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April 1

April 1 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Years ago my mother used to say to me... "In this world, Elwood, you must be oh-so-smart, or oh-so-pleasant." Well, for years I was smart — I recommend pleasant. You may quote me. ~ Jimmy Stewart as Elwood P. Dowd in the film Harvey
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * When you want to fool the world, tell the truth. ~ Otto von Bismarck (born 1 April 1815, and All Fools Day)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year. ~ Mark Twain (All Fool's Day/April Fools' Day)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Fools rush in where Angels fear to tread. ~ Alexander Pope
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * What is unique about the "I" hides itself exactly in what is unimaginable about a person. All we are able to imagine is what makes everyone like everyone else, what people have in common. The individual "I" is what differs from the common stock, that is, what cannot be guessed at or calculated, what must be unveiled, uncovered, conquered. ~ Milan Kundera (born 1 April 1929)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * Very many maintain that all we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown; nor do philosophers pin their faith to others' precepts in such wise that they lose their liberty, and cease to give credence to the conclusions of their proper senses. Neither do they swear such fealty to their mistress Antiquity that they openly, and in sight of all, deny and desert their friend Truth. ~ William Harvey (born 1 April 1578)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2010
 * To joke in the face of danger is the supreme politeness, a delicate refusal to cast oneself as a tragic hero. ~ Edmond Rostand
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2011
 * I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail. ~ Abraham Maslow
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012:
 * They treat me like a fox, a cunning fellow of the first rank. But the truth is that with a gentleman I am always a gentleman and a half, and when I have to deal with a pirate, I try to be a pirate and a half. ~ Otto von Bismarck
 * 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 for this All Fool's Day Easter Sunday.

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2021

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2022

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me. All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet. ~ Wangari Maathai
 * used 11 October 2004, selected by Kalki

Suggestions
Were I, who to my Cost already am One of those strange, prodigious Creatures Man, A Spirit free, to choose for my own Share, What sort of Flesh and Blood I pleas’d to wear, I’d be a Dog, a Monkey, or a Bear, Or any thing, but that vain Animal, Who is so proud of being Rational. ~ John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester (born April 1, 1647)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 08:36, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 20:28, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:08, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Whilst the misguided Follower climbs with Pain, Mountains of Whimsies, heapt in his own Brain, Stumbling from Thought to Thought, falls headlong down Into Doubt’s boundless Sea, where like to drown, Books bear him up a-while, and make him try To swim with Bladders of Philosophy. ~ John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
 * 3 InvisibleSun 08:36, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 20:28, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 23:08, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

For Wits are treated just like Common Whores; First they're enjoy'd, and then kickt out of Doors. ~ John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
 * 3 InvisibleSun 08:36, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:08, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

The light that radiates from the great novels time can never dim, for human existence is perpetually being forgotten by man and thus the novelists' discoveries, however old they may be, will never cease to astonish. ~ Milan Kundera
 * 3 InvisibleSun 08:36, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 20:28, 31 March 2007 (UTC) I have a strong tendency to prefer strong links to "All Fool's Day" on this date, but lean toward a 4 for this one despite this.
 * 1 Zarbon 23:08, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 20:56, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

The past is full of life, eager to irritate us, provoke and insult us, tempt us to destroy or repaint it. The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past. They are fighting for access to the laboratories where photographs are retouched and biographies and histories rewritten. ~ Milan Kundera
 * 3 InvisibleSun 08:36, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 20:28, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 23:08, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 20:56, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

It is a good world to live in, To lend, or to spend, or to give in; But to beg or to borrow, or to get a man's own, It is the very worst world that ever was known. ~ John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester ~
 * 3 Kalki 20:28, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:06, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:08, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Great Negative, how vainly would the Wise Enquire, define, distinguish, teach, devise, Didst thou not stand to point their dull Philosophies? Is, or is not, the Two great Ends of Fate, And, true or false, the Subject of Debate, That perfect, or destroy, the vast Designs of Fate. ~ John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester ~
 * 3 Kalki 20:28, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:06, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:08, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Man differs more from Man, than Man from Beast. ~ John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester
 * 3 Kalki 20:28, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:06, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 because this is one of my alltime favorites. The man and beast comparison is an excellent one, one of sheer brilliance. Zarbon 23:08, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 4 Waylon111 (talk) 16:55, 24 January 2024 (UTC)

