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September 18

September 18 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * Remember that time is money. ~ Benjamin Franklin
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * The cardinal doctrine of a fanatic's creed is that his enemies are the enemies of God. ~ Andrew Dickson White
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought; our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks. ~ Samuel Johnson (born 18 September 1709)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * I hate a fellow whom pride or cowardice or laziness drives into a corner, and who does nothing when he is there but sit and growl. Let him come out as I do, and bark. ~ Samuel Johnson
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2007
 * All the performances of human art, at which we look with praise or wonder, are instances of the resistless force of perseverance; it is by this that the quarry becomes a pyramid, and that distant countries are united with canals. If a man was to compare the single stroke of the pickaxe, or of one impression of the spade, with the general design and the last result, he would be overwhelmed by the sense of their disproportion; yet those petty operations, incessantly continued, in time surmount the greatest difficulties, and mountains are leveled and oceans bounded by the slender force of human beings. ~ Samuel Johnson
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * A fly, Sir, may sting a stately horse and make him wince; but one is but an insect, and the other is a horse still. ~ Samuel Johnson (date of birth)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * As it is necessary not to invite robbery by supineness, so it is our duty not to suppress tenderness by suspicion; it is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust. ~ Samuel Johnson
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * To contribute usefully to the advance of science, one must sometimes not disdain from undertaking simple verifications. ~ Léon Foucault (born 18 September 1819)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * It is always observable that silence propagates itself, and that the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find any thing to say. ~ Samuel Johnson
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2013

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2014

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2015

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2016

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2017
 * proposed by bystander
 * proposed by bystander

 * 2018

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2019

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

 * 2020

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2021

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
I have taken your horrible idea and turned it into a brilliant one!" ~ Peggy Hill, "King of the Hill"
 * 4 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.167.242.65 (talk • contribs) 05:05, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 01:35, 13 September 2007 (UTC) * 2 Kalki 23:33, 17 September 2005 (UTC) No clear correlation with the date.
 * 1 InvisibleSun 09:35, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:08, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

The excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some useful truth in few words. ~ Samuel Johnson (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 23:33, 17 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 09:35, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:08, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

He who praises everybody praises nobody. ~ Samuel Johnson
 * 2 Zarbon 04:45, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:06, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:40, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 16:57, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. ~ Samuel Johnson
 * 3 Zarbon 04:45, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:06, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:40, 17 September 2008 (UTC)z

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned. ~ Samuel Johnson
 * 3 Zarbon 04:45, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:06, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:40, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works. ~ Samuel Johnson
 * 3 Zarbon 04:45, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:06, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:40, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

The vanquished know war. They see through the empty jingoism of those who use the abstract words of glory, honor, and patriotism to mask the cries of the wounded, the senseless killing, war profiteering, and chest-pounding grief. ~ Chris Hedges
 * 2 Zarbon 04:45, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:06, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:40, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

...man...is a frail, lost creature, too weak to walk unaided. ~ William March
 * 2 Zarbon 04:45, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:06, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:40, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

...To me it has always seemed that God is so sickened with men, and their unending cruelty to each other, that he covers the places where they have been as quickly as possible. ~ William March
 * 2 Zarbon 04:45, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:06, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:40, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

People are born in sorrow and move about the earth in patterns of sorrow without sense and without plan. Why should I take myself so seriously? I am no more important to the Creator than the trees or the vegetation which live with me on His earth. There is no eye to watch over me nor a hand to direct me, and there will be no preferred fate for me at the end, no matter what I am, or what I do with my life. ~ William March
 * 2 Zarbon 04:45, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:06, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:40, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

As an experimental psychologist, I have been trained not to believe anything unless it can be demonstrated in the laboratory on rats or sophomores. ~ Steven Pinker
 * 2 Zarbon 04:45, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:06, 17 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:40, 17 September 2008 (UTC)

You are invited to come to see the Earth turn, tomorrow, from three to five, at Meridian Hall of the Paris Observatory. ~ Léon Foucault (born 18 September 1819)
 * 3 Kalki 23:38, 13 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 11:38, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

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

 * 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:29, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself. ~ Samuel Johnson

 * 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 09:29, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

We on the left have forgotten that the question is not how do you get good people to rule, most people who rule are mediocre at best and usually venal. The question is how do we make those in power frightened of us and not be seduced by formal political processes. ~ Chris Hedges
 * 3 bystander (talk) 02:02, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:34, 17 September 2013 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

 * The right of the citizens to keep and bear arms has justly been considered, as the palladium of the liberties of a republic; since it offers a strong moral check against the usurpation and arbitrary power of rulers; and will generally, even if these are successful in the first instance, enable the people to resist and triumph over them. ~ Joseph Story (dob)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 02:02, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:34, 17 September 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 16:57, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

 * There's no dallying with love Though he be a child and blind; Then let none the danger prove,  Who would to himself be kind: Smile he does when thou dost play, But his smiles to death betray.
 * Edward Sherburne (dob)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 16:57, 31 May 2024 (UTC)

title: September 18


text:
October 18

October 18 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * He who fights with monsters should look to it that he himself does not become a monster. And when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
 * selected by Paullusmagnus

 * 2004
 * These children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through... ~ David Bowie
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * We take the position that there is no place for the state in the bedrooms of the nation. ~ Pierre Trudeau (born 18 October 1919)
 * proposed by IP 65.110.28.95 (originally for September 28)

 * 2006
 * Give me my freedom for as long as I be All I ask of livin' is to have no chains on me All I ask of livin' is to have no chains on me And all I ask of dyin' is to go naturally... And when I die, and when I'm gone There'll be one child born, in our world To carry on, to carry on... ~ Laura Nyro ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second. ~ Logan Pearsall Smith
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * The essential ingredient of politics is timing. ~ Pierre Trudeau
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own. ~ Logan Pearsall Smith
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it. ~ Herman Melville, in Moby-Dick (first published 18 October 1851)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * I have no objection to any person’s religion, be it what it may, so long as that person does not kill or insult any other person, because that other person don’t believe it also. But when a man’s religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and, in fine, makes this earth of ours an uncomfortable inn to lodge in; then I think it high time to take that individual aside and argue the point with him. ~ Herman Melville, in Moby-Dick (first published 18 October 1851)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Nevertheless, we arose next morning in newness of life. Never before had rocks and ice and trees seemed so beautiful and wonderful, even the cold, biting rainstorm that was blowing seemed full of loving-kindness, wonderful compensation for all that we had endured, and we sailed down the bay through the gray, driving rain rejoicing. ~ John Muir, Stickeen (1915), describing Alaska. October 18 is Alaska Day, commemorating the completion of the US purchase in 1867.
 * 3. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 14:38, 15 October 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:42, 17 October 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:05, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Aphaia 00:30, 16 October 2008 (UTC)

One should judge a man mainly from his depravities. Virtues can be faked. Depravities are real. ~ Klaus Kinski
 * 2 Zarbon 04:47, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 18:46, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 because it is unsourced. InvisibleSun 22:08, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

I am like a wild animal born in captivity, in a zoo. But where a beast would have claws, I was born with talent. ~ Klaus Kinski
 * 2 Zarbon 04:47, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 18:46, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 because it is unsourced. InvisibleSun 22:08, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

I don't wish to be everything to everyone, but I would like to be something to someone. ~ Katherine Kurtz
 * 3 Zarbon 04:47, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 18:46, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:08, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

I'm not scared of dying And I, don't really care If it' s peace you find in dying Well then, let the time be near. ~ Laura Nyro
 * 2 Zarbon 04:47, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 18:46, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:08, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

The woman was made of a rib out of the side of Adam; not made out of his head to rule over him, nor out of his feet to be trampled upon by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be protected, and near his heart to be beloved. ~ Matthew Henry
 * 3 Zarbon 04:47, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 18:46, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:08, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

