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September 22

September 22 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read. ~ Samuel Johnson
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * At least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols. ~ Aldous Huxley
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. ~ George Eliot
 * proposed by Kalki for the first day of Autumn 2005 in Northern Hemisphere

 * 2006
 * The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one's self to be acquainted with it. ~ Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl of Chesterfield (born 22 September 1694)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2007
 * Just practice good, do good for others, without thinking of making yourself known so that you may gain reward. Really bring benefit to others, gaining nothing for yourself. This is the primary requisite for breaking free of attachments to the Self. ~ Dōgen (died today in 1253)
 * proposed by Aphaia

 * 2008
 * Wear your learning, like your watch, in a private pocket: and do not pull it out and strike it, merely to show that you have one. ~ Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th earl of Chesterfield
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the ground, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells. Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store?  ~ John Keats ~ (first lines of "To Autumn" — for first day of Autumn 2009)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * I have far more confidence in the one man who works mentally and bodily at a matter than in the six who merely talk about it … Nature is our kindest friend and best critic in experimental science if we only allow her intimations to fall unbiased on our minds. Nothing is so good as an experiment which, whilst it sets an error right, gives us (as a reward for our humility in being reproved) an absolute advancement in knowledge. ~ Michael Faraday
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Work. Finish. Publish. ~ Michael Faraday
 * proposed by Aphaia

 * 2012

 * proposed by Aphaia

 * 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 Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Ningauble

2021

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks to the UN General Assembly.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Why sir, there is the probability that you will soon be able to tax it. – Michael Faraday (born September 22, 1791), answering the Chancellor of the Exchequer who had asked what was the use of electricity.

 * 4. David | Talk 21:02, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 - A good quote; but it would need a line of explanation for context, which would make it less suitable for Quote of the Day - InvisibleSun 19:19, 21 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 16:40, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
 * 0 Zarbon 17:44, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 ~ UDScott 19:45, 16 September 2008 (UTC)

 * 2 ---Aphaia per InvisibleSun.
 * 1 Ningauble 16:50, 21 September 2009 (UTC) doesn't work without context

It isn't right to be obedient only when things go well; it is much harder to be a good, obedient soldier when things go badly and times are hard. Obedience and faith at such time is a virtue. ~ Wilhelm Keitel (born September 22)
 * 4 because this to me, is one of my three all-time favorite quotes. I have been waiting all year for this quotation and if a rating of 5 were possible, I would give it to this, since the wait has been rather long. The same goes for only two other selections of mine for this entire year. I have limited my rating of 4 to such an extent (only three quotes as I discussed many months earlier), in the hopes that they will make it this year. This particular quote defines loyalty and discipline and it describes the most important quality of a soldier in times of difficulty. Oh, how I am slave to the beautiful moral image of this quote. Please judge fairly, based upon the actual message of the quote and not who is saying it. I have been waiting a rather long time for this quote. Zarbon 04:03, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * SOURCE: The Nuremberg Interviews by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004 - Page 166
 * 2 ~ UDScott 19:45, 16 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 Denji The general defense of all defendents at the Neurenberg trials was "Befehl ist Befehl", which comes down to same: shoving away one's responsibility for one's deeds. In the end the judges didn't agree with FM Keitel's view and was executed for the actions which he defends with this quote. The hard times he refers to is WWII, being obedient meant crimes against humanity. Though I respect your feelings towards the moral behind the quote, I disagree to the utmost degree with the meaning Keitel gave to it.
 * I don't think a rating of "0" is plausible unless the quotation is on the wrong date. The lowest rating I have given to a quote is 1, unless it was already used. This shouldn't even be taken into account since this person has absolutely no history on wikiquote whatsoever other than right here. Also, the fact that this person ignores the very guideline that we are judging quotations and not people is also dubious. This quote means a lot to me, and I have limited my 4 rating to a mere 3 quotes for the entire year, a rather large difference from prior. - Zarbon 04:11, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
 * I do not think any of our personal merit should be in the consideration of the quote and I did not attack this quote because of Keitel. I think the man has probably said a lot of very useful things. However, as I stated before this quote represents a view that upper echelon nazi's were not responsible for the Holocaust, because Hitler said they should kill those people. So my problem is not with Keitel, but with the thought behind the quote. Denji 12:02, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
 * You are being negligent. You can't rate something a 0 unless it is on the wrong date. Frankly, you are misinterpreting the quote. It wasn't even from the trial. It was from an interview with Leon Goldensohn. It was about Keitel's view of what was the most important quality of a soldier, according to him. This was his response. Initially, it strengthens his resolve and gives potential meaning to the already powerful message. A soldier is a great icon, revered by all countries. The quote was about loyalty and nothing else. Bare in mind that Keitel was responsible for the Oberkommando, which is the highest General unit of army commanders. As he was chief and a very smart war tactician, he truly was honorable as a man and again, the loyalty image here is superb. To remain loyal at times of difficulty is such a powerful act. It's what history has shown difficult (in the cases of Judas against Jesus and Brutus against Caesar. Those are but a few examples of treachery and betrayal in times of difficulty. And the actual unique morality and deep meaning showcased by loyalty is more higher, more magnificent...than any other emotion belonging and pertaining to the image of the soldier elite. That should explain why this quote is so powerful and why I choose it as one of my three favorite quotes of all time as my QOTD suggestions. I mean, I have literally broken down my suggestions of a rating of 4 to a mere 3 quotes for this entire year. This quote means a lot to me. - Zarbon 23:49, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
 * This quote is clearly about obedience, which is not to be confused with loyalty. "Loyalty" implies love or affinity for an entity (ie. person or cause), while "obedience" is a duty or obligation that does not necessarily involve any emotion. Judas and Brutus loved Jesus and Caesar, respectively, which made their actions disloyal. The whole point of "Et tu, Brute?" is that Caesar was betrayed by a friend, not some nameless sneaky senator. You gravely misinterpret this quote if you compare disobedient soldiery to Judas and Brutus. I rate this quote 1 Lyle 23:00, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * It is still one of my 3 favorite quotes of all time. It holds exceptionally powerful meaning and morality behind it. And frankly, you don't seem to be judging all the rest of the quotes on any pages. The fact that my favorite quotes mean a lot to me seems to bother you, along with a few others. I think what you can't accept/agree with is the fact that the people I strongly like from history are either German Nazis, Italian Fascists, Japanese Imperials, Soviet Russians, Ottoman Turks, Roman Soldiers, French Revolutionaries, etc. Yes, I like dictators, despots, and brutal conquerors. They are the ones who leave the biggest impact on history. For many it may be negative, but it is an impact nonetheless. To neglect all the MEANINGFUL and MORAL things that they say is to ERASE history and create what you want to be heard only, a one-sided, one-dimensional bore. The dilemma here is that people don't want to incorporate quotations that are made by powerful people who actually had power. All the presidents of America and the people of American history are being used and abused on a constant basis here. It is a very one-sided dogmatic view being expressed here mostly. I am especially tired from the extreme American sympathizer notions that are being played all the time on almost every date of suggestions. The fact that every year, on each important date in American history, a quote is added which depicts a strong nationalism toward America. This automatically becomes redundant and annoying. I myself am living in the country but I am not interested in a constant nationalism. The fact that all these powerful quotations from extremely powerful historic organizations are being shafted is seriously annoying. As Darth Sidious of Star Wars would say, "in order to understand the force, one must study all its aspects, not just the good." It is time to allow all the historic military people into the spotlight, not just those representing America. Now, from a military historical standpoint, look at this quote. The power, the sheer brilliance behind it. It encompasses a magnitude of utter loyalty. In order to be loyal, one must be devoted and obedient. The very word obedience strikes a powerful chord in this musical composition, if you will, this entendre known as life. My comrade, one cannot expect to be a soldier when times are good only, one must be a soldier at times of difficulty. That is all here. This is one of my three favorite quotes of all time.
 * Citing George Lucas's writing in "Revenge of the Sith" doesn't help your argument. And it doesn't bother me, nor could I even care, that this quote is meaningful to you. Is it meaningful to me? Yes, but in a bad way. I rank the quote low because I dislike it and therefore don't want it to be QOTD. I typically vote only on quotes that I appreciate or disdain. Your "3 favorite quotes" share the same theme - you shouldn't be surprised that I vote low on all of them. Lyle 15:59, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Well, the fact of the matter is that my favorite theme is a powerful theme. To say that you don't like it is one thing. But to say that the quotes themselves aren't ironic and mesmerizing is another, for they are. I strongly like enthralling military-fanatic quotes. I will try my best to give my best suggestions the highest rating I possibly can and all I can do is hope that others will help my cause in breaking the ice because this constant same-ness in taking sides for QOTD is repetitive and biased. There must be quotes from all these fundamental people in order to incorporate history to the fullest extent. All morality must be heard. It might take some time for everyone to accept, but these quotes will hopefully be used. I am a patient person. Zarbon 02:46, 30 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 14:26, 21 September 2009 (UTC) * 2 Kalki 00:22, 21 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:09, 21 September 2008 (UTC)