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches. ~ Milan Kundera
 * 3 Kalki 20:28, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:06, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 23:08, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Is not an event in fact more significant and noteworthy the greater the number of fortuities necessary to bring it about? ~ Milan Kundera
 * 3 Kalki 20:28, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:06, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:08, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Chance and chance alone has a message for us... Only chance can speak to us. ~ Milan Kundera
 * 3 Kalki 20:28, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:06, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:08, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Love is our freedom. ~ Milan Kundera
 * 3 Kalki 20:28, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:06, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:08, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

I avow myself the partisan of truth alone. ~ William Harvey
 * 3 Kalki 20:33, 31 March 2007 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:06, 31 March 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:08, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

I've been to Sugartown/I shook the Sugar down/Now I'm trying to get to heaven before they close the door. ~ Bob Dylan

 * 0 Zarbon 23:10, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:14, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 0. What is the relevance to this date? - InvisibleSun 20:21, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Not by speeches and votes of the majority, are the great questions of the time decided — but by iron and blood. ~ Otto von Bismarck
 * 3 Zarbon 13:44, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:14, 22 February 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3, but an ellipsis should be used rather than a dash.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:21, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

The wolf cannot help it that he was created by God the way he is, but one shoots him yet, if one can. ~ Otto von Bismarck
 * 3 Zarbon 13:44, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:14, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:21, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

A conquering army on the border will not be stopped by eloquence. ~ Otto von Bismarck
 * 3 Zarbon 13:44, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:14, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:21, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Better pointed bullets than pointed speeches. ~ Otto von Bismarck
 * 3 and strong lean toward 4. Zarbon 13:44, 28 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 17:14, 22 February 2009 (UTC)

As art is a habit with reference to things to be done, so is science a habit in respect to things to be known. ~ William Harvey
 * 3 Kalki 17:14, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 19:31, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:21, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Politics is not an exact science. ~ Otto von Bismarck
 * 3 Kalki 01:04, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:08, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:21, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to be ultimately at peace with himself. What a man can be, he must be. ~ Abraham Maslow
 * 3 Kalki 01:29, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 05:08, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:21, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Education is learning to grow, learning what to grow toward, learning what is good and bad, learning what is desirable and undesirable, learning what to choose and what not to choose. ~ Abraham Maslow
 * 3 Kalki 01:29, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:08, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:21, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 20:56, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

I am fated to journey hand in hand with my strange heroes and to survey the surging immensity of life, to survey it through the laughter that all can see and through the tears unseen and unknown by anyone. ~ Nikolai Gogol
 * 3 Kalki 01:29, 29 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 05:08, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:21, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 20:56, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Come on, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever? ~ Daniel Daly
 * 2 Kalki 02:02, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 0 Zarbon 05:08, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1. Frederick II of Prussia had already said something quite similar. - InvisibleSun 20:21, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

What I look for in a friend is someone who's different from me. The more different the person is, the more I'll learn from him. The more he'll come up with surprising takes on ideas and things and situations. ~ Samuel R. Delany
 * 3 Kalki 02:02, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Zarbon 05:08, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:21, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 20:56, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Words mean things. When you put them together they speak. Yes, sometimes they flatten out and nothing they say is real, and that is one kind of magic. But sometimes a vision will rip up from them and shriek and clank wings clear as the sweat smudge on the paper under your thumb. And that is another kind. ~ Samuel R. Delany
 * 3 Kalki 02:02, 29 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 05:08, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:21, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 20:56, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Business is globalizing so fast that it has led to the often quoted ‘clash of civilizations’. People simply have not had time to get to know and understand people of other cultures sufficiently to live and work in harmony. ~ Begum Aga Khan
 * 3 Kalki 02:02, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:08, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:21, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