None is so deaf as those that will not hear. ~ Matthew Henry
 * 3 Zarbon 04:47, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 18:46, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:08, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

As an egg, when broken, never Can be mended, but must ever Be the same crushed egg for ever— So shall this dark heart of mine! ~ Thomas Holley Chivers
 * 3 Zarbon 04:47, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 18:46, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:08, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Effort without talent is a depressing situation … but talent without effort is a tragedy. ~ Mike Ditka
 * 3 Zarbon 04:47, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 18:46, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 because it is unsourced. InvisibleSun 22:08, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

If you're not in the parade, you watch the parade. That's life. ~ Mike Ditka
 * 2 Zarbon 04:47, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 18:46, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 because it is unsourced. InvisibleSun 22:08, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Success isn't permanent and failure isn't fatal; its the courage to continue that counts. ~ Mike Ditka
 * 2 Zarbon 04:47, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 18:46, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 because it is unsourced. InvisibleSun 22:08, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

I don't believe in living in the past. Living in the past is for cowards. If you live in the past, you die in the past. ~ Mike Ditka
 * 2 Zarbon 04:47, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 18:46, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 because it is unsourced. InvisibleSun 22:08, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds. ~ Logan Pearsall Smith
 * 3 Zarbon 04:49, 4 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 18:46, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:08, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consist in nothing more than the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star. ~ Logan Pearsall Smith
 * 2 Kalki 18:46, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 22:29, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:08, 17 October 2008 (UTC)

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true! ~ Logan Pearsall Smith
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:29, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

The truth is that the phenomena of artistic production are still so obscure, so baffling, we are still so far from an accurate scientific and psychological knowledge of their genesis or meaning, that we are forced to accept them as empirical facts; and empirical and non-explanatory names are the names that suit them best. ~ Logan Pearsall Smith
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:29, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

Consider all this; and then turn to this green, gentle, and most docile earth; consider them both, the sea and the land; and do you not find a strange analogy to something in yourself? ~ Herman Melville, in Moby-Dick (first published 18 October 1851)
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:29, 1 October 2010 (UTC)

We ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all. ~ Herman Melville, in Moby-Dick (first published 18 October 1851)
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:29, 1 October 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby-Dick. He piled upon the whale's white hump the sum of all the general rage and hate felt by his whole race from Adam down; and then, as if his chest had been a mortar, he burst his hot heart's shell upon it. ~ Herman Melville, in Moby-Dick (first published 18 October 1851)
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:29, 1 October 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

War is pain, and hate is woe. Come in thy lowest form of love, and I will kneel and kiss thee; but at thy highest, come as mere supernal power; and though thou launchest navies of full-freighted worlds, there's that in here that still remains indifferent. Oh, thou clear spirit, of thy fire thou madest me, and like a true child of fire, I breathe it back to thee. ~ Herman Melville, in Moby-Dick (first published 18 October 1851)
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:29, 1 October 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

No fearless fool now fronts thee. I own thy speechless, placeless power; but to the last gasp of my earthquake life will dispute its unconditional, unintegral mastery in me. In the midst of the personified impersonal, a personality stands here. ~ Herman Melville, in Moby-Dick (first published 18 October 1851)
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:29, 1 October 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

The drama's done. Why then here does any one step forth? — Because one did survive the wreck. ~ Herman Melville, in Moby-Dick (first published 18 October 1851)
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:29, 1 October 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

The richness of life lies in memories we have forgotten. ~ Cesare Pavese
 * proposed by Nemo

 * 3, Pavese is also the Italian translator/editor of Moby Dick and helped Melville's fame a lot. Nemo 14:17, 18 January 2012 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:44, 13 October 2012 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:52, 17 October 2017 (UTC)

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title: October 18


text:
November 18

November 18 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Nowadays most men lead lives of noisy desperation. ~ James Thurber
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * We're all puppets, Laurie. I'm just a puppet who can see the strings. ~ Alan Moore in Watchmen (born 18 November 1953)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2006
 * It's a feature of our age that if you write a work of fiction, everyone assumes that the people and events in it are disguised biography — but if you write your biography, it's equally assumed you're lying your head off. ~ Margaret Atwood (born 18 November 1939)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2007
 * Whatever the scientists may come up with, writers and artists will continue to portray altered mental states, simply because few aspects of our nature fascinate people so much. The so-called mad person will always represent a possible future for every member of the audience — who knows when such a malady may strike? ~ Margaret Atwood
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * War is what happens when language fails. ~ Margaret Atwood
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * A lot of being a poet consists of willed ignorance. If you woke up from your trance and realized the nature of the life-threatening and dignity-destroying precipice you were walking along, you would switch into actuarial sciences immediately. ~ Margaret Atwood (born November 18, 1939)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2010
 * Ideas, unlike solid structures, do not perish. They remain immortal, immaterial and everywhere, like all Divine things. Ideas are a golden, savage landscape that we wander unaware, without a map. Be careful: in the last analysis, reality may be exactly what we think it is. ~ Alan Moore
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse is often closer to the truth. ~ Alan Moore
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * proposed by Nemo
 * proposed by Nemo

 * 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; in regard of her decision to not to seek leadership position of the Democratic party in the US House of Representatives, in the next Congress.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks while in the United States.

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. ~ George Bernard Shaw, said that day, when refusing the money from the Nobel prize.
 * 2 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:05, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 3. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 21:19, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:36, 17 November 2007 (UTC) humourous, but I have no strong desire to use it for QOTD.
 * 2 Zarbon 06:39, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Moderately witty. Nemo 19:30, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
 * 2 Laurentius (talk) 20:35, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth. ~ Niels Bohr (date of death)
 * 3 UDScott 14:53, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:05, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 3. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 21:19, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
 * This was already used on 7 October 2005 ~ Kalki 17:36, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 06:39, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 Already used. Nemo 19:30, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

Do not let the bastards grind you down. ~ Margaret Atwood (date of birth)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:05, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 1. Too general, and I find it difficult to believe any one person could have coined such a phrase. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 21:19, 17 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:36, 17 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 06:39, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Antiquary 23:25, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Per Fys. Nemo 19:30, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
 * 1 Laurentius (talk) 20:35, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own. ~ Clarence Day
 * 4 because one must first stand for oneself before standing for others. Zarbon 00:30, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 18:32, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Trite, not particularly well expressed. Nemo 19:30, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

A moderate addiction to money may not always be hurtful; but when taken in excess it is nearly always bad for the health. ~ Clarence Day
 * 2 because an excess of anything is harmful. Zarbon 00:30, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 18:32, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Trite, not particularly well expressed. Nemo 19:30, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting. ~ Alan Dean Foster
 * 3 because the freedom to do anything with any limits results in chaos. Zarbon 00:30, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 18:32, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Nemo 19:30, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

We're shooting handcuffed prisoners in the back of the head, execution-style, instantly "liberating" their souls from their bodies. ~ Justin Raimondo
 * 2 because the terminology of liberation has been used from different perspectives to describe different opinions. Zarbon 00:30, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 18:32, 14 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:14, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 Antiquary 23:25, 17 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Hard to understand out of context. Nemo 19:30, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

The bards were feared. They were respected, but more than that they were feared. If you were just some magician, if you'd pissed off some witch, then what's she gonna do, she's gonna put a curse on you, and what's gonna happen? Your hens are gonna lay funny, your milk's gonna go sour, maybe one of your kids is gonna get a hare-lip or something like that — no big deal. You piss off a bard, and forget about putting a curse on you, he might put a satire on you. And if he was a skilful bard, he puts a satire on you, it destroys you in the eyes of your community, it shows you up as ridiculous, lame, pathetic, worthless, in the eyes of your community, in the eyes of your family, in the eyes of your children, in the eyes of yourself, and if it's a particularly good bard, and he's written a particularly good satire, then three hundred years after you're dead, people are still gonna be laughing, at what a twat you were. ~ Alan Moore
 * 3 Kalki 16:45, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Very long and still doesn't express much of the power of satire. Nemo 19:30, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
 * 1 Too long. Laurentius (talk) 20:35, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky. ~ Alan Moore
 * 3 Kalki 16:45, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Doesn't express the point very well. Nemo 19:30, 29 March 2012 (UTC)