 * 1 Aphaia 02:57, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0.5 Ningauble 16:50, 21 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 0.5 away with soldiers, let us only have men and women who defend what they love. N6n 15:53, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 3 for N6n's quote, if only it was allowed. DanielTom (talk) 04:07, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

[Michael Faraday invented] the first motor converting electric current into continuous mechanical motion. Looks pretty feeble, right? But that turning spindle is the beginning of a revolution, one that dwarfs all the shots fired and bombs ever detonated in the sheer magnitude of its effect on our civilization. ~ In commemoration of the 22 September 1791 birth of Michael Faraday, from the tenth episode of the science documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014).
 * 4 Pithy Francoln (talk) 23:24, 7 October 2016 (UTC) The electricity-related inventions of Michael Faraday had a profound impact on our civilization. Wikiquote and Wikipedia wouldn't be possible if Michael Faraday or someone like him hadn't "learned to make electrons do our bidding" (another quote from Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey).
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 21 September 2021 (UTC) quotes of Faraday himself are generally preferable to quotes about his inventions by others..

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 11:07, 21 September 2018 (UTC)

 * Let me tell you, my young doctor friends, that a cheerful face and step, and neckcloth and kindly joke, a power of exciting, a setting a-going, a good laugh, are stock in our trade not to be despised. The hearty heart does good like a medicine. ~ John Brown (physician, born 1810)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 06:32, 13 June 2024 (UTC)

title: September 22


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October 22

October 22 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * There’s a time when a man needs to fight, and a time when he needs to accept that his destiny is lost, that the ship has sailed, and that only a fool would continue. The truth is, I’ve always been a fool. ~ Albert Finney as "Ed Bloom" in Big Fish
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * I am 100 percent in favor of the intelligent use of drugs, and 1,000 percent against the thoughtless use of them, whether caffeine or LSD. And drugs are not central to my life. ~ Timothy Leary (born 22 October 1920)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * All political movements are like this — we are in the right, everyone else is in the wrong. The people on our own side who disagree with us are heretics, and they start becoming enemies. With it comes an absolute conviction of your own moral superiority. There's oversimplification in everything, and a terror of flexibility. ~ Doris Lessing (born 22 October 1919)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Think for yourself and question authority. ~ Timothy Leary
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * I often observed to my brother, You see now how little nature requires to be satisfied. Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; And I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatsoever state he is. This consists in a full resignation to the will of Providence; and a resigned soul finds pleasure in a path strewed with briars and thorns. ~ Daniel Boone
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * If you want to change the way people respond to you, change the way you respond to people. ~ Timothy Leary
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after. ~ Daniel Boone
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Nvvchar

 * 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; in regard to opening day of major adaptation of Herbert's novel.

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * I'm always astounded at the way we automatically look at what divides and separates us. We never look at what people have in common. If you see it, black and white people, both sides look to see the differences, they don't look at what they have together. Men and women, and old and young, and so on. And this is a disease of the mind, the way I see it. ~ Doris Lessing (recent Nobel Prize winner for Literature)
 * Used 13 October 2007, as recent Nobel Prize winner for Literature; proposed by Kalki

Suggestions
My advice to people today is as follows: If you take the game of life seriously, if you take your nervous system seriously, if you take your sense organs seriously, if you take the energy process seriously, you must turn on, tune in, and drop out. ~ Timothy Leary
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 09:17, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 02:10, 27 October 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:25, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:22, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind. ~ Timothy Leary (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 23:58, 21 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:11, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:25, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Parents should leave books lying around marked "forbidden" if they want their children to read. ~ Doris Lessing (born October 22, 1919)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:11, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 20:03, 16 October 2008 (UTC) 3 Kalki 22:21, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Zarbon 05:25, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

It's not bad to say: My work is not what I really want, I'm capable of doing something bigger. Or I'm a person who needs love, and I'm doing without it. What's terrible is to pretend that the second-rate is the first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better. ~ Doris Lessing
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:11, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:21, 21 October 2006 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 05:25, 25 April 2008 (UTC)

Really valuable books have been allowed to go out of print. In the old days, the publishers knew that these difficult books, the books that appeal only to a minority, were very productive in the long run. Because they're probably the books that will be read in the next generation. It's heart-breaking how often I have to say when I'm giving talks, "This book is out of print. This book is out of print." It's a roll call of dead books. ~ Doris Lessing
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:11, 21 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:25, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 20:03, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

War among nations is a natural reaction to the absence of peace. ~ Chika Sylva-Olejeme
 * 2 Zarbon 17:48, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 20:03, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 because it is unsourced. - InvisibleSun 20:22, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Laughter is Humanity's mechanism to escape suffering. ~ Deepak Chopra
 * 3 Zarbon 17:48, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 20:03, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:22, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Focus on the quality of life. Add life to your years and then years will be added to your life. ~ Deepak Chopra
 * 2 Zarbon 17:48, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 20:03, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 because it is unsourced. - InvisibleSun 20:22, 21 October 2008 (UTC)

Many heroic actions and chivalrous adventures are related of me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great liberties, and yet I have been but a common man. ~ Daniel Boone
 * 3 Kalki 22:58, 22 October 2008 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4
 * 1 Zarbon 12:33, 23 October 2008 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 15:33, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 15:33, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 15:33, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 15:33, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 16:14, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 16:14, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 16:14, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 16:14, 18 October 2012 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 17:32, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 17:32, 6 February 2015 (UTC)

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November 22

November 22 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * I'd rather be a climbing ape than a falling angel. ~ Terry Pratchett
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence; live in pulses stirred to generosity, in deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn for miserable aims that end with self, in thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, and with their mild persistence urge men's search to vaster issues. ~ George Eliot (born 22 November 1819)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other? ~ George Eliot
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * This is life to come, — Which martyred men have made more glorious For us who strive to follow. May I reach That purest heaven, — be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony, Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty, Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in diffusion ever more intense! So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world. ~ George Eliot ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty — it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it. ~ George Eliot
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium. ~ George Eliot
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not. ~ André Gide
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * For the man sound in body and serene of mind there is no such thing as bad weather; every sky has its beauty, and storms which whip the blood do but make it pulse more vigorously. ~ George Gissing
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2016

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2017
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki — A statement of JFK for the Thanksgiving Day of 1963, as QOTD of the holiday in 2018.

