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February 25

February 25 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * An amicable divorce is like a ventilated condom; it just doesn't work. ~ Rita Rudner
 * selected by IP 172.161.111.38

 * 2005
 * Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting. Little darling, It seems like years since it's been clear. Here comes the sun... Here comes the sun, And I say It's alright. ~ George Harrison ~ (born 25 February 1943, according to death certificate)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * That so many writers have been prepared to accept a kind of martyrdom is the best tribute that flesh can pay to the living spirit of man as expressed in his literature. One cannot doubt that the martyrdom will continue to be gladly embraced. To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters. ~ Anthony Burgess (born 25 February 1917)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * I look at the world and I notice it’s turning. While my guitar gently weeps. With every mistake we must surely be learning, Still my guitar gently weeps. ~ George Harrison ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Every intelligent child is an amateur anthropologist. The first thing such a child notices is that adults don't make sense. ~ John Leonard (born 25 February 1939)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * Do what you want to do And go where you're going to Think for yourself 'Cause I won't be there with you. ~ George Harrison ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * When the state murders, it assumes an authority I refuse to concede: the authority of perfect knowledge in final things. ~ John Leonard
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2011
 * If there is victory in overcoming the enemy, there is a greater victory when a man overcomes himself. ~ José de San Martín
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * The scientist, like the magician, possesses secrets. A secret — expertise — is somehow perceived as antidemocratic, and therefore ought to be unnatural. We have come a long way from Prometheus to Faust to Frankenstein. And even Frankenstein's monster is now a joke. ~ John Leonard
 * proposed by bystander

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2020

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2021

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki; recent remark’s on the Russian government’s invasion of Ukraine.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on current events.

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
The books we love, love us back. In gratitude, we should promise not to cheat on them — not to pretend we're better than they are; not to use them as target practice, agit-prop, trampolines, photo ops or stalking horses; not to sell out scruple to that scratch-and-sniff info-tainment racket in which we posture in front of experience instead of engaging it. ~ John Leonard
 * 3 InvisibleSun 15:58, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 16:09, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 22:51, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 20:39, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

A well-fought defeat is worth more than a casual victory. ~ José de San Martín (born February 25)
 * 4 because I love this one. For to lose in style is better than to win without enthralling magnificence. Zarbon 17:12, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:17, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

In God's body shop, each of us was customized. But science came along to substitute statistical inference for free will. We are now a tribe of likelihoods. ~ John Leonard
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:55, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Granted, religion is wishful thinking, but there is no other kind of thinking. ~ John Leonard
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:55, 6 February 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

The words, the style always reflects a habit of mind. And the habit of mind comes in from a different angle. ~ John Leonard
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:55, 6 February 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Everybody is forever saying that the essay is dead. This is always said in essays. ~ John Leonard
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:55, 6 February 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

There are too many ironies in the fire! ~ John Leonard
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:55, 6 February 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Let us be free, the rest matters not. ~ José de San Martín
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:41, 22 February 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

I only want Lions in my regiment. ~ José de San Martín
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:41, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

You will be what you must be, or else you will be nothing. ~ José de San Martín
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:41, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

My promises to the people for whom I have waged war have been fulfilled — to accomplish their independence and leave the choice of their rulers to their own will. ~ José de San Martín
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:41, 22 February 2011 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

The conscience is the best and most impartial judge that a righteous man has. ~ José de San Martín
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:41, 22 February 2011 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:05, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:05, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:05, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:05, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 01:15, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 01:15, 25 February 2015 (UTC)

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March 25

March 25 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest form of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal in satisfying his vices. And it all comes from lying to others and to yourself. ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * If those who lead you say, "See, the Kingdom is in the sky", then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, "It is in the sea", then the fish will precede you. Rather, the Kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living Father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty. ~ Yeshua (Jesus Christ) (Good Friday for Western Christianity, 25 March 2005)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * A wiki works best where you're trying to answer a question that you can't easily pose, where there's not a natural structure that's known in advance to what you need to know. ~ Ward Cunningham (Cunningham started the first wiki, WikiWikiWeb, on 25 March 1995.)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * I am an Anarchist not because I believe Anarchism is the final goal, but because there is no such thing as a final goal. ~ Rudolf Rocker
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Political rights do not exist because they have been legally set down on a piece of paper, but only when they have become the ingrown habit of a people, and when any attempt to impair them will meet with the violent resistance of the populace. Where this is not the case, there is no help in any parliamentary Opposition or any Platonic appeals to the constitution. One compels respect from others when he knows how to defend his dignity as a human being. ~ Rudolf Rocker
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Freedom is the very essence of life, the impelling force in all intellectual and social development, the creator of every new outlook for the future of mankind. The liberation of man from economic exploitation and from intellectual and political oppression, which finds its finest expression in the world-philosophy of Anarchism, is the first prerequisite for the evolution of a higher social culture and a new humanity. ~ Rudolf Rocker
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * We have come more and more under the dominance of mechanics and sacrificed living humanity to the dead rhythm of the machine without most of us even being conscious of the monstrosity of the procedure. Hence we frequently deal with such matters with indifference and in cold blood as if we handled dead things and not the destinies of men. ~ Rudolf Rocker
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Our whole evolution has reached a stage where nearly every man is either ruler or ruled; sometimes he is both. By this the attitude of dependence has been greatly strengthened, for a truly free man does not like to play the part of either the ruler or the ruled. He is, above all, concerned with making his inner values and personal powers effective in a way as to permit him to use his own judgment in all affairs and to be independent in action. ~ Rudolf Rocker
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * Conformity may give you a quiet life; it may even bring you to a University Chair. But all change in history, all advance, comes from the nonconformists. If there had been no trouble-makers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves. ~ A. J. P. Taylor
 * proposed by bystander

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki for Good Friday 2016.

 * 2017

 * proposed by Illegitimate Barrister

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks regarding the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2024

 * proposed by ᘙ; in regard of Bengali Genocide Remembrance Day, a national day observed on 25 March in Bangladesh to commemorate the victims of the Bengali genocide of 1971.
 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
This planet is haunted by us; the other occupants just evade boredom by filling our skies and seas with monsters. ~ John Keel
 * 2 Zarbon 04:39, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:23, 23 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:00, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

In art there are only fast or slow developments. Essentially it is a matter of evolution, not revolution. ~ Béla Bartók
 * 3 Zarbon 04:39, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 18:14, 22 March 2011 (UTC) 3 Kalki 00:23, 23 March 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4. I still like this much, but have made a tactical reduction in favor of of at least one other for this year.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:00, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

I have lived in the United States and I know the might of their industrial complex. The United States is a sleeping giant and I am afraid that our attack has awakened it. ~ Chuichi Nagumo
 * 3 Zarbon 04:39, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:23, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:00, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
 * – Attribution may be apocryphal. Does the cited secondary source cite the original? If so, it might solve the attribution of a similar statement Isoroku Yamamoto ~ Ningauble 23:11, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

