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March 26

March 26 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. ~ Aldous Huxley
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Something there is that doesn’t love a wall, that wants it down. ~ Robert Frost (born 26 March 1874)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * He acts without contact, instructs without meeting, guides without pointing. Desires do not conflict with Him, thoughts do not mingle with Him: His essence is without qualification, His action without effort. ~ Mansur al-Hallaj (died 26 March 922)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear. It is an immensely exciting experience to be born in the world, born in the universe, and look around you and realise that before you die you have the opportunity of understanding an immense amount about that world and about that universe and about life and about why we're here. We have the opportunity of understanding far, far more than any of our predecessors ever. That is such an exciting possibility, it would be such a shame to blow it and end your life not having understood what there is to understand. ~ Richard Dawkins (born 26 March 1941)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * People say that what we're all seeking is a meaning for life. I don't think that's what we're really seeking. I think what we're seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonance within our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive. That's what it's all finally about. ~ Joseph Campbell (born 26 March 1904)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. ~ Robert Frost ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * I have kept hidden in the instep arch Of an old cedar at the waterside A broken drinking goblet like the Grail Under a spell so the wrong ones can't find it, So can't get saved, as Saint Mark says they mustn't. (I stole the goblet from the children's playhouse.) Here are your waters and your watering place. Drink and be whole again beyond confusion. ~ Robert Frost ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * In the Name of Allah the Merciful, the Compassionate, Who manifests Himself through everything, the revelation of a clear knowing to whomsoever He wishes, peace be upon you, my son. This praise belongs to Allah Who manifests Himself on the head of a pin to whom He wishes, so that one testifies that He is not, and another testifies that there is none other than He. But the witnessing in the denying of Him is not rejected, and the witnessing in the affirming of Him is not praised. ~ Mansur Al-Hallaj
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion. ~ Tennessee Williams
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2013

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2014

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2019

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2020

 * proposed by DanielTom

 * 2021

 * proposed by DanielTom

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks to US Troops regarding their deployment in Poland and the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

 * 2023

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2024

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
If Man exalt himself, I humble him,

If he humble himself, I exalt him;

And I always contradict him,

Until he understands

That he is an incomprehensible monster.

Blaise Pascal (Born June 19 1623) proposed by Pluke 00:01, 2 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 due to lack of connection to this particular day. - InvisibleSun 08:29, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 03:11, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:37, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

But men at whiles are sober And think by fits and starts, And if they think, they fasten Their hands upon their hearts. ~ A. E. Housman (born March 26, 1859)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 08:29, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 03:11, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:37, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out … and perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure. ~ A. E. Housman
 * 3 InvisibleSun 08:29, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 03:11, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:37, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Wind goes from farm to farm in wave on wave, But carries no cry of what is hoped to be. There may be little or much beyond the grave, But the strong are saying nothing until they see. ~ Robert Frost
 * 3 InvisibleSun 08:29, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 03:11, 27 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:37, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I have tricks in my pocket, I have things up my sleeve. But I am the opposite of a stage magician. He gives you illusion that has the appearance of truth. I give you truth in the pleasant disguise of illusion. ~ Tennessee Williams (born March 26, 1911)
 * 3 Zarbon (talk) 22:51, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

A lion wants to eat an antelope's body, but the antelope has very different plans for its body. This is not normally regarded as competition for a resource, but logically it is hard to see why not. ~ Richard Dawkins (born March 26, 1941)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 08:29, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 01:14, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 because it makes a lot of sense. Zarbon 04:37, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

If you have a faith, it is statistically overwhelmingly likely that it is the same faith as your parents and grandparents had. No doubt soaring cathedrals, stirring music, moving stories and parables, help a bit. But by far the most important variable determining your religion is the accident of birth. The convictions that you so passionately believe would have been a completely different, and largely contradictory, set of convictions, if only you had happened to be born in a different place. Epidemiology, not evidence. ~ Richard Dawkins
 * 3 InvisibleSun 08:29, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 01:14, 23 March 2009 (UTC) * 3 Kalki 03:11, 27 March 2007 (UTC) This is true even if one's "faith" is in atheistic assumptions based on materialistic ideas about reality and the life processes, and "moving stories and parables" that equate all religious faiths with mere ignorance and superstition, fraud and delusion, and all modern scientific faiths with clear "common sense" materialistic observations. I am speaking as someone who has examined the worth and absurdities of many religious and scientific traditions and am appalled at the fallacious presumptions inherent in most. There is certainly need for far greater humility and compassion among nearly all people, whatever traditions they embrace or reject, whether they be defined as scientific, religious, or political.
 * 1 Zarbon 04:37, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. ~ Richard Dawkins
 * 3 InvisibleSun 08:29, 25 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 01:14, 23 March 2009 (UTC) * 3 Kalki 03:11, 27 March 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 Zarbon 04:37, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 DanielTom (talk) 00:14, 26 March 2017 (UTC) (see )

Scientific beliefs are supported by evidence, and they get results. Myths and faiths are not and do not. ~ Richard Dawkins (date of birth)
 * 4 ~ Jeff Q (talk) 05:02, 13 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 4 because this is strong. It holds truth to destroying myth and faith which has falsely captivated many. Zarbon 04:37, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:11, 17 March 2013 (UTC) 1 Kalki 01:14, 23 March 2009 (UTC) This is hardly historically or scientifically accurate. Scientific beliefs become supported by evidence, and they do get results, if they are in sufficient accord with underlying and all-encompassing aspects of Reality. But so do many myths and faiths, even when they have been deeply flawed and deficient, and the dichotomies between scientific theories and faith in myths are not so absolute as they are made here to falsely seem. Even in the realms of the modern sciences we advance in our ideas from faith to faith and myth to myth, such as the myth of the material atom with orbiting electron particles rather than electron "clouds" determined by the resonance of waveform potentials … from 4 dimensional physics to perhaps 11 dimensional physics... and the ends of all our explorations and ideas of what ultimate "Reality" is in terms of significant forces, dimensions and fundamental substances or energy patterns are hardly in sight. ~ Kalki 01:14, 23 March 2009 (UTC) + tweak
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:42, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

I saw my Lord with the eye of the heart. I asked: Who art Thou? He answered: Thou. ~ Mansur Al-Hallaj ~
 * 3 Kalki 01:14, 23 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 03:35, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:42, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

''I’d like to get away from earth awhile And then come back to it and begin over. May no fate willfully misunderstand me And half grant what I wish and snatch me away Not to return. Earth’s the right place for love: I don’t know where it’s likely to go better.'' ~ Robert Frost ~
 * 3 Kalki 01:14, 23 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 03:35, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:42, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

Slaying the dragon of delay is no sport for the short-winded. ~ Sandra Day O'Connor
 * 3 Zarbon 04:02, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 05:35, 24 March 2009 (UTC)

The stately ship is seen no more, The fragile skiff attains the shore; And while the great and wise decay, And all their trophies pass away, Some sudden thought, some careless rhyme, Still floats above the wrecks of Time. ~ William Edward Hartpole Lecky
 * 3 Zarbon 04:02, 23 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 05:35, 24 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:42, 25 March 2009 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 03:29, 3 October 2014 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon (talk) 22:51, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

They are in you and me; they created us, body and mind; and their preservation is the ultimate rationale for our existence. They have come a long way, those replicators. Now they go by the name of genes, and we are their survival machines. ~ Richard Dawkins
 * 3.5 DanielTom (talk) 00:14, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 3 Zarbon (talk) 22:51, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference. ~ Richard Dawkins
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 00:14, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 3 Zarbon (talk) 22:51, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

