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August 14

August 14 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * I never met a man so stupid I could not learn something from him. ~ Galileo Galilei

 * 2004
 * Life itself is the proper binge. ~ Julia Child

 * 2005
 * There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. ~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton
 * in honor of the first beauty contest, August 14, 1908
 * proposed by User:MosheZadka

 * 2006
 * Usually, terrible things that are done with the excuse that progress requires them are not really progress at all, but just terrible things. ~ Russell Baker (born August 14, 1925)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2007
 * It's always worth while before you do anything to consider whether it's going to hurt another person more than is absolutely necessary. ~ John Galsworthy
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Life seemed to be an educator's practical joke in which you spent the first half learning and the second half learning that everything you learned in the first half was wrong. ~ Russell Baker
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Time will rust the sharpest sword, Time will consume the strongest cord; That which molders hemp and steel, Mortal arm and nerve must feel. ~ Walter Scott
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honour or observation. ~ Walter Scott
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * Art is the one form of human energy in the whole world, which really works for union, and destroys the barriers between man and man. It is the continual, unconscious replacement, however fleeting, of oneself by another; the real cement of human life; the everlasting refreshment and renewal. ~ John Galsworthy
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Nvvchar

 * 2016

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
The new phone book's here! The new phone book's here! This is the kind of spontaneous publicity I need. My name in print. That really makes somebody. Things are going to start happening to me now! ~ Steve Martin as "Navin R. Johnson" in The Jerk (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 10:26, 15 August 2005 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 15:33, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:41, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 20:12, 10 August 2009 (UTC) I like it, but not sure of it as QOTD.

You kill me and I'll see that you never work in this town again. ~ Steve Martin as "Dr. Michael Hfuhruhurr" in The Man with Two Brains (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 10:26, 15 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:33, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:41, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 20:12, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

It's so hard to believe in anything anymore. If it weren't for my lucky astrology mood watch, I wouldn't believe in anything.. ~ Steve Martin (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 10:26, 15 August 2005 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 15:33, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:41, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 20:12, 10 August 2009 (UTC) Amusing, but as QOTD?

You talk a great deal about building a better world for your children, but when you are young you can no more envision a world inherited by your children than you can conceive of dying. The society you mold, you mold for yourself. ~ Russell Baker
 * 3 InvisibleSun 00:21, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 20:51, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:33, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 20:12, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

All politicians are humble, and seldom let you forget it. They go around the country boasting about their humility. They are proud of their humility. Many are downright arrogant about their humility and insist that it qualifies them to be President. ~ Russell Baker
 * 3 InvisibleSun 00:21, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 20:51, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 15:33, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 20:12, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

A solved problem creates two new problems, and the best prescription for happy living is not to solve any more problems than you have to. ~ Russell Baker
 * 3 InvisibleSun 00:21, 12 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 20:51, 13 August 2007 (UTC) with a STRONG lean toward 3 or eventual 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 15:33, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 20:12, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Inanimate objects can be classified scientifically into three major categories: those that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost. The goal of all inanimate objects is to resist man and ultimately to defeat him, and the three major classifications are based on the method each object uses to achieve its purpose. As a general rule, any object capable of breaking down at the moment when it is most needed will do so. ~ Russell Baker
 * 3 Kalki 20:51, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:33, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 20:12, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Revenge is the sweetest morsel to the mouth, that ever was cooked in hell. ~ Walter Scott
 * 3 because sometimes, vengeance is sweet Zarbon 05:27, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:41, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:11, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 20:12, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die. ~ Walter Scott
 * 3 because those who live without struggle, die a quiet death. Zarbon 05:27, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:41, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:11, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 20:12, 10 August 2009 (UTC) Intriguing kind of corollary to "An unexamined life is not worth living...."

And come he slow, or come he fast, It is but Death who comes at last. ~ Walter Scott
 * 3 because sooner or later, we all die. Zarbon 05:27, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:41, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:11, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 20:12, 10 August 2009 (UTC) One of the most common "concepts" in literature — The same sentiment has been stated much more "pleasingly" (for grievous lack of a better word).

For he that does good, having the unlimited power to do evil, deserves praise not only for the good which he performs, but for the evil which he forbears. ~ Walter Scott
 * 2 Zarbon 05:27, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:41, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:11, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 20:12, 10 August 2009 (UTC)

Love! Beyond measure — beyond death — it nearly kills. But one wouldn't have been without it. ~ John Galsworthy
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 02:29, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it. ~ John Galsworthy ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 02:29, 12 August 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

The beginnings and endings of all human undertakings are untidy, the building of a house, the writing of a novel, the demolition of a bridge, and, eminently, the finish of a voyage. ~ John Galsworthy
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 02:29, 12 August 2011 (UTC)

title: August 14


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September 14

September 14 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * We don't see things as they are, we see things as we are. ~ Anaïs Nin
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * I've had enough of breakdowns and diagrams — judging from picture books, apparently Heaven is a partly cloudy place. ~ Jenny Lewis, "Don't Deconstruct"
 * proposed by IP 69.3.198.42 ("Pacian")

 * 2006
 * The acceptance of the principle of international cooperation is of immense importance for all states. Even the states which are most tempted to believe that they can stand by themselves have very much to gain by such cooperation. And for the smaller states — the weaker states — it is vital to all their hopes of liberty and justice. ~ Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood (born 14 September 1864)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * The vast majority of the peoples of the world are against war and against aggression. If they make their wishes known and effective, war can be stopped. It all depends on whether they are willing to make the effort necessary for the purpose. For, that it will require an effort, no one who considers the history of the world on these subjects can doubt. ~ Robert Cecil, 1st Viscount Cecil of Chelwood
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Patriotism is proud of a country’s virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues. The pride of nationalism, however, trumpets its country’s virtues and denies its deficiencies, while it is contemptuous toward the virtues of other countries. It wants to be, and proclaims itself to be, "the greatest," but greatness is not required of a country; only goodness is. ~ Sydney J. Harris
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * The difference between faith and superstition is that the first uses reason to go as far as it can, and then makes the jump; the second shuns reason entirely — which is why superstition is not the ally, but the enemy, of true religion. ~ Sydney J. Harris
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. ~ Sydney J. Harris
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war. ~ Sydney J. Harris
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Ranking system:
 * 4 : Excellent - should definitely be used.
 * 3 : Very Good - strong desire to see it used.
 * 2 : Good - some desire to see it used.
 * 1 : Acceptable - but with no particular desire to see it used.
 * 0 : Not acceptable - not appropriate for use as a quote of the day.