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * 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
 * used 14 November 2003; selected by Kalki

 * I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear. ~ George Eliot
 * used 8 September 2004; selected by Kalki

 * Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns. ~ George Eliot
 * used 22 September 2005; proposed by Kalki

 * My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy. ~ George Eliot
 * used 22 December 2005; proposed by UDScott

Suggestions
Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all. ~ André Gide
 * 2 Zarbon 03:54, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:14, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:19, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

I am a man who belongs to no-one and who belongs to everyone. ~ Charles de Gaulle
 * 2 Zarbon 03:54, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:14, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:19, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak. ~ Charles de Gaulle
 * 3 Zarbon 03:54, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:14, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:19, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

It is better to have a bad method than to have none. ~ Charles de Gaulle
 * 4 Zarbon 03:54, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 23:14, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:19, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

We are taking care of our troops today, hence their loyalty. Formerly a rifle was given to a man and he had to shift for himself. ~ İsmail Enver
 * 2 Zarbon 03:54, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:14, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:19, 21 November 2008 (UTC)

The finest virtues can become deformed with age. The precise mind becomes finicky; the thrifty man, miserly; the cautious man, timorous; the man of imagination, fanciful. Even perseverance ends up in a sort of stupidity. Just as, on the other hand, being too willing to understand too many opinions, too diverse ways of seeing, constancy is lost and the mind goes astray in a restless fickleness. ~ André Gide
 * 3 bystander (talk) 00:48, 22 November 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 12:19, 22 November 2012 (UTC)

Economics is a science which studies human behavior as a relationship between ends and scarce means which have alternative uses. ~ Lionel Robbins
 * 2.5 ~ DanielTom (talk) 23:03, 19 May 2016 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:22, 22 November 2017 (UTC)

title: November 22


text:
December 22

December 22 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Good fortune attend each merry man's friend That doth but the best that he may, Forgetting old wrongs with carols and songs To drive the cold winter away. ~ "All Hail to The Days" (or "The Praise of Christmas") ~ Traditional 17th century English carol
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy. ~ George Eliot (died 22 December 1880)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2006
 * It takes great labor to uncover the convincing simple speech of the heart. Poetic candor comes with hard labor, so even does impetuosity and impudence. ~ Kenneth Rexroth
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2007
 * The holiness of the real Is always there, accessible In total immanence. The nodes Of transcendence coagulate In you, the experiencer, And in the other, the lover. ~ Kenneth Rexroth ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * While you live … you have a duty to life. … The fey wonders of the world only exist while there are those with the sight to see them. … Otherwise they fade away. ~ Charles de Lint
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * That's the thing with magic. You've got to know it's still here, all around us, or it just stays invisible for you. ~ Charles de Lint
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * God is not, as in scholasticism, the final subject of all predicates. He is being as unpredicable. The existence of the creature, in so far as it exists, is the existence of God, and the creature’s experience of God is therefore in the final analysis equally unpredicable. Neither can even be described; both can only be indicated. We can only point at reality, our own or God’s. The soul comes to the realization of God by knowledge, not as in the older Christian mysticism by love. Love is the garment of knowledge. The soul first trains itself by systematic unknowing until at last it confronts the only reality, the only knowledge, God manifest in itself. The soul can say nothing about this experience in the sense of defining it. It can only reveal it to others. ~ Kenneth Rexroth
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged. ~ Charles de Lint
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015
 * proposed by Nvvchar

 * 2016

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on major events.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki; in regard of this solstice date of 2023, as reckoned by UTC.

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too. ~ Kenneth Rexroth (born December 22, 1905)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:00, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 3. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 21:05, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 21:27, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 20:13, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps this is what really happens in life to most good men. They are not crucified. They simply pass through life and then die, and their passing influences just a few people to make them just a little happy. ~ Kenneth Rexroth
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:00, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 3. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 21:05, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 21:27, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 20:13, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Marriage is the last sacrament available to modern man, and with the terrible destruction of interpersonal relations by capitalism and its war-making State, it is not very available, nor is it surely enduring. But then, vision does not come with guarantees. ~ Kenneth Rexroth
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:00, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 2. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 21:05, 21 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 20:13, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:13, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Your Dollar is your only Word, The wrath of it your only fear. You build it altars tall enough To make you see, but you are blind; You cannot leave it long enough To look before you or behind. ~ Edwin Arlington Robinson
 * 2 Zarbon 05:30, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:13, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:30, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Are we no greater than the noise we make Along one blind atomic pilgrimage Whereon by crass chance billeted we go Because our brains and bones and cartilage Will have it so? ~ Edwin Arlington Robinson
 * 2 Zarbon 05:30, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:13, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:30, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

My only hope lies in my despair. ~ Jean Racine
 * 2 Zarbon 05:30, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:13, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:30, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

There are few joys to compare with the telling of a well-told tale. ~ Charles de Lint
 * 3 Zarbon 05:30, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:13, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:30, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

If you're not ready to die, then how can you live? ~ Charles de Lint
 * 2 Zarbon 05:30, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:13, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:30, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy. ~ Charles de Lint
 * 4 Zarbon 05:30, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:13, 21 December 2008 (UTC) might give this a 3 eventually
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:30, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

Without mysteries, life would be very dull indeed. What would be left to strive for if everything were known? ~ Charles de Lint
 * 3 Zarbon 05:30, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:13, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:30, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 17:34, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

Life's like art. You have to work hard to keep it simple and still have meaning. ~ Charles de Lint
 * 2 Zarbon 05:30, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:13, 21 December 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:30, 21 December 2008 (UTC)

It's not the work or the personality of the founder of a religion that's important, but what its followers do with what they learn... ~ Charles de Lint
 * 3 Kalki 17:13, 21 December 2008 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:30, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 14:59, 22 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 17:34, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another. ~ George Eliot ~
 * 3 Kalki 17:13, 21 December 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:30, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 14:59, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

The song shall spread and swell as rivers do, And I will teach our youth with skill to woo This living lyre, to know its secret will; Its fine division of the good and ill. So shall men call me sire of harmony, And where great Song is, there my life shall be. ~ George Eliot ~
 * 3 Kalki 17:13, 21 December 2008 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:30, 21 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 14:59, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

You don't become a saint until you lead a good life whether in Tibet or Italy or America. … You can’t become a saint by taking dope, stealing your friends’ typewriters, giving girls chancres, not supporting your wife and children, and then reading St. John of the Cross. All of that, when it’s happened before, has typified the collapse of civilization … and today the social fabric is falling apart so fast, it makes your head swim. ~ Kenneth Rexroth
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 16:24, 9 December 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Any talented decadent can make unreality believable. To make reality convincing is another matter, a matter for only the greatest masters. ~ Kenneth Rexroth
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 16:24, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

“I am that I am” — the God of Judaism is the only self-sufficient being. All the reality that we can know is contingent, created out of nothing, and hence of an inferior order of reality. Faced with the “utterly other,” the contingent soul can finally only respond with fear and trembling. ~ Kenneth Rexroth
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 16:24, 9 December 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

It [1729] is a very interesting number; it is the smallest number expressible as the sum of two cubes in two different ways.1729 = 1³3 + 12³3 = 9³3 + 10³3.~ Srinivasa Ramanujan
 * 4--Nvvchar (talk) 05:20, 28 November 2013 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:18, 19 December 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

title: December 22


text:
January 23

January 23 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * All the ill that is in us comes from fear, and all the good from love. ~ Eleanor Farjeon
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * So long as there is death there will be sorrow, and so long as there is sorrow it can be no part of the duty of human beings to increase its amount, in spite of the fact that a few rare spirits know how to transmute it. ~ Bertrand Russell
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law — a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security. ~ Walter M. Miller, Jr. (born 23 January 1923)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. ~ William Pitt the Younger (anniversary of death)
 * proposed by Tamino

 * 2008
 * Almost all our misfortunes in life come from the wrong notions we have about the things that happen to us. To know men thoroughly, to judge events sanely is, therefore, a great step towards happiness. ~ Stendhal
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * One can acquire everything in solitude — except character. ~ Stendhal
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2010
 * Love has always been the most important business in my life, I should say the only one. ~ Stendhal
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * There is no such thing as natural law, the expression is nothing more than a silly anachronism … There is no such thing as right, except when there is a law to forbid a certain thing under pain of punishment. Before law existed, the only natural thing was the strength of the lion, or the need of a creature who was cold or hungry, to put it in one word, need. ~ Stendhal
 * first proposed by InvisibleSun in a more abbreviated form of a different translation: "There is no such thing as "natural law": this expression is nothing but old nonsense. Prior to laws, what is natural is only the strength of the lion, or the need of the creature suffering from hunger or cold, in short, need."