An atheist doesn't have to be someone who thinks he has a proof that there can't be a god. He only has to be someone who believes that the evidence on the God question is at a similar level to the evidence on the werewolf question. ~ John McCarthy.
 * 3 IGG8998 23:22, 3 November 2011 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki (talk · contributions) 18:03, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
 * 1 Nemo 19:30, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 Laurentius (talk) 20:35, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

What would be the point of having this job if I didn't get to make up some of the maddest possible scenes I've ever had in my head since I was a kid? ~ Steven Moffat
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 03:59, 8 January 2012 (UTC)
 * 1 Not particularly witty, hard to understand for those who don't know him. Nemo 19:30, 29 March 2012 (UTC)
 * 1 (as Nemo said) - Laurentius (talk) 20:35, 12 November 2012 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:04, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:04, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:04, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:04, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:04, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:04, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:04, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

title: November 18


text:
December 18

December 18 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as anothers. We see so much only as we possess. ~ Henry David Thoreau
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2004
 * The Tree that was withered shall be renewed, and he shall plant it in the high places, and the City shall be blessed. Sing all ye people! ~ J. R. R. Tolkien
 * (From The Lord of the Rings : The Return of the King (Book VI, Chapter 5, "The Steward and the King"); in the novel this is a song of a great Eagle heralding the victory of Aragorn's forces against those of Sauron and the Dark Tower.)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die. ~ Steve Biko (born 18 December 1946)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2006
 * Formerly we used to represent things visible on earth, things we either liked to look at or would have liked to see. Today we reveal the reality that is behind visible things, thus expressing the belief that the visible world is merely an isolated case in relation to the universe and that there are many more other, latent realities. Things appear to assume a broader and more diversified meaning, often seemingly contradicting the rational experience of yesterday. There is a striving to emphasize the essential character of the accidental. ~ Paul Klee (born 18 December 1879)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2007
 * I cannot be grasped in the here and now. For I reside just as much with the dead as with the unborn. Somewhat closer to the heart of creation than usual. But not nearly close enough. ~ Paul Klee
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * Hail the heaven-born Prince of Peace! Hail the Sun of Righteousness! Light and life to all he brings, Risen with healing in his wings. Mild he lays his glory by, Born that man no more may die, Born to raise the sons of earth, Born to give us second birth. Hark! the herald angels sing, "Glory to the new born King!"  ~ Charles Wesley ~ (born 18 December 1707, and song for the Christmas season)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Art does not reproduce the visible; rather, it makes visible. ~ Paul Klee
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2010
 * Hark! the herald angels sing, "Glory to the new-born King; Peace on earth and mercy mild, God and sinners reconciled!" Joyful, all ye nations, rise. Join the triumph of the skies. With th'angelic hosts proclaim Christ is born in Bethlehem! ~ Charles Wesley ~ (born 18 December 1707, and song for the Christmas season)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Nature can afford to be prodigal in everything, the artist must be frugal down to the last detail. Nature is garrulous to the point of confusion, let the artist be truly taciturn. ~ Paul Klee
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2014

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki — The first explanation of the nature of "The Force" given by Obi-Wan Kenobi, for the opening day of the wide release of Star Wars: The Force Awakens.

 * 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

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
The beautiful, which is perhaps inseparable from art, is not after all tied to the subject, but to the pictorial representation. In this way and in no other does art overcome the ugly without avoiding it. ~ Paul Klee
 * 3 InvisibleSun 16:51, 17 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 17:20, 17 December 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 19:41, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Lyle 15:31, 17 December 2008 (UTC)

 * Narrating incredible things as though they were real — old system; narrating realities as though they were incredible — the new. ~ Cesare Pavese
 * proposed by Nemo

 * 2 we need some quotations on narrativology. Nemo 14:11, 18 January 2012 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:12, 15 December 2012 (UTC) no clear relation to the date.

Man is a tragic animal. Not because of his smallness, but because he is too well endowed. Man has longings and spiritual demands that reality cannot fulfill. We have expectations of a just and moral world. Man requires meaning in a meaningless world. ~ Peter Wessel Zapffe (dob)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 06:08, 17 December 2012 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:50, 18 December 2021 (UTC) with a lean toward 3 or perhaps even 4, though I do not agree with it.

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 17:13, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 17:13, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 17:13, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 17:13, 15 December 2013 (UTC)

title: December 18


text:
September 19

September 19 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * A saint is someone who has achieved a remote human possibility. It is impossible to say what that possibility is. I think it has something to do with the energy of love... Something in him so loves the world that he gives himself to the laws of gravity and chance. Far from flying with the angels, he traces with the fidelity of a seismograph needle the state of the solid bloody landscape. His house is dangerous and finite, but he is at home in the world. He can love the shape of human beings, the fine and twisted shapes of the heart. It is good to have among us such men, such balancing monsters of love. ~ Leonard Cohen

 * 2005
 * There comes a point when a dream becomes reality and reality becomes a dream. ~ Frances Farmer (born 19 September 1913)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * His voice rose under the black smoke before the burning wreckage of the island; and infected by that emotion, the other little boys began to shake and sob too. And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy. ~ William Golding (born 19 September 1911)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2007
 * I think everybody who has a brain should get involved in politics. Working within. Not criticizing it from the outside. Become an active participant, no matter how feeble you think the effort is. ~ Cass Elliot (born 19 September 1941)

 * 2008
 * Basically I'm an optimist. Intellectually I can see man's balance is about fifty-fifty, and his chances of blowing himself up are about one to one. I can't see this any way but intellectually. I'm just emotionally unable to believe that he will do this. This means that I am by nature an optimist and by intellectual conviction a pessimist, I suppose. ~ William Golding
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * The soul of man is larger than the sky, Deeper than ocean, or the abysmal dark Of the unfathomed center. Like that ark, Which in its sacred hold uplifted high, O'er the drowned hills, the human family, And stock reserved of every living kind, So, in the compass of the single mind, The seeds and pregnant forms in essence lie, That make all worlds. ~ Hartley Coleridge ~
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * Hard I strove To put away my immortality, Till my collected spirits swell'd my heart Almost to bursting; but the strife is past. It is a fearful thing to be a god, And, like a god, endure a mortal's pain; To be a show for earth and wondering heaven To gaze and shudder at! But I will live, That Jove may know there is a deathless soul Who ne'er will be his subject. Yes, 'tis past. The stedfast Fates confess my absolute will, — Their own co-equal. ~ Hartley Coleridge ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011:
 * On this hapless earth There's small sincerity of mirth, And laughter oft is but an art To drown the outcry of the heart. ~ Hartley Coleridge ~
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Lyle