Suggestions
Mankind will possess incalculable advantages and extraordinary control over human behavior when the scientific investigator will be able to subject his fellow men to the same external analysis he would employ for any natural object, and when the human mind will contemplate itself not from within but from without. – Ivan Pavlov (born September 14, 1849)
 * 3. David | Talk 20:23, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 00:43, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:28, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 22:52, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things. ~ Alexander von Humboldt
 * 2 Zarbon 19:55, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:16, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:46, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

The beauty of "spacing" children many years apart lies in the fact that parents have time to learn the mistakes that were made with the older ones—which permits them to make exactly the opposite mistakes with the younger ones. ~ Sydney J. Harris
 * 2 for comedic value. Zarbon 19:55, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:16, 13 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:46, 13 September 2008 (UTC)

People who think they’re generous to a fault usually think that’s their only fault. ~ Sydney J. Harris
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:33, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Self-discipline without talent can often achieve astounding results, whereas talent without self-discipline inevitably dooms itself to failure. ~ Sydney J. Harris
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:33, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Superior people are only those who let it be discovered by others; the need to make it evident forfeits the very virtue they aspire to. ~ Sydney J. Harris
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:33, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope. ~ John Piper

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title: September 14


text:
October 14

October 14 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * It is better to debate a question without deciding it than to decide it without debate. ~ Joseph Joubert
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * love is the every only god ~ E. E. Cummings (born 14 October 1894)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * I am totally convinced from my experience of working with poor people that they can get themselves out of poverty if we give them the same or similar opportunities we give to others. The poor themselves can create a poverty-free world — all we have to do is to free them from the chains that we have put around them. ~ Muhammad Yunus (winner of the Nobel Peace Prize in 2006)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * There's an old African proverb that says "If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." We have to go far — quickly. And that means we have to quickly find a way to change the world's consciousness about exactly what we're facing, and why we have to work to solve it. ~ Al Gore (winner of the Nobel Peace Prize of 2007)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower (born 14 October 1890)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in his never wholly successful attempts to liberate himself from necessity. ~ Hannah Arendt
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2010
 * We must be ready to dare all for our country. For history does not long entrust the care of freedom to the weak or the timid. We must acquire proficiency in defense and display stamina in purpose. We must be willing, individually and as a Nation, to accept whatever sacrifices may be required of us. A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Art is a mystery. A mystery is something immeasurable. In so far as every child and woman and man may be immeasurable, art is the mystery of every man and woman and child. In so far as a human being is an artist, skies and mountains and oceans and thunderbolts and butterflies are immeasurable; and art is every mystery of nature. Nothing measurable can be alive; nothing which is not alive can be art; nothing which cannot be art is true: and everything untrue doesn’t matter a very good God damn... ~ E. E. Cummings
 * 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 InvisibleSun

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki, in regard of his becoming the oldest human to have as yet travelled into outer space.

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on significant current and historic events.

 * 2023 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Let's bounce, Tigger! ~ Roo, on Winnie the Pooh (date of publication)
 * 2 (if anyone added more fun quotes to the article, I'd probably vote for them) ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 23:30, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 21:45, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 22:15, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Behold the Fruits of Love; the Power, Vertue, Benefit and Beauty of Love! Love is above all; and when it prevails in us all, we shall all be Lovely, and in Love with God and one with another. ~ William Penn (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 22:46, 11 October 2005 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 07:26, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

It were better to be of no Church, than to be bitter for any. . ~ William Penn (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 22:46, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:26, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 04:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

True religion does not draw men out of the world but enables them to live better in it and excites their endeavors to mend it. ~ William Penn (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 22:46, 11 October 2005 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:26, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)*

I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its stupidity. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 22:46, 11 October 2005 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:26, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 however, this is extremely biased, but it is perceptive. I live for the ideology of the soldier. Zarbon 04:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

We must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 22:46, 11 October 2005 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:26, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 04:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 23:36, 26 August 2016 (UTC) 4 for: "In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes."

It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. ~ Katherine Mansfield (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 22:46, 11 October 2005 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4, and I would now prefer to extend it to:
 * When we can begin to take our failures nonseriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. ~ Katherine Mansfield

 * 2 InvisibleSun 07:26, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinion of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth. ~ Katherine Mansfield (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 22:46, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:26, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

The more you are motivated by love, the more fearless and free your actions will be. ~ Katherine Mansfield (date of birth) * 3 InvisibleSun 07:26, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 0 Kalki 01:07, 14 October 2009 (UTC) I would rank this a 3 or 4, but I cannot find a source for it. * 3 Kalki 22:46, 11 October 2005 (UTC)
 * Changed to 1 because the quote is unsourced. - InvisibleSun 22:15, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Time's a strange fellow; more he gives than takes (and he takes all) ~ E. E. Cummings (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 22:46, 11 October 2005 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:26, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 04:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

The whole truth… sings only —and all lovers are the song ~ E. E. Cummings (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 22:46, 11 October 2005 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 07:26, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

no evil is so worse than worst you fall in hate with love ~ E. E. Cummings (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 22:46, 11 October 2005 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:26, 11 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

In God we trust, all others bring data. ~ W. Edwards Deming, date of birth * 3 InvisibleSun 17:26, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 ~ UDScott 16:34, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Changed to 1 because the quote is unsourced. - InvisibleSun 22:15, 13 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 21:45, 12 October 2008 (UTC) but it needs sourcing before it can be used.

Experience by itself teaches nothing...Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence without theory there is no learning. ~ W. Edwards Deming, date of birth
 * 3 ~ UDScott 16:34, 19 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 17:26, 13 October 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 04:43, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 21:45, 12 October 2008 (UTC)

We are seeking our own authenticity, and we will find it because we wish, in the innermost fibers of our being to discover it. ~ Mobutu Sésé Seko (born October 14)
 * 2 Zarbon 04:17, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 21:45, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 22:15, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

The chief is the chief. He is the eagle who flies high and cannot be touched by the spit of the toad. ~ Mobutu Sésé Seko (born October 14)
 * 4 because this is a nice personification. I personally like the toad as an animal, but the attribution here is negative, committing the eagle to high standards and the toad to that of the lower. And true as the quote says, the eagle soars as a chief, unscathed and untouched by those below. Zarbon 04:17, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
 * SOURCE: Political Reform in Francophone Africa By John Frank Clark, David E. Gardinier - page 246
 * 1 Kalki 21:45, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 22:15, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

When you are a soldier, either you surrender or you are killed. But you don't flee. ~ Mobutu Sésé Seko (born October 14)
 * 3 because this is what the gallant steps of a soldier are all about. Zarbon 04:17, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 21:45, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 22:15, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

It takes two to corrupt – the corrupted and the corrupter. ~ Mobutu Sésé Seko (born October 14)
 * 2 Zarbon 05:39, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 21:45, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:15, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

The starlight of heaven above us shall quiver As our souls flow in one down eternity's river. ~ Thomas Osborne Davis
 * 2 Zarbon 05:20, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 21:45, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:15, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Come in the evening, or come in the morning; Come when you're looked for, or come without warning. ~ Thomas Osborne Davis
 * 2 Zarbon 05:20, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 21:45, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:15, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