Faith is one of the world's great evils, comparable to the smallpox virus but harder to eradicate. ~ Richard Dawkins
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 00:14, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon (talk) 22:51, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. ~ Richard Dawkins
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 00:14, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon (talk) 22:51, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

Oh, but of course the story of Adam and Eve was only ever symbolic, wasn't it? Symbolic?! So Jesus had himself tortured and executed for a symbolic sin by a non-existent individual? Nobody not brought up in the faith could reach any verdict other than "barking mad". ~ Richard Dawkins
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 00:14, 26 March 2017 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon (talk) 22:51, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality. ~ Richard Dawkins
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 00:14, 26 March 2017 (UTC) Or: "The truth has a magic of its own. The truth is more magical – in the best and most exciting sense of the word – than any myth or made-up mystery or miracle. Science has its own magic: the magic of reality."
 * 4 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:47, 25 March 2021 (UTC), * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 01:00, 26 March 2017 (UTC) but with a preference for the second suggestion on the theme. but I am keeping the second suggestion for the future, in extended form of: "Miracles, magic and myths, they can be fun. Everybody likes a good story. Myths are fun, as long as you don't confuse them with the truth. The real truth has a magic of its own. The truth is more magical, in the best and most exciting sense of the word, than any myth or made-up mystery or miracle. Science has its own magic - the magic of reality." and now have used the first suggestion, but extended it to read:
 * The word 'mundane' has come to mean boring and dull, and it really shouldn't. It should mean the opposite because it comes from the latin 'mundus', meaning the world, and the world is anything but dull; the world is wonderful. There's real poetry in the real world. Science is the poetry of reality.

 * 3 Zarbon (talk) 22:51, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:55, 2 April 2019 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon (talk) 22:51, 7 April 2019 (UTC)

title: March 26


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April 26

April 26 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Nothing is better than the unintended humor of reality. ~ Steve Allen
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein (born 26 April 1889)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Search men's governing principles, and consider the wise, what they shun and what they cleave to. ~ Marcus Aurelius (born 26 April 121)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * They say that each generation inherits from those that have gone before; if this were so there would be no limit to man's improvements or to his power of reaching perfection. But he is very far from receiving intact that storehouse of knowledge which the centuries have piled up before him; he may perfect some inventions, but in others, he lags behind the originators, and a great many inventions have been lost entirely. What he gains on the one hand, he loses on the other. ~ Eugène Delacroix (born 26 April 1798)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * I had the good fortune and opportunity to come home and to tell the truth; many soldiers, like Pat Tillman... did not have that opportunity. The truth of war is not always easy. The truth is always more heroic than the hype. ~ Jessica Lynch (born 26 April 1983)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. Our life has no end in just the way in which our visual field has no limits. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2010
 * If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine. ~ Morris West (born 26 April 1916)
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * It costs so much to be a full human being that there are very few who have the enlightenment, or the courage, to pay the price … One has to abandon altogether the search for security, and reach out to the risk of living with both arms. One has to embrace the world like a lover, and yet demand no easy return of love. One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying. ~ Morris West
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012
 * There are, indeed, things that cannot be put into words. They make themselves manifest. They are what is mystical. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2022

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

 * 2023

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

 * 2024

 * proposed by DanielTom

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * What can be said at all can be said clearly. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
 * used 25 August 2003, selected by Nanobug

 * What we cannot speak of we must pass over in silence. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
 * used 6 December 2003, selected by Nanobug

 * Ethics and Aesthetics are one. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
 * used 24 February 2004, selected by Kalki

 * If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; if we begin with doubts, and are patient, we shall end in certainties. ~ Marcus Aurelius
 * used 16 May 2004, selected by Kalki

 * A man should be upright, not kept upright. ~ Marcus Aurelius
 * used 7 August 2004, selected by Kalki

 * The universe is flux, life is opinion. ~ Marcus Aurelius
 * used 16 May 2007, proposed by Aphaia

 * Nothing happens to anybody which he is not fitted by nature to bear. ~ Marcus Aurelius
 * used 16 May 2008, proposed by Aphaia

Suggestions
When you are outraged by somebody's impudence, ask yourself at once, "Can the world exist without impudent people?" It cannot; so do not ask for impossibilities. ~ Marcus Aurelius
 * 3 Kalki 00:22, 26 April 2006 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:43, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 00:16, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Constantly regard the universe as one living being, having one substance and one soul; and observe how all things have reference to one perception, the perception of this one living being; and how all things act with one movement; and how all things are the cooperating causes of all things which exist; observe too the continuous spinning of the thread and the contexture of the web. ~ Marcus Aurelius
 * 3 Kalki 00:22, 26 April 2006 (UTC) (date of birth) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:43, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 00:16, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

I believe it safe to say that all progress must lead, not to further progress, but finally to the negation of progress, a return to the point of departure. ~ Eugène Delacroix (born April 26, 1798)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:43, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 17:10, 25 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 00:16, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

Nature creates unity even in the parts of a whole. ~ Eugène Delacroix
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:43, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 17:10, 25 April 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 00:16, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

 * The following suggestion was originally suggested at May 16 and moved here to match the birthdate of Marcus Aurelius

Whatever is in any way beautiful hath its source of beauty in itself, and is complete in itself; praise forms no part of it. So it is none the worse nor the better for being praised. ~ Marcus Aurelius
 * 3 Aphaia 18:07, 14 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 21:40, 14 May 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4, despite this not being actually related to the date
 * 1 Zarbon 05:20, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Perhaps the Marcus Aurelius quotes should be moved to April 26. - InvisibleSun 21:42, 15 May 2008 (UTC)

There are a few of us — madmen all! — who are in love with knowing, who would sell the last shirt from our backs for one small truth, one tiny star-fire to light up the murk and mystery of what we call our life… We may go blind before we see it, that's the haunting— ~ Morris West
 * 2 Zarbon 23:39, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:09, 24 April 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

The hardest freedom to maintain is the freedom of making mistakes. ~ Morris West
 * 2 Zarbon 23:39, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:09, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

My soul is full of whispered song,— My blindness is my sight; The shadows that I feared so long Are full of life and light. ~ Alice Cary
 * 3 Zarbon 23:39, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:09, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Take, O boatman, thrice thy fee,— Take, I give it willingly; For, invisible to thee, Spirits twain have crossed with me. ~ Ludwig Uhland
 * 2 Zarbon 23:39, 25 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:09, 24 April 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

An entire mythology is stored within our language. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:09, 24 April 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

People are deeply imbedded in philosophical, i.e., grammatical confusions. And to free them presupposes pulling them out of the immensely manifold connections they are caught up in.. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:09, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Genius is talent exercised with courage. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:09, 24 April 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

At the core of all well-founded belief, lies belief that is unfounded. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:09, 24 April 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:09, 24 April 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Man has to awaken to wonder — and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:09, 24 April 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stood. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:09, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

My aim is: to teach you to pass from a piece of disguised nonsense to something that is patent nonsense.~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:09, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

You get tragedy where the tree, instead of bending, breaks. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:09, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

What has to be accepted, the given, is — so one could say — forms of life. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:09, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Philosophizing is: rejecting false arguments. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:09, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

The difficulty in philosophy is to say no more than we know. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:09, 24 April 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

One can mistrust one's own senses, but not one's own belief. If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:09, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