The greatest problem about old age is the fear that it may go on too long. ~ A. J. P. Taylor
 * 3 Zarbon 04:39, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:23, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:00, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

Law and justice are not always the same. When they aren't, destroying the law may be the first step toward changing it. ~ Gloria Steinem
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 15:08, 25 February 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

 * 3.25. Lovejoy died on this date. – Illegitimate Barrister, 19:51, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

 * 3. Lovejoy died on this date. – Illegitimate Barrister, 19:56, 18 March 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:32, 25 March 2017 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3. Bengali Genocide Remembrance Day is a national day observed on 25 March in Bangladesh to commemorate the victims of the Bengali genocide of 1971. --ᘙ (talk) 11:41, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

 * 3. Bengali Genocide Remembrance Day is a national day observed on 25 March in Bangladesh to commemorate the victims of the Bengali genocide of 1971. --ᘙ (talk) 11:41, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

 * 3 (about the 1971 Bangladesh genocide) ᘙ (talk) 11:17, 9 December 2022 (UTC)

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April 25

April 25 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. ~ Gautama Buddha
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices — just recognize them. ~ Edward R. Murrow (born 25 April 1908)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * The speed of communications is wondrous to behold. It is also true that speed can multiply the distribution of information that we know to be untrue. ~ Edward R. Murrow (born 25 April 1908)
 * proposed by JeffQ

 * 2007
 * It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical: At such moments every new word and fresh thought is more precious than gold. Indeed, people must not be deprived of the right to think their own thoughts. ~ Boris Yeltsin (recent death)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * The newest computer can merely compound, at speed, the oldest problem in the relations between human beings, and in the end the communicator will be confronted with the old problem, of what to say and how to say it. ~ Edward R. Murrow
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * I will either find a way, or make one. ~ Hannibal
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * It is best to keep one’s own state intact; to crush the enemy’s state is only second best. ~ Sun Tzu
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * What the ancients called a clever fighter is one who not only wins, but excels in winning with ease. ~ Sun Tzu
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012
 * Reason, in fact, is a thing of God, inasmuch as there is nothing which God the Maker of all has not provided, disposed, ordained by reason — nothing which He has not willed should be handled and understood by reason. All, therefore, who are ignorant of God, must necessarily be ignorant also of a thing which is His, because no treasure-house at all is accessible to strangers. And thus, voyaging all the universal course of life without the rudder of reason, they know not how to shun the hurricane which is impending over the world. ~ Tertullian
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by DanielTom

2017

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2018

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki; in regard of his recent re-election.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Nemo; as the day of the liberation from fascism (national holiday).

 * 2024

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. ~ Solomon
 * 3 because to know more is to suffer more, knowledge heightens suffering, beautiful. Zarbon 16:35, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Out of the frying pan into the fire. ~ Tertullian
 * 3 because when trying to avoid one disaster, one may fall into another one that is much worse. Beautiful imagery to go with climactic moral. Zarbon 16:47, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 01:11, 24 April 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

Speed is the essence of war. Take advantage of the enemy's unpreparedness; travel by unexpected routes and strike him where he has taken no precautions. ~ Sun Tzu
 * 3 because a swift victory is respected. Zarbon 17:33, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:19, 24 April 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3, or eventual 4.

Prorsus credibile est, quia ineptum est. It is to be believed because it is absurd. ~ Tertullian ~
 * 2 Kalki 01:11, 24 April 2009 (UTC) but leaning toward an eventual 3 or even a 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 02:40, 24 April 2009 (UTC)

Virtue has great power, but not if it is imposed – only when it is chosen. ~ Dinesh D'Souza
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 11:41, 21 June 2014 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:59, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

[M]atter poses no obstacle to a neutrino. A neutrino could pass through a hundred light years of steel without even slowing down.~ In commemoration of the 25 April 1900 birth of Wolfgang Pauli, from the sixth episode of the science documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014).
 * 4 Pithy Francoln (talk) 22:59, 10 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:59, 24 April 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 24 April 2019 (UTC)

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May 25

May 25 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * I got some new underwear the other day. Well, new to me. ~ Emo Philips
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (born 25 May 1803)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * They reckon ill who leave me out; When me they fly, I am the wings; I am the doubter and the doubt, And I the hymn the Brahmin sings. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (born 25 May 1803)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Is pain a promise? I was schooled in pain, And found out what I could of all desire; I weep for what I'm like when I'm alone In the deep center of the voice and fire. I know the motion of the deepest stone. Each one's himself, yet each one's everyone. ~ Theodore Roethke ~
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with. ~ Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. May 25th is Towel Day
 * proposed by IP 70.158.160.6

 * 2009
 * You will hear every day the maxims of a low prudence. You will hear, that the first duty is to get land and money, place and name. "What is this Truth you seek? What is this Beauty?" men will ask, with derision. If, nevertheless, God have called any of you to explore truth and beauty, be bold, be firm, be true. When you shall say, "As others do, so will I. I renounce, I am sorry for it, my early visions; I must eat the good of the land, and let learning and romantic expectations go, until a more convenient season." — then dies the man in you; then once more perish the buds of art, and poetry, and science, as they have died already in a thousand thousand men. The hour of that choice is the crisis of your history; and see that you hold yourself fast by the intellect. … Bend to the persuasion which is flowing to you from every object in Nature, to be its tongue to the heart of man, and to show the besotted world how passing fair is wisdom. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Be an artist superior to tricks of art. Show frankly, as a saint would do, all your experience, your methods, tools, and means. Welcome all comers to the freest use of the same. And out of this superior frankness and charity, you shall learn higher secrets of your nature, which gods will bend and aid you to communicate. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I feel my fate in what I cannot fear. I learn by going where I have to go. ~ Theodore Roethke ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by DanielTom, in response to the recent death of Nash and his wife in a traffic accident.

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by J.A.R.N.Y.

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Remember, the Force will be with you, always. ~ Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, released on May 25, 1977.
 * 3 Aphaia 23:43, 12 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 ~ Kalki 06:31, 24 May 2007 (UTC) (but a variant of this has already been used
 * 2 I changed my vote to avoid feeling of duplication. --Aphaia 10:10, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 10:04, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Herby  talk thyme 14:13, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 If only it were as compelling as something Darth Sidious said in Episode III Zarbon 05:39, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Lyle 14:45, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 J.A.R.N.Y.🗣 01:05, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
 * 3 dibbydib ⌐■_■ ( barate me ) 03:28, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

Death was not. I lived in a simple drowse: Hands and hair moved through a dream of wakening blossoms. Rain sweetened the cave and the dove still called; The flowers leaned on themselves, the flowers in hollows; And love, love sang toward. ~ Theodore Roethke (born May 25, 1908)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 10:04, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Aphaia 10:10, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:52, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:39, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Lyle 14:45, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.🗣 01:05, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