 * 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; in regard to her scheduled funeral.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
When Gianne Verscae died it was a real chance for the modelling community to speak out about their pain. When Naomi Campbell was asked how she was effected by the murder she responded "It's been a very horrible thing...for ME. (Sandra Bernhard)
 * 5 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.167.242.65 (talk • contribs) 05:07, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 22:46, 18 September 2005 (UTC) No clear correlation with the date, and not a great quote: Bernhard might be deliberately taking a statement out of context and mis-emphasizing it for her comedy routine, as a great thing for HER.
 * 1 Zarbon 23:10, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 N6n 11:44, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:59, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Life is a hot day, perhaps death is a cool night. Life is a shallow bay, perhaps death is a clear, deep sea. ~ Mika Waltari
 * 3 Zarbon 04:56, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:02, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:14, 17 September 2014 (UTC) 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 01:45, 16 September 2011 (UTC) // 3 Kalki 23:41, 18 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:59, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:11, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:11, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:11, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:11, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:11, 18 September 2018 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 18 September 2019 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 18 September 2019 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 18 September 2019 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 18 September 2019 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 18 September 2019 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

title: September 19


text:
September 20

September 20 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche in Beyond Good and Evil
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of the people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will have truly defeated age. ~ Sophia Loren (born 20 September 1934)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it. ~ Joyce Brothers (born 20 September 1928)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * In each of us are places where we have never gone. Only by pressing the limits do you ever find them. ~ Joyce Brothers
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * When you come right down to it, the secret of having it all is loving it all. ~ Joyce Brothers
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical. ~ Sophia Loren
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * The silence of a wise man is always meaningful. ~ Leo Strauss
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * I have a conscience and a religious faith, and I know that our liberties were not won without suffering, and may be lost again through our cowardice. ~ Upton Sinclair
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2013
 * proposed by bystander

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2017

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
May I remind you that it does NOT say R.S.V.P. on the Statue of Liberty! ~ (Cher Horowitz, "Clueless")
 * 4 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.167.242.65 (talk • contribs) 05:13, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 22:46, 19 September 2005 (UTC) No clear correlation with the date.
 * 1 per Kalki. Besides that, I have no idea in what context this quote was said. --Aphaia 07:50, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:14, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got. ~ Sophia Loren (born 20 September 1934)
 * 3 Kalki 22:46, 19 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 18:26, 19 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 because I don't particularly think quotes that mention sex appeal would make a good QOTD. Zarbon 23:14, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Anger repressed can poison a relationship as surely as the cruelest words. ~ Joyce Brothers
 * 3 Zarbon 05:08, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 08:11, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Music isn't enough. Performers aren't enough. There must be someone that loves music as much as life. For you...we give everything. ~ William Kapell
 * 2 Zarbon 05:08, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 08:11, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

...no bloody or unbloody change of society can eradicate the evil in man: as long as there will be men, there will be malice, envy and hatred, and hence there cannot be a society which does not have to employ coercive restraint. ~ Leo Strauss
 * 2 Zarbon 05:08, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 08:11, 20 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 11:51, 8 September 2010 (UTC) --palatable or not, it is something which has to considered.
 * 3 bystander (talk) 03:27, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

Kings have no friends, only subjects and enemies. ~ George R. R. Martin
 * 3 Zarbon 05:08, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 08:11, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Don’t fool yourself that you are going to have it all. You are not. Psychologically, having it all is not even a valid concept. The marvelous thing about human beings is that we are perpetually reaching for the stars. The more we have, the more we want. And for this reason, we never have it all. ~ Joyce Brothers
 * 3 Kalki 17:51, 19 September 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 N6n 11:51, 8 September 2010 (UTC)

Love comes when manipulation stops; when you think more about the other person than about his or her reactions to you. When you dare to reveal yourself fully. When you dare to be vulnerable. ~ Joyce Brothers
 * 3 Kalki 17:51, 19 September 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

The best fantasy is written in the language of dreams. It is alive as dreams are alive, more real than real... for a moment at least... that long magic moment before we wake. ~ George R. R. Martin
 * 3 Kalki 17:51, 19 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 03:27, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

All art is propaganda. It is universally and inescapably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously, but often deliberately, propaganda. ~ Upton Sinclair
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 05:11, 2 November 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Let us redeem our great words from base uses. Let that no longer call itself Love, which knows that it is not free! ~ Upton Sinclair
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 05:11, 2 November 2010 (UTC)

The first thing brought forth by the study of any religion, ancient or modern, is that it is based upon Fear, born of it, fed by it — and that it cultivates the source from which its nourishment is derived. ~ Upton Sinclair
 * 3 bystander (talk) 03:27, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:55, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

When the first savage saw his hut destroyed by a bolt of lightning, he fell down upon his face in terror. He had no conception of natural forces, of laws of electricity; he saw this event as the act of an individual intelligence. … The story of the hero who slays the devouring dragon was not merely a symbol of day and night, of summer and winter; it was a literal explanation of the phenomena, it was the science of early times. ~ Upton Sinclair
 * 3 bystander (talk) 03:27, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:55, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

title: September 20


text:
September 21

September 21 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. ~ H. G. Wells (born 21 September 1866)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Hope is a good thing — maybe the best of things. And no good thing ever dies. ~ "Andy Dufresne" in The Shawshank Redemption by Stephen King (born 21 September 1947)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Like a bird on the wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir I have tried in my way to be free. ~ Leonard Cohen ~ (born 21 September 1934)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Life begins perpetually. Gathered together at last under the leadership of man, the student-teacher of the universe... unified, disciplined, armed with the scret powers of the atom, and with knowledge as yet beyond dreaming, Life, forever dying to be born afresh, forever young and eager, will presently stand upon this earth as upon a footstool, and stretch out its realm amidst the stars. ~ H. G. Wells
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * I'm guided by a signal in the heavens, I'm guided by this birthmark on my skin I'm guided by the beauty of our weapons First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin. ~ Leonard Cohen ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Ah, you loved me as a loser, But now you're worried that I just might win. You know the way to stop me, But you don't have the discipline. How many nights I prayed for this, To let my work begin. First we take Manhattan, Then we take Berlin. ~ Leonard Cohen ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they're brought out. But it's more than that, isn't it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you've said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That's the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a teller, but for want of an understanding ear. ~ Stephen King
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that human affairs were being watched keenly and closely by intelligences greater than man's and yet as mortal as his own; that as men busied themselves about their affairs they were scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. With infinite complacency men went to and fro over this globe about their little affairs, serene in their assurance of their empire over matter. It is possible that the infusoria under the microscope do the same. No one gave a thought to the older worlds of space as sources of human danger, or thought of them only to dismiss the idea of life upon them as impossible or improbable. It is curious to recall some of the mental habits of those departed days. At most, terrestrial men fancied there might be other men upon Mars, perhaps inferior to themselves and ready to welcome a missionary enterprise. Yet, across the gulf of space, minds that are to our minds as ours are to those of the beasts that perish, intellects vast and cool and unsympathetic, regarded this earth with envious eyes, and slowly and surely drew their plans against us. ~ H. G. Wells
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2019

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions

 * International Day of Peace · DOB: Leonard Cohen · Stephen King · Henry L. Stimson · H. G. Wells

Husbands should be like Kleenex: soft, strong, and desposable. ~ (Miss White, Clue)
 * 5 —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.167.242.65 (talk • contribs) 05:14, 14 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 00:29, 20 September 2009 (UTC) 2 Kalki 22:13, 20 September 2005 (UTC) No clear correlation with the date.
 * 1 Unpithy, no humor even harmful. And who is it? --Aphaia 08:08, 21 September 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:21, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 N6n 15:40, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

I lift my glass to the awful truth which you can't reveal to the ears of youth except to say it isn't worth a dime~ Leonard Cohen

 * 2 N6n 15:40, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:04, 20 September 2015 (UTC)

Behind everything I perceive the smile that makes all effort and discipline temporary, all the stress and pain of life endurable. In the last resort I do not care whether I am seated on a throne or drunk or dying in a gutter. I follow my leading. In the ultimate I know, though I cannot prove my knowledge in any way whatever, that everything is right and all things mine. ~ H. G. Wells
 * 3 N6n 04:17, 13 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:11, 19 September 2014 (UTC) but with a lean toward an eventual 3 or 4. 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 11:15, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 04:05, 16 September 2012 (UTC)