My propositions are elucidatory in this way: he who understands me finally recognizes them as senseless, when he has climbed out through them, on them, over them. (He must so to speak throw away the ladder, after he has climbed up on it.) ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:09, 24 April 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

It is not how things are in the world that is mystical, but that it exists. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:09, 24 April 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:09, 24 April 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 User:Jedi3 (talk) 13:51, 23 April 2018 (UTC)

Ambition is the death of thought. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:09, 24 April 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

Never stay up on the barren heights of cleverness, but come down into the green valleys of silliness. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:09, 24 April 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 02:29, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Don't for heaven's sake, be afraid of talking nonsense! But you must pay attention to your nonsense. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:09, 24 April 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

Man is the microcosm: I am my world. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:09, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

The way you use the word "God" does not show whom you mean — but, rather, what you mean. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:09, 24 April 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

A miracle must be, as it were, a sacred gesture. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:09, 24 April 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

To believe in a God means to understand the question about the meaning of life. To believe in a God means to see that the facts of the world are not the end of the matter. To believe in God means to see that life has a meaning. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:09, 24 April 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 00:09, 24 April 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way. ~ Marcus Aurelius
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 12:16, 16 December 2016 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:14, 25 April 2017 (UTC)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 02:29, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

Hero and herdsman in red earth are one. ~ John Warren, 3rd Baron de Tabley
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 02:29, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

I had a true-love, none so dear, And a friend both leal and tried. I had a cask of good old beer, And a gallant horse to ride.A little while did Fortune smile  On him and her and me. We sang along the road of life Like birds upon a tree.My lady fell to shame and hell,  And with her took my friend. My cask ran sour, my horse went lame,— So alone in the cold I end. ~ John Warren, 3rd Baron de Tabley
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 02:29, 12 July 2024 (UTC)

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title: April 26


text:
May 26

May 26 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed. ~ Joseph Addison
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * It is a wholesome and necessary thing for us to turn again to the earth and in the contemplation of her beauties to know of wonder and humility. ~ Rachel Carson
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * When you get in situations where you cannot afford to make a mistake, it's very hard to do the right thing. So if you're trying to do the right thing, the right thing might be to eliminate the cost of making a mistake rather than try to guess what's right. ~ Ward Cunningham (born 26 May 1949)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * I'm not a fan of classification. It's very difficult to come up with a classification scheme that's useful when what you're most interested in is things that don't fit in, things that you didn't expect. ~ Ward Cunningham
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Thunder only happens when it's raining. Players only love you when they're playing. Say... Women... they will come and they will go. When the rain washes you clean... you'll know. ~ Stevie Nicks ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * You have so many things in the background that you're supposed to do, there's no room left to think. I say, forget all that and ask yourself, "What's the simplest thing that could possibly work?" ~ Ward Cunningham
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * If there must be resolution and explanation, it must be something worth its weight in mystery. Most times, I'd be content with the mystery. ~ Caitlín R. Kiernan (born 26 May 1964)
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * Over and over, people try to design systems that make tomorrow's work easy. But when tomorrow comes it turns out they didn't quite understand tomorrow's work, and they actually made it harder. ~ Ward Cunningham
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 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; recent remarks on recent tragedies.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Charming to the last. You don't know how hard I found it, signing the order to terminate your life. ~ from Star Wars Grand Moff Tarkin Peter Cushing (born May 26)
 * 3 always strongly loved Tarkin and truly, charming to the last. Zarbon 06:06, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 22:15, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 22:50, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.🗣 18:18, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

Evacuate? In our moment of triumph? I think you overestimate their chances. ~ from Star Wars Grand Moff Tarkin Peter Cushing (born May 26)
 * 3 Zarbon 06:06, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 22:15, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 22:50, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 J.A.R.N.Y.🗣 18:18, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

I've seen so goddamn much — I've seen so much that there's no reasonable excuse for looking away, because there can't be anything left that's more terrible than what has come before. ~ Caitlín R. Kiernan (born May 26)
 * 3 because to admit to witnessing all which the past has to offer is to accept what the future yet holds. Zarbon 05:49, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 22:15, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:50, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.🗣 18:18, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

When you have nothing left to burn, you must set yourself on fire. ~ Dr. Jack Kevorkian (born May 26)
 * 3 because someone who festers and corrupts everything around eventually has no one left to burn but himself, from the built-up anguish and torment that created the heavy burden. This holds a very powerful, enigmatic meaning. Zarbon 22:07, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 22:15, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 J.A.R.N.Y.🗣 18:18, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

First of all, do any of you here think it's a crime to help a suffering human end his agony? ~ Dr. Jack Kevorkian (born May 26)
 * 3 because helping end another's suffering has always been looked at from two different angles, either for it or against it. It brings a very powerful and controversial moral into play. Zarbon 22:07, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Source: FRONTLINE Show #1416 - Air Date: May 14, 1996 on PBS
 * 1 Kalki 22:15, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Yes, yes I do, J.A.R.N.Y.🗣 18:18, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

I failed in securing my options for this choice for myself, but I succeeded in verifying the Dark Age is still with us. ~ Dr. Jack Kevorkian (born May 26)
 * 3 because some fundamental laws are truly flawed in essence, whereas this quote truly brings a moral comparison between the Dark Ages and the governments of today. Zarbon 22:07, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Source: Western Herald - Apr 12, 2004
 * 2 Kalki 22:15, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.🗣 18:18, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

I will admit, like Socrates and Aristotle and Plato and some other philosophers, that there are instances where the death penalty would seem appropriate. ~ Dr. Jack Kevorkian (born May 26)
 * 3 because as the great philosophers themselves had stated, sometimes death is the only way out. Zarbon 22:07, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Source: Years of Minutes - Page 332 - by Andy Rooney - Performing Arts - 2004
 * 1 Kalki 22:15, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 J.A.R.N.Y.🗣 18:18, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing. ~ Dr. Jack Kevorkian (born May 26)
 * 3 because it takes a long time for mankind to understand some things, sometimes hundreds if not thousands of years. But the ability to acknowledge knowing this prior and dying with this knowledge is admirable. Zarbon 22:07, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Source: Between the Dying and the Dead: Dr. Jack Kevorkian's Life and the Battle to Legalize Euthanasia. - Page 247 - by Neal Nicol, Harry Wylie - Biography & Autobiography - 2006
 * 1 Kalki 22:15, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.🗣 18:18, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

You're going to watch a person suffer in agony while somebody's debating? ~ Dr. Jack Kevorkian (born May 26)
 * 3 because sometimes one person's suffering is horrid, even when law finds it alright. Zarbon 22:07, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Source: Physician-assisted Death - Page 100 - by James M. Humber, Robert F. Almeder, Gregg A. Kasting - Psychology - 1994
 * 1 Kalki 22:15, 25 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.🗣 18:18, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

The sword is our steel Bible! ~ Sadao Araki
 * 4 Zarbon 16:56, 24 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 18:17, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:50, 25 May 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.🗣 18:18, 25 May 2018 (UTC)

 * -Anniversary of Immigration Act of 1924

 * 3. This quote is a great example of post World War I American attitudes, and has great historical significance, especially since it is from a President of the United States. J.A.R.N.Y.🗣 18:14, 25 May 2018 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:55, 25 May 2019 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 25 May 2020 (UTC)

 * Youth’s bright palace Is overthrown, With its diamond sceptre And golden throne; As a time-worn stone Its turrets are humbled— All hath crumbled But grief alone! ~ Denis Florence MacCarthy (birthday)
 * 4 Ficaia (talk) 08:28, 3 May 2024 (UTC)