I have opinions that are based on the facts that are presented to me. I don't apologize. I stand by it. If I'm hated, so what? If I'm loved, so what? ~ Stephen A. Smith
 * 2 Zarbon 05:20, 3 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 21:45, 12 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:15, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing. ~ Katherine Mansfield
 * 3 Kalki 01:07, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

I have made it a rule of my life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy, and no one who intends to become a writer can afford to indulge in it. ~ Katherine Mansfield
 * 3 Kalki 01:07, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

Whenever I prepare for a journey I prepare as though for death. Should I never return, all is in order. This is what life has taught me. ~ Katherine Mansfield
 * 3 Kalki 01:07, 14 October 2009 (UTC)

By health I mean the power to live a full, adult, living, breathing life in close contact with what I love — the earth and the wonders thereof — the sea — the sun. All that we mean when we speak of the external world. A want to enter into it, to be part of it, to live in it, to learn from it, to lose all that is superficial and acquired in me and to become a conscious direct human being. I want, by understanding myself, to understand others. I want to be all that I am capable of becoming so that I may be (and here I have stopped and waited and waited and it’s no good — there’s only one phrase that will do) a child of the sun. About helping others, about carrying a light and so on, it seems false to say a single word. Let it be at that. A child of the sun. ~ Katherine Mansfield
 * 3 Kalki 01:07, 14 October 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

follow no path all paths lead where truth is here ~ E. E. Cummings ~
 * 3 Kalki 01:07, 14 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

i thank You God for most this amazing day:for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky;and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes ~ E. E. Cummings ~
 * 3 Kalki 01:07, 14 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

what if a dawn of a doom of a dream bites this universe in two, peels forever out of it's grave and sprinkles nowhere with me and you? ~ E. E. Cummings ~
 * 3 Kalki 01:07, 14 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

when skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man ~ E. E. Cummings ~
 * 3 Kalki 01:07, 14 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

All in green went my love riding on a great horse of gold into the silver dawn. ~ E. E. Cummings ~
 * 3 Kalki 01:07, 14 October 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

We are so proud of our guarantees of freedom in thought and speech and worship, that, unconsciously, we are guilty of one of the greatest errors that ignorance can make — we assume our standard of values is shared by all other humans in the world. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
 * 3 Kalki 00:11, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

Neither a wise man or a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
 * 3 Kalki 00:11, 26 October 2009 (UTC)

The hand of the aggressor is stayed by strength — and strength alone. ~ Dwight D. Eisenhower
 * 4 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:46, 13 October 2023 (UTC) 3 Kalki 00:11, 26 October 2009 (UTC) with a lean towards 4.

title: October 14


text:
November 14

November 14 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs. ~ George Eliot
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2004
 * If I want to understand something, I must observe, I must not criticize, I must not condemn, I must not pursue it as pleasure or avoid it as non-pleasure. There must merely be the silent observation of a fact. ~ J. Krishnamurti
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * The ambition of the greatest men of our generation has been to wipe every tear from every eye. That may be beyond us, but so long as there are tears and suffering, so long our work will not be over. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru (born 14 November 1889)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Peace has been said to be indivisible; so is freedom, so is prosperity now, and so also is disaster in this One World that can no longer be split into isolated fragments. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * A moment comes, which comes but rarely in history, when we step out from the old to the new, when an age ends, and when the soul of a nation, long suppressed, finds utterance. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru (date of birth)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * To be in good moral condition requires at least as much training as to be in good physical condition. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * Call me Ishmael. Some years ago — never mind how long precisely — having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. ~ Herman Melville in Moby-Dick ~ (published that day in the United States in 1851; but first published on October 18 in England).
 * proposed by MosheZadka

 * 2010
 * The world of today has achieved much, but for all its declared love for humanity, it has based itself far more on hatred and violence than on the virtues that make one human. War is the negation of truth and humanity. War may be unavoidable sometimes, but its progeny are terrible to contemplate. Not mere killing, for man must die, but the deliberate and persistent propagation of hatred and falsehood, which gradually become the normal habits of the people. It is dangerous and harmful to be guided in our life's course by hatreds and aversions, for they are wasteful of energy and limit and twist the mind and prevent it from perceiving truth. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit. It is never a narrowing of the mind or a restriction of the human spirit or the country's spirit. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * Used 14 August 2015, in relation to anniversary celebrations of the independence of India, proposed (originally, on this date) by Nvvchar

Suggestions
It's bad policy to speculate on what you'll do if a plan fails, when you're trying to make a plan work. ~ Condoleezza Rice, born this day
 * Suggested by MurielMary (talk) 09:37, 20 August 2016 (UTC)

There is only one basic human right, the right to do as you damn well please. And with it comes the only basic human duty, the duty to take the consequences. ~ P. J. O'Rourke (born 14 November 1947)
 * 3 Kalki 16:07, 28 February 2008 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 06:18, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:16, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

You don't change the course of history by turning the faces of portraits to the wall. ~ Jawaharlal Nehru
 * 4 because history remains a stagnant reminder of the past, imperfect and perfect, a cognitive construct that can never be erased, especially not by trying to conceal the truth. Zarbon 05:19, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:17, 13 November 2009 (UTC) * 3 Kalki 15:17, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:16, 13 November 2008 (UTC)

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:07, 14 November 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:55, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:55, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:55, 13 November 2020 (UTC)

title: November 14


text:
December 14

December 14 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Loving kindness is greater than laws; and the charities of life are more than all ceremonies. ~ The Talmud
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * My creed is that public service must be more than doing a job efficiently and honestly. It must be a complete dedication to the people and to the nation with full recognition that every human being is entitled to courtesy and consideration, that constructive criticism is not only to be expected but sought, that smears are not only to be expected but fought, that honor is to be earned but not bought. ~ Margaret Chase Smith (born 14 December 1897)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * My deepest impulses are optimistic; an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect. ~ Ellen Willis (born 14 December 1941)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2007
 * I had determined to go as far as declaring in abstruse and puzzling utterances the future causes of the "common advent", even those truly cogent ones that I have foreseen. Yet lest whatever human changes may be to come should scandalise delicate ears, the whole thing is written in nebulous form, rather than as a clear prophecy of any kind. ~ Nostradamus (born 14 December 1503)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * The Art of Peace is not easy. It is a fight to the finish, the slaying of evil desires and all falsehood within. On occasion the Voice of Peace resounds like thunder, jolting human beings out of their stupor. ~ Morihei Ueshiba (born 14 December 1883)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character. ~ Margaret Chase Smith
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * The project of organizing a democratic political movement entails the hope that one's ideas and beliefs are not merely idiosyncratic but speak to vital human needs, interests and desires, and therefore will be persuasive to many and ultimately most people. But this is a very different matter from deciding to put forward only those ideas presumed (accurately or not) to be compatible with what most people already believe. ~ Ellen Willis
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2011
 * There’s a day to ride thumb on a thunderhead There’s a day to make fantasy real There’s a day to deny and a day to decry and a day for the man the wind at his heels. ~ Mike Scott ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * 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 JessRek6