I don't think there was anything in my brain right then except the usual background static -- the kind you get on your radio when it's turned up all the way and tuned to no station at all. My brain had checked to the power, so to speak; the little guy wearing the Napoleon hat inside was showing aces and betting them. ~ Stephen King
 * 3 bystander (talk) 04:05, 16 September 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:23, 18 September 2012 (UTC)

title: September 21


text:
January 20

January 20 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * No man can justly censure or condemn another, because indeed no man truly knows another ~ Sir Thomas Browne
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * The survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands. The best hope for peace in our world is the expansion of freedom in all the world. ~ George W. Bush
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * I don't understand politics. I don't understand the concept of two sides. And I think that probably there's good on both sides, bad on both sides, and there's a middle ground. But it never seems to come to the middle ground. And it's very frustrating watching it, and seemingly we're not moving forward. ~ David Lynch (born 20 January 1946]
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one.... It’s this in-between that I’m calling a province, this frontier country between the tangible world and the intangible one — which is really the realm of the artist. ~ Federico Fellini (born 20 January 1920)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * I love child things because there's so much mystery when you're a child. When you're a child, something as simple as a tree doesn't make sense. You see it in the distance and it looks small, but as you go closer, it seems to grow — you haven't got a handle on the rules when you're a child. We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experienced is a narrowing of the imagination. ~ David Lynch
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * There's new energy to harness, new jobs to be created, new schools to build, and threats to meet, alliances to repair. The road ahead will be long. Our climb will be steep. We may not get there in one year or even in one term. But, America, I have never been more hopeful than I am tonight that we will get there. I promise you, we as a people will get there. ~ Barack Obama
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * To those who would tear the world down: We will defeat you. To those who seek peace and security: We support you. And to all those who have wondered if America's beacon still burns as bright: Tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity and unyielding hope. ~ Barack Obama
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer. … It's the answer spoken by young and old, rich and poor, Democrat and Republican, black, white, Hispanic, Asian, Native American, gay, straight, disabled and not disabled. Americans who sent a message to the world that we have never been just a collection of individuals or a collection of red states and blue states. We are, and always will be, the United States of America. It's the answer that led those who've been told for so long by so many to be cynical and fearful and doubtful about what we can achieve to put their hands on the arc of history and bend it once more toward the hope of a better day. It's been a long time coming, but tonight, because of what we did on this date in this election at this defining moment change has come to America. ~ Barack Obama
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography. ~ Federico Fellini (born 20 January 1920)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki in regard to the impending inauguration of Trump as the 45th President of the USA.

 * 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

 * proposed by Kalki; date of birth.

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Date for official United States presidential inauguration ceremonies
 * DOB: Joy Adamson · Buzz Aldrin · George Burns · Kellyanne Conway · Jeffrey Epstein · Federico Fellini · Nikki Haley · David Lynch · Bill Maher · Koichi Tohei · Slim Whitman · Fareed Zakaria

A created thing is never invented and it is never true: it is always and ever itself. ~ Federico Fellini (born January 20, 1920)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 08:39, 18 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 16:53, 19 January 2007 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 18:31, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 UDScott 16:27, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 (leaning toward 4) allixpeeke (talk) 00:17, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets. ~ Federico Fellini (born 20 January 1920)
 * 3 Kalki 16:53, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 18:46, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 18:31, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 UDScott 16:27, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 allixpeeke (talk) 00:17, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the infinite passion of life. ~ Federico Fellini (born 20 January 1920)
 * 3 Kalki 09:08, 20 January 2007 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 18:31, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 UDScott 16:27, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:06, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 allixpeeke (talk) 00:17, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

The values of Western civilization are not just different, they're better. I know a whole generation has been raised on the notion of multiculturalism, that all civilizations are just different. No, not always. Sometimes things are better. Rule of law is better than autocracy and theocracy. Equality of the sexes, better. Protection of minorities, better. Free speech, better. Free elections, better. ~ Bill Maher
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 20:59, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:54, 30 July 2014 (UTC) some things are indeed ALWAYS better, and true pluralism DOES recognize this, and asserts that the IMPLICIT or EXPLICIT bigotry which has so little scope of the ETERNAL struggles of LIGHT LIFE LIBERTY and LOVE everywhere ALWAYS is always something tragic, and sometimes disgusting, especially when it cites TRUE virtues AS IF they were EXCLUSIVE virtues. So it goes… ⨀∴☥☮♥∵ॐ … Blessings. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:54, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
 * 2 allixpeeke (talk) 00:17, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

I would say that the feminine values are now the values of America; sensitivity is more important than truth; feelings are more important than facts; commitment is more important than individuality; children are more important than people; safety is more important than fun. I always hear women say, "Y'know, married men live longer." Uh, yes, and an indoor cat...also...lives longer. It's a fur-ball with a broken spirit that can only look out on a world it will never enjoy, but it does, technically, live longer. ~ Bill Maher
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 21:21, 5 April 2014 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:54, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
 * 2 allixpeeke (talk) 00:17, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

 * 4 if used in 2017, 2021, 2025, 2029, 2033, 2037, 2041, 2045, etc., 1 if used any other year. allixpeeke (talk) 00:17, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 19:23, 8 October 2014 (UTC), with perhaps a lean towards 3 or 4 on some US presidential inauguration years.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 19:23, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

title: January 20


text:
February 20

February 20 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * There can be no Friendship where there is no Freedom. Friendship loves a free Air, and will not be penned up in streight and narrow Enclosures. It will speak freely, and act so too; and take nothing ill where no ill is meant; nay, where it is, ’twill easily forgive, and forget too, upon small Acknowledgments. ~ William Penn
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * All in all is all we are. ~ Kurt Cobain (born 20 February 1967)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * We picked up everything we could get our hands on. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug-collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can. The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. ~ Hunter S. Thompson (died 20 February 2005)
 * proposed by Sir John Alexander Macdonald

 * 2007
 * If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. ~ Frederick Douglass
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what a people will submit to, and you have found out the exact amount of injustice and wrong which will be imposed upon them; and these will continue till they are resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are prescribed by the endurance of those whom they oppress. Men may not get all they pay for in this world; but they must pay for all they get. ~ Frederick Douglass (died February 20, 1895; born February 1817/1818, birthdate unknown)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * No man can put a chain about the ankle of his fellow man without at last finding the other end fastened about his own neck. ~ Frederick Douglass
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2010
 * Our world is in profound danger. Mankind must establish a set of positive values with which to secure its own survival. This quest for enlightenment must begin now. It is essential that all men and women become aware of what they are, why they are here on Earth and what they must do to preserve civilization before it is too late. ~ Richard Matheson (born 20 February 1926)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * I will, in the name of humanity which is outraged, in the name of liberty which is fettered, in the name of the constitution and the Bible, which are disregarded and trampled upon, dare to call in question and to denounce, with all the emphasis I can command, everything that serves to perpetuate slavery — the great sin and shame of America! "I will not equivocate; I will not excuse;" I will use the severest language I can command; and yet not one word shall escape me that any man, whose judgement is not blinded by prejudice, or who is not at heart a slaveholder, shall not confess to be right and just. ~ Frederick Douglass
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * The most important thing we can do is inspire young minds and to advance the kind of science, math and technology education that will help youngsters take us to the next phase of space travel. ~ John Glenn (50th Anniversary of first American orbitting Earth, 20 February 1962) John Glenn Friendship 7 Day
 * proposed by bystander

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Illegitimate Barrister

 * 2017

 * proposed by Illegitimate Barrister

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by allixpeeke

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
He's the one Who likes all the pretty songs And he likes to sing along And he likes to shoot his gun But he knows not what it means. ~ Kurt Cobain ~ (born 20 February 1967)
 * 3 Kalki 01:23, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 (leaning toward 1) allixpeeke (talk) 01:41, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

There he goes, One of God's Own Prototypes; a High-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live and too rare to die. ~ Hunter S. Thompson

 * 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 20:23, 6 February 2010 (UTC)
 * 3 allixpeeke (talk) 01:41, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

