Quotes for April 3051 quotes · 44 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every April 30: the anniversary does not move.

• Above all things, reverence yourself.

  

  Pythagoras

  MathematicianGreek-582 · 6th century BC

  4.3 · 38 votes · 193 reads

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• All are inclined to believe what they covet, from a lottery-ticket up to a passport to Paradise.

  

  Lord Byron

  PoetBritish1788 · 18th century

  4.4 · 56 votes · 7 reads

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• All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

  

  Adolf Hitler

  PoliticianGerman1889 · 19th century

  4.2 · 7 votes · 108 reads

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• But love is blind, and lovers cannot see what petty follies they themselves commit.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.3 · 22 votes · 122 reads

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• Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet

  

  George Eliot

  WriterBritish1819 · 19th century

  5.0 · 50 votes · 168 reads

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• Every truth passes through three stages before it is recognized. In the first it is ridiculed, in the second it is opposed, in the third it is regarded as self evident.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  PhilosopherGerman1788 · 18th century

  4.4 · 12 votes · 167 reads

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• Everybody is ignorant - only on different subjects.

  

  Wentworth Dillon

  PoetEnglish1633 · 17th century

  4.3 · 38 votes · 21 reads

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• Faith is that strengthening power within Urging me on my way, Teaching me all that I must know, Helping to obey. Faith is that strengthening power within Lighting the road I trod, Helping me know which way to go, Pointing the way to God.

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  Anonymous

  4.9 · 47 votes · 178 reads

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• Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.3 · 26 votes · 107 reads

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• Friendship is the only thing in the world concerning the usefulness of which all mankind are agreed.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.6 · 18 votes · 33 reads

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• Happiness is not a possession to be prized. It is a quality of thought, a state of mind.

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  Dame Daphme du Maurier

  WriterBritish1907 · 20th century

  3.0 · 10 votes · 51 reads

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• He that fails in his endeavors after wealth or power will not long retain either honesty or courage.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  4.5 · 53 votes · 39 reads

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• I believe that anyone can conquer fear by doing the things he fears to do, provided he keeps doing them until he gets a record of successful experience behind him.

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  Eleanor Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1884 · 19th century

  3.1 · 22 votes · 32 reads

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• I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust me so much.

  

  Teresa of Calcutta

  MissionaryAlbanian1910 · 20th century

  4.2 · 17 votes · 102 reads

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• I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.

  

  Hillary Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1947 · 20th century

  3.2 · 43 votes · 99 reads

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• If forty million people say a foolish thing it does not become a wise one, but the wise man is foolish to give them the lie.

  

  W. H. Auden

  PoetEnglish1907 · 20th century

  3.3 · 37 votes · 150 reads

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• If we are to have magical bodies, we must have magical minds.

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  Walter Benjamin

  PhilosopherGerman1892 · 19th century

  3.4 · 29 votes · 149 reads

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• If you argue with a woman and win, you lose.

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  Anonymous

  3.2 · 54 votes · 131 reads

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• If you think the President was right to open the doors of American opportunity to young immigrants brought here as children who want to go to college or serve in the military, you should vote for Barack Obama.

  

  William J. Clinton

  PoliticianAmerican1946 · 20th century

  3.0 · 47 votes · 93 reads

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• It is a wise father that knows his own child.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  4.5 · 39 votes · 0 reads

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• It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.

  

  Epictetus

  PhilosopherGreek55 · 1st century

  3.5 · 16 votes · 83 reads

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• It's the difficulty we had with Mr. Bean, actually, when it went from TV to film. You certainly discover that you need to explain more about a character.

  

  Rowan Atkinson

  ComedianEnglish1956 · 20th century

  3.1 · 55 votes · 189 reads

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• Let us not be ashamed to speak what we shame not to think.

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  Montaigne

  PhilosopherFrench1533 · 16th century

  3.6 · 21 votes · 31 reads

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• Lots of companies don't succeed over time. What do they fundamentally do wrong? They usually miss the future.

  

  Larry Page

  BusinessmanAmerican1973 · 20th century

  5.0 · 39 votes · 23 reads

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• No liberal man would impute a charge of unsteadiness to another for having changed his opinion.