 * Before the dread journey which needs must be taken No man is more mindful than meet is and right To ponder, ere hence he departs, what his spirit Shall, after the death-day, receive as its portion Of good or of evil, by mandate of doom. ~ Bede (deathday)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 09:07, 6 May 2024 (UTC)

title: May 26


text:
July 26

July 26 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Science is the tool of the Western mind, and with it, more doors can be opened than with bare hands. It is part and parcel of our knowledge and obscures our insight only when it holds that the understanding given by it is the only kind there is. ~ Carl Jung (born 26 July 1875)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him. ~ Carl Jung (born 26 July 1875)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature. ~ George Bernard Shaw (born 26 July 1856)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves. ~ Aldous Huxley (born July 26, 1894)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy. ~ Carl Jung
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * I hear you say "Why?" Always "Why?" You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?" ~ George Bernard Shaw
 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 2010
 * We are so captivated by and entangled in our subjective consciousness that we have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions. ~ Carl Jung
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer. ~ George Bernard Shaw (date of birth)
 * 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 InvisibleSun

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:
 * The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human. ~ Aldous Huxley
 * used on 25 March 2004, selected by Kalki

 * The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~ George Bernard Shaw, Maxims for Revolutionists from Man and Superman
 * used on 2 September 2004, selected by Kalki

Suggestions

 * DOB: Gracie Allen · Aldous Huxley · Carl Jung · Stanley Kubrick · Helen Mirren · George Bernard Shaw · Kevin Spacey

Lingvo internacia de la venontaj generacioj estos sole kaj nepre nur lingvo arta. Ludoviko Zamenhof, in honor of Unua Libro being published that day.
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 09:59, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 0 Quotes of the day for en: should be in en unless they are well-known in en literature in their original language (cf. Caesar). 121a0012 15:40, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * 0 Zarbon 14:28, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 Ningauble 14:43, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

We call upon the government of Japan to proclaim now the unconditional surrender of all Japanese armed forces, and to provide proper and adequate assurances of their good faith in such action. The alternative for Japan is prompt and utter destruction." Potsdam Declaration, made this day in 1945 (Text from Wikisource.)
 * 2 121a0012 15:47, Jun 25, 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 17:16, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 14:28, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 Ningauble 14:43, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

An empty taxi arrived at 10 Downing Street, and when the door opened, Attlee got out. ~ Winston Churchill Clement Attlee became British PM on this day
 * 3 AllanHainey June 27, 2005 11:48 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 14:28, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 Ningauble 14:43, 22 July 2009 (UTC) attribution denied

If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean. ~ Aldous Huxley
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:14, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 21:38, 25 July 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 14:28, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Ningauble 14:43, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. ~ Aldous Huxley
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:14, 25 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 21:38, 25 July 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 14:28, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Ningauble 14:43, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself. ~ George Bernard Shaw
 * melonduh :]
 * 2 Zarbon 14:28, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 this has not been sourced to Shaw, and it seems very likely that it is a misattribution. 3 Kalki 22:04, 27 July 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2.5 Ningauble 14:43, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. ~ George Bernard Shaw (date of birth)
 * 2 Zarbon 14:28, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:04, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 14:43, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane. ~ Kevin Spacey
 * 2 Zarbon 19:42, 21 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:04, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1.5 Ningauble 14:43, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

As the rising sun melts thinly frozen ice, so the Japanese Army is overcoming Chinese troops. ~ Shunroku Hata
 * 3 Zarbon 05:31, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 22:04, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 Ningauble 14:43, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

We should not miss the present opportunity or we shall be blamed by posterity. ~ Shunroku Hata
 * 4 Zarbon 05:31, 18 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 22:04, 27 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 Ningauble 14:43, 22 July 2009 (UTC)

Cultivate friendships. If you don’t have time to cultivate all of them, plow under every fifth one and collect your bonus. ~ Gracie Allen
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:00, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Let them call us nonentities. Who cares? A nonenitiy can be just as famous as anybody else if enough people know about him. But let’s leave personalities out of this and just talk about me. ~ Gracie Allen
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:00, 5 May 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

I think there's so much good in the worst of us, and so many of the worst of us get the best of us, that the rest of us aren't even worth talking about. ~ Gracie Allen
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:00, 5 May 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

I was so surprised at being born that I didn't speak for a year and a half. ~ Gracie Allen
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:00, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

As I always say, as long as we have issues, we can’t have everything. ~ Gracie Allen
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:00, 5 May 2010 (UTC)

Never place a period where God has placed a comma. ~ Gracie Allen
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:00, 5 May 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:23, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:23, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:23, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

title: July 26


text:
August 26

August 26 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. ~ Emma by Jane Austen
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity and an understanding of life that fills them with compassions, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen. ~ Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * You think that a wall as solid as the earth separates civilization from barbarism. I tell you the division is a thread, a sheet of glass. A touch here, a push there, and you bring back the reign of Saturn. ~ John Buchan (born 26 August 1875)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * We can pay our debts to the past by putting the future in debt to ourselves. ~ John Buchan, Lord Tweedsmuir
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Our sufferings have taught us that no nation is sufficient unto itself, and that our prosperity depends in the long run, not upon the failure of our neighbors but their successes. ~ John Buchan, 1st Baron Tweedsmuir
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * I doubt if one ever accepts a belief until one urgently needs it. ~ Christopher Isherwood
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * If you can't see God in All, You can't see God at All. ~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * Happiness comes out of contentment, and contentment always comes out of service. ~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile. ~ Mother Teresa
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2014

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2020

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
If those lessons are truly learned, then Columbia's crew will have made an indelible contribution to the endeavor each one valued so greatly. ~ CAIB report volume I, released 26 August 2003
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 07:37, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 ~ lacking context as presented. I might rank an extended version of it higher, but am not really inclined toward it.
 * 1 Zarbon 16:11, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 22:17, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:42, 15 August 2013 (UTC) No context.
 * 1 allixpeeke (talk) 03:36, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

I must honor those who fight of their own free will, he said to himself. And I must try to imitate their courage by following my path as a pacifist, wherever it takes me. ~ Christopher Isherwood
 * 3 InvisibleSun 04:56, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:18, 25 August 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 1 Zarbon 16:11, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:42, 15 August 2013 (UTC) Who is the "he" in "he said to himself"?
 * 2 (leaning toward 3) allixpeeke (talk) 03:36, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Tomorrow always becomes today and yesterday is always gone. ~ Harbhajan Singh Yogi
 * 3 because nothing stays forever. Zarbon 06:08, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 23:58, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 22:17, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:42, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 allixpeeke (talk) 03:36, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come.We have only today. ~ Mother Teresa
 * 2 Zarbon 06:08, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:58, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:17, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:42, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
 * 2 (leaning toward 1) allixpeeke (talk) 03:36, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

The snail lives the way I like to live; he carries his own home with him. ~ Julio Cortázar
 * 2 Zarbon 06:08, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:58, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:17, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2.5 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:42, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 (leaning toward 2) allixpeeke (talk) 03:36, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Note: In the U. S., 26 August is Women's Equality Day.

 * 4 allixpeeke (talk) 03:30, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:48, 25 August 2015 (UTC) I agree with the sentiment, but don’t believe the rather simple expression is all that original to this particular manifestation of it.

Note: In the U. S., 26 August is Women's Equality Day.