 * 2019

 * proposed by ΞΔΞ

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company. ~ George Washington (Date of death)
 * 3 ~ UDScott 23:09, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:14, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 0 Kalki 19:51, 13 December 2007 (UTC) 3 Kalki 18:14, 13 December 2006 (UTC) This isn't actually a quote of Washington himself but one of lessons he copied out of a book as a school boy.
 * 0 because for one I do not agree with it and second, because it wasn't said by him originally. Zarbon 16:23, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

I think that it is high time that we remembered that the Constitution, as amended, speaks not only of the freedom of speech but also of trial by jury instead of trial by accusation. ~ Margaret Chase Smith (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 22:54, 13 December 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:14, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 16:23, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Ningauble 14:07, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Individuals bearing witness cannot do the work of social movements, but they can break a corrosive and demoralizing silence. ~ Ellen Willis (born December 14, 1941)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:14, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 18:14, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 16:23, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Ningauble 14:07, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

It's as crucial to defend secular culture as to preserve secular law. And in fact the two projects are inseparable: When religion defines morality, the wall between church and state comes to be seen as immoral. ~ Ellen Willis
 * 4 InvisibleSun 07:14, 30 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 18:14, 13 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 16:23, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 14:07, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

 * 1 Zarbon 16:23, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 14:07, 12 December 2008 (UTC)

Tis well. ~ George Washington
 * 3 Kalki 19:51, 13 December 2007 (UTC) Last words. (died 14 December 1799) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 0 Zarbon 16:23, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Slowly and sadly we laid him down, From the field of his fame fresh and gory; We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone, But we left him alone with his glory. ~ Charles Wolfe
 * 3 Zarbon 06:40, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:21, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Tomorrow, I shall no longer be here. ~ Nostradamus
 * 2 Zarbon 06:40, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:21, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

When twenty years of the Moon's reign have passed another will take up his reign for seven thousand years. When the exhausted Sun takes up his cycle then my prophecy and threats will be accomplished. ~ Nostradamus
 * 2 Zarbon 06:40, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:21, 10 December 2008 (UTC)

Regarding technique, from ancient times it has been said that movements must fly like lightning and attacks must strike like thunder. ~ Morihei Ueshiba
 * 3 Zarbon 06:40, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:21, 10 December 2008 (UTC) I like this, but prefer the verse version of a similar statement which I am adding directly below this for easier comparison.

Move like a beam of light; Fly like lightning, Strike like thunder, Whirl in circles around A stable center. ~ Morihei Ueshiba ~
 * 3 Kalki 22:21, 10 December 2008 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 05:18, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

I spoke about wings you just flew I wondered I guessed and I tried you just knew I sighed but you swooned I saw the crescent You saw the whole of the moon ~ Mike Scott
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 18:35, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Flags, rags, ferryboats, scimitars and scarves every precious dream and vision underneath the stars You climbed on the ladder with the wind in your sails you came like a comet blazing your trail too high, too far, too soon You saw the whole of the moon! ~ Mike Scott
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 18:35, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

He stopped every clock in New York state and every heart that heard him and time itself was beaten and confused and fell lamb-like under the spell of his fabulous flashing fingers… ~ Mike Scott
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 18:35, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

I have heard the big music and I'll never be the same something so pure just called my name. ~ Mike Scott
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 18:35, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

I have drowned in the big sea now I find I'm still alive And I'm coming up forever shadows all behind me ecstacy to come… ~ Mike Scott
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 18:35, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Come with me on a journey beneath the skin We will look together for the Pan within. ~ Mike Scott
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 18:35, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

Once you were tethered now you are free That was the river this is the sea. ~ Mike Scott
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 18:35, 27 November 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

You're trying to make sense of something that you just don't see You're trying to make sense now and you know you once held the key But that was the river this is the sea. ~ Mike Scott
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 18:35, 27 November 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

I pictured a rainbow you held it in your hands I had flashes but you saw the plan I wandered out in the world for years you just stayed in your room I saw the crescent You saw the whole of the moon. ~ Mike Scott
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 18:35, 27 November 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

He's like a man you'd meet any place until you recognize that ancient Face The Great God Pan is alive! ~ Mike Scott
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 18:35, 27 November 2011 (UTC)

 * A man needs a little madness, or else he never dares cut the rope and be free.
 * Zorba the Greek (film)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 16:13, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

 * You think too much. That is your trouble. Clever people and grocers, they weigh everything.
 * Zorba the Greek (film)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 16:13, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

 * What kind of man are you, don't you even like dolphins?
 * Zorba the Greek (film)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 16:13, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
 * Rationale: film released in Greece on 14 December. These quotes might also be run on 21 April (the birthday of Anthony Quinn) or 11 June (the birthday of Michael Cacoyannis)

title: December 14


text:
January 15

January 15 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. … There is another theory which states that this has already happened. ~ Douglas Adams
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr. (born 15 January 1929)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing. ~ Jimmy Wales (Wikipedia Day — Wikipedia started 15 January 2001)
 * proposed by Smurrayinchester

 * 2007
 * I build no system. I ask an end to privilege, the abolition of slavery, equality of rights, and the reign of law. Justice, nothing else; that is the alpha and omega of my argument: to others I leave the business of governing the world. ~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
 * selected by Kalki (no other proposals existed)

 * 2008
 * I'm concerned about justice. I'm concerned about brotherhood. I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about these, he can never advocate violence. For through violence you may murder a murderer but you can't murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar but you can't establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate. Darkness cannot put out darkness. Only light can do that. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems. And I'm going to talk about it everywhere I go. I know it isn't popular to talk about it in some circles today. I'm not talking about emotional bosh when I talk about love, I'm talking about a strong, demanding love. And I have seen too much hate... I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. And the beautiful thing is that we are moving against wrong when we do it, because John was right, God is love. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Men, for years now, have been talking about war and peace. But now, no longer can they just talk about it. It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Those whose conduct gives room for talk Are always the first to attack their neighbors. ~ Molière (born 15 January 1622)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2012
 * I stand ready to negotiate, but I want no part of laws: I acknowledge none; I protest against every order with which some authority may feel pleased on the basis of some alleged necessity to over-rule my free will. Laws: We know what they are, and what they are worth! They are spider webs for the rich and mighty, steel chains for the poor and weak, fishing nets in the hands of government. ~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Illegitimate Barrister

 * 2018

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
 * Used 11 June 2003, as first Wikiquote "Quote of the Day".