 * I'll seek my own meekness. What grace I have is enough. The lost have their own pace. The stalks ask something else. What the grave says, The nest denies. ~ Theodore Roethke
 * 3 InvisibleSun 10:04, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Aphaia 10:10, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Herby  talk thyme 14:13, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:52, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:39, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.🗣 01:12, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

''The moon draws back its waters from the shore. By the lake's edge, I see a silver swan, And she is what I would. In this light air, Lost opposites bend down — Sing of that nothing of which all is made, Or listen into silence, like a god.'' ~ Theodore Roethke
 * 3 InvisibleSun 10:04, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Aphaia 10:10, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:52, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:39, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 J.A.R.N.Y.🗣 01:12, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

I have gone into the waste lonely places Behind the eye. ~ Theodore Roethke
 * 3 InvisibleSun 10:04, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Herby  talk thyme 14:13, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:39, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 J.A.R.N.Y.🗣 01:12, 24 May 2018 (UTC)

God bless the roots! — Body and soul are one! The small become the great, the great the small; The right thing happens to the happy man. ~ Theodore Roethke
 * 3 InvisibleSun 10:04, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Aphaia 10:10, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Herby  talk thyme 14:13, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:59, 30 April 2010 (UTC) * 3 Kalki 22:52, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:39, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Lyle 14:45, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Try not. Do, or do not, there is no try. ~Master Yoda, as played by Frank Oz (born May 25, 1944) Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
 * 4 Lyle 14:45, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 this was already used on October 17, 2004. Zarbon 05:02, 22 November 2008 (UTC)

Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions. People die, and nothing changes. ~ Terry Pratchett, Night Watch, for Lilac Day
 * 4 Sketchmoose 20:41, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 16:32, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 02:41, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:11, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

Ninety per cent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact. ~ Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
 * 3 Sketchmoose 20:41, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 16:32, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 02:41, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:11, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people. As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up... ~ Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
 * 3 Sketchmoose 20:41, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:57, 24 May 2009 (UTC) * 3 Kalki 16:32, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Zarbon 02:41, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:11, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
 * 3 Kalki 16:32, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 02:41, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:11, 24 May 2009 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:24, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:24, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:24, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:24, 22 May 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:24, 22 May 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:24, 22 May 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:24, 22 May 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:24, 22 May 2013 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 18:18, 8 November 2017 (UTC)

-Anniversary of Babe Ruth's last homerun.
 * 3 J.A.R.N.Y.🗣 01:04, 24 May 2018 (UTC)
 * 4 Ficaia (talk) 08:28, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

 * 4 bystander (talk) On her recent death 16:58, 24 May 2023
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:02, 25 May 2023 (UTC), with a lean toward 3; I had considered using this, but found several others I believe to be better.

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July 25

July 25 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. ~ Albert Einstein
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is: Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern. ~ William Blake
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge (died 25 July 1834)
 * proposed by MosheZadka

 * 2006
 * There seem to be magic days once in a while, with some rare quality of light that hold a body spellbound... Then comes the hard part: how to plan a picture so as to give to others what has happened to you. To render in paint an experience, to suggest the sense of light and color, air and space... ~ Maxfield Parrish (born 25 July 1870)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. ~ Eric Hoffer (born 25 July 1902)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Though ours is a godless age, it is the very opposite of irreligious. The true believer is everywhere on the march, and both by converting and antagonizing he is shaping the world in his own image. ~ Eric Hoffer
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Good and evil grow up together and are bound in an equilibrium that cannot be sundered. The most we can do is try to tilt the equilibrium toward the good. ~ Eric Hoffer
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * The central task of education is to implant a will and a facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together. In a time of drastic change it is the learners who inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves equipped to live in a world that no longer exists. ~ Eric Hoffer
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations — past and present — are often incomprehensible to outsiders, but the individual's hunger, anxieties, dreams, and preoccupations have remained unchanged through the millennia. Thus, we are up against the paradox that the individual who is more complex, unpredictable, and mysterious than any communal entity is the one nearest to our understanding; so near that even the interval of millennia cannot weaken our feeling of kinship. If in some manner the voice of an individual reaches us from the remotest distance of time, it is a timeless voice speaking about ourselves. ~ Eric Hoffer
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:

 * Rudeness is the weak man's imitation of strength. ~ Eric Hoffer
 * used 9 February 2004, selected by Moby

Suggestions
In a big picture you can see what o'clock it is afternoon or morning if it's hot or cold winter or summer & what kind of people are there & what they are doing and why they are doing it. The sentiments run beyond words. If a man makes a hot day he makes it like a hot day he once saw or is seeing if a sweet face a face he once saw or which he imagines from old memories or parts of memories & his knowledge and he combines never creates but at the very first combination no man & less of all himself could ever disentangle the feelings that animated him just then & refer each one to its right place. ~ Thomas Eakins (born July 25, 1844)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 09:09, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Coyote 20:32, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 06:42, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 3

I have but little patience with the false modesty which is the greatest enemy to all figure painting. I see no impropriety in looking at the most beautiful of Nature's works, the naked figure. ~ Thomas Eakins
 * 3 InvisibleSun 09:09, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Aphaia 09:13, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Coyote 20:32, 24 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 06:42, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 3

There are some things that you know to be true, and others that you know to be false; yet, despite this extensive knowledge that you have, there remain many things whose truth or falsity is not known to you. We say that you are uncertain about them. You are uncertain, to varying degrees, about everything in the future; much of the past is hidden from you; and there is a lot of the present about which you do not have full information. Uncertainty is everywhere and you cannot escape from it. ~ Dennis Lindley (born 25 July 1923)
 * 3 Kalki 23:29, 30 June 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4
 * 2 Zarbon 18:24, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Uncertainty is a personal matter; it is not the uncertainty but your uncertainty. ~ Dennis Lindley
 * 3 Kalki 23:29, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 18:24, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

Genius does not operate according to rules. ~ Dennis Lindley
 * 3 Kalki 23:29, 30 June 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4
 * 2 Zarbon 18:24, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

In teaching there can be too much emphasis on certainty and a proper appreciation of uncertainty is to be encouraged.~ Dennis Lindley
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Whatever way uncertainty is approached, probability is the only sound way to think about it.~ Dennis Lindley
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Never believe anything on the authority of a single person but seek confirmation — and reason is the best confirmation.~ Dennis Lindley
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

You must see the world through probability and that probability is the only guide you need. ~ Dennis Lindley
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

It is dangerous to attach probability zero to anything other than a logical impossibility.~ Dennis Lindley
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Modernistic-Abstractionist-Art... consists of 75% explanation and 25% God knows what! ~ Maxfield Parrish
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

There is not an idea that cannot be expressed in 200 words. But the writer must know precisely what he wants to say. If you have nothing to say and want badly to say it, then all the words in all the dictionaries will not suffice. ~ Eric Hoffer
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

