Quotes for April 747 quotes · 39 authors

The archive keeps these quotes for this day of the year. They are the same every April 7: the anniversary does not move.

• A tremendous number of people in America work very hard at something that bores them. Even a rich man thinks he has to go down to the office everyday. Not because he likes it but because he can't think of anything else to do.

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  W. C. Fields

  ComedianAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.7 · 48 votes · 103 reads

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• A truth looks freshest in the fashions of the day.

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  Lord Alfred Tennyson

  PoetBritish1809 · 19th century

  4.0 · 47 votes · 28 reads

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• Ambition is so powerful a passion in the human breast, that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  PoliticianFrench1769 · 18th century

  3.4 · 39 votes · 4 reads

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• Any debate among politicians about monetary policy is counterproductive.

  

  Gerhard Schroder

  PoliticianGerman1944 · 20th century

  4.6 · 13 votes · 17 reads

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• Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do.

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  Dale Carnegie

  WriterAmerican1888 · 19th century

  4.8 · 33 votes · 67 reads

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• Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.

  

  Thomas de Quincey

  AuthorBritish1785 · 18th century

  3.7 · 20 votes · 153 reads

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• Do not wait; the time will never be ''just right.'' Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along.

  

  Napoleon Hill

  WriterAmerican1883 · 19th century

  4.2 · 54 votes · 45 reads

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• I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known.

  

  Confucius

  PhilosopherChinese-551 · 6th century BC

  4.4 · 46 votes · 4 reads

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• I believe in democracy, because it releases the energies of every human being.

  

  Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

  MusicianAustrian1756 · 18th century

  4.8 · 63 votes · 169 reads

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• I do not much dislike the matter, but the manner of his speech.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.7 · 32 votes · 64 reads

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• I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me..

  

  Pythagoras

  MathematicianGreek-582 · 6th century BC

  3.8 · 26 votes · 135 reads

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• I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

  

  William Blake

  PainterBritish1757 · 18th century

  3.6 · 30 votes · 155 reads

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• I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road.

  

  Stephen Hawking

  PhysicistEnglish1942 · 20th century

  3.3 · 8 votes · 21 reads

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• I think there is a certain charm to the hand drawn image that I like. My problem with CGI is that it's so rich in texture that my eyes actually get tired. Everything is in focus down to the littlest leaf.

  

  Matt Groening

  CartoonistAmerican1954 · 20th century

  3.2 · 26 votes · 183 reads

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• I'd rather be hissed at for a good verse, than applauded for a bad one.

  

  Umberto Eco

  NovelistItaly1932 · 20th century

  3.3 · 17 votes · 156 reads

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• I've got a woman's ability to stick to a job and get on with it when everyone else walks off and leaves it.

  

  Margaret Thatcher

  PoliticianBritish1925 · 20th century

  3.8 · 33 votes · 2 reads

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• Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.

  

  Aldous Huxley

  AuthorBritish1894 · 19th century

  4.4 · 37 votes · 62 reads

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• Jails and prisons are the complement of schools; so many less as you have of the latter, so many more must you have of the former.

  

  Horace Mann

  EducatorAmerican1796 · 18th century

  3.5 · 63 votes · 10 reads

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• Old age, calm, expanded, broad with the haughty breadth of the universe, old age flowing free with the delicious near-by freedom of death.

  

  Walt Disney

  CartoonistAmerican1901 · 20th century

  4.8 · 21 votes · 162 reads

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• One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.

  

  Jonathan Swift

  WriterIrish1667 · 17th century

  5.0 · 57 votes · 108 reads

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• Originality is nothing but judicious plagiarism.

  

  Virginia Woolf

  WriterBritish1882 · 19th century

  4.9 · 34 votes · 103 reads

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• Politicians should never put themselves first: governments should put people first and all of us should put our country first.

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  Anonymous

  4.3 · 61 votes · 43 reads

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• Prayer moves the hand that moves the universe.