 * The time is always right to do what is right. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
 * Used 27 December 2003

 * Cowardice asks the question, "Is it safe?" Expediency asks the question, "Is it politic?" And Vanity comes along and asks the question, "Is it popular?" But Conscience asks the question "Is it right?" And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must do it because Conscience tells him it is right. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
 * Used 21 March 2004

 * Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
 * Used 7 September 2004

 * The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
 * Used 17 January 2005 (Martin Luther King Day 2005 in U.S.)

 * I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood... I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream today... ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
 * Used 28 August 2005 (42nd anniversary of MLK's I Have a Dream speech, made on 28 August 1963)

 * What is needed is a realization that power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love... I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems. And I'm going to talk about it everywhere I go. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
 * Used 16 January 2006 (Martin Luther King Day 2006 in U.S.)

Suggestions
Communism violates the sovereignty of the conscience, and equality: the first, by restricting spontaneity of mind and heart, and freedom of thought and action; the second, by placing labor and laziness, skill and stupidity, and even vice and virtue on an equality in point of comfort. For the rest, if property is impossible on account of the desire to accumulate, communism would soon become so through the desire to shirk. ~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
 * 3 Kalki 15:02, 19 January 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4, but I would now extend this to:
 * Man is very willing to obey the law of duty, serve his country, and oblige his friends; but he wishes to labor when he pleases, where he pleases, and as much as he pleases. He wishes to dispose of his own time, to be governed only by necessity, to choose his friendships, his recreation, and his discipline; to act from judgment, not by command; to sacrifice himself through selfishness, not through servile obligation. Communism is essentially opposed to the free exercise of our faculties, to our noblest desires, to our deepest feelings. Any plan which could be devised for reconciling it with the demands of the individual reason and will would end only in changing the thing while preserving the name. Now, if we are honest truth-seekers, we shall avoid disputes about words. Thus, communism violates the sovereignty of the conscience, and equality: the first, by restricting spontaneity of mind and heart, and freedom of thought and action; the second, by placing labor and laziness, skill and stupidity, and even vice and virtue on an equality in point of comfort. For the rest, if property is impossible on account of the desire to accumulate, communism would soon become so through the desire to shirk.

 * 3 InvisibleSun 05:32, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 18:11, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

A learned fool is more foolish than an ignorant one. ~ Molière
 * 3 InvisibleSun 05:32, 11 January 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:29, 16 January 2008 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 18:11, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool. ~ Edward Teller (born January 15)
 * 3 because a sufficiently great fool will assume control of any system. Zarbon 22:49, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:58, 6 January 2009 (UTC) but to leap form Teller's valid statement to your invalid conclusion is very foolish, as it is simply not true.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:39, 14 January 2009 (UTC)

When you come to the end of all the light you know, and it's time to step into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing that one of two things shall happen: Either you will be given something solid to stand on or you will be taught to fly. ~ Edward Teller (born January 15)
 * 2 because there is a dynamic shroud of imagery surrounding angels, flight, and furthermore, the unknown. Zarbon 22:49, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 15:58, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

It is necessary to have lived in this insulator which is called the national assembly, in order to perceive how the men who are the most completely ignorant of the state of the country are almost always the ones who represent it. ~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 16:07, 12 January 2010 (UTC)

To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated at, regulated, docketed, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, weighed, censored, ordered about, by men who have neither the right, nor the knowledge, nor the virtue. … To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction, noted, registered, enrolled, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under the pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be placed under contribution, trained, ransomed, exploited, monopolized, extorted, squeezed, mystified, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, despised, harassed, tracked, abused, clubbed, disarmed, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and, to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, outraged, dishonoured. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality. ~ Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 16:07, 12 January 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

 * 3.25. – Illegitimate Barrister 19:47, 4 August 2015 (UTC).
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 14 January 2021 (UTC), with a lean toward 3, or even eventually a 4, but there are many others by MLK I am inclined to rank higher.

 * 3. This speech was delivered on January 15, 2009. – Illegitimate Barrister, 14:08, 22 September 2015 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:39, 14 January 2016 (UTC) but ONLY if extended to read:
 * America must maintain our moral clarity. I have often spoken to you about good and evil. This has made some uncomfortable. But good and evil are present in this world, and between the two there can be no compromise. Murdering the innocent to advance an ideology is wrong every time, everywhere. Freeing people from oppression and despair is eternally right. This nation must continue to speak out for justice and truth. We must always be willing to act in their defense and to advance the cause of peace.
 * I could also probably rank it higher on Bush's birthday on 6 July, as a good quote for that date, in the extended form. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:39, 14 January 2016 (UTC)

 * 3.25. A bit long, but a good critique of moral relativism by Dr. King. – Illegitimate Barrister, 01:01, 24 February 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 14 January 2021 (UTC)

title: January 15


text:
February 15

February 15 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2005
 * All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. ~ Galileo Galilei (born 15 February 1564)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use. ~ Galileo Galilei (born 15 February 1564)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * The religious persecution of the ages has been done under what was claimed to be the command of God. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do to their fellows, because it always coincides with their own desires. ~ Susan B. Anthony (born 15 February 1920)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to so frame the Constitution that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us. ~ U.S. Congressman Abraham Lincoln, 15 February 1848 letter to William H. Herndon, opposing the Mexican-American War
 * proposed by Jeff Q

 * 2009
 * Cautious, careful people, always casting about to preserve their reputation and social standing, never can bring about a reform. Those who are really in earnest must be willing to be anything or nothing in the world's estimation. ~ Susan B. Anthony (born 15 February 1920)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * A religious education is an education which inculcates duty and reverence. Duty arises from our potential control over the course of events. Where attainable knowledge could have changed the issue, ignorance has the guilt of vice. And the foundation of reverence is this perception, that the present holds within itself the complete sum of existence, backwards and forwards, that whole amplitude of time, which is eternity. ~ Alfred North Whitehead (born 15 February 1861)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2011
 * Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science. Its principles may be eternal, but the expression of those principles requires continual development. ~ Alfred North Whitehead
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2012
 * I shall earnestly and persistently continue to urge all women to the practical recognition of the old revolutionary maxim, that "Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God." ~ Susan B. Anthony ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions

 * Possibly quotes relating to wolves, Faunus, or Pan for the last day of Lupercalia

If you love something let it go free. If it doesn't come back, you never had it. If it comes back, love it forever. ~ Doug Horton
 * proposed by user Sir John Alexander Macdonald
 * 1 Kalki 22:55, 14 February 2006 (UTC) The bulk of the quote derives from a well known proverb of the sixties that I doubt originated with Horton.
 * 1 Zarbon 22:23, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:31, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:31, 12 February 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:31, 12 February 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

title: February 15


text:
March 15

March 15 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against. ~ Malcolm X
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Beware the ides of March. ~ William Shakespeare in Julius Caesar (The Ides of March)
 * proposed by IP 84.56.18.77

 * 2006
 * Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces." ~ Julius Caesar (died 15 March 44 BC)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing. ~ Andrew Jackson
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will; as long as it secures to us the rights of person and property, liberty of conscience, and of the press, it will be worth defending. ~ Andrew Jackson
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking and go in. ~ Andrew Jackson
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their selfish purposes. Distinctions in society will always exist under every just government. Equality of talents, of education, or of wealth can not be produced by human institutions. In the full enjoyment of the gifts of Heaven and the fruits of superior industry, economy, and virtue, every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society — the farmers, mechanics, and laborers — who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their government. ~ Andrew Jackson
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2011
 * Beware the March of Ideas? ~ Neil Gaiman in Sandman #7, p. 10)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * Alone he rides, alone, The fair and fatal king: Dark night is all his own, That strange and solemn thing. ~ Lionel Johnson ~
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki in regard to his recent death.