If anybody asks me what I have accomplished, I will say all I have accomplished is that I have written a few good sentences. ~ Eric Hoffer
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from. ~ Eric Hoffer
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people's business. ~ Eric Hoffer
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Where freedom is real, equality is the passion of the masses. Where equality is real, freedom is the passion of a small minority. ~ Eric Hoffer
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

You accept certain unlovely things about yourself and manage to live with them. The atonement for such an acceptance is that you make allowances for others — that you cleanse yourself of the sin of self-righteousness. ~ Eric Hoffer
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

The awareness of their individual blemishes and shortcomings inclines the frustrated to detect ill will and meanness in their fellow men. Self-contempt, however vague, sharpens our eyes for the imperfections of others. We usually strive to reveal in others the blemishes we hide in ourselves. ~ Eric Hoffer
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

People whose lives are barren and insecure seem to show a greater willingness to obey than people who are self-sufficient and self-confident. To the frustrated, freedom from responsibility is more attractive than freedom from restraint. ~ Eric Hoffer
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

It has often been said that power corrupts. But it is perhaps equally important to realize that weakness, too, corrupts. Power corrupts the few, while weakness corrupts the many. Hatred, malice, rudeness, intolerance, and suspicion are the faults of weakness. The resentment of the weak does not spring from any injustice done to them but from the sense of inadequacy and impotence. They hate not wickedness but weakness. When it is their power to do so, the weak destroy weakness wherever they see it. ~ Eric Hoffer
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

It is startling to realize how much unbelief is necessary to make belief possible. What we know as blind faith is sustained by innumerable unbeliefs. ~ Eric Hoffer
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not. ~ Eric Hoffer
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

A doctrine insulates the devout not only against the realities around them but also against their own selves. The fanatical believer is not conscious of his envy, malice, pettiness and dishonesty. There is a wall of words between his consciousness and his real self. ~ Eric Hoffer
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Some of the worst tyrannies of our day genuinely are "vowed" to the service of mankind, yet can function only by pitting neighbor against neighbor. The all-seeing eye of a totalitarian regime is usually the watchful eye of the next-door neighbor. ~ Eric Hoffer
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

One wonders whether a generation that demands instant satisfaction of all its needs and instant solution of the world's problems will produce anything of lasting value. Such a generation, even when equipped with the most modern technology, will be essentially primitive — it will stand in awe of nature, and submit to the tutelage of medicine men. ~ Eric Hoffer
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Some people have no original ideas because they do not think well enough of themselves to consider their ideas worth noticing and developing. ~ Eric Hoffer
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

The sick in soul insist that it is humanity that is sick, and they are the surgeons to operate on it. They want to turn the world into a sickroom. And once they get humanity strapped to the operating table, they operate on it with an ax. ~ Eric Hoffer
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Rabid suspicion has nothing in it of skepticism. The suspicious mind believes more than it doubts. It believes in a formidable and ineradicable evil lurking in every person. ~ Eric Hoffer
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

We usually see only the things we are looking for — so much so that we sometimes see them where they are not. ~ Eric Hoffer
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Both absolute power and absolute faith are instruments of dehumanization. Hence absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power. ~ Eric Hoffer
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

We know ourselves chiefly by hearsay. ~ Eric Hoffer
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Our most persistent and spectacular efforts are concerned not with the preservation of what we are but with the building up of an imaginary conception of ourselves in the opinion of others. The desire for praise is more imperative than the desire for food and shelter. ~ Eric Hoffer
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Good writing, like gold, combines lustrous lucidity with high density. What this means is good writing is packed with hints. ~ Eric Hoffer
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

How terribly hard and almost impossible it is to tell the truth. More than anything else, the artist in us prevents us from telling aught as it really happened. We deal with the truth as the cook deals with meat and vegetables. ~ Eric Hoffer
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

How rare it is to come across a piece of writing that is unambiguous, unqualified, and also unblurred by understatements or subtleties, and yet at the same time urbane and tolerant. It is a vice of the scientific method when applied to human affairs that it fosters hemming and hawing and a scrupulousness that easily degenerates into obscurity and meaninglessness. ~ Eric Hoffer
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

There is hardly a single instance of cultural vigor marked by moderation in expression. ~ Eric Hoffer
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

Those who discover things for themselves and express them in their own way are not overly bothered by the fact that others have already discovered these things — have even discovered them over and over again — and have expressed what they found in all manner of ways. ~ Eric Hoffer
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

The most important point is — and remains — not to take oneself seriously. ~ Eric Hoffer
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

I am more and more convinced that taking life over-seriously is a frivolous thing. ~ Eric Hoffer
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

The chief difference between me and others is that I have plenty of time — not only because I am without a multitude of responsibilities and without daily tasks, which demand attention: But also because I am basically without ambition. Neither the present nor the future has claims on me. ~ Eric Hoffer
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

There is no reason why the profoundest thoughts should not make easy and exciting reading. A profound thought is an exciting thing — as exciting as a detective's deductions or hunches. The simpler the words in which a thought is expressed the more stimulating its effect. ~ Eric Hoffer
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. ~ Eric Hoffer
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

That which is unique and worthwhile in us makes itself felt only in flashes. If we do not know how to catch and savor the flashes we are without growth and exhilaration. ~ Eric Hoffer
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC)

A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend. ~ Eric Hoffer
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:35, 24 July 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

 * When as the Rie reach to the chin, And chopcherrie chopcherrie ripe within, Strawberries swimming in the creame, And schoole boyes playing in the streame: Then O, then O, then O my true love said, Till that time come againe, Shee could not live a maid. ~ George Peele
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 18:29, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

title: July 25


text:
August 25

August 25 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * What can be said at all can be said clearly. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * It’s no use crying over spilt evils. It’s better to mop them up laughing. ~ Eleanor Farjeon
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * We have met the enemy and he is us. ~ Walt Kelly in Pogo (Kelly born 25 August 1913)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture. ~ Martin Amis
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * The humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn't be trusted with anything. ~ Martin Amis
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Against boredom even gods struggle in vain. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche (date of death)
 * proposed by LrdChaos

 * 2009
 * My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant, someone who disrupts the daily drag of life just enough to leave the victim thinking there's maybe more to it all than the mere hum-drum quality of existence. ~ Elvis Costello
 * proposed by Kalki

~ Johann Gottfried Herder
 * 2010
 * Calmly take what ill betideth; Patience wins the crown at length Rich repayment him abideth Who endures in quiet strength. Brave the tamer of the lion; Brave whom conquered kingdoms praise; Bravest he who rules his passions, Who his own impatience sways.
 * partially proposed by Ningauble, suggestion extended by Kalki

 * 2011
 * We live in a world we ourselves create. ~ Johann Gottfried Herder
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014 :

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions

 * DOB: Martin Amis · Elvis Costello · Bret Harte · Johann Gottfried Herder · Walt Kelly · Robert J. Marks II · DOD: Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. ~ Linus Torvalds announcing Linux in a post dated 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 07:29, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 4 User:Warrior-Poet 20 July, 2005 8:49 (CST)
 * 2 121a0012 02:57, July 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 23:48, 20 August 2008 (UTC) * 2 Kalki 23:10, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 18:49, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 16:09, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:36, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
 * 1 (leaning toward 2) allixpeeke (talk) 02:52, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture — it's a really stupid thing to want to do. ~ Elvis Costello
 * 3 Kalki 18:34, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 18:49, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 16:09, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2.5 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:36, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
 * 1 allixpeeke (talk) 02:52, 25 August 2014 (UTC) (Dancing about architecture is not stupid, nor is writing about music. Art inspired by art is still art.)