What say you? It is useless? Ay, I know But who fights ever hoping for success? I fought for lost cause, and for fruitless quest! You there, who are you! — You are thousands! Ah! I know you now, old enemies of mine! Falsehood! Have at you! Ha! and Compromise! Prejudice, Treachery! … Surrender, I? Parley? No, never! You too, Folly, — you? I know that you will lay me low at last; Let be! Yet I fall fighting, fighting still! ~ Edmond Rostand
 * 3 Kalki 02:02, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 05:08, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:21, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

You strip from me the laurel and the rose! Take all! Despite you there is yet one thing I hold against you all, and when, tonight, I enter Christ's fair courts, and, lowly bowed, Sweep with doffed casque the heavens' threshold blue, One thing is left, that, void of stain or smutch, I bear away despite you ... My panache. ~ Edmond Rostand
 * 3 Kalki 02:02, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:08, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:21, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

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Instinct is the direct connection with truth. ~ Laurette Taylor
 * 3 Kalki 02:02, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:08, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:21, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them. ~ Laurette Taylor
 * 3 Kalki 02:02, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 05:08, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:21, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Twas Beauty that killed the beast! ~ Edgar Wallace
 * 3 Kalki 02:02, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Zarbon 05:08, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:21, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

I present you with a Key. ~ Roger Williams
 * 3 Kalki 02:02, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:08, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 20:21, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 03:23, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

The God of Peace, the God of Truth will shortly seal this truth, and confirm this witness, and make it evident to the whole world, that the doctrine of persecution for cause of conscience, is most evidently and lamentably contrary to the doctrine of Christ Jesus the Prince of Peace. ~ Roger Williams
 * 3 Kalki 02:02, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:08, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:21, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

I have read … the last will and testament of the Lord Jesus over many times, and yet I cannot find by one tittle of that testament that if He had been pleased to have accepted of a temporal crown and government that ever He would have put forth the least finger of temporal or civil power in the matters of His spiritual affairs and Kingdom. ~ Roger Williams
 * 3 Kalki 02:02, 29 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 05:08, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:21, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Enforced uniformity confounds civil and religious liberty and denies the principles of Christianity and civility. No man shall be required to worship or maintain a worship against his will. ~ Roger Williams
 * 3 Kalki 02:02, 29 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 05:08, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:21, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 20:56, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

Only the foolish learn from experience - the wise learn from the experience of others. ~ Rolf Hochhuth
 * 3 Zarbon 05:08, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 06:05, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:21, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry. ~ Nikolai Gogol
 * 3 Zarbon 05:08, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 06:05, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:21, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

We have a special responsibility to the ecosystem of this planet. In making sure that other species survive we will be ensuring the survival of our own. ~ Wangari Maathai
 * 2 Zarbon 05:08, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 06:05, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 20:56, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

All of us have a God in us, and that God is the spirit that unites all life, everything that is on this planet. It must be this voice that is telling me to do something, and I am sure it's the same voice that is speaking to everybody on this planet — at least everybody who seems to be concerned about the fate of the world, the fate of this planet. ~ Wangari Maathai
 * 2 Zarbon 05:08, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 06:05, 31 March 2009 (UTC) Though part of this was already used.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:21, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

The people are starving. They need food; they need medicine; they need education. They do not need a skyscraper to house the ruling party and a 24-hour TV station. ~ Wangari Maathai
 * 2 Zarbon 05:08, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 06:05, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:21, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

Until you dig a hole, you plant a tree, you water it and make it survive, you haven't done a thing. You are just talking. ~ Wangari Maathai
 * 2 Zarbon 05:08, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 06:05, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:21, 31 March 2009 (UTC)

I'm trying to be a professional singer. … I've never been given the chance before. But here's hoping it'll change. ~ Susan Boyle (born 1 April 1961)
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 10:32, 29 November 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4 (alternatively, this could be used on 11 April — as the anniversary of her famous appearance on Britain's Got Talent)

Exchange information, learn to speak sensibly about any subject, learn to express your thoughts, accept new ones, examine them, analyze. Think objectively. Think toward the future. ~ Anne McCaffrey, The White Dragon (dob)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 20:56, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

There's something wrong in not appreciating one's own special abilities, my girl. Find your own limitations, yes, but don't limit yourself with false modesty. ~ Anne McCaffrey, Dragonsinger
 * 3 bystander (talk) 20:56, 31 March 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:06, 1 December 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 13:19, 1 April 2016 (UTC) with a lean toward 4, for ALL Fool's Day.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 13:19, 1 April 2016 (UTC) with a lean toward 4, for ALL Fool's Day.