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

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

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
I'd rather betray others, than have others betray me. ~ Cao Cao (date of death/date of birth unknown)
 * 2 Zarbon 20:47, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 09:04, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 0 InvisibleSun 22:35, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

Vanquished in life, his death By beauty made amends: The passing of his breath Won his defeated ends. ~ Lionel Johnson
 * 2 Zarbon 20:47, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 09:04, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:35, 14 March 2009 (UTC)

 * 2.75. – Illegitimate Barrister 20:50, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:21, 14 March 2024 (UTC); with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:21, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:21, 14 March 2024 (UTC)

title: March 15


text:
April 15

April 15 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * The income tax has made more liars out of the American people than golf has. Even when you make a tax form out on the level, you don't know when it's through if you are a crook or a martyr. ~ Will Rogers (US income tax filing deadline, April 15)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Here forms, here colours, here the character of every part of the universe are concentrated to a point; and that point is so marvellous a thing … Oh! marvellous, O stupendous Necessity — by thy laws thou dost compel every effect to be the direct result of its cause, by the shortest path. These are miracles... ~ Leonardo da Vinci (born 15 April 1452)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Although to penetrate into the intimate mysteries of nature and thence to learn the true causes of phenomena is not allowed to us, nevertheless it can happen that a certain fictive hypothesis may suffice for explaining many phenomena. ~ Leonhard Euler (born 15 April 1707)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * We work in the dark — we do what we can — we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art. ~ Henry James
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue. It is the very atmosphere of the mind; and when the mind is imaginative — much more when it happens to be that of a man of genius — it takes to itself the faintest hints of life, it converts the very pulses of the air into revelations. ~ Henry James
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * $$e^{i \pi} + 1 = 0. \,\!$$ Gentlemen, that is surely true, it is absolutely paradoxical; we cannot understand it, and we don't know what it means. But we have proved it, and therefore we know it must be the truth. ~ Benjamin Peirce on Euler's identity ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Any one who in discussion relies upon authority uses, not his understanding, but rather his memory. Good culture is born of a good disposition; and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will rather praise a good disposition without culture, than good culture without the disposition. ~ Leonardo da Vinci
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * I am a being of Heaven and Earth, of thunder and lightning, of rain and wind, of the galaxies, of the suns and the stars and the void through which they travel. The essence of nature, eternal, divine that all men seek to know to hear, known as the great illusion time, and the all-prevailing atmosphere. And now you know my background. ~ eden ahbez ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * This is the law: Every thing existing on the physical plane is an exteriorization of thought, which must be balanced through the one who issued the thought, and in accordance with that one’s responsibility, at the conjunction of time, condition, and place. ~ Harold W. Percival
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2013

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2014

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2015

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2016

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2019

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2020

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2021

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2022

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

 * 2023

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2024

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
A tradition is kept alive only by something being added to it. ~ Henry James (born April 15, 1843)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 09:17, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:49, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 15:09, 5 April 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 allixpeeke (talk) 23:10, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

We are divided of course between liking to feel the past strange and liking to feel it familiar. ~ Henry James
 * 3 InvisibleSun 09:17, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 23:49, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:09, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 (leaning toward 2) allixpeeke (talk) 23:10, 22 August 2014 (UTC) (I would likely give this a 4 if it were being suggested for 31 December.)

Perversely adorable always — and I scarce know why — the late afternoon light in deserted haunts of study; with the secret of supreme dignity lurking, above all, in high, dusky, wainscoted chambers where the sound of one's footfall lingers, to one's pleasure, like a caress, and where portraits of the appurtenant worthies, the heroes and patrons, grow vague in the twilight. It is a tribute to the forces of idealism lurking again and again, over the country, in the amenity of the general Collegiate appearance, that the last thing these conditions overtly suggest, or seem to accept as their imputed virtue, is this precipitation of the young intelligence into the mere vociferous market. ~ Henry James
 * 3 InvisibleSun 09:17, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:49, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:09, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 (leaning toward 1) allixpeeke (talk) 23:10, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Don't do the right thing looking for a reward, because it might not come. ~ Hugh Thompson, Jr.
 * 3 Zarbon 04:41, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:42, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 allixpeeke (talk) 23:10, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Here's to the day when it is May And care as light as a feather, When your little shoes and my big boots Go tramping over the heather. ~ Bliss Carman
 * 2 Zarbon 04:41, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 01:51, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

Sir king, I have been often accused of harbouring traitorous designs against you, but, as God in heaven is just and true, may this morsel of bread choke me if even in thought I have ever been false to you. ~ Godwin, Earl of Wessex
 * 3 Zarbon 04:41, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 13:42, 14 April 2009 (UTC) but leaning toward 0, as this is considered to be a very doubtful attribution.

As a day well spent procures a happy sleep, so a life well employed procures a happy death. ~ Leonardo da Vinci

OR

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death. ~ Leonardo da Vinci
 * 4 for both versions. Zarbon 04:41, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 for either version. InvisibleSun 01:51, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 13:42, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 for the first version, 2 (leaning toward 3) for the second version. allixpeeke (talk) 23:10, 22 August 2014 (UTC) (Comment: would it not make more sense to make this quote available on 2 May (the day da Vinci died) rather than 15 April (the day he was born)?)