Saying the Bible is not a book about science is like saying a cookbook is not a book about chemistry. ~ Robert J. Marks II
 * 2 Zarbon 05:54, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 23:48, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:20, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2.5 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:36, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Virtue always meets reward, But quicker when it wears a sword. ~ Bret Harte
 * 4 Zarbon 05:54, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:48, 20 August 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:20, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:36, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself. ~ Johann Gottfried Herder (DoB)
 * 3 Ningauble 17:19, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:09, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:36, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
 * 1 allixpeeke (talk) 02:52, 25 August 2014 (UTC) (Craving is displeasure. Consumption of something pleasant is pleasant.)

Militant fundamentalism is convulsed in a late-medieval phase of its evolution. We would have to sit through a renaissance and a reformation, and then await an enlightenment. And we're not going to do that. ~ Martin Amis (DoB)
 * 2.5 Ningauble 17:19, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:09, 25 August 2009 (UTC) but with a lean toward 3, or even 4, if extended for more context.
 * 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:36, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

With the greatest possible solicitude avoid authorship. Too early or immoderately employed, it makes the head waste and the heart empty; even were there no other worse consequences. A person, who reads only to print, to all probability reads amiss; and he, who sends away through the pen and the press every thought, the moment it occurs to him, will in a short time have sent all away, and will become a mere journeyman of the printing-office, a compositor. ~ Johann Gottfried Herder
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 16:52, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:36, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
 * 2 (leaning toward 1) allixpeeke (talk) 02:52, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:59, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:59, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:59, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:59, 24 August 2016 (UTC)

title: August 25


text:
September 25

September 25 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * As for the future, your task is not to forsee it, but to enable it. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. ~ Blaise Pascal
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Between grief and nothing I will take grief. ~ William Faulkner (born 25 September 1897)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * No battle is ever won... They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools. ~ William Faulkner
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them. ~ Christopher Reeve (born 25 September 1952)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * The poet's voice need not merely be the record of man, it can be one of the props, the pillars to help him endure and prevail. ~ William Faulkner (date of birth)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * The aim of every artist is to arrest motion, which is life, by artificial means and hold it fixed so that a hundred years later, when a stranger looks at it, it moves again since it is life. Since man is mortal, the only immortality possible for him is to leave something behind him that is immortal since it will always move. This is the artist's way of scribbling "Kilroy was here" on the wall of the final and irrevocable oblivion through which he must someday pass. ~ William Faulkner
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol — cross or crescent or whatever — that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race. ~ William Faulkner
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * The artist doesn't have time to listen to the critics. The ones who want to be writers read the reviews, the ones who want to write don't have the time to read reviews. ~ William Faulkner
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by DanielTom

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki, in regard to the recent historically significant announcement of investigations of an official impeachment inquiry against Donald J. Trump.

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
A painting is not about an experience. It is an experience. ~ Mark Rothko
 * 2 Zarbon 04:25, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:20, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:43, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 16:13, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 2.5 //Gbern3 (talk) 15:06, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Kids are a great excuse for you to stop acting like one. ~ Michael Madsen
 * 2 Zarbon 04:25, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:20, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:43, 24 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2.5 //Gbern3 (talk) 15:06, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Everything is perfect about the past, except how it lead to the present. ~ Homer Simpson
 * Spannerjam (talk) 07:07, 24 September 2015 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:10, 24 September 2015 (UTC) I actually like the quote, but this has no clear relation to the date.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 01:07, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 01:07, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 01:07, 24 September 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 --ΞΔΞ (talk) 06:14, 30 January 2019 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 24 September 2023 (UTC)

title: September 25


text:
October 25

October 25 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Do all the good you can, by all the means you can, in all the ways you can, in all the places you can, at all the times you can, to all the people you can, as long as ever you can. ~ John Wesley
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Few men during their lifetime come anywhere near exhausting the resources dwelling within them. There are deep wells of strength that are never used. ~ Richard E. Byrd (born 25 October 1888)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable. ~ Richard E. Byrd
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * For out of olde feldes, as men seith, Cometh al this new corn fro yeer to yere; And out of olde bokes, in good feith, Cometh al this newe science that men lere. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * I would prefer to remain in prison for another 20 years than bargain my beliefs for freedom. ~ Samir Geagea
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * This day is call'd — the feast of Crispian: He that outlives this day, and comes safe home, Will stand a tip-toe when this day is nam'd, And rouse him at the name of Crispian. He that outlives this day, and sees old age, Will yearly on the vigil feast his friends, And say, "To-morrow is Saint Crispian;" Then will he strip his sleeve, and show his scars, And say, "These wounds I had on Crispin's day." Old men forget; yet all shall be forgot, But he'll remember, with advantages, What feats he did that day. Then shall our names, Familiar in his mouth as household words, — Harry the King, Bedford, and Exeter, Warwick and Talbot, Salisbury and Gloucester, Be in their flowing cups freshly remember'd. This story shall the good man teach his son; And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remember'd, — We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he to-day that sheds his blood with me, Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition: And gentlemen in England, now a-bed, Shall think themselves accurs'd, they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap, whiles any speaks, That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day. King Henry V as portrayed in Henry V  by  ~ William Shakespeare ~
 * proposed by SuperJew

 * 2010
 * The lyf so short, the craft so longe to lerne. Th’ assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge, The dredful joye, alwey that slit so yerne; Al this mene I be love. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer ~
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2011
 * It is nought good a slepyng hound to wake. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * proposed by InvisibleSun
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2013

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki; recent statement on being chosen to head the Conservative Party, and to become the next Prime Minister of the UK.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Six hours sleep are enough for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool. ~ George III of the United Kingdom, became king that day.
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 19:32, 23 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 05:38, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 22:22, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Waheedone 02:50, 21 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 20:11, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 DutchOff (talk) 02:06, 11 October 2022 (UTC)

Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die: Into the valley of death Rode the six hundred. ~ Alfred Tennyson ~
 * 3 Kalki 19:13, 24 October 2005 (UTC) The Charge of the Light Brigade occurred on this date.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 04:50, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:38, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volley'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred. ~ Alfred Tennyson ~
 * 3 Kalki 19:13, 24 October 2005 (UTC) with a lean toward 4 : The Charge of the Light Brigade occurred on this date.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 04:50, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 05:38, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Half the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need. ~ Richard E. Byrd (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 19:13, 24 October 2005 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 04:50, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:38, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