 * 2 --ΞΔΞ (talk) 14:37, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
 * 3 Lisa (talk) 20:26, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

 * 3 --ΞΔΞ (talk) 14:37, 7 April 2019 (UTC)
 * 2 Lisa (talk) 20:26, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

 * 3 Lisa (talk) 20:26, 30 March 2021 (UTC)

 * proposed by MurielMary (talk) 21:26, 30 March 2023 (UTC)

title: April 1


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May 1

May 1 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit; for like as herbs and trees bring forth fruit and flourish in May, in likewise every lusty heart that is in any manner a lover, springeth and flourisheth in lusty deeds. For it giveth unto all lovers courage, that lusty month of May. ~ Sir Thomas Malory
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * "DON'T PANIC" ~ Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * I react pragmatically. Where the market works, I'm for that. Where the government is necessary, I'm for that. I'm deeply suspicious of somebody who says, "I'm in favor of privatization," or, "I'm deeply in favor of public ownership." I'm in favor of whatever works in the particular case. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith (recent death)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes that there is no virtue but on his own side, and that there are not men as honest as himself who may differ from him in political principles. ~ Joseph Addison (born 1 May 1672)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul. ~ Joseph Addison
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2009
 * When an angel by divine command With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o'er pale Britannia past, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast; And, pleas'd th' Almighty's orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm. ~ Joseph Addison ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * Nature does nothing without purpose or uselessly. ~ Joseph Addison
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * I shall endeavor to enliven morality with wit, and to temper wit with morality. ~ Joseph Addison
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012
 * Since once again, O Lord, in the steppes of Asia, I have no bread, no wine, no altar, I will raise myself above those symbols to the pure majesty of reality, and I will offer to you, I, your priest, upon the altar of the entire earth, the labor and the suffering of the world. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
 * proposed by N6n

 * 2013

 * proposed by DanielTom

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2016

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki for Beltane/May Day 2018

 * 2019

 * proposed by Lyle

 * 2020

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2021

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2022

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

 * 2023

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2024

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * The day will come when, after harnessing space, the winds, the tides, gravitation, we shall harness for God the energies of love. And, on that day, for the second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
 * used 15 December 2003, selected by Kalki

 * Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. ~ Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
 * used 18 June 2008, proposed on that date as the anniversary of the Battle of Waterloo (18 June 1815) by Kalki

 * The history of a battle, is not unlike the history of a ball. Some individuals may recollect all the little events of which the great result is the battle won or lost, but no individual can recollect the order in which, or the exact moment at which, they occurred, which makes all the difference as to their value or importance. ~ Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
 * used 18 June 2009, proposed on that date by Kalki

Suggestions
A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men. ~ Joseph Addison Anonymous
 * 3 Kalki 14:00, 30 April 2007 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4. but this seems to be an anonymous proverb, and thus not attributed to Addison.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 18:22, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Aphaia 19:24, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 04:50, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world. ~ Joseph Addison
 * 3 Kalki 14:00, 30 April 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 18:22, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Aphaia 19:24, 30 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:50, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

On you, my lord, with anxious fear I wait, And from your judgment must expect my fate. ~ Joseph Addison (born May 1, 1672)
 * 3 because as the main agenda of Greek philosophy has always been, one can not escape from one's own fate, especially when one does not know one's own fate to begin with. Beautiful. Zarbon 15:08, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:03, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 20:38, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Arguments out of a pretty mouth are unanswerable. ~ Joseph Addison (born May 1, 1672)
 * 2 because sometimes it is truly hard to reply to a woman of sheer beauty. Zarbon 15:08, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:03, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 20:38, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

Better to die ten thousand deaths, Than wound my honour. ~ Joseph Addison (born May 1, 1672)
 * 4 because dying is nothing compared to destroying or tainting one's honor, and moreso reputation. Zarbon 15:08, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:03, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 20:38, 30 April 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3 — but this can be interpreted with both noble and ignoble senses of the word "honour"