The old baggage, old roles of authority, who's the teacher, who's the father, gets in the way of who we really are to each other. ~  What Dreams May Come ~ based on the work of Richard Matheson
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:20, 14 February 2012 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 allixpeeke (talk) 01:41, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

What some folks call impossible, is just stuff they haven't seen before. ~  What Dreams May Come ~ based on the work of Richard Matheson
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:20, 14 February 2012 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 allixpeeke (talk) 01:41, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Thought is real. Physical is the illusion. Ironic, huh? ~  What Dreams May Come ~ based on the work of Richard Matheson
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:20, 14 February 2012 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 allixpeeke (talk) 01:41, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Sometimes, when you lose, you win. ~  What Dreams May Come ~ based on the work of Richard Matheson
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:20, 14 February 2012 (UTC)
 * 2 allixpeeke (talk) 01:41, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

What's true in our minds is true, whether some people know it or not. ~  What Dreams May Come ~ based on the work of Richard Matheson
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:20, 14 February 2012 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 allixpeeke (talk) 01:41, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

I want to save you if I can. When I was first given the job of spying on you, I had no feelings about your life. … But now it’s different. I know now that you were just as much forced into your situation as we were forced into ours. We are infected. But you already know that. What you don’t understand yet is that we’re going to stay alive. We’ve found a way to do that and we’re going to set up society again slowly but surely. ~ Richard Matheson
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:20, 14 February 2012 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

X — This day when it had light mother called me a retch. You retch she said. I saw in her eyes the anger. I wonder what it is a retch. ~ Richard Matheson
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:20, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

According to legend, they were invisible in mirrors, but he knew that was untrue. As untrue as the belief that they transformed themselves into bats. That was a superstition that logic, plus observation had easily disposed of. ‘It was equally foolish to believe that they could transform themselves into wolves. Without a doubt there were vampire dogs; he had seen and heard them outside his house at night. But they were only dogs. ~ Richard Matheson
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:20, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

The world’s gone mad, he thought. The dead walk about and I think nothing of it. The return of corpses has become trivial in import. How quickly one accepts the incredible if only one sees it. ~ Richard Matheson
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:20, 14 February 2012 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 allixpeeke (talk) 01:41, 23 August 2014 (UTC)

Sometimes he had indulged in daydreams about finding someone. More often, though, he had tried to adjust to what he sincerely believed was the inevitable — that he was actually the only one left in the world. At least in as much of the world as he could ever hope to know. ~ Richard Matheson
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:20, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

The man of my dreams has almost faded now. The one I have created in my mind. The sort of man each woman dreams of, in the deepest and most secret reaches of her heart. I can almost see him now before me. What would I say to him if he were really here? "Forgive me. I have never known this feeling. I have lived without it all my life. Is it any wonder, then, I failed to recognize you? You, who brought it to me for the first time. Is there any way I can tell you how my life have changed? Any way at all to let you know what sweetness you have given me? There is so much to say... I cannot find the words. Except for these: I love you." Such would I say to him if he were really here. ~ "Elise McKenna" in Somewhere in Time by Richard Matheson
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:20, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

I have a question for you, sir. Is time travel possible? ~ Richard Matheson in Somewhere in Time
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:20, 14 February 2012 (UTC)

At this point I have a request for our fans. If any of you in any way hate homosexuals, people of different color, or women, please do this one favor for us - leave us the #### alone! Don't come to our shows and don't buy our records. ~ Kurt Cobain

Note: Cobain was born on 20 February 1967. This quote was included in the liner notes to Incesticide. Sources: Pages 1–2, pages 3–4. See also this.

 * 4 allixpeeke (talk) 01:24, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:26, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

Rape is one of the most terrible crimes on earth. And it happens every few minutes. ~ Kurt Cobain

Note: Cobain was born on 20 February 1967. This quote was included on page 18 of Journals.

 * 3 allixpeeke (talk) 01:24, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:26, 19 February 2015 (UTC)

I would like to get rid of the homophobes, sexists, and racists in our audience. I know they're out there and it really bothers me. ~ Kurt Cobain

Note: Cobain was born on 20 February 1967.

 * 3 allixpeeke (talk) 01:24, 23 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:26, 19 February 2015 (UTC)
 * 2.5. Nice message, but not very unique, though. – Illegitimate Barrister, 21:24, 19 February 2016 (UTC)

 * 3.25. – Illegitimate Barrister 19:16, 4 August 2015 (UTC).

 * 3. – Illegitimate Barrister, 13:39, 13 September 2015 (UTC)

 * 3. – Illegitimate Barrister, 03:53, 3 February 2016 (UTC)

Note 56th anniversary of Friendship 7 Mission

 * proposed by Just A Regular New Yorker
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:13, 20 February 2018 (UTC) with perhaps a lean toward 3, but not this year.

title: February 20


text:
March 20

March 20 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Where there is great love there are always miracles. ~ Willa Cather
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Everything comes gradually and at its appointed hour. ~ Ovid (born 20 March 43 BC)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * The spirit of truth and the spirit of freedom — these are the pillars of society. ~ Henrik Ibsen (born 20 March 1828)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * It is not only what we have inherited from our fathers and mothers that exists again in us, but all sorts of old dead ideas and all kinds of old dead beliefs and things of that kind. They are not actually alive in us; but there they are dormant, all the same, and we can never be rid of them. Whenever I take up a newspaper and read it, I fancy I see ghosts creeping between the lines. There must be ghosts all over the world. They must be as countless as the grains of the sands, it seems to me. And we are so miserably afraid of the light, all of us. ~ Henrik Ibsen (born 20 March 1828)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * If we have learned one thing from the history of invention and discovery, it is that, in the long run — and often in the short one — the most daring prophecies seem laughably conservative. ~ Arthur C. Clarke (recent death)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2009
 * What is all that men have done and thought over thousands of years, compared with one moment of love. But in all Nature, too, it is what is nearest to perfection, what is most divinely beautiful! There all stairs lead from the threshold of life. From there we come, to there we go. ~ Friedrich Hölderlin
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm. ~ Henrik Ibsen
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * When we dead awaken. … We see that we have never lived. ~ Henrik Ibsen
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * I knew the Spring was come. I knew it even Better than all by this, that through my chase In bush and stone and hill and sea and heaven I seem'd to see and follow still your face. Your face my quarry was. For it I rode, My horse a thing of wings, myself a god. ~ Wilfrid Scawen Blunt ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2014

 * proposed by DanielTom

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki in regard to his recent death.

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki for the March Equinox of 2018.

 * 2019

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2020

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki; in regard to the first full day of Spring in the northern hemisphere of Earth.

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
You see, the point is that the strongest man in the world is he who stands most alone. ~ Henrik Ibsen
 * 3 because strength is heightened ten-fold by serenity, devoid of human obsessions and needs. Zarbon 05:33, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 UDScott 20:31, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 10:07, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:27, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 allixpeeke (talk) 21:30, 22 August 2014 (UTC) (Perhaps it can be said that the strongest human in the world is she or he who has the fortitude to stand alone, but that wouldn't mean ipso facto that she or he does does stand alone is the strongest human in the world.)