  

  Marcus Tulius Cicero

  PoliticianRoman-106 · 2nd century BC

  4.3 · 5 votes · 90 reads

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• No rules for success will work if you don't.

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  Anonymous

  3.4 · 17 votes · 149 reads

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• Now between '45 and '48, things would change enormously, 'cos we'd had credit in United States, credit from the Bank of America, credit from the Import-Export Bank and people had started working again.

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  Gianni Agnelli

  BusinessmanItalian1921 · 20th century

  4.8 · 41 votes · 44 reads

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• Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  WriterGerman1844 · 19th century

  3.0 · 30 votes · 193 reads

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• Of all the inventions of man I doubt whether any was more easily accomplished than that of a Heaven.

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  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  ScientistGerman1742 · 18th century

  3.8 · 32 votes · 81 reads

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• One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. If she tells that, she'll tell anything.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  4.2 · 63 votes · 48 reads

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• Painful for a person is rebellious independence, only in loving companionship with his associates does a person feel safe: Only in reverently bowing down before the higher does a person feel exalted.

  

  Thomas Carlyle

  WriterBritish1795 · 18th century

  4.7 · 43 votes · 164 reads

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• Peace is the deliberate adjustment of my life to the will of God.

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  Anonymous

  3.4 · 28 votes · 131 reads

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• Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.

  

  Benjamin Franklin

  PoliticianAmerican1706 · 18th century

  4.6 · 28 votes · 48 reads

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• Show me a hero and I will write you a tragedy.

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 15 votes · 52 reads

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• Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.

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  Dale Carnegie

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  5.0 · 64 votes · 122 reads

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• The barrier between success is not something which exists in the real world: it is composed purely and simply of doubts about ability.

  

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  PoliticianAmerican1882 · 19th century

  3.9 · 28 votes · 72 reads

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• The betrothed and accepted lover has lost the wildest charms of his maiden by her acceptance. She was heaven while he pursued her, but she cannot be heaven if she stoops to one such as he!

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  PoetAmerican1803 · 19th century

  3.0 · 32 votes · 1 reads

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• The business schools reward difficult complex behavior more than simple behavior, but simple behavior is more effective.

  

  Warren Buffett

  BusinessmanAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.3 · 10 votes · 111 reads

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• The court is like a palace of marble; it's composed of people very hard and very polished.

  

  Jean de la Bruyère

  French1645 · 17th century

  3.0 · 33 votes · 156 reads

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• The first idea that the child must acquire, in order to be actively disciplined, is that of the difference between good and evil; and the task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility, and evil with activity.

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  Maria Montessori

  EducatorItaly1870 · 19th century

  4.1 · 32 votes · 6 reads

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• The influential man is the successful man, whether he be rich or poor.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes

  AuthorAmerican1809 · 19th century

  4.4 · 39 votes · 129 reads

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• The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

  

  George Bernard Shaw

  WriterIrish1856 · 19th century

  4.6 · 61 votes · 68 reads

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• The possibility of divorce renders both marriage partners stricter in their observance of the duties they owe to each other. Divorces help to improve morals and to increase the population.

  

  Denis Diderot

  PhilosopherFrench1713 · 18th century

  3.1 · 26 votes · 126 reads

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• The soul's joy lies in doing.

  

  Pearl S. Buck

  NovelistAmerican1892 · 19th century

  4.6 · 36 votes · 192 reads

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• The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.0 · 41 votes · 164 reads

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• There are worse occupations in this world than feeling a woman's pulse.

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  Laurence Sterne

  WriterBritish1713 · 18th century

  4.0 · 60 votes · 18 reads

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• We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.

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  Aristotle Onassis

  BusinessmanGreek1906 · 20th century

  3.7 · 17 votes · 196 reads

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• When difficulties are overcome they begin blessing.

  

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 6 votes · 186 reads

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• You can lead a horticulture but you can't make her think.

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  Dorothy Parker

  WriterAmerican1893 · 19th century

  5.0 · 22 votes · 178 reads

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• You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  5.0 · 25 votes · 180 reads

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