

  

  English proverb

  English

  4.0 · 61 votes · 143 reads

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• Revenge converts a little right into a great wrong.

  

  German proverb

  German

  3.5 · 33 votes · 120 reads

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• Self-disciplined begins with the mastery of your thoughts. If you don't control what you think, you can't control what you do. Simply, self-discipline enables you to think first and act afterward. - Hill, Napoleon

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  4.2 · 47 votes · 193 reads

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• Sometimes it is necessary to be lonely in order to prove that you are right.

  

  Vladimir Putin

  PoliticianRussian1952 · 20th century

  4.6 · 47 votes · 125 reads

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• The real persuaders are our appetites, our fears and above all our vanity. The skillful propagandist stirs and coaches these internal persuaders.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  3.8 · 27 votes · 126 reads

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• The world is sad enough without your woe.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.4 · 27 votes · 85 reads

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• The written word can be erased - not so with the spoken word.

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  Anonymous

  3.2 · 55 votes · 170 reads

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• There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.8 · 51 votes · 69 reads

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• Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

  

  Graham Greene

  WriterEnglish1904 · 20th century

  3.7 · 64 votes · 4 reads

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• We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.4 · 5 votes · 171 reads

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• We're at maybe 1% of what is possible. Despite the faster change, we're still moving slow relative to the opportunities we have. I think a lot of that is because of the negativity... Every story I read is Google vs someone else. That's boring. We should b

  

  Larry Page

  BusinessmanAmerican1973 · 20th century

  4.5 · 7 votes · 46 reads

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• Wealth is in applications of mind to nature; and the art of getting rich consists not in industry, much less in saving, but in a better order, in timeliness, in being at the right spot.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.5 · 39 votes · 134 reads

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• Well done, is better than well said.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.1 · 39 votes · 150 reads

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• Why should honor outlive honestly?

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.5 · 48 votes · 199 reads

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• Wit is more often a shield than a lance.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 60 votes · 117 reads

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