Nothing is stronger than habit. ~ Ovid
 * 3 because those governed by habit will become accustomed to it and the harder it will become to separate oneself from it. Zarbon 05:41, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 UDScott 20:31, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 10:07, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:27, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 (leaning toward 2) allixpeeke (talk) 21:30, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are. ~ Ovid
 * 3 because convenience is a very powerful ally. To decipher motives based on convenience and to conceive of opportunities solely based on belief when needed, is how people become successful...it takes more than being at the right place at the right time. Zarbon 05:41, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 UDScott 20:31, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 10:07, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:27, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 allixpeeke (talk) 21:30, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Time, the devourer of all things. ~ Ovid
 * 3 because the description of time here is solid, a personification of the very word, characterizing time as a learner of man's history, and a devourer who has never subsided or been subdued. Zarbon 05:41, 2 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 UDScott 20:31, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 10:07, 13 March 2009 (UTC), but I would prefer to include the original Latin as well: Tempus edax rerum
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:27, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Allixpeeke (talk) 21:30, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

You need a reason to be sad. You don't need a reason to be happy. ~ Louis Sachar
 * 2 Zarbon 14:58, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 10:07, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:27, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 allixpeeke (talk) 21:30, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Yet still are you holy to me, as the might of the earth That bore you away, audaciously perishing! And I would follow the hero into the depths Did love not hold me. ~ Friedrich Hölderlin
 * 3 Zarbon 14:58, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 10:07, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:27, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

What is the wisdom of a book compared with the wisdom of an angel? ~ Friedrich Hölderlin
 * 2 Zarbon 14:58, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 10:07, 13 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:27, 19 March 2009 (UTC)

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless. ~ B. F. Skinner
 * 2 Zarbon 14:58, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 10:07, 13 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:27, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 allixpeeke (talk) 21:30, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. ~ B. F. Skinner
 * 2 Zarbon 14:58, 11 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 10:07, 13 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:27, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 16:20, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
 * 1 allixpeeke (talk) 21:30, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

''Tho' Doubt's beleaguering forces hem us in, Yet Truth upon the Serpent's head shall trample. The cause of Love shall win — Yes, Love shall win!'' ~ Henrik Ibsen ~
 * 3 Kalki 15:26, 19 March 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:27, 19 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:15, 20 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 (leaning toward 2) allixpeeke (talk) 21:30, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

The gods have their own rules. ~ Ovid
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 04:40, 16 March 2012 (UTC)
 * 2 Allixpeeke (talk) 21:30, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

It is the mind that makes the man, and our vigour is in our immortal soul. ~ Ovid
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 04:40, 16 March 2012 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 (leaning toward 1) allixpeeke (talk) 21:30, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these. ~ Ovid
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 04:40, 16 March 2012 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 Allixpeeke (talk) 21:30, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

The mind, conscious of rectitude, laughed to scorn the falsehood of report. ~ Ovid
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 04:40, 16 March 2012 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

He who possesses liberty otherwise than as an aspiration possesses it soulless, dead. One of the qualities of liberty is that, as long as it is being striven after, it goes on expanding. ~ Henrik Ibsen
 * 3 bystander (talk) 16:20, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 16:36, 18 March 2012 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 allixpeeke (talk) 21:30, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

The great secret of power is never to will to do more than you can accomplish. The great secret of action and victory is to be capable of living your life without ideals. Such is the sum of the whole world's wisdom. ~ Henrik Ibsen
 * 3 bystander (talk) 16:20, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 16:36, 18 March 2012 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 (leaning toward 2) allixpeeke (talk) 21:30, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians. ~ Henrik Ibsen
 * 2 bystander (talk) 16:20, 18 March 2012 (UTC) I have no strong desire to see this used, but I find it humorous.
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 16:36, 18 March 2012 (UTC) with a slight lean toward 4 (of course not agreeing with the suggestion literally, but accepting it as ironically humorous).
 * 2 allixpeeke (talk) 21:30, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement. ~ B. F. Skinner
 * 3 bystander (talk) 16:20, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 16:36, 18 March 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 allixpeeke (talk) 21:30, 22 August 2014 (UTC)

[Note: 20 March 2003 was the day the Iraq War began. This quote is from an article about the Iraq War. Source of quote.]

 * 4 allixpeeke (talk) 21:30, 22 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 3. A bit long. – Illegitimate Barrister 09:14, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

[Note: 20 March 2003 was the day the Iraq War began. This quote is from an article about the Iraq War. Source of quote.]

 * 3 allixpeeke (talk) 21:30, 22 August 2014 (UTC).
 * 2.75. A bit political. It'd be better if the quote were "The dead are dead, and they can't come back. They won't dance at any inaugural ball, or even attend their alumni reunions. They won't attend presidential banquets, or even eat at the local coffee shop. Not ever again." That way, it'd be more general. – Illegitimate Barrister 09:02, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

 * 3. March 20 was when the U.S. Republican Party was founded. – Illegitimate Barrister 09:02, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

 * 2.75. March 20 was when the U.S. Republican Party was founded. – Illegitimate Barrister 09:08, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

 * 3. March 20 was when the U.S. Republican Party was founded. – Illegitimate Barrister 09:12, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

 * 2.75. March 20 was when the U.S. Republican Party was founded. – Illegitimate Barrister 11:29, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

 * 2.75. March 20 was when the U.S. Republican Party was founded. – Illegitimate Barrister 11:29, 5 August 2015 (UTC)

 * 2.75. March 20 was when the U.S. Republican Party was founded. – Illegitimate Barrister 21:07, 6 August 2015 (UTC)

 * 3. --ᘙ (talk) 11:41, 29 December 2021 (UTC)

title: March 20


text:
April 20

April 20 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. ~ Elbert Hubbard
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope, John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me, a simple and humble worker in the Lord's vineyard. The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers. ~ Pope Benedict XVI (recent papal election)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~ Dinah Craik (born 20 April 1826)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * It may often be noticed, the less virtuous people are, the more they shrink away from the slightest whiff of the odour of un-sanctity. The good are ever the most charitable, the pure are the most brave. ~ Dinah Craik
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things. … Things must happen when it is time for them to happen. Quests may not simply be abandoned; prophecies may not be left to rot like unpicked fruit; unicorns may go unrescued for a very long time, but not forever. The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story. ~ Peter S. Beagle in The Last Unicorn
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Let every one of us cultivate, in every word that issues from our mouth, absolute truth. I say cultivate, because to very few people — as may be noticed of most young children — does truth, this rigid, literal veracity, come by nature. To many, even who love it and prize it dearly in others, it comes only after the self-control, watchfulness, and bitter experience of years. ~ Dinah Craik
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Schmendrick stepped out into the open and said a few words. They were short words, undistinguished either by melody or harshness, and Schmendrick himself could not hear them for the Red Bull's dreadful bawling. But he knew what they meant, and he knew exactly how to say them, and he knew that he could say them again when he wanted to, in the same way or in a different way. Now he spoke them gently and with joy, and as did so he felt his immortality fall from him like an armour, or like a shroud. ~ Peter S. Beagle in The Last Unicorn
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Society, in the aggregate, is no fool. It is astonishing what an amount of "eccentricity" it will stand from anybody who takes the bull by the horns, too fearless or too indifferent to think of consequences. ~ Dinah Craik
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * Awakener, come! Fling wide the gate of an eternal year, The April of that glad new heavens and earth Which shall grow out of these, as spring-tide grows Slow out of winter's breast. Let Thy wide hand Gather us all — with none left out (O God! Leave Thou out none!) from the east and from the west. Loose Thou our burdens: heal our sicknesses; Give us one heart, one tongue, one faith, one love. In Thy great Oneness made complete and strong — To do Thy work throughout the happy world — Thy world, All-merciful, Thy perfect world. ~ Dinah Craik ~
 * 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, in regard to 420 (cannabis culture).

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki; a bit over fourscore years ago, HItler began his invasion of Poland with these quite false declarations of noble and peaceful dispositions and intentions — in such ways as have many parallels with other aggressive dictators throughout the ages, unto the present times.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:
 * The god of war has gone over to the other side. ~ Adolf Hitler
 * used 30 April 2010, proposed by Zarbon

Suggestions
If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower. ~ Adolf Hitler (born April 20)
 * 3 Zarbon 06:12, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 17:13, 19 April 2008 (UTC) The statements and innumerable hypocrisies of Hitler are not such things as if find to be great material for qoute of the day.