 * 3 (leaning toward 4) allixpeeke (talk) 03:30, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:48, 25 August 2015 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

 * 3 (leaning toward 4) allixpeeke (talk) 03:30, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
 * 2 though the previous quote by this person is relevant to this date for the mentioned reason, I do not know that this one is.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:43, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:43, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:43, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:43, 25 August 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 12:05, 2 September 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 12:05, 2 September 2016 (UTC)

"Isn't it extraordinary that the Prime Minister of our country can't even urge his Party to back his own position. Weak! Weak! Weak!" - Tony Blair
 * Proposed by
 * 1, with a lean toward 0 — This does not have any apparent relation to this date, and does not seem a highly noteworthy statement. ~ ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:18, 26 August 2018 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:10, 26 August 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:10, 26 August 2023 (UTC)

title: August 26


text:
September 26

September 26 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * We have a firm commitment to NATO; we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe; we are a part of Europe. ~ Dan Quayle
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another. ~ Jonathan Swift
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed. ~ T. S. Eliot (born 26 September 1888)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. Footfalls echo in the memory Down the passage which we did not take Towards the door we never opened Into the rose-garden. ~ T. S. Eliot in The Four Quartets
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Go, go, go, said the bird: human kind Cannot bear very much reality. Time past and time future What might have been and what has been Point to one end, which is always present. ~ T. S. Eliot in The Four Quartets ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * All is always now. Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Will not stay still. ~ T. S. Eliot in The Four Quartets ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Whatever we inherit from the fortunate We have taken from the defeated What they had to leave us — a symbol: A symbol perfected in death. And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well By the purification of the motive In the ground of our beseeching. ~ T. S. Eliot in The Four Quartets ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement. And do not call it fixity, Where past and future are gathered. Neither movement from nor towards, Neither ascent nor decline. Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance. I can only say, there we have been: but I cannot say where And I cannot say, how long, for that is to place it in time. ~ T. S. Eliot in The Four Quartets ~
 * proposed by Ningauble

 * 2011
 * Quick now, here, now, always — A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flames are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one. ~ T. S. Eliot in The Four Quartets ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki for the date of the first debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, 2016

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by bystander

 * 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…

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

 * We shall not cease from exploration. And at the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. ~ T. S. Eliot in The Four Quartets
 * Used on 3 October 2003, selected by Nanobug

 * Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? ~ T. S. Eliot ~
 * used 15 August 2004, selected by Kalki

 * Men learn little from others' experience. But in the life of one man, never the same time returns. ~ T. S. Eliot, in Murder in the Cathedral
 * used 4 January 2007, proposed by UDScott

Suggestions
All that I can hope to make you understand is only events: not what has happened. And people to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events. ~ T. S. Eliot (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 22:46, 23 September 2005 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:04, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:27, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 16:43, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

Yet if the only form of tradition, of handing down, consisted in following the ways of the immediate generation before us in a blind or timid adherence to its successes, "tradition" should positively be discouraged. We have seen many such simple currents soon lost in the sand; and novelty is better than repetition. Tradition is a matter of much wider significance. It cannot be inherited, and if you want it you must obtain it by great labour. ~ T. S. Eliot
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:04, 25 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 06:11, 25 September 2007 (UTC) but might eventually give it a 3 or a 4, but ONLY if truncated to remove the initial "Yet".
 * 2 Zarbon 23:27, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 16:43, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

If you don't have a hammer, you don't want anything to look like a nail. ~ Robert Kagan
 * 4 Zarbon 04:39, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:45, 25 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 00:19, 26 September 2008 (UTC)

If your enemy is hungry, give him food to eat; And if he is thirsty, give him water to drink; For you will heap burning coals on his head. ~ Proverbs 25:21,22
 * 3 Tab1of2 21:54, 25 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:07, 25 September 2009 (UTC) but this has no clear relation to the date.
 * 2 N6n 16:43, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

We dwell with satisfaction upon the poet's difference from his predecessors, especially his immediate predecessors; we endeavour to find something that can be isolated in order to be enjoyed. Whereas if we approach a poet without this prejudice we shall often find that not only the best, but the most individual parts of his work may be those in which the dead poets, his ancestors, assert their immortality most vigorously. And I do not mean the impressionable period of adolescence, but the period of full maturity. ~ T. S. Eliot ~
 * 3 Kalki 22:07, 25 September 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Desire itself is movement Not in itself desirable; Love is itself unmoving, Only the cause and end of movement, Timeless, and undesiring Except in the aspect of time Caught in the form of limitation Between un-being and being. ~ T. S. Eliot in The Four Quartets ~
 * 3 Kalki 22:07, 25 September 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

''Do not let me hear Of the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly, Their fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession, Of belonging to another, or to others, or to God. The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. ~ T. S. Eliot in The Four Quartets'' ~
 * 3 Kalki 22:07, 25 September 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

Trying to use words, and every attempt Is a wholy new start, and a different kind of failure Because one has only learnt to get the better of words For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which One is no longer disposed to say it. ~ T. S. Eliot in The Four Quartets ~
 * 3 Kalki 22:07, 25 September 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

''Fare forward, you who think that you are voyaging; You are not those who saw the harbour Receding, or those who will disembark. Here between the hither and the farther shore While time is withdrawn, consider the future And the past with an equal mind. ~ T. S. Eliot in The Four Quartets'' ~
 * 3 Kalki 22:07, 25 September 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 N6n 16:43, 9 September 2010 (UTC)

''Let me disclose the gifts reserved for age To set a crown upon your lifetime's effort. First, the cold fricton of expiring sense Without enchantment, offering no promise But bitter tastelessness of shadow fruit As body and soul begin to fall asunder. Second, the conscious impotence of rage At human folly, and the laceration Of laughter at what ceases to amuse. And last, the rending pain of re-enactment Of all that you have done, and been; the shame Of things ill done and done to others' harm Which once you took for exercise of virtue. Then fools' approval stings, and honour stains. From wrong to wrong the exasperated spirit Proceeds, unless restored by that refining fire Where you must move in measure, like a dancer. ~ T. S. Eliot in The Four Quartets'' ~
 * 3 Kalki 22:07, 25 September 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

''We are born with the dead: See, they return, and bring us with them. The moment of the rose and the moment of the yew-tree Are of equal duration. A people without history Is not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern Of timeless moments. ~ T. S. Eliot in The Four Quartets'' ~
 * 3 Kalki 22:07, 25 September 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

''And indeed there will be time To wonder, “Do I dare?” and, “Do I dare?” Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a bald spot in the middle of my hair— ... Do I dare Disturb the universe?'' (Eliot)
 * 3 N6n 16:43, 9 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:17, 25 September 2015 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 03:01, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 03:01, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 03:01, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 03:01, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 03:01, 26 September 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 21:37, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

title: September 26


text:
October 26

October 26 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * I'm not against God. I'm against the misuse of God. ~ Marilyn Manson
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * I know that it will hurt, I know that it will break your heart, the way things are, and the way they've been. Don't spread the discontent, don't spread the lies, don't make the same mistakes with your own life. ~ "Break Your Heart" by Natalie Merchant (born 26 October 1963)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * The youth are not always right, but the society which ignores them and beats, is always wrong. ~ François Mitterrand (born 26 October 1916) on les événements of May 1968.
 * proposed by Fys