For thogh we slepe, or wake, or rome, or ryde, Ay fleeth the tyme; it nyl no man abyde. ~ Geoffrey Chaucer (died October 25, 1400) [date of birth unknown]
 * 3 InvisibleSun 04:50, 19 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:38, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:22, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

On this earth you must belong to the church militant or get the hell out of it. That's the right word. You're either with me or against me. There is no middle ground in this battle between Christ and the anti-Christ. ~ Charles Coughlin
 * 3 Zarbon 04:20, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 (until properly sourced) Kalki 23:11, 24 October 2008 (UTC) * 1 Kalki 22:22, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 because insufficiently sourced. - InvisibleSun 20:11, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Pain is temporary, pride is forever. ~ Dan Gable
 * 3 Zarbon 04:20, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 (until properly sourced) Kalki 23:11, 24 October 2008 (UTC) * 1 Kalki 22:22, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 because unsourced. - InvisibleSun 20:11, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Anyone can give up, it's the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that's true strength. ~ Dan Gable
 * 3 Zarbon 04:20, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 (until properly sourced) Kalki 23:11, 24 October 2008 (UTC) * 1 Kalki 22:22, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 because unsourced. - InvisibleSun 20:11, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts. ~ Dan Gable
 * 3 Zarbon 04:20, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 (until properly sourced) Kalki 23:11, 24 October 2008 (UTC) * 1 Kalki 22:22, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 because unsourced. - InvisibleSun 20:11, 24 October 2008 (UTC)

I have no need to take up each thing that wants to throw its cause on us and show that it is occupied only with itself, not with us, only with its good, not with ours. Look at the rest for yourselves. Do truth, freedom, humanity, justice, desire anything else than that you grow enthusiastic and serve them? ~ Max Stirner
 * 3 bystander (talk) 04:55, 23 October 2012 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:36, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:53, 23 October 2014 (UTC)with a lean toward 4

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:23, 24 October 2020 (UTC)

title: October 25


text:
November 25

November 25 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and no thing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. ~ Tecumseh
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Only by not forgetting the past can we be the master of the future. ~ Ba Jin (born 25 November 1904)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * If we have learned anything at all in this century, it is that all new technologies will be put to use, sooner or later, for better or worse, as it is in our nature to do. ~ Lewis Thomas (born November 25, 1913)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2007
 * Loving truth and living honestly is my attitude to life. Be true to yourself and be true to others, thus you can be the judge of your behavior. ~ Ba Jin (date of birth)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Statistically the probability of any one of us being here is so small that you would think the mere fact of existence would keep us all in a contented dazzlement of surprise. We are alive against the stupendous odds of genetics, infinitely outnumbered by all the alternates who might, except for luck, be in our places. ~ Lewis Thomas
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * Now and then it occurs to one to reflect upon what slender threads of accident depend the most important circumstances of his life; to look back and shudder, realizing how close to the edge of nothingness his being has come. ~ Upton Sinclair (date of death)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2010
 * The battle to save life is still going on. … This battle to save life will eventually be won. … Blind faith in established experience has been shattered, outmoded regulations have been smashed. ~ Ba Jin
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Man is an evasive beast, given to cultivating strange notions about himself. He is humiliated by his simian ancestry, and tries to deny his animal nature, to persuade himself that he is not limited by its weaknesses nor concerned in its fate. ~ Upton Sinclair (date of death)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by UDScott
 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Not a single leaf moves in this country if I'm not the one moving it. I want that to be clear! ~ Augusto Pinochet (born November 25)
 * 3 because taking responsibility is admirable. Zarbon 06:09, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 13:13, 23 November 2008 (UTC) because pompous hubris is not admirable at all.
 * 1 Antiquary 20:23, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:19, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

I'm not someone who usually sends out threats. I warn only once. ~ Augusto Pinochet (born November 25)
 * 3 because actions speak louder than words. Zarbon 06:09, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 13:13, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Antiquary 20:23, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:19, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

I don't remember, but it's not true. It's not true, and If it were true, I don't remember. ~ Augusto Pinochet (born November 25)
 * 3 because this answers questions before they are asked. Magnificent answer guideline. Zarbon 06:09, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
 * [SOURCE: Las frases para el bronce de Pinochet]
 * 1 Kalki 13:13, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Antiquary 20:23, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

Good political leadership for me involves getting the big decisions right — however difficult, however controversial, however potentially divisive and then being able to take people with you. And that requires something else as well — being wise enough to know when it's time to listen. ~ Charles Kennedy
 * 2 Zarbon 23:59, 24 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:13, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 20:23, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:19, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

The relationship of a people to their homeland is crucial. A people will naturally have a difficult time maintaining a common cultural identity without a collective presence in their homeland. Only in its homeland can a people develop economically, culturally and socially as a homogeneous entity. In fact, this is the crux of why some of us consider it necessary to struggle to live in our homeland. ~ Monte Melkonian
 * 3 Zarbon 03:17, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 13:13, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 20:23, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:19, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

While many of us feel a strong emotional attachment to our homeland, we should not allow emotions to deter us from speaking of things the way they really are. ~ Monte Melkonian
 * 3 Zarbon 03:17, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:13, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 20:23, 24 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:19, 24 November 2008 (UTC)

If it could save a person’s life, could you find a way to save ten seconds off the boot time?'' If there were five million people using the Mac, and it took ten seconds extra to turn it on every day, that added up to three hundred million or so hours per year people would save, which was the equivalent of at least one hundred lifetimes saved per year. ~ Steve Jobs
 * 4 Watti Renew 12:33, 23 November 2012 (UTC)
 * Moved here from a direct edit of the qotd bystander (talk) 00:06, 3 December 2012 (UTC)

 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:36, 24 November 2013 (UTC) no clear relationship to the date.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 03:03, 25 November 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 03:03, 25 November 2016 (UTC)

title: November 25


text:
December 25

December 25 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * You shall know the truth, and the truth shall set you free. ~ Yeshua (Jesus Christ)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * My idea of Christmas, whether old-fashioned or modern, is very simple: loving others. Come to think of it, why do we have to wait for Christmas to do that? ~ Bob Hope
 * proposed by Mister Six

 * 2006
 * Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas. ~ Calvin Coolidge
 * proposed by Mister Six

 * 2007
 * He rules the world with truth and grace, And makes the nations prove The glories of His righteousness, And wonders of His love, And wonders of His love, And wonders, wonders, of His love. ~ Isaac Watts ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * The only real blind person at Christmas-time is he who has not Christmas in his heart. ~ Helen Keller
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * How many observe Christ's Birth-day! how few his Precepts! O! 'tis easier to keep Holidays than Commandments. ~ Benjamin Franklin in Poor Richard's Almanack (in relation to Christmas)
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * Joy to the world! the Lord is come; Let earth receive her King. Let ev'ry heart prepare Him room, And heav'n and nature sing, And heaven and nature sing, And heaven, and heaven, and nature sing. ~ Isaac Watts ~ (traditional Christmas carol)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * A very Merry Christmas And a happy New Year Let's hope it's a good one Without any fear. War is over, If you want it — War is over now. ~ John Lennon & Yoko Ono ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Nvvchar

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki — last year's Christmas greetings by Trudeau, for what is also his own first birthday after becoming Prime Minister of Canada.