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  Anonymous

  3.1 · 48 votes · 62 reads

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• Richard Wagner, a musician who wrote music which is better than it sounds.

  

  Richard Wagner

  MusicianGerman1813 · 19th century

  4.8 · 12 votes · 102 reads

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• The bigger the summer vacation the harder the fall.

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  Anonymous

  4.4 · 20 votes · 113 reads

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• The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.

  

  Oscar Wilde

  PoetIrish1854 · 19th century

  3.8 · 48 votes · 62 reads

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• The cure for the evils of democracy is more democracy.

  

  Henry Louis Mencken

  JournalistAmerican1880 · 19th century

  4.6 · 60 votes · 104 reads

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

  

  Albert Schweitzer

  TheologianGerman-French1875 · 19th century

  4.2 · 42 votes · 185 reads

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• The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.

  

  William Blake

  PainterBritish1757 · 18th century

  4.7 · 58 votes · 58 reads

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• The most I can do for my friend is simply be his friend.

  

  Henry David Thoreau

  PoetAmerican1817 · 19th century

  4.8 · 47 votes · 1 reads

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• The selfish spirit of commerce, which knows no country, and feels no passion or principle but that of gain.

  

  Thomas Hobbes

  PhilosopherBritish1588 · 16th century

  3.2 · 38 votes · 169 reads

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• The truest help we can render an afflicted man is not to take his burden from him, but to call out his best energy, that he may be able to bear the burden.

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  Peter Ustinov

  WriterBritish1921 · 20th century

  3.5 · 23 votes · 44 reads

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• There can be economy only where there is efficiency.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli

  PoliticianBritish1804 · 19th century

  3.0 · 29 votes · 172 reads

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• They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

  

  William Shakespeare

  WriterBritish1564 · 16th century

  3.2 · 40 votes · 176 reads

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• Though the church has many critics, it has no rivals.

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  Anonymous

  4.5 · 34 votes · 180 reads

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• To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life.

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  Robert Green Ingersoll

  PoliticianAmerican1833 · 19th century

  3.4 · 37 votes · 0 reads

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• To me the meanest flower that blows can give thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

  

  William Wordsworth

  PoetEnglish1770 · 18th century

  3.7 · 19 votes · 43 reads

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• To use books rightly, is to go to them for help; to appeal to them when our own knowledge and power fail; to be led by them into wider sight and purer conception than our own, and to receive from them the united sentence of the judges and councils of all

  

  John Ruskin

  WriterEnglish1819 · 19th century

  4.8 · 28 votes · 19 reads

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• What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

  

  Igor Stravinsky

  MusicianRussian1882 · 19th century

  3.7 · 11 votes · 180 reads

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• What we hope ever to do with ease, we must learn first to do with diligence.

  

  Samuel Johnson

  AuthorBritish1709 · 18th century

  3.4 · 5 votes · 142 reads

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• Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

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  Bernard M. Baruch

  PoliticianAmerican1870 · 19th century

  3.1 · 40 votes · 147 reads

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• When Ford sells a car, a dealer isn't allowed to take out the engine and put a different one in. When a newsstand sells the Washington Post, no one can go to the newsstand and pay them to rip out the classified section and put their own classified section

  

  Bill Gates

  BusinessmanAmerican1955 · 20th century

  3.8 · 24 votes · 97 reads

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• When you rationalize, you do just that. You make rational lies.

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  Anonymous

  4.6 · 59 votes · 177 reads

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• Yeah, I wasn't chosen to be first. I was just chosen to command that flight. Circumstance put me in that particular role. That wasn't planned by anyone.

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  Neil Armstrong

  AstronautAmerican1930 · 20th century

  3.2 · 27 votes · 65 reads

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• You must pre-live the future... not re-live the past... and savor the moment.

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  Anonymous

  4.8 · 49 votes · 39 reads

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• You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.

  

  Ted Turner

  BusinessmanAmerican1938 · 20th century

  4.1 · 46 votes · 182 reads

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