 * 2007
 * Contempt loves the silence it thrives in the dark with fine winding tendrils that strangle the heart. ~ Natalie Merchant ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * After bread, education is the first need of the people. ~ Georges Danton (born 26 October 1759)
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements. ~ Napoleon Hill
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * Strategy is a system of expedients; it is more than a mere scholarly discipline. It is the translation of knowledge to practical life, the improvement of the original leading thought in accordance with continually changing situations. ~ Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Do not wait; the time will never be "just right." Start where you stand, and work with whatever tools you may have at your command, and better tools will be found as you go along. ~ Napoleon Hill
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by bystander

 * 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 bystander

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Andrew Wiles gently smiles, Does his thing, and voila! Q.E.D., we agree, And we all shout hurrah! As he confirms what Fermat Jotted down in that margin, Which could've used some enlargin'. ~ Tom Lehrer in That's Mathematics (Fermat's Last Theorem proof published that day)
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 09:43, 8 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:39, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 Wikisaver62 14:31, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:07, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 08:48, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

Who will draw the calvary in risk his very own precious skin to make our Angelinia a free and peaceful land again? ~ Natalie Merchant ~ (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 20:51, 25 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:39, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Wikisaver62 14:31, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:07, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

Labels are for cans, not people. ~ Anthony Rapp
 * 2 Zarbon 04:42, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 Kalki 08:48, 18 October 2009 (UTC) I would rank this highly, but can find no source that would indicate this originates with Rapp. * 3 Kalki 22:33, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 4 Wikisaver62 14:31, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 because it is unsourced. - InvisibleSun 23:07, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 4 Lollipop 12:08, 6 May 2012 (UTC) this is amazing ("Lollipop" is not a registered account name)

No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy. ~ Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
 * 2 Zarbon 04:42, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:33, 16 October 2008 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4, but would correct this from the paraphrase to:
 * No plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force.
 * OR extend it further to:
 * The tactical result of an engagement forms the base for new strategic decisions because victory or defeat in a battle changes the situation to such a degree that no human acumen is able to see beyond the first battle. In this sense one should understand Napoleon's saying: "I have never had a plan of operations." Therefore no plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force.

 * 1 Wikisaver62 14:31, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 because it is unsourced. InvisibleSun 23:07, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * Though the original suggestion was originally unsourced, and seems to be a long used and common paraphrase, the original statement has now been sourced, and is included as part of my rankings, above. ~ Kalki 14:58, 18 October 2009 (UTC)

A competent staff officer should work diligently, accomplish much, remain in the background, and be more than he seems. ~ Helmuth von Moltke the Elder
 * 2 Zarbon 04:42, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 Kalki 08:48, 18 October 2009 (UTC) I can locate no published source for this. * 3 Kalki 22:33, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Wikisaver62 14:31, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 because it is unsourced. InvisibleSun 23:07, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

To talk to others who are unseen and far away is an experience which, before the telephone, occurred only in mythology. Gods, devils, and angels talked from the sky across the world, but not mere mortals. ~ Ithiel de Sola Pool
 * 2 Zarbon 04:42, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:33, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 Wikisaver62 14:31, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 because it is unsourced. - InvisibleSun 23:07, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

What has begun in this evening will not stay for a long time, and because you represent the forces of the world of labour, you, forces of the youth, your victory is inevitable. ~ François Mitterrand
 * 2 Zarbon 04:42, 5 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:33, 16 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Wikisaver62 14:31, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 because it is inadequately sourced. InvisibleSun 23:07, 25 October 2008 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:28, 24 October 2014 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:53, 27 October 2014 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:53, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:53, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:53, 27 October 2014 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:53, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:53, 27 October 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:53, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:53, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:53, 27 October 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:53, 27 October 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:53, 27 October 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 21:53, 27 October 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

When there are no ceilings, the sky's the limit. Hillary Clinton, born this day.
 * Suggested by MurielMary (talk) 09:34, 20 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:25, 25 October 2018 (UTC), with a lean toward 3.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:25, 25 October 2018 (UTC)

title: October 26


text:
November 26

November 26 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * When a person doesn't have gratitude, something is missing in his or her humanity. A person can almost be defined by his or her attitude toward gratitude. ~ Elie Wiesel
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * If I were to be given the opportunity to present a gift to the next generation, it would be the ability for each individual to learn to laugh at himself. ~ Charles M. Schulz (born 26 November 1922)
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2006
 * "Sometimes I lie awake at night and I ask, Why me?" And the voice says, "Nothing personal your name just happened to come up." ~ Charles M. Schulz (born 26 November 1922)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * It is not earthly rank, nor birth, nor nationality, nor religious privilege, which proves that we are members of the family of God; it is love, a love that embraces all humanity. ~ Ellen G. White (born 26 November 1827)
 * proposed by - ARGU E WORDS

 * 2008
 * Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. ~ William Cowper ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * I believe that what separates us all from one another is simply society itself, or, if you like, politics. This is what raises barriers between men, this is what creates misunderstanding. If I may be allowed to express myself paradoxically, I should say that the truest society, the authentic human community, is extra-social — a wider, deeper society, that which is revealed by our common anxieties, our desires, our secret nostalgias. The whole history of the world has been governed by nostalgias and anxieties, which political action does no more than reflect and interpret, very imperfectly. No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can deliver us from the pain of living, from our fear of death, our thirst for the absolute. It is the human condition that directs the social condition, not vice versa. ~ Eugène Ionesco
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * Blind unbelief is sure to err, And scan his work in vain; God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain. ~ William Cowper ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Ideologies separate us. Dreams and anguish bring us together. ~ Eugène Ionesco
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2013

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki, for the US Thanksgiving Day 2015, which was established by Lincoln as a national holiday for the last Thursday in November in 1863.

 * 2016
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki, in regard to the US Thanksgiving Day.

 * 2021

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * God moves in a mysterious way, His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea, And rides upon the storm. ~ William Cowper
 * used 29 August 2004; selected by Kalki

 * Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavour. ~ William Cowper ~
 * used 15 November 2005; proposed by Kalki

Suggestions
You always have a tendency to add. But one must be able to subtract too. It's not enough to integrate, you must also disintegrate. That's the way life is. ~ Eugène Ionesco
 * 3 Zarbon 03:33, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 14:48, 23 November 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 Antiquary 20:56, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:56, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

God is dead. Marx is dead. And I don't feel so well myself. ~ Eugène Ionesco
 * 3 Zarbon 03:33, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 14:48, 23 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Antiquary 20:56, 25 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:56, 25 November 2008 (UTC)

Nature is my friend. Life is my philosopher. History is my guide. ~ Velupillai Prabhakaran
 * 2 Zarbon 04:06, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 14:48, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

Fear is the outcome of weakness, a coward’s friend, an enemy of firmness. Fear of death is the cause of all human fears. One who wins the fear of death wins himself. He is the one who wins the freedom. From his mental prison. ~ Velupillai Prabhakaran
 * 2 Zarbon 04:06, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 14:48, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