 * 2012
 * O to be a dragon, a symbol of the power of Heaven — of silkworm size or immense; at times invisible. Felicitous phenomenon! ~ Marianne Moore ~
 * proposed by Kalki (Chinese Year of the Dragon begins on this date in 2012.)

 * 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 Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki, in regard to his recent death.

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
I return you many thanks for the honour you have done me; but Europe is not to be saved by any single man. England has saved herself by her exertions, and will, as I trust, save Europe by her example. ~ William Pitt the Younger (anniversary of death). This was Pitt's last speech in public.
 * 4 Tamino 20:09, 17 January 2007 (UTC) A classic, and in a way appropriate given that it was his last public speech.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 05:40, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:59, 15 January 2011 (UTC) * 2 Kalki 20:37, 22 January 2007 (UTC) Out of the context of his times and circumstances (responding to a toast to him as "Savior of Europe") this can (somewhat ironically) seem a bit chauvinistic, but if this were to be used, I think it should begin at "Europe is not to be saved by any single man..."
 * 1 Zarbon 18:37, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

In matters of sentiment, the public has very crude ideas; and the most shocking fault of women is that they make the public the supreme judge of their lives. ~ Stendhal
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:58, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Prudery is a kind of avarice, the worst of all. ~ Stendhal
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:58, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness. ~ Stendhal
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:58, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

I call "crystallization" that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events. ~ Stendhal
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:58, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:31, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:31, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 17:48, 23 January 2016 (UTC)

title: January 23


text:
February 23

February 23 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind. ~ Dr. Seuss
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up. ~ Hunter S. Thompson (recent death)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Man is always something more than what he knows of himself. He is not what he is simply once and for all, but is a process... ~ Karl Jaspers (born 23 February 1883)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * The theory of democratic government is not that the will of the people is always right, but rather that normal human beings of average intelligence will, if given a chance, learn the right and best course by bitter experience. ~ W. E. B. Du Bois
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know. ~ W. E. B. Du Bois
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * We cannot avoid conflict, conflict with society, other individuals and with oneself. Conflicts may be the sources of defeat, lost life and a limitation of our potentiality but they may also lead to greater depth of living and the birth of more far-reaching unities, which flourish in the tensions that engender them. ~ Karl Jaspers
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * How shall Integrity face Oppression? What shall Honesty do in the face of Deception, Decency in the face of Insult, Self-Defense before Blows? How shall Desert and Accomplishment meet Despising, Detraction, and Lies? What shall Virtue do to meet Brute Force? There are so many answers and so contradictory; and such differences for those on the one hand who meet questions similar to this once a year or once a decade, and those who face them hourly and daily. ~ W. E. B. Du Bois
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2011
 * There can be no rainbow without a cloud and a storm. ~ John Heyl Vincent
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * Man, if he is to remain man, must advance by way of consciousness. There is no road leading backward. … We can no longer veil reality from ourselves by renouncing self-consciousness without simultaneously excluding ourselves from the historical course of human existence. ~ Karl Jaspers
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 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 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
The truth is, I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure, knowing that this is the proper age of my life to do it; and out of my observation that most men that do thrive in the world, do forget to take pleasure during the time that they are getting their estate, but reserve that till they have got one, and then it is too late for them to enjoy it with any pleasure. ~ Samuel Pepys (born 23 February 1633)
 * 3 Kalki 23:50, 22 February 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 05:43, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Musique and women I cannot but give way to, whatever my business is. ~ Samuel Pepys (born 23 February 1633)
 * 3 Kalki 23:50, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 05:43, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

To live a godly life is the best way to light up a lesson that the teacher can possibly employ. ~ John Heyl Vincent
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 01:35, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

We are pilgrims, not settlers; this earth is our inn, not our home. ~ John Heyl Vincent
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 01:35, 29 July 2010 (UTC)
 * 3 (Josephine W. （Talk） 07:25, 22 February 2020 (UTC))

In the highest class of God's school of suffering we learn not resignation nor patience, but rejoicing in tribulation. ~ John Heyl Vincent
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 01:35, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

The teacher should use illustrations for the better teaching of the lesson, and never to fill up time, to amuse the class, or to display his own genius. ~ John Heyl Vincent
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 01:35, 29 July 2010 (UTC)

He that would speak Divine things in a language which living men of to-day can comprehend, must keep up with the researches and discoveries of men who study nature, and put her words into the speech of the present. ~ John Heyl Vincent
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 01:35, 29 July 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

 * 4 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:07, 23 February 2023 (UTC) 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:29, 23 February 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:29, 23 February 2017 (UTC)
 * 3 (Josephine W. （Talk） 07:25, 22 February 2020 (UTC))

 * 4 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:21, 23 February 2024 (UTC) — remarks upon the current lunar landing of Oddysseus at the South Pole of the Moon.

title: February 23


text:
March 23

March 23 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. ~ Albert Einstein
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. ~ Erich Fromm (born 23 March 1900)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death! ~ Patrick Henry, in a speech to the House of Burgesses (23 March 1775)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * No work which is destined to become a classic can look like the classics which have preceded it. In art, as in biology, there is heredity but no identity with the ascendants. Painters inherit characteristics acquired by their forerunners; that is why no important work of art can belong to any period but its own, to the very moment of its creation. It is necessarily dated by its own appearance. The conscious will of the painter cannot intervene. ~ Juan Gris (born 23 March 1887)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. For if ye love them which love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same? And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the publicans so? Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect. ~ Yeshua (Jesus Christ) ~ (For Easter Sunday 2008)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * I believe that none can "save" his fellow man by making a choice for him. To help him, he can indicate the possible alternatives, with sincerity and love, without being sentimental and without illusion. The knowledge and awareness of the freeing alternatives can reawaken in an individual all his hidden energies and put him on the path to choosing respect for "life" instead of for "death." ~ Erich Fromm
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Society must be organized in such a way that man's social, loving nature is not separated from his social existence, but becomes one with it. If it is true, as I have tried to show, that love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence, then any society which excludes, relatively, the development of love, must in the long run perish of its own contradiction with the basic necessities of human nature. ~ Erich Fromm
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * I believe that love is the main key to open the doors to the "growth" of man. Love and union with someone or something outside of oneself, union that allows one to put oneself into relationship with others, to feel one with others, without limiting the sense of integrity and independence. ~ Erich Fromm
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * Selfish persons are incapable of loving others, but they are not capable of loving themselves either. ~ Erich Fromm
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2021

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead; in the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. ~ Erich Fromm
 * 2 because this is rather comical...regardless of the apparent situation. It holds true that people have digressed to disbelief not only from God, but many have found peace in doing nothing and serving absolutely no cause. Zarbon 05:17, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 14:24, 22 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4; but would now (2023·03·22) extend this for context to read:

 * 1 Ningauble 22:11, 22 March 2009 (UTC) — Difficult without context for what is meant by "man is dead."
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:27, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Some shall reap that never sow And some shall toil and not attain. ~ Madison Cawein
 * 3 Zarbon 00:55, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 14:24, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 22:11, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:27, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Don't tell me that man doesn't belong out there. Man belongs wherever he wants to go — and he'll do plenty well when he gets there. ~ Wernher von Braun
 * 2 Zarbon 00:55, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 14:24, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 22:11, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:27, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. Everything science has taught me, and continues to teach me, strengthens my belief in the continuity of our spiritual existence after death. ~ Wernher von Braun
 * 2 Zarbon 00:55, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 14:24, 22 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 Ningauble 22:11, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:27, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

For me, the idea of a creation is not conceivable without invoking the necessity of design. One cannot be exposed to the law and order of the universe without concluding that there must be design and purpose behind it all. ~ Wernher von Braun
 * 2 Zarbon 00:55, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 14:24, 22 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:27, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun? ~ Wernher von Braun
 * 3 Zarbon 00:55, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 14:24, 22 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 Ningauble 22:11, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:27, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

It is in scientific honesty that I endorse the presentation of alternative theories for the origin of the universe, life and man in the science classroom. It would be an error to overlook the possibility that the universe was planned rather than happening by chance. ~ Wernher von Braun
 * 2 Zarbon 00:55, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 14:24, 22 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1.5 Ningauble 22:11, 22 March 2009 (UTC) — I consider treating these as "alternatives" a false dichotomy.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:27, 22 March 2009 (UTC)

The universe is hostile only when you do not know its laws. To those who know and obey, the universe is friendly. ~ Wernher von Braun
 * 2 Zarbon 00:55, 16 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 14:24, 22 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 Ningauble 22:11, 22 March 2009 (UTC) — Obedience is not in question, one may choose to embrace them or to suffer them.

I like silent pictures and I always have … I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film. [Rashomon] ~ Akira Kurosawa
 * 3 Proposed to mark the 100th anniversary of his birth.--Ole.Holm 17:30, 8 March 2010 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 20:29, 8 March 2010 (UTC) but might prefer to find something else by Kurosawa or would prefer to extend this one to read :
 * I like silent pictures and I always have. They are often so much more beautiful than sound pictures are. Perhaps they had to be. At any rate I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.

May those who are in power today think beyond this day and consider the future of mankind. Their responsibility is enormous. Today, an altogether new order can be created for the benefit of all peoples. Short-sighted misuse of that power can ruin everything. ~ Ludwig Quidde (born 1858-03-23) Ludwig Quidde
 * 3 bystander (talk) 20:13, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 05:32, 22 March 2014 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Roger Martin du Gard (born 1881-03-23) (1937 Nobel Prize for Literature) bystander (talk) 20:13, 18 March 2012 (UTC)

 * proposed by MusenInvincible

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:44, 22 March 2023 (UTC); with a lean toward 3.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:44, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:44, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:44, 22 March 2023 (UTC)

title: March 23


text:
April 23

April 23 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not on our circumstances. We carry the seeds of the one or the other about with us in our minds wherever we go. ~ Martha Washington
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep. ~ "Prospero" in The Tempest by William Shakespeare (birth traditionally celebrated 23 April 1564, died 23 April 1616 O.S.)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. ~ William Shakespeare in As You Like It (birth traditionally celebrated 23 April 1564, died 23 April 1616 O.S.)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * We defy augury; there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all. ~ "Hamlet" in Hamlet by William Shakespeare
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * We all were sea-swallow'd, though some cast again: And by that destiny, to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge. ~ William Shakespeare in The Tempest ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * I would not so dishonour God as to lend my voice to perpetuate all the mad and foolish things which men have dared to say of Him. I believe that we may find in the Bible the highest and purest religion most of all in the history of Him in whose name we all are called. His religion — not the Christian religion, but the religion of Christ — the poor man's gospel; the message of forgiveness, of reconciliation, of love; and, oh, how gladly would I spend my life, in season and out of season, in preaching this! But I must have no hell terrors, none of these fear doctrines; they were not in the early creeds, God knows whether they were ever in the early gospels, or ever passed His lips. He went down to hell, but it was to break the chains, not to bind them. ~ James Anthony Froude
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * A new scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die, and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. ~ Max Planck
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * The poet’s eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. ~ William Shakespeare ~ in A Midsummer Night's Dream
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2012
 * Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: Ye must have faith. It is a quality which the scientist cannot dispense with. ~ Max Planck
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2016

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2020

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

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

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the tablets of eternity. ~ James Anthony Froude (this was long misattributed to Lord Acton, and initially presented as a quote by him; subsequent research for Wikiquote helped bring to an end some of the most extensive uses of this misattribution.)
 * used 30 June 2004, selected by Kalki

Suggestions
Full fathom five thy father lies; Of his bones are coral made; Those are pearls that were his eyes; Nothing of him that doth fade, But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. ~ "Ariel" in The Tempest by William Shakespeare~
 * 3 Kalki 20:20, 22 April 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward an eventual 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:35, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 00:10, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3.5 DanielTom (talk) 21:52, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

Men are accomplices to that which leaves them indifferent. ~ George Steiner (born April 23, 1929)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:35, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 00:10, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:38, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past. These are often as highly structured and selective as myths. Images and symbolic constructs of the past are imprinted, almost in the manner of genetic information, on our sensibility. ~ George Steiner
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:35, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 20:57, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 00:10, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

For many human beings, religion has been the music which they believe in. ~ George Steiner
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:35, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 00:10, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:38, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

We cannot turn back. We cannot choose the dreams of unknowing. We shall, I expect, open the last door in the castle, even if it leads, perhaps because it leads, on to realities which are beyond the reach of human comprehension and control. And we shall do so with that desolate clairvoyance, so marvellously rendered in Bartok's music, because opening doors is the tragic merit of our identity. ~ George Steiner
 * 3 Kalki 20:57, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:39, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 00:10, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

The ordinary man casts a shadow. In a way we do not quite understand, the man of genius casts light. Instinctively, we flinch from this light. We assure ourselves that genius must pay a terrible price. Often history bears us out: the creator, the supreme artist, the master of politics carries the scars of his greatness. ~ George Steiner
 * 3 Kalki 20:57, 22 April 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:39, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 00:10, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

''O masters, lords and rulers in all lands How will the Future reckon with this Man? How answer his brute question in that hour When whirlwinds of rebellion shake all shores? How will it be with kingdoms and with kings — With those who shaped him to the thing he is — When this dumb Terror shall rise to judge the world. After the silence of the centuries?'' ~ Edwin Markham ~
 * 3 Kalki 20:57, 22 April 2008 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:39, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 00:10, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are. ~ Chauncey Depew
 * 2 Zarbon 19:23, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:38, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:37, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

To create is to destroy. To induce life is to destroy life. ~ Halldór Laxness
 * 3 Zarbon 19:23, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:38, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:37, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

The difference between a novelist and a historian is this: that the former tells lies deliberately and for the fun of it; the historian tells lies in his simplicity and imagines he is telling the truth. ~ Halldór Laxness
 * 2 Zarbon 19:23, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:38, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:37, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

All gods are equally good except the god that answers prayers, because he is nowhere. ~ Halldór Laxness
 * 3 Zarbon 19:23, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:38, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:37, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

War has always been the chief amusement of mankind. Other amusements are a surrogate for war. ~ Halldór Laxness
 * 3 Zarbon 19:23, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 19:38, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:37, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

I feel that my duty has been faithfully, though it may be imperfectly, performed, and, whatever the result may be, I shall carry to my grave the consciousness that I at least meant well for my country. ~ James Buchanan
 * 2 Zarbon 19:23, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:38, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:37, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

What is right and what is practicable are two different things. ~ James Buchanan
 * 3 Zarbon 19:23, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:38, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:37, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Sir, if you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed. ~ James Buchanan
 * 2 Zarbon 19:23, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:38, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:37, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Abstract propositions should never be discussed by a legislative body. ~ James Buchanan
 * 2 Zarbon 19:23, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:38, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

