Quotes for April 2749 quotes · 44 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every April 27: the anniversary does not move.

• A negative judgment gives you more satisfaction than praise, provided it smacks of jealousy.

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  Jean Baudrillard

  PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century

  4.1 · 46 votes · 161 reads

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• Absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends.

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  Elizabeth Bowen

  WriterIrish1899 · 19th century

  3.1 · 26 votes · 20 reads

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• All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn. American writing comes from that. There was nothing before. There has been nothing as good since.

  

  Ernest Hemingway

  WriterAmerican1899 · 19th century

  4.5 · 36 votes · 93 reads

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• Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a means to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.

  

  Charles Caleb Colton

  AuthorBritish1780 · 18th century

  4.8 · 49 votes · 161 reads

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• Among these temples there is one which far surpasses all the rest, whose grandeur of architectural details no human tongue is able to describe; for within its precincts, surrounded by a lofty wall, there is room enough for a town of five hundred families.

  

  Hernan Cortes

  LeaderSpanish1485 · 15th century

  4.2 · 51 votes · 56 reads

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• As soon as laws are necessary for men, they are no longer fit for freedom.

  

  Pythagoras

  MathematicianGreek-582 · 6th century BC

  3.1 · 60 votes · 165 reads

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• Birds have bills too, and they keep on singing

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  Anonymous

  4.7 · 30 votes · 21 reads

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• Corruption is worse than prostitution. The latter might endanger the morals of an individual, the former invariably endangers the morals of the entire country.

  

  Karl Kraus

  WriterAustrian1874 · 19th century

  4.6 · 49 votes · 22 reads

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• Cruel is the strife of brothers.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  3.6 · 50 votes · 113 reads

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• Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.9 · 31 votes · 64 reads

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• Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.9 · 25 votes · 154 reads

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• Fear is the mother of morality.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.5 · 8 votes · 148 reads

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• For every ten jokes you acquire a hundred enemies.

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  Laurence Sterne

  WriterBritish1713 · 18th century

  3.7 · 64 votes · 35 reads

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• Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  3.8 · 5 votes · 34 reads

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• Four things come not back. The spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, ad the neglected opportunity.

  

  Arabian proverb

  Arabian

  3.6 · 40 votes · 140 reads

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• Go for it now. The future is promised to no one.

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  3.5 · 54 votes · 117 reads

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• Good God! how often are we to die before we go quite off this stage? In every friend we lose a part of ourselves, and the best part.

  

  Alexander Pope

  PoetEnglish1688 · 17th century

  4.3 · 56 votes · 158 reads

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• He does not posses wealth that allows it to possess him.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  3.5 · 9 votes · 167 reads

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• He who takes but never gives, may last for years but never lives.

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 33 votes · 98 reads

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• Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.

  

  Robert Burton

  EducatorEnglish1577 · 16th century

  3.7 · 22 votes · 34 reads

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• I'm an optimist in the sense that I believe humans are noble and honorable, and some of them are really smart. I have a very optimistic view of individuals.

  

  Steve Jobs

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.0 · 44 votes · 161 reads

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• If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.

  

  Blaise Pascal

  PhilosopherFrench1623 · 17th century

  4.1 · 46 votes · 157 reads

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• If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  3.7 · 42 votes · 52 reads

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• Incidents should not govern policy; but, policy incidents.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  4.9 · 42 votes · 84 reads

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• Is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's blunders?

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  4.1 · 64 votes · 178 reads

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• It had a very good arrangement by Herbie Hancock, but it used existing pieces.

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  Ennio Morricone

  MusicianItalian1928 · 20th century

  4.0 · 56 votes · 17 reads

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• It is our task in our time and in our generation to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours.

  

  John F. Kennedy

  PoliticianAmerican1917 · 20th century

  4.5 · 12 votes · 196 reads

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• It is, indeed, at home that every man must be known by those who would make a just estimate either of his virtue or felicity; for smiles and embroidery are alike occasional, and the mind is often dressed for show in painted honor, and fictitious benevolen

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.5 · 15 votes · 104 reads

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• Just as iron rusts from disuse, even so does inaction spoil the intellect.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci

  PainterItaly1452 · 15th century

  4.9 · 21 votes · 87 reads

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• Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?

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  Emily Bronte

  PoetBritish1818 · 19th century

  4.8 · 60 votes · 89 reads

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• My conviction is that the best strategy to defend the West is to defend Israel.

  

  Jose Maria Aznar

  PoliticianSpanish1953 · 20th century

  4.8 · 56 votes · 3 reads

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• My masters are strange folk with very little care for music in them.

  

  Johann Sebastian Bach

  MusicianGerman1685 · 17th century

  4.6 · 20 votes · 181 reads

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• Only the insane have strength enough to survive. Only the survivors determine what is sane.

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 63 votes · 79 reads

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• Our destiny changes with our thought; we shall become what we wish to become, do what we wish to do, when our habitual thought corresponds with our desire.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.8 · 61 votes · 26 reads

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• Put yourself in the other man's place and then you will know why he thinks certain things and does certain deeds.

  

  Elbert Hubbard

  AuthorAmerican1856 · 19th century

  4.7 · 43 votes · 0 reads

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• Rather suffer than die is man's motto.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine

  PoetFrench1621 · 17th century

  3.5 · 27 votes · 188 reads

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• The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

  

  Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

  PoetGerman1749 · 18th century

  5.0 · 5 votes · 140 reads

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• The most dangerous food to eat is a wedding cake.

  

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 62 votes · 105 reads

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• The public seldom forgive twice.

  

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  TheologianSwiss1741 · 18th century

  3.0 · 19 votes · 159 reads

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• The secret of success is to do all you can do without thought of success.

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  Anonymous

  3.4 · 51 votes · 72 reads

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• The word change, so dear to our Europe, has been given a new meaning: it no longer means a new stage of coherent development (as it was understood by Vico, Hegel or Marx), but a shift from one side to another, from front to back, from the back to the left

  

  Milan Kundera

  WriterCzech1929 · 20th century

  3.4 · 50 votes · 47 reads

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• There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

  

  Nelson Mandela

  PoliticianSouth African1918 · 20th century

  4.3 · 21 votes · 31 reads

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• Throughout human history, the apostles of purity, those who have claimed to possess a total explanation, have wrought havoc among mere mixed-up human beings.

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  Saint Thomas Aquinas

  TheologianRoman1224 · 13th century

  3.5 · 18 votes · 154 reads

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• We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.

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  Ovid

  PoetRoman-43 · 1st century BC

  4.1 · 61 votes · 55 reads

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• We have progressively improved into a less spiritual species of tenderness - but the seal is not yet fixed though the wax is preparing for the impression.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  3.1 · 38 votes · 176 reads

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• When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.6 · 16 votes · 130 reads

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• Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.

  

  George Orwell

  NovelistBritish1903 · 20th century

  3.8 · 26 votes · 129 reads

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• You know, one of the things I've learnt since coming out of office is how much easier it is to give the advice than take the decision. I mean, you know, it's tough.

  

  Tony Blair

  PoliticianEnglish1953 · 20th century

  4.5 · 33 votes · 187 reads

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