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Ningauble (in slightly shorter form, beginning with "It came without ribbons!")

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Christmas is an awfulness that compares favorably with the great London plague and fire of 1665-66. No one escapes the feelings of mortal dejection, inadequacy, frustration, loneliness, guilt and pity. No one escapes feeling used by society, by religion, by friends and relatives, by the utterly artifical responsiblities of extending false greetings, sending banal cards, reciprocating unsolicated gifts, going to dull parties, putting up with acquaintances and family one avoids all the rest of the year... in short, of being brutalized by a 'holiday' that has lost virtually all of its original meanings and has become a merchandising ploy for color tv set manufacturers and ravagers of the woodlands. ~ Harlan Ellison
 * 4 - --Mister Six 11:10, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 0 Kalki 14:51, 22 December 2007 (UTC) I might give this a 1 or even a 2 some other date of the Christmas season, but I feel it ranks as a zero for Christmas day itself. 1 ~ Kalki 22:35, 23 December 2005 (UTC) (Ellison is an interesting writer and personality, but on this I am inclined to quote an old cartoon: "Bah, Humbug to you too, you old fart!")
 * 1 Zarbon 20:29, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Think 100 times before you take a decision, But once that decision is taken, stand by it as one man. ~ Muhammad Ali Jinnah
 * 3 Zarbon 03:55, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki (talk · contributions) 20:23, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting. ~ Carlos Castaneda
 * 2 Zarbon 03:55, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 20:23, 13 December 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

There's nothing sadder in this world than to awake Christmas morning and not be a child. ~ Erma Bombeck (in relation to Christmas)
 * 2 Zarbon 03:55, 9 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki (talk · contributions) 20:23, 13 December 2009 (UTC)

This is the month, and this the happy morn, Wherein the Son of Heav'n's eternal King, Of wedded maid and virgin mother born, Our great redemption from above did bring; For so the holy sages once did sing, That He our deadly forfeit should release, And with His Father work us a perpetual peace. ~ John Milton
 * 3 --Tryst (talk) 18:22, 29 April 2012 (UTC)

India is an ancient nation and not nation in the making. We are not to build a new nation but to make this ancient nation virile to face the challenge of modern times. With the banner of Nationalism in our hearts to build up a Mighty India, let us march forward on the path of Duty. This is no time for rest; this is no occasion for faltering. Let us go onwards and onwards, till we reach the Goal. -Atal Bihari Vajpayee
 * 3 tending to 4 --Nvvchar (talk) 10:06, 5 December 2013 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 01:24, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

A little smile, a word of cheer, A bit of love from someone near, A little gift from one held dear, Best wishes for the coming year.

These make a Merry Christmas! ~ John Greenleaf Whittier ~ Portal:Christmas/Selected_quote/7
 * 3 bystander (talk) 04:21, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
 * 0 — I was actually inclined to perhaps rank this a 4, and use this, this year, as I had nothing clearly better in mind, but what searches I have done leaves me concluding that it is probably not John Greenleaf Whittier, and its origin remains obscure. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:35, 24 December 2017 (UTC)

At this festive season of the year, Mr. Scrooge, it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir. — A Christmas Carol ~ Charles Dickens Portal:Christmas/Selected_quote/15
 * 3 bystander (talk) 04:21, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:11, 25 December 2017 (UTC), but I would prefer this be extended somewhat.

I'm dedicating my little story to you; doubtless you will be among the very few who will ever read it. It seems war stories aren't very well received at this point. I'm told they're out-dated, untimely and as might be expected - make some unpleasant reading. And, as you have no doubt already perceived, human beings don't like to remember unpleasant things. They gird themselves with the armor of wishful thinking, protect themselves with a shield of impenetrable optimism, and, with a few exceptions, seem to accomplish their "forgetting" quite admirably. But you, my children, I don't want you to be among those who choose to forget. I want you to read my stories and a lot of others like them. I want you to fill your heads with Remarque and Tolstoy and Ernie Pyle. I want you to know what shrapnel, and "88's" and mortar shells and mustard gas mean. I want you to feel, no matter how vicariously, a semblance of the feeling of a torn limb, a burnt patch of flesh, the crippling, numbing sensation of fear, the hopeless emptiness of fatigue. All these things are complimentary to the province of war and they should be taught and demonstrated in classrooms along with the more heroic aspects of uniforms, and flags, and honor and patriotism. I have no idea what your generation will be like. In mine we were to enjoy "Peace in our time". A very well meaning gentleman waved his umbrella and shouted those very words...less than a year before the whole world went to war. But this gentleman was suffering the worldly disease of insufferable optimism. He and his fellow humans kept polishing the rose colored glasses when actually they should have taken them off. They were sacrificing reason and reality for a brief and temporal peace of mind, the same peace of mind that many of my contemporaries derive by steadfastly refraining from remembering the war that came before. ~ Rod Serling
 * 4 Optimistically, this quote is more suitable now than it will be next year; I would have ranked this at maybe a 2 last year, being as it's from a dedication to an unpublished short story. CensoredScribe (talk) 18:46, 23 December 2022 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 24 December 2022 (UTC); I perceive this to be far too long and meandering to be a good QOTD, and frankly far too dreary and pessimistc to be a good Christmas quote. It clearly was written in a dark mood, for which Serling can surely be pardoned, but I much prefer what hopefulness could endure in him, despite such dark spells. I have added a few quotes showing signs of such hope below, and though I believe Serlings page needs some work, major page editing here is something I am currently avoiding until I return home in a few weeks.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 24 December 2022 (UTC), with a slight lean towards 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 24 December 2022 (UTC)

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 24 December 2022 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 24 December 2022 (UTC)

 * 4 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:02, 25 December 2023 (UTC)

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January 26

January 26 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer. ~ Albert Camus
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the world. ~ Archimedes
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * I know war as few other men now living know it, and nothing to me is more revolting. I have long advocated its complete abolition, as its very destructiveness on both friend and foe has rendered it useless as a means of settling international disputes... But once war is forced upon us, there is no other alternative than to apply every available means to bring it to a swift end. ~ Douglas MacArthur (born 26 January 1880)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * The only gold is love, A coin that we have minted from the light Of others who have cared for us on Earth And who have deposited in us the power That nerves our nerves to seize the burning stars. ~ Philip José Farmer ~
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Prometheus, I have no Titan's might, Yet I, too, must each dusk renew my heart, For daytime's vulture talons tear apart The tender alcoves built by love at night. ~ Philip José Farmer ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * I do believe that man is a rope between animal and superman. But the superman I'm thinking of isn't Nietzsche's. The real superhuman, man or woman, is the person who's rid himself of all prejudices, neuroses, and psychoses, who realizes his full potential as a human being, who acts naturally on the basis of gentleness, compassion, and love, who thinks for himself and refuses to follow the herd. That's the genuine dyed-in-the-wool superman. ~ Philip José Farmer
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * If you don't have enemies, you don't have character. ~ Paul Newman
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * Yes, we hope to seed a new, rich earth. We hope to breed a race of men whose power Dwells in hearts as open as all Space Itself, who ask for nothing but the light That rinses the heart of hate so that the stars Above will be below when man has Love. ~ Philip José Farmer ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * Could I have but a line a century hence crediting a contribution to the advance of peace, I would gladly yield every honor which has been accorded me in war. ~ Douglas MacArthur
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Nvvchar, for the Republic Day of India on 26 January 2015

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki in regard to her recent death.