I have no regret for any public act of my life, and history will vindicate my memory. ~ James Buchanan
 * 3 Zarbon 19:23, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:38, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Time is a great corrective. Political subjects which but a few years ago excited and exasperated the public mind have passed away and are now nearly forgotten. ~ James Buchanan
 * 3 Zarbon 19:23, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:38, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:37, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up to now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future. ~ Max Planck
 * 2 Zarbon 19:23, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:38, 22 April 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:37, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Both Religion and science require a belief in God. For believers, God is in the beginning, and for physicists He is at the end of all considerations… To the former He is the foundation, to the latter, the crown of the edifice of every generalized world view. ~ Max Planck
 * 3 Zarbon 19:23, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:38, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:37, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Truth never triumphs — its opponents just die out. ~ Max Planck
 * 4 Zarbon 19:23, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki (talk · contributions) 02:55, 30 April 2010 (UTC) * 2 Kalki 19:38, 22 April 2009 (UTC) this is a rather poorly worded variant of one already used.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:37, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him. ~ Max Planck
 * 3 Zarbon 19:23, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:38, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

We may conclude that from what science teaches us, there is in nature an order independent of man's existence, a meaningful order to which nature and man are subordinate. ~ Max Planck
 * 2 Zarbon 19:23, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:38, 22 April 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

The city, that monster with a hundred mouths and a thousand ears, a monster that knows nothing but says everything, had written me off. ~ Jean-Dominique Bauby
 * 2 Zarbon 19:23, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 19:38, 22 April 2009 (UTC) seems too inclomplete an assertion.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:37, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

I cut a hole in my heart and wrote with the blood. ~ James Anthony Froude
 * 2 Zarbon 19:23, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:38, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:37, 22 April 2009 (UTC)

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral law is written on the tablets of eternity. For every false word or unrighteous deed, for cruelty and oppression, for lust or vanity, the price has to be paid at last. ~ James Anthony Froude
 * 2 Zarbon 19:23, 22 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:38, 22 April 2009 (UTC) but most of this was already used.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:42, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:42, 19 April 2013 (UTC)

 * 2.75. – Illegitimate Barrister, 15:03, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:07, 22 April 2017 (UTC)

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:14, 23 April 2018 (UTC) the quote is acceptable, but there is no clear relevance to this date.
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:14, 23 April 2018 (UTC) the quote is acceptable, but there is no clear relevance to this date.

 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:14, 23 April 2018 (UTC) the quote is acceptable, but there is no clear relevance to this date.
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:14, 23 April 2018 (UTC) the quote is acceptable, but there is no clear relevance to this date.

title: April 23


text:
May 23

May 23 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * I try to make everyone's day a little more surreal. ~ Bill Watterson
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * It seems that it is madder never to abandon one's self than often to be infatuated; better to be wounded, a captive and a slave, than always to walk in armor. ~ Margaret Fuller (born 23 May 1810)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Cynicism isn't smarter, it's only safer. There's nothing fluffy about optimism. ~ Jewel (born 23 May 1974)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * What I mean by the Muse is that unimpeded clearness of the intuitive powers, which a perfectly truthful adherence to every admonition of the higher instincts would bring to a finely organized human being. It may appear as prophecy or as poesy. … should these faculties have free play, I believe they will open new, deeper and purer sources of joyous inspiration than have as yet refreshed the earth. ~ Margaret Fuller
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering–pot and pruning–knife. ~ Margaret Fuller (born May 23)
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * Let no one dare to call another mad who is not himself willing to rank in the same class for every perversion and fault of judgment. Let no one dare aid in punishing another as criminal who is not willing to suffer the penalty due to his own offenses. ~ Margaret Fuller
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * Might the simple maxim, that honesty is the best policy be laid to heart! Might a sense of the true aims of life elevate the tone of politics and trade, till public and private honor become identical! ~ Margaret Fuller
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Climbing the dusty hill, some fair effigies that once stood for symbols of human destiny have been broken; those I still have with me show defects in this broad light. Yet enough is left, even by experience, to point distinctly to the glories of that destiny; faint, but not to be mistaken streaks of the future day. I can say with the bard, "Though many have suffered shipwreck, still beat noble hearts." Always the soul says to us all, Cherish your best hopes as a faith, and abide by them in action. Such shall be the effectual fervent means to their fulfilment. ~ Margaret Fuller
 * 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 Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki; in regard of his recent death.

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
After the deed is done, one always becomes clever and philosophical. ~ Hans Frank (born May 23)
 * 3 because one realizes after it is too late. Irony and moral go together, especially when learning too late. Zarbon 04:24, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * SOURCE: The Nuremberg Interviews by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004 - Page 29
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 22:55, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

Time always has some reconciling effect. On every ruin there eventually grows grass, and then some shrubbery, and finally, before you realize it, what is really an old hideous ruin becomes a romantic sight and legend. ~ Hans Frank (born May 23)
 * 4 because time mends and heals, and even in the worst case scenario, under the worst conditions, a positive outlook can be seen. And I am giving this a 4 for this year. Zarbon 04:21, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
 * SOURCE: The Nuremberg Interviews by Leon Goldensohn, Robert Gellately - History - 2004 - Page 36
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:17, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:44, 30 April 2010 (UTC) * 2 Kalki 22:55, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2.5 dibbydib ⌐■_■ ( barate me ) 03:23, 21 May 2020 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:03, 23 May 2022 (UTC)

 * Oh, Men, with Sisters dear! Oh, Men, with Mothers and Wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives! ~ Thomas Hood (birthday)
 * 4 Ficaia (talk) 07:51, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

title: May 23


text:
July 23

July 23 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.' ~ Winston Churchill
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * I'll tell you this — No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn. ~ Jim Morrison
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective. ~ Raymond Chandler (born 23 July 1888)
 * proposed by MosheZadka

 * 2006
 * Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor. He talks as the man of his age talks, that is, with rude wit, a lively sense of the grotesque, a disgust for sham, and a contempt for pettiness. ~ Raymond Chandler (born 23 July 1888)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Our system presumes that there are certain principles that are more important than the temper of the times. ~ Anthony Kennedy (born 23 July 1936)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph. ~ Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia (born 23 July 1892)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act — and if necessary, to suffer and die — for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied. These lessons must be learned anew by each succeeding generation, and that generation is fortunate indeed which learns from other than its own bitter experience. ~ Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery. The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous. ~ Raymond Chandler
 * last sentence proposed by Ningauble; extension suggested and used by Kalki

 * 2011
 * The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. ~ Anthony Kennedy
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on the 2021 United States Capitol attack.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki; to close out the first weekend of "Barbenheimmer" viewings.

