Quotes for April 2150 quotes · 43 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every April 21: the anniversary does not move.

• All great art is born of the metropolis.

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  Ezra Pound

  PoetAmerican1885 · 19th century

  3.9 · 50 votes · 97 reads

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• All things are inconstant except the faith in the soul, which changes all things and fills their inconstancy with light, but though I seem to be driven out of my country as a misbeliever I have found no man yet with a faith like mine.

  

  James Joyce

  AuthorIrish1882 · 19th century

  4.5 · 11 votes · 2 reads

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• Among Life's precious jewels, Genuine and rare, The one that we call friendship Has worth beyond compare.

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  Anonymous

  3.4 · 60 votes · 70 reads

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• Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi

  LeaderIndian1869 · 19th century

  3.5 · 26 votes · 193 reads

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• At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.

  

  Martin Luther King Jr.

  LeaderAmerican1929 · 20th century

  5.0 · 29 votes · 163 reads

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• At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise... that dense

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  4.0 · 36 votes · 102 reads

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• Being is the great explainer.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.9 · 16 votes · 83 reads

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• Better a snotty child than his nose wiped off.

  

  English proverb

  English

  4.2 · 51 votes · 162 reads

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• Better build schoolrooms for ''the boy,'' than cells and gibbets for ''the man.''

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  Eliza Cook

  AuthorEnglish1818 · 19th century

  3.0 · 62 votes · 117 reads

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• Courage is grace under pressure.

  

  Ernest Hemingway

  WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

  5.0 · 49 votes · 82 reads

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• Everybody likes a compliment.

  

  Abraham Lincoln

  PoliticianAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.7 · 40 votes · 14 reads

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• Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuse himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.

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  Henry Brooks Adams

  NovelistAmerican1838 · 19th century

  4.8 · 62 votes · 157 reads

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• Fascism is capitalism in decay.

  

  Vladimir Lenin

  LeaderRussian1870 · 19th century

  4.7 · 28 votes · 79 reads

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• Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  4.5 · 61 votes · 60 reads

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• For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.4 · 43 votes · 108 reads

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• Gaiety, a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.

  

  Denis Diderot

  PhilosopherFrench1713 · 18th century

  4.1 · 29 votes · 105 reads

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• Growth based on debt is unsustainable, artificial.

  

  Jose Manuel Barroso

  PoliticianPortuguese1956 · 20th century

  3.0 · 5 votes · 195 reads

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• He may justly be numbered among the benefactors of mankind, who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may early be impressed on the memory, and taught by frequent recollection to occur habitually to the mind.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.8 · 29 votes · 85 reads

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• His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.

  

  Theodore Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1858 · 19th century

  3.1 · 7 votes · 200 reads

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• How earthy old people become -moldy as the grave! Their wisdom smacks of the earth. There is no foretaste of immortality in it. They remind me of earthworms and mole crickets.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  3.6 · 49 votes · 7 reads

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• I am a Marxist... of the Groucho tendency.

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 46 votes · 5 reads

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• I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh

  

  W. Somerset Maugham

  WriterBritish1874 · 19th century

  4.7 · 7 votes · 200 reads

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• If pain could have cured us we should long ago have been saved.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  4.9 · 31 votes · 159 reads

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• If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  3.7 · 31 votes · 115 reads

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• Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  3.1 · 57 votes · 15 reads

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• Irritation in the heart of a believer is always an invitation to the devil to stand by.

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  Anonymous

  3.8 · 44 votes · 180 reads

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• Life is short, but it's long enough to ruin any man who wants to be ruined.

  

  Josh Billings

  ComedianAmerican1815 · 19th century

  4.0 · 24 votes · 128 reads

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• Many talk like philosophers yet live like fools.

  

  Proverb

  Anonymous

  3.8 · 59 votes · 40 reads

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• Naivete in grownups is often charming; but when coupled with vanity it is indistinguishable from stupidity.

  

  Eric Hoffer

  AuthorAmerican1902 · 20th century

  4.4 · 37 votes · 174 reads

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• Oftentimes, what seems to be a street lunatic charging at me spouting gibberish turns out to be a devoted 'Simpsons' fan quoting their favorite line.

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  4.0 · 14 votes · 150 reads

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• Only action gives life strength, only moderation gives it charm.

  

  Jean Paul

  ComedianGerman1763 · 18th century

  5.0 · 19 votes · 126 reads

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• Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.1 · 35 votes · 117 reads

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• Sentences are like sharp nails, which force truth upon our memories.

  

  Denis Diderot

  PhilosopherFrench1713 · 18th century

  4.6 · 15 votes · 180 reads

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• Serious people have few ideas. People with ideas are never serious.

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  Paul Goodman

  AuthorAmerican1911 · 20th century

  4.7 · 15 votes · 162 reads

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• She had once been a Catholic, but discovering that priests were infinitely more attentive when she was in process of losing or regaining faith in Mother Church, she maintained an enchantingly wavering attitude.

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 9 votes · 104 reads

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• Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.

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  W. C. Fields

  ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.8 · 13 votes · 44 reads

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• Such as take lodgings in a head that's to be let unfurnished.

  

  Samuel Beckett

  WriterIrish1906 · 20th century

  4.7 · 22 votes · 193 reads

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• The best way to keep children at home is to make the home a pleasant atmosphere and let the air out of the tires.

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  Dorothy Parker

  WriterAmerican1893 · 19th century

  4.8 · 24 votes · 174 reads

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• The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

  

  Henry Ford

  BusinessmanAmerican1863 · 19th century

  4.2 · 10 votes · 163 reads

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• The mind like a parachute functions only when open.

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 23 votes · 113 reads

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• The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  4.8 · 31 votes · 55 reads

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• The universe is not indifferent to our existence - it depends on it.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.3 · 31 votes · 20 reads

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• There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.

  

  Charles Dickens

  NovelistBritish1812 · 19th century

  3.8 · 18 votes · 168 reads

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• To gather with God's people in united adoration of the Father is as necessary to the Christian life as prayer.

  

  Martin Luther

  LeaderGerman1483 · 15th century

  4.0 · 54 votes · 12 reads

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• To see him act is like reading Shakespeare by flashes of lightning.

  

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  PoetBritish1772 · 18th century

  3.7 · 7 votes · 196 reads

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• True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  4.4 · 57 votes · 17 reads

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• We need very strong ears to hear ourselves judged frankly, and because there are few who can endure frank criticism without being stung by it, those who venture to criticize us perform a remarkable act of friendship, for to undertake to wound or offend a

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  3.0 · 55 votes · 186 reads

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• What all men are really after is some form, or perhaps only some formula, of peace.

  

  Joseph Conrad

  NovelistBritish1857 · 19th century

  3.1 · 8 votes · 6 reads

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• Work is nothing but the slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great images in whose presence [His Or Her] heart first opened.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  3.4 · 6 votes · 71 reads

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