Avoid studies of which the result dies with the worker. ~ Leonardo da Vinci

OR

Shun those studies in which the work that results dies with the worker. ~ Leonardo da Vinci
 * 3 for both versions. Zarbon 04:41, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 for the first version. - InvisibleSun 01:51, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:42, 14 April 2009 (UTC) preferring the first version.
 * 2 allixpeeke (talk) 23:10, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. ~ Leonardo da Vinci
 * 3 and lean toward 4. Zarbon 04:41, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 01:51, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 13:42, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 allixpeeke (talk) 23:10, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whether he is going. Practice must always be founded on sound theory, and to this Perspective is the guide and the gateway; and without this nothing can be done well in the matter of drawing. ~ Leonardo da Vinci
 * 2 Zarbon 04:41, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 01:51, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:42, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 (leaning toward 3) allixpeeke (talk) 23:10, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and ruthless stepmother? I see thy children given into slavery to others without ever receiving any benefit, and in lieu of any reward for the services they have done for them they are repaid by the severest punishments. ~ Leonardo da Vinci
 * 3 Zarbon 04:41, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 01:51, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:42, 14 April 2009 (UTC)

The sun gives spirit and life to plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture. ~ Leonardo da Vinci
 * 2 Zarbon 04:41, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 01:51, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:42, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 allixpeeke (talk) 23:10, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art. ~ Leonardo da Vinci
 * 3 Zarbon 04:41, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 01:51, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 13:42, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 (leaning toward 3) allixpeeke (talk) 23:10, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

The senses are of the earth; Reason, stands apart in contemplation. ~ Leonardo da Vinci
 * 3 Zarbon 04:41, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 01:51, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:42, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 allixpeeke (talk) 23:10, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Wisdom is the daughter of experience. ~ Leonardo da Vinci
 * 3 Zarbon 04:41, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 01:51, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 13:42, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 (leaning toward 4) allixpeeke (talk) 23:10, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers. ~ Leonardo da Vinci
 * 3 and lean toward 4. Zarbon 04:41, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 01:51, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:42, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 (leaning toward 2) allixpeeke (talk) 23:10, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. ~ Leonardo da Vinci
 * 3 Zarbon 04:41, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 01:51, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:42, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 (leaning toward 3) allixpeeke (talk) 23:10, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss. ~ Leonardo da Vinci
 * 3 Zarbon 04:41, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 01:51, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:42, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 (leaning toward 2) allixpeeke (talk) 23:10, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

The grave will fall in upon him who digs it. ~ Leonardo da Vinci
 * 3 and strong lean toward 4. All my favorite characters plot only to become victims themselves. That is the splendid beauty of their essence. Zarbon 04:41, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 01:51, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:42, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 (leaning toward 2) allixpeeke (talk) 23:10, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind. ~ Leonardo da Vinci
 * 2 Zarbon 04:41, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 01:51, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:42, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 allixpeeke (talk) 23:10, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

There will be many men who will move one against another, holding in their hands a cutting tool. But these will not do each other any injury beyond tiring each other; for, when one pushes forward the other will draw back. But woe to him who comes between them! For he will end by being cut in pieces. ~ Leonardo da Vinci
 * 3 Zarbon 04:41, 9 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 01:51, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:42, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 (leaning toward 2) allixpeeke (talk) 23:10, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel. ~Abraham Lincoln
 * 3 Lincoln's death dateSuperJew 08:00, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:42, 14 April 2009 (UTC) but I remain inclined to generally rate suggestions for death dates less high than birth dates, save when birth dates of people are unknown, or the specific quote is perhaps more relevant to the death date for some reason.
 * I think people are more quoted more after their deaths and they are remembered on their deaths (for example: Jewish death dates (Yahrtzeit), which sadly doesn't have an article on en:wiki and Asian cultures)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:31, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 0 allixpeeke (talk) 23:10, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

The true rule, in determining to embrace, or reject any thing, is not whether it have any evil in it; but whether it have more of evil, than of good. There are few things wholly evil, or wholly good. Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two; so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded. ~Abraham Lincoln
 * (Lincoln's death date) 4 SuperJew 08:00, 14 April 2009 (UTC) 3 SuperJew 14:00, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:42, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:31, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 0 allixpeeke (talk) 23:10, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Determine that the thing can and shall be done, and then we shall find the way. ~Abraham Lincoln
 * 4 Lincoln's death date SuperJew 08:00, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 13:42, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:31, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 0 allixpeeke (talk) 23:10, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

As a nation, we began by declaring that'' "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics."'' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty — to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be take pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy ~Abraham Lincoln
 * (Lincoln's death date) 4 SuperJew 08:00, 14 April 2009 (UTC) 3 SuperJew 14:00, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 13:42, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:31, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 (leaning toward 0) allixpeeke (talk) 23:10, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But, in a larger sense, we can not dedicate, we can not consecrate, we can not hallow, this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth. ~Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address
 * (Lincoln's death date) 4 SuperJew 08:00, 14 April 2009 (UTC) 3 SuperJew 14:00, 14 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 0 — this has now been used at 19 November the date of the speech 1 Kalki this would be more appropriate for either 3 July, the date of the end of the Battle of Gettysburg, or perhaps, 19 November the date of the speech (where a small portion of it has already been used).
 * 1 Zarbon 15:31, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 0 allixpeeke (talk) 23:10, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

But this theory of our government is wholly different from the practical fact. The fact is that the government, like a highwayman, says to a man: Your money, or your life. And many, if not most, taxes are paid under the compulsion of that threat.

The government does not, indeed, waylay a man in a lonely place, spring upon him from the road side, and, holding a pistol to his head, proceed to rifle his pockets. But the robbery is none the less a robbery on that account; and it is far more dastardly and shameful.

The highwayman takes solely upon himself the responsibility, danger, and crime of his own act. He does not pretend that he has any rightful claim to your money, or that he intends to use it for your own benefit. He does not pretend to be anything but a robber. He has not acquired impudence enough to profess to be merely a "protector," and that he takes men's money against their will, merely to enable him to "protect" those infatuated travellers, who feel perfectly able to protect themselves, or do not appreciate his peculiar system of protection. He is too sensible a man to make such professions as these. Furthermore, having taken your money, he leaves you, as you wish him to do. He does not persist in following you on the road, against your will; assuming to be your rightful "sovereign," on account of the "protection" he affords you. He does not keep "protecting" you, by commanding you to bow down and serve him; by requiring you to do this, and forbidding you to do that; by robbing you of more money as often as he finds it for his interest or pleasure to do so; and by branding you as a rebel, a traitor, and an enemy to your country, and shooting you down without mercy, if you dispute his authority, or resist his demands. He is too much of a gentleman to be guilty of such impostures, and insults, and villainies as these. In short, he does not, in addition to robbing you, attempt to make you either his dupe or his slave.

The proceedings of those robbers and murderers, who call themselves "the government," are directly the opposite of these of the single highwayman.

~ Lysander Spooner ~

 * 4 (tax day) allixpeeke (talk) 23:10, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 12:35, 14 April 2015 (UTC) but with a lean toward 3 or 4, though possibly trimmed a bit — and I might consider more by Spooner later today, must be leaving now...