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked. ~ Raymond Chandler (born 23 July 1888)
 * 3 Kalki 21:53, 22 July 2005 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 08:19, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 because trust is fine, but sometimes it is better to be prepared. Zarbon 06:36, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 13:38, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. ~ Raymond Chandler (born 23 July 1888)
 * 3 Kalki 21:53, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 08:19, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 06:36, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 13:38, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

The solution, once revealed, must seem to have been inevitable. At least half of all the mystery novels published violate this law. ~ Raymond Chandler
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:59, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 13:38, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss-waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will remain split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of barroom vernacular, this is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed and attentive. The method may not be perfect, but it is all I have. ~ Raymond Chandler
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:59, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 13:38, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

title: July 23


text:
August 23

August 23 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * The conservation movement is a breeding ground of Communists and other subversives. We intend to clean them out, even if it means rounding up every bird watcher in the country. ~ John Mitchell
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. ~ Oscar Wilde
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * I could not be a traitor to Edward, for I was never his subject. ~ William Wallace at his trial (executed 23 August 1305)
 * proposed by AllanHainey

 * 2006
 * I have brought you to the ring, now see if you can dance. ~ William Wallace
 * proposed by Warrior-Poet

 * 2007
 * It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. ~ William Ernest Henley ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * A few Cobras in your home will soon clear it of Rats and Mice. Of course, you will still have the Cobras. ~ Will Cuppy (born 23 August 1884)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * Out of the night that covers me, Black as the pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever gods may be for my unconquerable soul. ~ William Ernest Henley ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * I never started to plow in my life That some one did not stop in the road And take me away to a dance or picnic. I ended up with forty acres; I ended up with a broken fiddle — And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories, And not a single regret. ~ Edgar Lee Masters ~
 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 2011
 * In the name of Allah, Most Gracious, Most Merciful We have indeed revealed this (Message) in the Night of Power: And what will explain to thee what the night of power is? The Night of Power is better than a thousand months. Therein come down the angels and the Spirit by God's permission, on every errand: Peace!...This until the rise of morn! ~ Al-Qur'an ~ Sura 97 : Al-Qadr as translated by Abdullah Yusuf Ali
 * proposed by Kalki to note ths date as one of the several dates of the Islamic calendar traditionally considered a likely one of the Night of Power, in the last 10 days of Ramadan corresponding to August 2011, in the Gregorian calendar.

 * 2012
 * proposed by Ningauble
 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 2013

 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by allixpeeke

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by DanielTom

 * 2020

 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally. ~ Abraham Lincoln, in honor of the abolition of slavery in the British colonies.
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 11:34, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 If we're going to have something about abolition of slavery then something by William Wilberforce might be more suited.AllanHainey 10:43, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * COMMENT - There is some uncertainty as to whether slavery in British Empire/colonies was repealed today or on 1 Aug see relevant dates talk pages. AllanHainey 12:00, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 16:00, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 21:42, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Ningauble 15:53, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:55, 9 August 2012 (UTC) with a strong lean towards 4.
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 17:34, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
 * 0 allixpeeke (talk) 21:31, 23 August 2014 (UTC) I here present four reasons for my ranking, in the order of importance, where A is the most important reason and D the least important reason. (A) I don't want to see slavery tried on anyone, not even those who argue for it.  (B) Lincoln was an American.  Quoting a Brit would make more sense, as AllanHainey suggests above.  (C) I am of the understanding that the United Kingdom abolished slavery without resorting to war.  Lincoln, by contrast, resorted to war in order to protect northern business interests, and only pretended to abolish slavery in territories over which he had zero control as a war tactic, and that didn't happen until years into the war.  Slavery wasn't actually abolished in the States until the thirteenth amendment was ratified, which happened after the war.  The United Kingdom, since it did not resort of violence, ended slavery in an infinitely better way than the United States.  (D) AllanHainey says there is a discrepancy on the actual date.
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 10:59, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Sons of Scotland! I am William Wallace...
 * 0 121a0012 02:55, July 21, 2005 (UTC) (too long, misformatted dialogue, inadequate attribution)
 * 0 User:Warrior-Poet Fair enough, I could put the Scots Gaelic line in there 21 July, 2005 8:06 (CST)
 * 0 AllanHainey 10:43, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 0 Zarbon 16:00, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 InvisibleSun 21:42, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 allixpeeke (talk) 21:31, 23 August 2014 (UTC) I have no objection to using a quote from a movie (so long as it is clearly attributed to the character in the film and not the actual person), but why this quote? It says nothing meaningful.  In the very same scene, he says, "I am William Wallace!  And I see a whole army of my country men here in defiance of tyranny.  You've come to fight as free men, and free men you are.  What will you do with that freedom?  Will you fight?"  Would that not be an infinitely better quote to use?

The Age of Reptiles ended because it had gone on long enough and it was all a mistake in the first place. A better day was dawning at the close of the Mesozoic Era. There were some little warm-blooded animals around which had been stealing and eating the eggs of the Dinosaurs, and they were gradually learning to steal other things, too. Civilization was just around the corner. ~ Will Cuppy
 * 4 InvisibleSun 08:47, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 18:48, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 16:00, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1.5 Ningauble 15:53, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 17:34, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
 * 2 (leaning to 3) allixpeeke (talk) 21:31, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 10:59, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 03:48, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

The moral of the story of the Pilgrims is that if you work hard all your life and behave yourself every minute and take no time out for fun you will break practically even, if you can borrow enough money to pay your taxes. ~ Will Cuppy
 * 3 InvisibleSun 08:47, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 18:48, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 16:00, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 15:53, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 17:34, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
 * 2 allixpeeke (talk) 21:31, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

At last we will reveal ourselves to the Jedi. At last we will have revenge. ~ from Star Wars as Darth Maul Ray Park (born August 23)
 * 3 Maul is my alltime favorite Star Wars character, along with Sidious, Dooku, and Tarkin closely followed up. Zarbon 05:58, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 23:37, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 21:42, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 Ningauble 15:53, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 17:34, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
 * 1 (leaning to 2) allixpeeke (talk) 21:31, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Fear. Fear attracts the fearful. The strong. The weak. The innocent. The corrupt. Fear. Fear is my ally. ~ from the Star Wars main trailer sequence, said by Darth Maul Ray Park (born August 23)
 * 4 his best description of power through spreading fear in the hearts of his enemies, my favorite Maul saying. Zarbon 05:58, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 23:37, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 21:42, 22 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 Ningauble 15:53, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 17:34, 19 June 2013 (UTC) I would have ranked this quote higher but Ray Park doesn't have a WQ page.
 * 2 allixpeeke (talk) 21:31, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly possess the necessary information to solve some of them. ~ Georges Cuvier
 * 4 Fossil 20:04, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 16:22, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 15:26, 22 August 2009 (UTC) context is not clearly provided by the quote.
 * 0 Ningauble 15:53, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 17:34, 19 June 2013 (UTC) What questions?
 * 1 allixpeeke (talk) 21:31, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Why has not anyone seen that fossils alone gave birth to a theory about the formation of the earth, that without them, no one would have ever dreamed that there were successive epochs in the formation of the globe. ~ Georges Cuvier
 * 3 Fossil 20:04, 7 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 16:22, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 15:26, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 0 Ningauble 15:53, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 17:34, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
 * 1 allixpeeke (talk) 21:31, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

''The earth keeps some vibration going There in your heart, and that is you. And if the people find you can fiddle, Why, fiddle you must, for all your life.'' ~ Edgar Lee Masters
 * 3 Kalki 15:26, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 2.5 Ningauble 15:53, 22 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 17:34, 19 June 2013 (UTC)
 * 2 allixpeeke (talk) 21:31, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 10:59, 18 May 2015 (UTC)

Very often atheists themselves admit that they have no evidence of God's absence, but they try to put a different spin on it. They'll tell you, “No one can prove a universal negative” (like “There is no God”). They think this somehow excuses them from needing evidence against God's existence. But not only is it false that you can't prove a universal negative (all you have to do is show something is self-contradictory), but more importantly, this claim is really an admission that it's impossible to prove atheism! Atheism involves a universal negative, you can't prove a universal negative, therefore, atheism is unprovable. It turns out that it is the atheist who is believing a view for which there is and can be no evidence. ~ William Lane Craig
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 10:52, 18 May 2015 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:07, 23 August 2015 (UTC)
 * 1 (too prosy) Ficaia (talk) 03:48, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 19:52, 22 August 2020 (UTC)