How beautiful is death, when earn'd by virtue! Who would not be that youth? What pity is it That we can die but once to serve our country! ~ Joseph Addison (born May 1, 1672)
 * 3 because true virtue and loyalty comes from service to one's country. Zarbon 15:08, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:03, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 20:38, 30 April 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, Because it is our duty. ~ Joseph Addison (born May 1, 1672)
 * 3 because this is very true. It is a gift in itself to do one's duty, and rightly so. Zarbon 15:08, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:03, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 20:38, 30 April 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me. ~ Joseph Addison (born May 1, 1672)
 * 3 because in some instances, everything flashes before one's eyes, life and death alike, before the end. The comparison of bane and suffering to that of life and the antidote expressed in the form of death is also magnificent. Zarbon 15:08, 28 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:03, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 20:38, 30 April 2009 (UTC) but could use more context.

My heart is broken by the terrible loss I have sustained in my old friends and companions and my poor soldiers. Believe me, nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. ~ Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
 * 3 and lean toward 4. Zarbon 22:55, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:02, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:53, 30 April 2009 (UTC) I would rank this higher, but the last part of it was already used, on 18 June 2008

I believe I forgot to tell you I was made a Duke. ~ Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
 * 2 Zarbon 22:55, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:02, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:53, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

There is no mistake; there has been no mistake; and there shall be no mistake. ~ Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington
 * 3 and lean toward 4. Zarbon 22:55, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:02, 30 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:53, 30 April 2009 (UTC)

The only wisdom I think I've attained is the wisdom to be skeptical of other people's ideology and other people's arguments. I tend to be a skeptic, I don't like dogmatic approaches by anybody. I don't like intolerance and a dogmatic person is intolerant of other people. It's one of the reasons I keep a distance from all religious beliefs. ~ Joseph Heller
 * 3 bystander (talk) 05:03, 1 May 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 05:36, 1 May 2013 (UTC)

Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault. The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them. ~ Joseph Heller
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 06:15, 1 May 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

"Reason conquers all." (Ratio omnia vincit.) ~ Marcus Manilius
 * 3 (May 1 will be 2014's National Day of Reason.) DanielTom (talk) 11:47, 7 January 2014 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 12:12, 7 January 2014 (UTC) but with slight lean toward 2 — Reason is valuable — but reliances upon one's own impressions in its name is often just as blinding as those in name of passion. To see beyond names and passions often requires more than the shallowest forms of reason — which all too often people believe suffices.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 01:33, 1 May 2017 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth. ~ Lucy Parsons
 * proposed by DoSazunielle (talk) 11:11, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

 * We cannot help but believe that were every law, every title deed, every court, and every police officer or soldier abolished tomorrow with one sweep, we would be better off than now. ~ Lucy Parsons
 * proposed by DoSazunielle (talk) 11:11, 21 April 2021 (UTC)

Capitalism without competition isn’t capitalism; it’s exploitation. ~ Joe Biden
 * proposed by Ilovemydoodle (talk) 00:06, 8 May 2022 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 01:02, 25 June 2022 (UTC)

 * Traverse not the globe for lore! The sternest But the surest teacher is the heart; Studying that and that alone, thou learnest Best and soonest whence and what thou art. ...Moor, Chinese, Egyptian, Russian, Roman, Tread one common down-hill path of doom; Everywhere the names are man and woman, Everywhere the old sad sins find room.Evil angels tempt us in all places. What but sands or snows hath earth to give? Dream not, friend, of deserts and oases; But look inwards, and begin to live. ~ James Clarence Mangan (dob)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 14:32, 6 June 2024 (UTC)

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June 1

June 1 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * In properly organized groups no faith is required; what is required is simply a little trust and even that only for a little while, for the sooner a man begins to verify all he hears the better it is for him. ~ G. I. Gurdjieff
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * I want to walk through life instead of being dragged through it. ~ Alanis Morissette (born 1 June 1974)
 * This was the last quotation that was selected from the Quote of the Day proposals page, prior to setting up the current system of ranking quotes to be used for each day of the year. It was first proposed on that page on 8 August 2004 by IP 24.167.93.227 ~ Kalki

