Quotes for April 2951 quotes · 46 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every April 29: the anniversary does not move.

• A good cigar is as great a comfort to a man as a good cry is to a woman.

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  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

  PoliticianBritish1803 · 19th century

  3.6 · 50 votes · 146 reads

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• A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

  

  Albert Schweitzer

  TheologianGerman-French1875 · 19th century

  3.0 · 26 votes · 150 reads

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• A nation is not conquered which is perpetually to be conquered.

  

  Edmund Burke

  PoliticianIrish-British1729 · 18th century

  4.0 · 27 votes · 198 reads

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• A ray of sunshine, a balmy breeze Are a gift from God above, And He also gives us faithful friends. To warm our hearts with love.

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 47 votes · 40 reads

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• Anytime you think that the problem is out there, that thought in itself may be the problem. If it is out there then you have no control and you have to wait until it changes.

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  Anonymous

  3.5 · 19 votes · 123 reads

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• As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.

  

  Adolf Hitler

  PoliticianGerman1889 · 19th century

  4.6 · 44 votes · 27 reads

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• Cares are often more difficult to throw off than sorrows; the latter die with time, the former grow.

  

  Jean Paul

  ComedianGerman1763 · 18th century

  4.3 · 10 votes · 34 reads

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• Exploration by real people inspires us.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.5 · 5 votes · 196 reads

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• Folks never understand the folks they hate.

  

  James Russell Lowell

  PoetAmerican1819 · 19th century

  3.7 · 15 votes · 106 reads

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• God loves to help him who strives to help himself. - Aeschylus,

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  Aeschylus

  WriterGreek-525 · 6th century BC

  4.2 · 9 votes · 51 reads

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• Happiness depends upon ourselves.

  

  Aristotle

  PhilosopherGreek-384 · 4th century BC

  3.2 · 30 votes · 70 reads

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• I believe in innovation and that the way you get innovation is you fund research and you learn the basic facts.

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  4.6 · 57 votes · 162 reads

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• I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

  

  Isaac Newton

  MathematicianEnglish1643 · 17th century

  4.4 · 18 votes · 183 reads

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• I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.8 · 49 votes · 122 reads

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• I guess economists, it's a bit like scientists; you have definitely fewer women in that field.

  

  Christine Lagarde

  EconomistFrench1956 · 20th century

  4.2 · 30 votes · 121 reads

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• I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy.

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  John Adams

  PoliticianAmerican1735 · 18th century

  3.6 · 33 votes · 161 reads

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• If eighty percent of your sales come from twenty percent of all of your items, just carry those twenty percent.

  

  Henry A. Kissinger

  PoliticianGerman1923 · 20th century

  3.3 · 61 votes · 97 reads

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• If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.

  

  Jonathan Swift

  WriterIrish1667 · 17th century

  3.4 · 29 votes · 163 reads

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• It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.

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  Ezra Pound

  PoetAmerican1885 · 19th century

  4.2 · 41 votes · 138 reads

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• It's very expressive of myself. I just lump everything in a great heap which I have labeled ''the past,'' and, having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, I am ready to continue.

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 12 votes · 128 reads

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• Life is hardly more than a fraction of a second. Such a little time to prepare oneself for eternity!

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  Paul Auster

  WriterAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.7 · 24 votes · 135 reads

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• Locks keep out only the honest.

  

  Jewish proverb

  Jewish

  3.4 · 29 votes · 85 reads

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• Misfortunes one can endure - they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults - Ah! there is the sting of life.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.3 · 17 votes · 140 reads

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• Most of us have far more courage than we ever dreamed we possessed.

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  Dale Carnegie

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  3.2 · 51 votes · 3 reads

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• My deepest feeling about politicians is that they are dangerous lunatics to be avoided when possible and carefully humored; people, above all, to whom one must never tell the truth.

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  W. C. Fields

  ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

  3.5 · 43 votes · 155 reads

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• My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  4.6 · 46 votes · 52 reads

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• Nations it may be have fashioned their Governments, but the Governments have paid them back in the same coin.