 * There is no freer man alive than a captain of cavalry in command of his own troop. ~ Jonathan M. Wainwright (general) (dob)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 03:48, 10 June 2024 (UTC)

title: August 23


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September 23

September 23 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * When smashing monuments, save the pedestals — they always come in handy. ~ Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * Goodness alone is never enough. A hard cold wisdom is required, too, for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom invariably accomplishes evil. ~ Robert A. Heinlein in Stranger in a Strange Land
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * There's something happening somewhere — baby I just know that there is. You can't start a fire — you can't start a fire without a spark. This gun's for hire — even if we're just dancing in the dark. ~ Bruce Springsteen (born 23 September 1949)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * There is in the worst of fortune the best of chances for a happy change. ~ Euripides (by traditional accounts born on 23 September 480 BC)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far. ~ Euripides
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger? ~ Thomas Huxley
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * In an ideal University, as I conceive it, a man should be able to obtain instruction in all forms of knowledge, and discipline in the use of all the methods by which knowledge is obtained. In such a University, the force of living example should fire the student with a noble ambition to emulate the learning of learned men, and to follow in the footsteps of the explorers of new fields of knowledge. And the very air he breathes should be charged with that enthusiasm for truth, that fanaticism of veracity, which is a greater possession than much learning; a nobler gift than the power of increasing knowledge; by so much greater and nobler than these, as the moral nature of man is greater than the intellectual; for veracity is the heart of morality. ~ Thomas Henry Huxley
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * The improver of natural knowledge absolutely refuses to acknowledge authority, as such. For him, scepticism is the highest of duties; blind faith the one unpardonable sin. And it cannot be otherwise, for every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority, the cherishing of the keenest scepticism, the annihilation of the spirit of blind faith; and the most ardent votary of science holds his firmest convictions, not because the men he most venerates hold them; not because their verity is testified by portents and wonders; but because his experience teaches him that whenever he chooses to bring these convictions into contact with their primary source, Nature — whenever he thinks fit to test them by appealing to experiment and to observation — Nature will confirm them. The man of science has learned to believe in justification, not by faith, but by verification. ~ Thomas Henry Huxley
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Agnosticism is not properly described as a "negative" creed, nor indeed as a creed of any kind, except in so far as it expresses absolute faith in the validity of a principle which is as much ethical as intellectual. This principle may be stated in various ways, but they all amount to this: that it is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty. ~ Thomas Henry Huxley
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2013

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2014

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Illegitimate Barrister

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki in regard to the latest "end of times" prophecy, regarding this date.

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2022
 * proposed by Kalki; in regard of the first full day of Autumn, in the Northern Hemisphere.

 * 2023 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
I should say this, that Pat doesn't have a mink coat. But she does have a respectable Republican cloth coat, and I always tell her she'd look good in anything. ~ Richard Nixon, in the "Checkers speech", given on September 23, 1952.
 * 2. David | Talk 20:44, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 - InvisibleSun 18:27, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 17:08, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:24, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 0.25 N6n 16:03, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

I found Rome a city of bricks and left it a city of marble. ~ Caesar Augustus (born September 23, 63 BC).
 * 3. David | Talk 20:56, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 - I'd always seen this quote with "brick" rather than "bricks"; which one is the more accurate translation I don't know, but "brick" has the advantage of symmetry with "marble." InvisibleSun 18:27, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 23:10, 22 September 2009 (UTC) * 2 Kalki 17:08, 21 September 2007 (UTC) and would prefer "brick" to "bricks". I had originally ranked this higher, but it seems to be a common paraphrase of a statement by Suetonius, that "He could boast that he inherited it brick and left it marble" which suggests that though Augustus might have used such words, Seutonius is not necessarily quoting him.
 * 3 because this is a good example of bragging one's own accomplishments, and it is a good one at that. Zarbon 23:24, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 N6n 16:03, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist, and believed blind eternal fate, I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations. ~ John Adams. September 23, 2006 is Rosh Hashanah for the year 5767.
 * 3. David | Talk 21:07, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 18:27, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:08, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:24, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 N6n 16:03, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

Slowly but surely withal moveth the might of the gods. ~ Euripides (by traditional accounts born on 23 September 480 BC)
 * 3 Kalki 18:07, 22 September 2006 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 18:27, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:24, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 N6n 16:03, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

I hold that mortal foolish who strives against the stress of necessity. ~ Euripides (by traditional accounts born on 23 September 480 BC)
 * 3 Kalki 18:07, 22 September 2006 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 18:27, 22 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 23:24, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 N6n 16:03, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

If the question is put to me would I rather have a miserable ape for a grandfather or a man highly endowed by nature and possessed of great means of influence and yet who employs these faculties and that influence for the mere purpose of introducing ridicule into a grave scientific discussion, I unhesitatingly affirm my preference for the ape. ~ Thomas Huxley
 * 2 Zarbon 15:27, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:34, 22 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 16:03, 9 September 2010 (UTC) -- Some information about the context in parenthesis will make it better. Say, "response to Bishop Wilberforce, who during a public debate had sarcastically questioned: "whether he was descended from an ape on his grandmother's side or his grandfather's".
 * Thomas Henry Huxley (1825-05-04 – 1895-06-29)
 * I'm confused. Why all of the Thomas Huxley quotes? I like Huxley but I don't see the connection.
 * bystander (talk) 05:03, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
 * The date connection does seem tenuous, and I myself had even continued with suggestions by Huxley without checking for a clear one. The only reference to this date on Huxley's page is one to a letter he wrote. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:05, 19 September 2012 (UTC)

Science...commits suicide when it adopts a creed. ~ Thomas Huxley
 * 2 Zarbon 15:27, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:34, 22 September 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 N6n 16:03, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom. ~ Thomas Huxley
 * 2 Zarbon 15:27, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:34, 22 September 2008 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 N6n 16:03, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

Not far from the invention of fire must rank the invention of doubt. ~ Thomas Huxley
 * 2 Zarbon 15:27, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:34, 22 September 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 N6n 16:03, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

If I have played my part well, clap your hands, and dismiss me with applause from the stage. ~ Augustus
 * 4 Zarbon 15:27, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 21:31, 22 September 2009 (UTC) 2 Kalki 23:34, 22 September 2008 (UTC) I might eventually rank this higher, but this does not seem to be sourced to anything earlier than a 2007 book, which ironically, emphasizes at one point the distinction to be made between primary and secondary sources.

As long as young people feel they have got no hope but to blow themselves up you are never going to make progress. ~ Cherie Blair
 * 2 Zarbon 15:27, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:34, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Music is nothing separate from me. It is me... You'd have to remove the music surgically. ~ Ray Charles
 * 2 Zarbon 15:27, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:34, 22 September 2008 (UTC) but would extend this to:
 * Music is nothing separate from me. It is me. I can't retire from music any more than I can retire from my liver. You'd have to remove the music from me surgically — like you were taking out my appendix.

If you haven't got eyes you shouldn't have wings. ~ Karl Pilkington
 * 2 Zarbon 15:27, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:34, 22 September 2008 (UTC)

Women anchor me. They're there when I need them. They're sensitive to me, and I'm sensitive to them. I'm not saying I've loved that many women. Love is a special word, and I use it only when I mean it. You say the word too much and it becomes cheap. ~ Ray Charles
 * 3 Kalki 21:31, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Music is nothing separate from me. It is me. I can't retire from music any more than I can retire from my liver. You'd have to remove the music from me surgically — like you were taking out my appendix. ~ Ray Charles
 * 3 Kalki 21:31, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Life is too short to occupy oneself with the slaying of the slain more than once. ~ Thomas Henry Huxley
 * 3 Kalki 21:31, 22 September 2009 (UTC)

Twinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are, Up above the world so high, Like a diamond in the sky! ~ Jane Taylor
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 17:15, 28 September 2014 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:52, 28 September 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 22 September 2015 (UTC)

 * 4 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:44, 22 September 2023 (UTC); in regard to his recent death.

title: September 23