 * 2006
 * Surprise becomes effective when we suddenly face the enemy at one point with far more troops than he expected. This type of numerical superiority is quite distinct from numerical superiority in general: it is the most powerful medium in the art of war. ~ Carl von Clausewitz (born 1 June 1780)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Strength of character does not consist solely in having powerful feelings, but in maintaining one’s balance in spite of them. Even with the violence of emotion, judgment and principle must still function like a ship’s compass, which records the slightest variations however rough the sea. ~ Carl von Clausewitz
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2008
 * There are times when the utmost daring is the height of wisdom. ~ Carl von Clausewitz
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * If the mind is to emerge unscathed from this relentless struggle with the unforeseen, two qualities are indispensable: first, an intellect that, even in the darkest hour, retains some glimmerings of the inner light which leads to truth; and second, the courage to follow this faint light wherever it may lead. ~ Carl von Clausewitz
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * There is a legend about a bird that sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. Dying, it rises above its own agony to out-carol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world stills to listen, and God in His heaven smiles. For the best is only bought at the cost of the great pain. … Or so says the legend. ~ Colleen McCullough
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * With uncertainty in one scale, courage and self-confidence should be thrown into the other to correct the balance. The greater they are, the greater the margin that can be left for accidents. ~ Carl von Clausewitz
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2013

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2014
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
DOB: Carl von Clausewitz · Charlene (singer) · William Sloane Coffin · Morgan Freeman · Andy Griffith · Heidi Klum · Colleen McCullough · Marilyn Monroe · Geminiano Montanari · Alanis Morissette · Charles Kay Ogden · Kip Thorne · Events: Anne Boleyn crowned Queen of England 1533

... the side that feels the lesser urge for peace will naturally get the better bargain. ~ Carl von Clausewitz
 * 4 because those who are far from heavy sympathy and peacefulness are those who end up obtaining most of the power, and hence, "the better bargain". Zarbon 17:06, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 01:08, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:14, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 4 Ficaia (talk) 19:06, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

Where execution is dominant, as it is in the individual events of a war whether great or small, then intellectual factors are reduced to a minimum. ~ Carl von Clausewitz
 * 3 because execution is the final judgment, but alas, a weaker form of proving a point where intellect fails. Zarbon 17:06, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 01:08, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:14, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

...it intuitively seems correct that the brain is just some sort of computer—it just seems natural. … But it has undermined almost all of our work to build intelligent machines and understand thinking. It's just wrong … the brain isn't like a computer at all. ~ Jeff Hawkins (born June 1)
 * 2 because the functions of the brain and its capacity in similarity to the workings of a computer have been compared often. Zarbon 16:15, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 01:08, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:14, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

I never have hurt any person any other way except with this unruly member, my tongue. ~ Brigham Young (born June 1)
 * 2 because words are a weapon. Zarbon 16:15, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 01:08, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:14, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Never let a day so pass that you will have cause to say, "I will live better tomorrow." ~ Brigham Young
 * 3 because the desired tomorrow may never come. Zarbon 16:15, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 14:00, 30 May 2012 (UTC) 3 Kalki 01:08, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:14, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

I want to live perfectly above the law, and make it my servant instead of my master. ~ Brigham Young
 * 2 I think what Young is trying to say here is that making the law one's servant is the same as serving the law...which is actually corresponding with law. To master the law, would actually be going against it...nice way of putting it, a little confusing, but nice nonetheless. Zarbon 16:15, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 01:08, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:14, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Any complex activity, if it is to be carried on with any degree of virtuosity, calls for appropriate gifts of intellect and temperament. If they are outstanding and reveal themselves in exceptional achievements, their possessor is called a "genius". ~ Carl von Clausewitz
 * 2 Kalki 20:08, 31 May 2009 (UTC) * 3 Kalki 01:08, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 03:24, 31 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:14, 31 May 2008 (UTC)

Every time I scratch my nails down someone else's back I hope you feel it. ~ Alanis Morissette
 * 2 Kalki (talk · contributions) 01:17, 28 May 2010 (UTC)

 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:38, 1 June 2022 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:42, 31 May 2023 (UTC)