  

  Joseph Conrad

  NovelistBritish1857 · 19th century

  4.7 · 27 votes · 177 reads

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• No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.

  

  François de La Rochefoucauld

  WriterFrench1613 · 17th century

  3.3 · 39 votes · 149 reads

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• Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality.

  

  Carl Gustav Jung

  PsychiatristSwiss1875 · 19th century

  3.0 · 33 votes · 169 reads

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• Nothing sharpens sight like envy.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  3.0 · 49 votes · 165 reads

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• Nowadays, manners are easy and life is hard.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.2 · 23 votes · 25 reads

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• Peace has its victories, but it takes brave men and women to win them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  5.0 · 51 votes · 37 reads

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• Sensitiveness is closely allied to egotism; and excessive sensibility is only another name for morbid self-consciousness. The cure for tender sensibilities is to make more of our objects and less of our selves.

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  Christian Nestell Bovee

  AuthorAmerican1820 · 19th century

  3.1 · 63 votes · 123 reads

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• Spain is finding it very difficult to finance itself with sovereign debt risk premium so high.

  

  Mariano Rajoy

  PoliticianSpanish1955 · 20th century

  4.1 · 37 votes · 11 reads

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• The best emotions to write out of are anger and fear or dread. The least energizing emotion to write out of is admiration. It is very difficult to write out of because the basic feeling that goes with admiration is a passive contemplative mood.

  

  Stendhal

  NovelistFrench1783 · 18th century

  4.1 · 22 votes · 77 reads

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• The family spirit has rendered man carnivorous.

  

  Francis Picabia

  PainterFrench1879 · 19th century

  3.9 · 26 votes · 25 reads

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• The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight.

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  Terence

  PoetRoman

  5.0 · 54 votes · 64 reads

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• The first step toward greatness is to be honest.

  

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 54 votes · 77 reads

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• The good life is one inspired by life and guided by knowledge.

  

  Bertrand Russell

  PhilosopherBritish1872 · 19th century

  3.3 · 41 votes · 24 reads

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• The immorality of men triumphs over the amorality of women.

  

  Karl Kraus

  WriterAustrian1874 · 19th century

  3.6 · 50 votes · 48 reads

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• The most dangerous moment comes with victory.

  

  John D. Rockefeller

  BusinessmanAmerican1839 · 19th century

  4.0 · 47 votes · 122 reads

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• The present is the ever moving shadow that divides yesterday from tomorrow. In that lies hope.

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  Frank Lloyd Wright

  ArchitectAmerican1867 · 19th century

  4.9 · 26 votes · 152 reads

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• The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge, man-being and woman-being.

  

  D. H. Lawrence

  WriterEnglish1885 · 19th century

  3.6 · 25 votes · 120 reads

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• The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the old man who will not laugh is a fool.

  

  George Santayana

  PoetSpanish- American1863 · 19th century

  4.4 · 10 votes · 43 reads

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• There are some people in politics and in the press who can't be confused by the facts. They just will not live in an evidence-based world. And that's regrettable.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  4.4 · 55 votes · 39 reads

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• There exists, between people in love, a kind of capital held by each. This is not just a stock of affects or pleasure, but also the possibility of playing double or quits with the share you hold in the other's heart.

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  Jean Baudrillard

  PhilosopherFrench1929 · 20th century

  3.4 · 36 votes · 177 reads

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• We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

  

  Albert Camus

  NovelistFrench1913 · 20th century

  3.0 · 47 votes · 42 reads

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• What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

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  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

  PoliticianBritish1803 · 19th century

  4.8 · 8 votes · 62 reads

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• You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war.

  

  Albert Einstein

  PhysicistGerman1879 · 19th century

  3.7 · 12 votes · 77 reads

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• You think you are clever until you find out how smart you are

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  Anonymous

  4.1 · 61 votes · 169 reads

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