My comrades whom I loved as my life, my generals who have been fighting along with me shoulder to shoulder, my fighters whom I fostered for several years, When they fall in the battle field my heart bursts. Yet in that grief I do not languish. All these losses add strength to my will towards my ideal. ~ Velupillai Prabhakaran
 * 4 Zarbon 04:06, 25 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 14:48, 23 November 2008 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:18, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:18, 24 November 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:11, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:11, 26 November 2017 (UTC) with a slight lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:11, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:11, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:11, 26 November 2017 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 25 November 2023 (UTC)

title: November 26


text:
December 26

December 26 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * There isn't anyone anywhere that isn't Seymour's Fat Lady. Don't you know that? Don't you know that goddam secret yet? And don't you know — listen to me, now — don't you know who that Fat Lady really is? . . . Ah, buddy. Ah, buddy. It's Christ Himself. Christ Himself, buddy. ~ J. D. Salinger
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion. ~ Norman Angell (born 26 December 1872)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Let us face squarely the paradox that the world which goes to war is a world, usually, genuinely desiring peace. War is the outcome, not mainly of evil intentions, but on the whole, of good intentions which miscarry or are frustrated. It is made, not usually by evil men knowing themselves to be wrong, but is the outcome of policies pursued by good men usually passionately convinced that they are right. ~ Norman Angell
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * The responsibility of the great states is to serve and not to dominate the world. ~ Harry S. Truman (died 26 December 1972)
 * proposed by Jeff Q

 * 2008
 * Hear from the grave, great Taliessin, hear; They breathe a soul to animate thy clay. Bright Rapture calls, and soaring, as she sings, Waves in the eye of Heav'n her many-colour'd wings. ~ Thomas Gray ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * The obstacles to peace are in the minds and hearts of men. In the study of matter we can be honest, impartial, true. That is why we succeed in dealing with it. But about the things we care for — which are ourselves, our desires and lusts, our patriotisms and hates — we find a harder test of thinking straight and truly. Yet there is the greater need. Only by intellectual rectitude and in that field shall we be saved. There is no refuge but in truth, in human intelligence, in the unconquerable mind of man. ~ Norman Angell
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * To each his suff'rings: all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan, The tender for another's pain; Th' unfeeling for his own. Yet ah! why should they know their fate? Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies. Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. ~ Thomas Gray ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * The force which makes for war does not derive its strength from the interested motives of evil men; it derives its strength from the disinterested motives of good men. ~ Norman Angell
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by DanielTom

 * 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
It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit. ~ Harry S. Truman (Date of death)
 * 3 ~ UDScott 23:09, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 - Mister Six 11:10, 16 December 2005 (UTC)
 * This was already used, as the second Wikiquote quote of the day, on 12 July 2003 ~ Kalki 23:53, 25 December 2005 (UTC) -->

Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible. ~ Norman Angell (date of birth)
 * 2 Kalki 23:32, 25 December 2008 (UTC) * 3 Kalki 23:53, 25 December 2005 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 16:14, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 20:33, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Let not Ambition mock their useful toil, Their homely joys, and destiny obscure; Nor Grandeur hear with a disdainful smile, The short and simple annals of the poor. ~ Thomas Gray (born December 26, 1716)
 * 4 InvisibleSun 16:14, 25 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:32, 25 December 2008 (UTC) * 3 Kalki 18:01, 25 December 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 1 Zarbon 20:33, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun. ~ Mao Zedong (born December 26)
 * 4 and this was brought up on many other dates but it's nice to keep it on his birthday. The other dates were December 16 and September 9. I gave it a 4 in the other occasions as well. Zarbon 06:47, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I would also like to mention that MosheZadka gave this one a 3 on the date of September 9. UDScott, InivisibleSun, and Kalki all gave it a 2 on the date of December 16. Zarbon 16:35, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki (talk · contributions) 18:18, 22 December 2009 (UTC) * 2 Kalki 14:09, 25 December 2008 (UTC) I do appreciate the significance of this quote, but have no strong desire to use it anytime soon.

Politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed. ~ Mao Zedong (born December 26)
 * 3 because this is highly true, both are intertwined and a part of each other. Zarbon 06:47, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * SOURCE: The Logic of Violence in Civil War - Page 38 by Stathis N. Kalyvas - History - 2006
 * 2 Kalki 14:09, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Without an army for the people, there is nothing for the people. ~ Mao Zedong (born December 26)
 * 3 because the army is what maintains and sustains. It is the epitome of power. Zarbon 05:25, 16 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 14:09, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Behind the steps that Misery treads Approaching Comfort view: The hues of bliss more brightly glow Chastised by sabler tints of woe, And blended form, with artful strife, The strength and harmony of life. ~ Thomas Gray ~
 * 3 Kalki 17:21, 25 December 2008 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 23:17, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Sweet is the breath of vernal shower, The bee's collected treasures sweet, Sweet music's melting fall, but sweeter yet The still small voice of gratitude. ~ Thomas Gray ~
 * 3 Kalki 17:21, 25 December 2008 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 23:17, 25 December 2008 (UTC)

Ideas have consequences, and totally erroneous ideas are likely to have destructive consequences. ~ Steve Allen (born 26 December 1921)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:04, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

As soon as an Analytical Engine exists, it will necessarily guide the future course of the science. Whenever any result is sought by its aid, the question will then arise — by what course of calculation can these results be arrived at by the machine in the shortest time? ~ Charles Babbage (born 26 December 1791)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:37, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

In this age, which believes that there is a short-cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way, in the long run, is the easiest. ~ Henry Miller (born 26 December 1891)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:37, 20 December 2012 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 bystander (talk) 23:20, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

The truly great writer does not want to write. He wants the world to be a place in which he can live the life of the imagination. ~ Henry Miller (born 26 December 1891)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:37, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood. ~ Henry Miller (born 26 December 1891)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:37, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble. ~ Henry Miller (born 26 December 1891)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:37, 20 December 2012 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Whatever I do is done out of sheer joy; I drop my fruits like a ripe tree. What the general reader or the critic makes of them is not my concern. ~ Henry Miller (born 26 December 1891)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:37, 20 December 2012 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything. ~ Henry Miller (born 26 December 1891)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:37, 20 December 2012 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy. ~ Henry Miller (born 26 December 1891)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:37, 20 December 2012 (UTC)

The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware. ~ Henry Miller (born 26 December 1891)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:37, 20 December 2012 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

As a historian, I have learned that, in fact, not everyone who reaches back into history can survive it. And it is not only reaching back that endangers us; sometimes history itself reaches inexorably forward for us with its shadowy claws. ~ Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian
 * 3 bystander (talk) 23:20, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:40, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Never before had I known the sudden quiver of understanding that travels from word to brain to heart, the way a new language can move, coil, swim into life under the eyes, the almost savage leap of comprehension, the instantaneous, joyful release of meaning, the way the words shed their printed bodies in a flash of heat and light. ~ Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian
 * 3 bystander (talk) 23:20, 20 December 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:40, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend. ~ Mao Zedong
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 17:13, 11 August 2016 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 18:06, 11 August 2016 (UTC)

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 10:57, 25 December 2017 (UTC)

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

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

title: December 26


text:
January 27

January 27 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us. ~ J. R. R. Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings : The Fellowship of the Ring
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * Remind yourself that all men assert that wisdom is the greatest good, but that there are few who strenuously seek out that greatest good. ~ Pythagoras
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * If you drink much from a bottle marked "poison" it is almost certain to disagree with you, sooner or later. ~ Lewis Carroll (born 27 January 1832)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master — that's all." ~ Lewis Carroll ~
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * "In that direction," the Cat said, waving its right paw round, "lives a Hatter: and in that direction," waving the other paw, "lives a March Hare. Visit either you like: they're both mad." "But I don't want to go among mad people," Alice remarked. "Oh, you can't help that," said the Cat: "we're all mad here. I'm mad. You're mad." "How do you know I'm mad?" said Alice. "You must be," said the Cat, "or you wouldn't have come here." ~ Lewis Carroll in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ~
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it. ~ Lewis Carroll in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2010
 * Twas brillig and the slithy toves, Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son, the jaws that bite and claws that scratch Beware the jubjub bird and shun the frumious bandersnatch." ~ Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * I suppose every child has a world of his own — and every man, too, for the matter of that. I wonder if that's the cause for all the misunderstanding there is in Life? ~ Lewis Carroll
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * I believe it is the duty of each of us to act as if the fate of the world depended on him. Admittedly, one man by himself cannot do the job. However, one man can make a difference... We must live for the future of the human race, and not for our own comfort or success. ~ Hyman G. Rickover
 * 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