Life never forgives weaknesses. ~ Adolf Hitler (born April 20)
 * 3 Zarbon 06:12, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 17:13, 19 April 2008 (UTC) I might have some desire to use this eventually, but no strong desire to use anything by Hitler for quote of the day.

The rebels are not the despicable rabble too many have supposed them to be. … In all their wars against the French they never showed such conduct, attention, and perseverance as they do now. ~ General Thomas Gage, on the Siege of Boston, which began on 20 April 1776
 * 3 Kalki 20:48, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:58, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

My people are in the world again. No sorrow will live in my heart as long as that joy — save one, and I thank you for that, too. ~ Peter S. Beagle in The Last Unicorn
 * 2 Kalki 00:58, 18 April 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3 or an eventual 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 15:21, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

The Unicorn Sonata … tells us that our true home is often right around the corner, if we'd only open our eyes — and our ears — to find it. ~ Peter S. Beagle
 * 3 Kalki 00:58, 18 April 2009 (UTC) with lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 15:21, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 05:33, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 05:33, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 05:33, 17 April 2013 (UTC)

title: April 20


text:
May 20

May 20 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker. ~ Mikhail Bakunin
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. ~ John Stuart Mill (born 20 May 1806)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Love is like some fresh spring, first a stream and then a river, changing its aspect and its nature as it flows to plunge itself in some boundless ocean, where restricted natures only find monotony, but where great souls are engulfed in endless contemplation. ~ Honoré de Balzac (born 20 May 1799)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * The prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore the irresistible proofs that by far the greater part of those differences, whether between individuals, races, or sexes, are such as not only might but naturally would be produced by differences in circumstances, is one of the chief hindrances to the rational treatment of great social questions, and one of the greatest stumbling blocks to human improvement. ~ John Stuart Mill
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error. ~ John Stuart Mill
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth. ~ John Stuart Mill
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2010
 * The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise, or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating with him, or reasoning with him, or persuading him or entreating him, but not for compelling him, or visiting him with any evil, in case he do otherwise. ~ John Stuart Mill
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2011
 * Kindness is not without its rocks ahead. People are apt to put it down to an easy temper and seldom recognize it as the secret striving of a generous nature; whilst, on the other hand, the ill-natured get credit for all the evil they refrain from. ~ Honoré de Balzac
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2012
 * proposed by InvisibleSun
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2013

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2014
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2018

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2019

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2020

 * proposed by dibbydib

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think. ~ John Stuart Mill
 * used on 1 March 2004. selected by Kalki

Suggestions
There is something great and terrible about suicide. ~ Honoré de Balzac
 * 3 because in death comes the terror and the tragedy, but in accepting and approaching the demise comes a grandeur of sort. The moments can be described as terrible and great all at the same time. It's one of the major reasons why I love many of the characters I love, because their demise, whether in suicide or homicide, is made magnificently brilliant, a concoction of emotion and sheer bitter power expressed through final moments. Zarbon 00:03, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 06:19, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 00:18, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Without context, it is meaningless and even sounds offensive POV. As a widow of suicidal dead husband, I feel quite disgusted. --Aphaia 10:40, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

We have no solution, you shall continue to live like dogs, and whoever wishes may leave, and we will see where this process leads. ~ Moshe Dayan (born May 20)
 * 3 because the truth is sometimes the best remedy. Zarbon 04:56, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 See the discussion page for Dayan about this continually disputed quote. It was moved from Attributed to Sourced by an editor in March 2008. It will likely be moved, deleted and restored many more times. Even without its doubtful verification, I wouldn't be inclined to vote for it. InvisibleSun 06:19, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Source: Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel, and the Palestinians - Page 561 - Noam Chomsky - Political Science - 1999
 * Comment: Now it is sourced so you can repeat your vote. Zarbon 21:37, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
 * This, however, is the very source that's endlessly disputed; see the discussion page on Dayan for the reasons. Even if there were more of an agreement on the source, I would end up giving it a 1. InvisibleSun 02:21, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

 * 1 Kalki 00:18, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Aphaia 10:40, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

I know of nothing more exciting than war. ~ Moshe Dayan

OR

War is the most exciting and dramatic thing in life. In fighting to the death you feel terribly relaxed when you manage to come through. ~ Moshe Dayan
 * 2 and I agree with Dayan here. The amount of excitement is unparalleled, regardless of all the horrid pain and suffering, it is true that war is never ever dull. Zarbon 04:56, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 This is an Unsourced quote. InvisibleSun 06:19, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
 * SOURCE: The Book of Military Quotations - Peter G. Tsouras - Reference - 2005 - Page 477
 * Comment: Now it is sourced so you can repeat your vote. Zarbon 21:37, 18 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Then it's a 2 for the second version. InvisibleSun 02:21, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

 * 1 Kalki 00:18, 19 May 2008 (UTC)

title: May 20


text:
July 20

July 20 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * I found one day in school a boy of medium size ill-treating a smaller boy. I expostulated, but he replied: 'The bigs hit me, so I hit the babies; that's fair.' In these words he epitomized the history of the human race. ~ Education and the Social Order by Bertrand Russell
 * selected by Gaurav

 * 2004
 * We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility. ~ Rabindranath Tagore
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * That's one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind. ~ Neil Armstrong on first stepping onto the surface of the moon, 20th July 1969.
 * proposed by MosheZadka

 * 2006
 * You don’t have to be a fantastic hero to do certain things — to compete. You can be just an ordinary chap, sufficiently motivated. ~ Edmund Hillary (born 20 July 1919)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things. ~ Edmund Hillary (this attribution may be erroneous)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Sameness is the mother of disgust, variety the cure. ~ Petrarch
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * Houston: Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed. ~ Neil Armstrong (first words of a human on the moon)
 * proposed by 121a0012

 * 2010
 * Hitherto your eyes have been darkened and you have looked too much, yes, far too much, upon the things of earth. If these so much delight you what shall be your rapture when you lift your gaze to things eternal! ~ Petrarch
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Books have led some to learning and others to madness, when they swallow more than they can digest. ~ Petrarch
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by JessRek6

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions

 * Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr.; July 20, 1933)
 * Thomas Friedman (born Thomas Lauren Friedman; July 20, 1953)
 * Carlos Santana (born Carlos Humberto Santana Barragán; July 20, 1947)
 * Frantz Fanon (born Frantz Omar Fanon; July 20, 1925)

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together. ~ Petrarch
 * 3 Zarbon 19:16, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 22:22, 19 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:08, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 13:05, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

A good death does honor to a whole life. ~ Petrarch
 * 4 Zarbon 19:16, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:40, 16 July 2014 (UTC) 2 Kalki 22:22, 19 July 2008 (UTC) this is true, but there are more important things to note than something which can be misconstrued as a glorification of honored deaths rather than honorable lives.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:08, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 13:05, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

It is better to will the good than to know the truth. ~ Petrarch
 * 3 Zarbon 19:16, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:22, 19 July 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:08, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 13:05, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations. ~ Richard Owen

 * 2 Zarbon 05:08, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 20:07, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:08, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 13:05, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Manifold subsequent experience has led to a truer appreciation and a more moderate estimate of the importance of the dependence of one living being upon another. ~ Richard Owen

 * 1 Zarbon 05:08, 3 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 20:07, 14 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:08, 19 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 13:05, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

[L]ife itself sends its own stories across billions of years. It's a message that every one of us carries inside, inscribed in all the cells of our bodies, in a language that all life on Earth can read. ~ In commemoration of the 20 July 1822 birth of Gregor Mendel, from the eleventh episode of the science documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014).
 * 4 Pithy Francoln (talk) 22:04, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 09:00, 18 July 2017 (UTC) with a lean toward 2, but would probably prefer an actual quote by Mendel, rather than a quote about the subject of genetic heredity which he pioneered.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 09:00, 18 July 2017 (UTC)

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