 * 3 --ΞΔΞ (talk) 14:37, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

title: April 15


text:
May 15

May 15 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind. ~ Louis Pasteur
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams — day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing — are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. ~ L. Frank Baum (born 15 May 1856)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * The voice of the individual artist may seem perhaps of no more consequence than the whirring of a cricket in the grass, but the arts do live continuously, and they live literally by faith; their names and their shapes and their uses and their basic meanings survive unchanged in all that matters through times of interruption, diminishment, neglect; they outlive governments and creeds and the societies, even the very civilization that produced them. They cannot be destroyed altogether because they represent the substance of faith and the only reality. They are what we find again when the ruins are cleared away. ~ Katherine Anne Porter (born 15 May 1890)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Human life itself may be almost pure chaos, but the work of the artist — the only thing he's good for — is to take these handfuls of confusion and disparate things, things that seem to be irreconcilable, and put them together in a frame to give them some kind of shape and meaning. Even if it's only his view of a meaning. That's what he's for — to give his view of life. ~ Katherine Anne Porter
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory. ~ Irena Sendler (recent death)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own — even more, one's own, for that has been put in our care and we are responsible for its well-being. ~ Katherine Anne Porter
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * I have learned to regard fame as a will-o-the-wisp which, when caught, is not worth the possession; but to please a child is a sweet and lovely thing that warms one's heart and brings its own reward. ~ L. Frank Baum
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * There seems to be a kind of order in the universe, in the movement of the stars and the turning of the earth and the changing of the seasons, and even in the cycle of human life. But human life itself is almost pure chaos. Everyone takes his stance, asserts his own rights and feelings, mistaking the motives of others, and his own. ~ Katherine Anne Porter
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2012
 * To be individual, my friends, to be different from others, is the only way to become distinguished from the common herd. Let us be glad, therefore, that we differ from one another in form and in disposition. Variety is the spice of life, and we are various enough to enjoy one another's society; so let us be content. ~ L. Frank Baum
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017
 * proposed by Kalki; opening lyrics to the song of this year's Eurovision contest winner, her song "Amar pelos dois ", as sung by her brother Salvador Sobral.

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
The whole problem of life, then, is this: how to break out of one's own loneliness, how to communicate with others. ~ Cesare Pavese

 * 3 because incommunicability is one of Pavese's main themes. Nemo 14:05, 18 January 2012 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 09:07, 14 May 2015 (UTC) 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:52, 13 May 2012 (UTC) but with a lean toward 3, which is what I would likely rank it on date more clearly associated with the author, such as his birthday of 9 September.

Now we can cross the Shifting Sands. ~ L. Frank Baum
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:52, 13 May 2012 (UTC)
 * 1, I don't get this one. dibbydib ⌐■_■ ( barate me ) 10:17, 13 May 2020 (UTC)
 * "The Shifting Sands" were one of the barriers surrounding the land of Oz, and these were his last words, to his wife. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:08, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 11:30, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

 * Thou silver deity of secret night, Direct my footsteps through the woodland shade; Thou conscious witness of unknown delight, The Lover’s guardian, and the Muse’s aid! ~ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (birthday)
 * 4 Ficaia (talk) 08:25, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

 * That you’re in a terrible taking, By all these sweet oglings I see, But the fruit that can fall without shaking,  Indeed is too mellow for me. ~ Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (birthday)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 11:30, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

 * In the Valley of Shanganagh, where the songs of skylarks teem, And the rose perfumes the ocean-breeze, as love the hero's dream, 'Twas there I wooed my Maggie. In her dark eyes there did dwell A secret that the billows knew, but yet could never tell. ~ John Martley
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 03:05, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

 * In the Valley of Shanganagh, where the sullen seagulls gleam, And the pine-scent fills the sighing breeze as death the lover's dream, 'Twas there I lost my Maggie. Why that fate upon us fell The powers above us knew, perhaps, if only they would tell. ~ John Martley
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 03:14, 12 June 2024 (UTC)

title: May 15


text:
July 15

July 15 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * Most people would rather die than think; in fact, they do so. ~ Bertrand Russell
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * Thar’s only two possibilities: Thar is life out there in the universe which is smarter than we are, or we’re the most intelligent life in the universe. Either way, it’s a mighty sobering thought. ~ Walt Kelly
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Eternal vigilance must be maintained to guard against those who seek to stifle ideas, establish a narrow orthodoxy, and divide our nation along arbitrary lines of race, ethnicity, and religious belief or non-belief. ~ Jesse Ventura (born 15 July 1951)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Patriotism is voluntary. It is a feeling of loyalty and allegiance that is the result of knowledge and belief. A patriot shows their patriotism through their actions, by their choice... No law will make a citizen a patriot. ~ Jesse Ventura
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real. Love, and so art and morals, is the discovery of reality. ~ Iris Murdoch (born 15 July 1919)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * Try to put well in practice what you already know; and in so doing, you will in good time, discover the hidden things which you now inquire about. Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know. ~ Rembrandt (born 15 July 1606)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Choose only one master — Nature. ~ Rembrandt
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism. ~ Walter Benjamin
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to power are those who have never sought it. ~ J. K. Rowling in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (opening day of final film in the Harry Potter series 15 July 2011)
 * proposed by Kalki

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Suggestions
More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one ~ Napoleon Bonaparte who surrendered on July 15th.
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 09:06, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Jeff Q (talk) 20:07, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Will {{sup|{talk)}} 23:42, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 06:19, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 07:33, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

A king should sacrifice the best affections of his heart for the good of his country; no sacrifice should be above his determination. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
 * 3 AllanHainey June 27, 2005 11:40 (UTC)
 * 3 Jeff Q (talk) 20:07, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Will {{sup|{talk)}} 23:42, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 06:19, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 07:33, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

I ran for governor to find out if the American dream still exists in anyone's heart other than mine. I'm living proof that the myths aren't true. The candidate with the most money isn't always the one who wins. You don't have to be a career politician to serve in public office. ~ Jesse Ventura (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 06:10, 14 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 Jeff Q (talk) 20:07, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:31, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 06:19, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2.5 //Gbern3 (talk) 07:33, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

A well-wrapped statistic is better than Hitler's "big lie"; it misleads, yet it cannot be pinned on you. ~ Darrell Huff (date of birth)
 * 3 Ningauble 17:22, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:03, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:17, 14 July 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 07:33, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

There is terror in numbers... Perhaps we suffer from a trauma induced by grade-school arithmetic. ~ Darrell Huff (date of birth)
 * 3 Ningauble 17:22, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 05:03, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:17, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 07:33, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

He who makes a beast of himself gets rid of the pain of being a man ~ Dr Johnson

 * 1 Kalki 22:33, 14 July 2009 (UTC) no clear relation to the date
 * 2 if it is on the correct date. - Zarbon 18:13, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 07:33, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

If you can't prove what you want to prove, demonstrate something else and pretend they are the same thing. In the daze that follows the collision of statistics with the human mind, hardly anyone will notice the difference. ~ Darrell Huff
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 19:29, 6 July 2012 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 07:33, 10 July 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:36, 14 July 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:27, 15 July 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:11, 15 July 2018 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:11, 15 July 2018 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:11, 15 July 2018 (UTC)

title: July 15