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * So many out-of-the-way things had happened lately, that Alice had begun to think that very few things indeed were really impossible. ~ Lewis Carroll in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ~
 * Used 4 July 2012, suggested by Kalki

Suggestions
It is a mistake to think that the practice of my art has become easy to me. I assure you, dear friend, no one has given so much care to the study of composition as I. There is scarcely a famous master in music whose works I have not frequently and diligently studied. ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (born January 27, 1756)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 11:44, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:40, 26 January 2008 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 19:13, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

I never lie down at night without reflecting that — young as I am — I may not live to see another day. Yet no one of all my acquaintances could say that in company I am morose or disgruntled. ~ Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
 * 3 InvisibleSun 11:44, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:40, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 19:13, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.' ~ Lewis Carroll
 * 3 InvisibleSun 11:44, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:40, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 19:13, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

The rule is, jam to-morrow and jam yesterday — but never jam to-day. ~ Lewis Carroll
 * 3 InvisibleSun 11:44, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:40, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 19:13, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

The format of the nightly newscasts is still very much 1981 — "Tremble, onlookers! I am the anchorman and now here is a miracle: a report by satellite from many thousands of miles away. I will return to introduce another one in due course." ~ Keith Olbermann (born January 27, 1959)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 11:44, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:40, 26 January 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 19:13, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

I'm not trying to win a popularity contest. If you're in a public media setting and you're not expressing something of yourself, turn it over to someone who will. Just get out. Just go away and put somebody on who has a point of view, because the most dangerous thing about TV is its equalizing factor, its lowest common denominator factor. And that's what I fight against all the time. ~ Keith Olbermann
 * 3 InvisibleSun 11:44, 26 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:40, 26 January 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 19:13, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world. ~ John Updike (died 27 January 2009)
 * 3 Kalki 22:47, 27 January 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4, but a preference to eventually use it on 18 March, his birthdate.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:52, 27 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 23:51, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone. ~ John Updike (died 27 January 2009)
 * 3 Kalki 22:47, 27 January 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4, but a preference to eventually use it on 18 March, his birthdate.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:52, 27 January 2009 (UTC)

If you are going to sin, sin against God, not the bureaucracy. God will forgive you but the bureaucracy won't. ~ Hyman G. Rickover
 * 2.5 Ningauble 00:24, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:42, 19 January 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

When doing a job — any job — one must feel that he owns it, and act as though he will remain in that job forever. ~ Hyman G. Rickover
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:42, 19 January 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Everything new endangers something old. A new machine replaces human hands; a new source of power threatens old businesses; a new trade route wipes out the supremacy of old ports and brings prosperity to new ones. This is the price that must be paid for progress and it is worth it. ~ Hyman G. Rickover
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:42, 19 January 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 bystander (talk) 23:51, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

All men are by nature conservative but conservatism in the military profession is a source of danger to the country. One must be ready to change his line sharply and suddenly, with no concern for the prejudices and memories of what was yesterday. To rest upon formula is a slumber that, prolonged, means death. ~ Hyman G. Rickover
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:42, 19 January 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

To doubt one's own first principles is the mark of a civilized man. Don't defend past actions; what is right today may be wrong tomorrow. Don't be consistent; consistency is the refuge of fools. ~ Hyman G. Rickover
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:42, 19 January 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Is all our Life, then but a dream Seen faintly in the goldern gleam Athwart Time's dark resistless stream? ~ Lewis Carroll ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:42, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

All in the golden afternoon Full leisurely we glide; For both our oars, with little skill, By little arms are plied, While little hands make vain pretense Our wanderings to guide. ~ Lewis Carroll in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:42, 19 January 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

The Caterpillar and Alice looked at each other for some time in silence: at last the Caterpillar took the hookah out of its mouth, and addressed her in a languid, sleepy voice. 'Who are you?' said the Caterpillar. This was not an encouraging opening for a conversation. Alice replied, rather shyly, 'I — I hardly know, sir, just at present — at least I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then. ~ Lewis Carroll in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:42, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

'Have you guessed the riddle yet?' the Hatter said, turning to Alice again. 'No, I give it up,' Alice replied: 'what's the answer?' 'I haven't the slightest idea,' said the Hatter. 'Nor I,' said the March Hare. Alice sighed wearily. 'I think you might do something better with the time,' she said, 'than waste it in asking riddles that have no answers.' ~ Lewis Carroll in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:42, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

'I've a right to think,' said Alice sharply, for she was beginning to feel a little worried. 'Just about as much right,' said the Duchess, 'as pigs have to fly'. ~ Lewis Carroll in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:42, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

"When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less." "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master— that's all." ~ Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:42, 19 January 2010 (UTC)

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards. ~ Lewis Carroll in Through the Looking-Glass
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:42, 19 January 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

You may seek it with thimbles — and seek it with care; You may hunt it with forks and hope; You may threaten its life with a railway-share; You may charm it with smiles and soap — ("That's exactly the method," the Bellman bold In a hasty parenthesis cried, "That's exactly the way I have always been told That the capture of Snarks should be tried!")  "'But oh, beamish nephew, beware of the day, If your Snark be a Boojum! For then You will softly and suddenly vanish away, And never be met with again!'  ~ Lewis Carroll ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:42, 19 January 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

In the midst of the word he was trying to say, In the midst of his laughter and glee, He had softly and suddenly vanished away — For the Snark was a Boojum, you see. ~ Lewis Carroll ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:42, 19 January 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

We must be the change we wish to see in the world. Mahatma_Gandhi
 * (25 January 2016)

title: January 27


text:
February 27

February 27 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * It must be so humiliating to have such a public break-up. ~ Ellen DeGeneres to Justin Timberlake
 * selected by IP 172.152.255.195

 * 2005
 * The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit — for gallantry in defeat — for courage, compassion and love. In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally-flags of hope and of emulation. I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man, has no dedication nor any membership in literature. ~ John Steinbeck (born 27 February 1902)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Tell me not, in mournful numbers, "Life is but an empty dream!" For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (born 27 February 1807)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time. Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.  Let us, then, be up and doing. With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.  ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Turn, turn, my wheel! All things must change To something new, to something strange; Nothing that is can pause or stay; The moon will wax, the moon will wane, The mist and cloud will turn to rain, The rain to mist and cloud again, To-morrow be to-day. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, — but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in art, in music, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man. ~ John Steinbeck in East of Eden
 * proposed by bystander

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by bystander

 * 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 the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * This I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about. I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for it is the one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost. ~ John Steinbeck
 * used 20 December 2007, proposed by Kalki

 * I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. It might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. ~ John Steinbeck, from "...like captured fireflies" (1955)
 * used 20 December 2008, proposed by UDScott

Suggestions

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:44, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:44, 26 February 2016 (UTC) with a lean toward 4, but likely to hold off a while, because a very similar statement of Steinbeck was used in 2017.

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:44, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:44, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:44, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 08:44, 26 February 2016 (UTC)

title: February 27