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on current events.

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:

 * In war, you win or lose, live or die — and the difference is just an eyelash. ~ Douglas MacArthur
 * Used 24 April 2004, selected by Kalki

 * Duty, Honor, Country — those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are your rallying point to build courage when courage seems to fail, to regain faith when there seems to be little cause for faith, to create hope when hope becomes forlorn. ~ Douglas MacArthur
 * Used 12 May 2006, proposed by UDScott

Suggestions
Money won is twice as sweet as money earned. ~ Paul Newman
 * 2 Zarbon 15:27, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 This quote isn't on his page. - InvisibleSun 17:29, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:02, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
 * The quote has now been sourced - Zarbon 05:13, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 23:49, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Just when things look darkest, they go black. ~ Paul Newman
 * 3 Zarbon 15:27, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 This quote isn't on his page. - InvisibleSun 17:29, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:02, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
 * The quote has now been sourced. - Zarbon 05:13, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 23:49, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked. ~ Paul Newman
 * 2 Zarbon 15:27, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 This quote isn't on his page. - InvisibleSun 17:29, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:02, 25 January 2009 (UTC)
 * The quote has now been sourced. - Zarbon 05:13, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 23:49, 20 January 2009 (UTC)

Men experience many passions in a lifetime. One passion drives away the one before it. ~ Paul Newman
 * 2 Zarbon 15:29, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 17:29, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:52, 27 September 2008 (UTC)

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It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear. While such an economy may produce a sense of seeming prosperity for the moment, it rests on an illusionary foundation of complete unreliability and renders among our political leaders almost a greater fear of peace than is their fear of war. ~ Douglas MacArthur
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 21:02, 19 January 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

We have known the bitterness of defeat and the exultation of triumph, and from both we have learned there can be no turning back. We must go forward to preserve in peace what we won in war. ~ Douglas MacArthur
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 21:02, 19 January 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

I have returned. ~ Douglas MacArthur
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 21:02, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Resurrection, like politics, makes strange bedfellows. ~ Philip José Farmer
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 21:02, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest. ~ Philip José Farmer
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 21:02, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Drowned idols swirl like seeds in chaos' wine. ~ Philip José Farmer
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 21:02, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

Let those who think the soul is shallow rail, They must be warned before they dare to leap They'll plunge into the twilight depths where sweep In ceaseless thirst great teeth too swift to fail. ~ Philip José Farmer
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 21:02, 19 January 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

How strange and unforeseeable! The world had been saved, not by great rulers and statesmen, not by mystics and saints and prophets and messiahs, not by any of the holy scriptures, but by an introverted eccentric writer of mathematical texts and children's books and by the child who'd inspired him. The little girl become a woman, dream-ridden Alice, had inspired the nonsense not really nonsense, and this in circuitous and spiralling fashion had inspired her to do what all others had failed to do, to save eighteen billion souls and the world. ~ Philip José Farmer
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 21:02, 19 January 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

India is the guru of the nations, the physician of the human soul in its profounder maladies; she is destined once more to remould the life of the world and restore the peace of the human spirit. But Swaraj is the necessary condition of her work and before she can do the work, she must fulfil the condition.
 * 4 On the Republic Day of India. --Nvvchar (talk) 02:21, 21 January 2014 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 25 January 2014 (UTC) but with a strong lean toward 3,or eventually even 4, for this quote of Sri Aurobindo

A man is only a mature boy. The theater widens as he ascends. ~ David Jewett Waller, Sr.
 * Comment from proposer:  January 26, 2015 is Waller's 200th birthday. --Jakob (talk) 01:08, 24 May 2014 (UTC)
 * 3, Waller is not very famous these days, but it's a nice quote and on a highly relevant day. --Jakob (talk) 01:19, 24 May 2014 (UTC)

We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us. ~ Jean-Paul_Sartre
 * (25 January 2016)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:38, 25 January 2020 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:22, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:22, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:22, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:22, 26 January 2021 (UTC)

title: January 26


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February 26

February 26 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * An interesting thing has happened since San Francisco started granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples: my marriage is just fine! Even though there are thousands of gay and lesbian couples affirming their love for and commitment to each other, my marriage — my affirmation of love and commitment to (my wife) — isn't threatened at all. As a matter of fact, the only people who can really "threaten" my marriage are the two of us. ~ Wil Wheaton
 * selected by IP 172.143.235.101

 * 2005
 * The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge. ~ Victor Hugo (born 26 February 1802)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Sure, ninety percent of science fiction is crud. That's because ninety percent of everything is crud. ~ Theodore Sturgeon (born 26 February 1918)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better. ~ Victor Hugo
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * A man is not idle, because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour. ~ Victor Hugo in Les Misérables
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal. ~ Victor Hugo
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas. A day will come when the bullets and bombs are replaced by votes, by universal suffrage, by the venerable arbitration of a great supreme senate which will be to Europe what Parliament is to England, the Diet to Germany, and the Legislative Assembly to France. A day will come when a cannon will be a museum-piece, as instruments of torture are today. And we will be amazed to think that these things once existed! ~ Victor Hugo
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2011
 * God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art. ~ Victor Hugo
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2012
 * You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear. ~ Victor Hugo
 * proposed by bystander

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2015

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2016

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki, from her song Ring of Fire which was one of the top hits of her and her husband Johnny Cash, who was born on this day, and "Ring of Fire" also being a popular name for an annular eclipse, one of which is occurring across the southern hemisphere on this date in 2017.

 * 2018

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2019

 * proposed by

 * 2020

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2021

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki; remarks on the current Russian military invasion of Ukraine.

 * 2023

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss! Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies! ~ Christopher Marlowe (baptized February 26, 1564)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:42, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:45, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:52, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Logic ignores the Almost, just as the sun ignores the candle. ~ Victor Hugo, from Les Misérables
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:42, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:45, 25 February 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 05:52, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view? ~ Victor Hugo, from Les Misérables
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:42, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:45, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 05:52, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 bystander (talk) 21:02, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

title: February 26