 * The pageant of the river bank had marched steadily along, unfolding itself in scene-pictures that succeeded each other in stately procession. Purple loosestrife arrived early, shaking luxuriant tangled locks along the edge of the mirror whence its own face laughed back at it. Willow-herb, tender and wistful, like a pink sunset cloud, was not slow to follow. Comfrey, the purple hand-in-hand with the white, crept forth to take its place in the line; and at last one morning the diffident and delaying dog-rose stepped delicately on the stage, and one knew, as if string-music had announced it in stately chords that strayed into a gavotte, that June at last was here.
 * Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 19:06, 12 May 2024 (UTC)

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July 1

July 1 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity. ~ Eleanor Roosevelt
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * We tried to break it up from the outside, but that wouldn't work. Now that we're inside we can make a complete pig's breakfast of the whole thing: set the Germans against the French, the French against the Italians, the Italians against the Dutch. The Foreign Office is terribly pleased, it's just like old times. ~ "Sir Humphrey" on European unity, in the comedy series Yes, Minister
 * celebrating the start of the British EU presidency on July 1, 2005
 * proposed by AllanHainey

 * 2006
 * Perhaps in time the so-called Dark Ages will be thought of as including our own. ~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (born 1 July 1742)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * It is almost impossible to bear the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody’s beard. ~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (date of birth)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * We're on a mission from God. ~ Elwood J. Blues, in The Blues Brothers
 * proposed by MosheZadka (one of Dan Aykroyd's most important films; Dan was born on July 1)

 * 2009
 * There are two kinds of truths: those of reasoning and those of fact. The truths of reasoning are necessary and their opposite is impossible; the truths of fact are contingent and their opposites are possible. ~ Gottfried Leibniz (born 1 July 1646)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010 : A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents. ~ Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route. ~ George Sand
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2012
 * proposed by InvisibleSun
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

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

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki; after her recent swearing in as an associate justice of the Supreme Court.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

Suggestions
Music is a hidden arithmetic exercise of the soul, which does not know that it is counting. ~ Gottfried Leibniz (date of birth)
 * 2 Kalki 30 June 2005 21:03 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 Zarbon 04:48, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:28, 30 June 2008 (UTC)

Britain has had the same foreign policy objective for at least the last 500 years: to create a disunited Europe. In that cause we have fought with the Dutch against the Spanish, with the Germans against the French, with the French and Italians against the Germans, and with the French against the Germans and Italians. Divide and rule, you see. Why should we change now when it's worked so well? ~ "Sir Humphrey" in Yes, Minister
 * 1 Zarbon 04:48, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:28, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 00:44, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

As head of a military structure I am responsible for the realization of military issues. If you want to have everlasting peace, you must be ready for war. ~ Seyran Ohanyan (born July 1)
 * 4 because sometimes peace can only be won through war, and better yet, sometimes fire must be fought with fire. Zarbon 04:54, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Source: "Information About Blitzkrieg Is Groundless" Published on April 19, 2006
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:28, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:44, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

It takes as much time and trouble to pull down a falsehood as to build up a truth. ~ Peter Mere Latham
 * 2 Zarbon 06:05, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:28, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:44, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents. ~ Peter Mere Latham
 * 2 Zarbon 06:05, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:28, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:44, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

I don't consider myself a racist, I don't hate other peoples, but I certainly want to preserve my own. And I think that's true of all people. ~ David Duke
 * 3 and I agree with this. I believe that all races should be preserved and kept pure. That is what will always keep them culturally brilliant. This is also a nice way of going against interracial marriage, which I am strongly against. Zarbon 06:19, 20 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 InvisibleSun 21:28, 30 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 Kalki 00:44, 1 July 2008 (UTC) I was briefly going to rank this a 1, as conceivably usable, in some fashion, but there is just no way I'd actually consider it Wikiquote QOTD material, and am simply being honest about that. ~ Kalki 01:04, 1 July 2008 (UTC)

Art is a demonstration of which nature is the proof. ~ George Sand (born July 1, 1804)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 16:32, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 16:45, 30 June 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 18:05, 21 August 2009 (UTC)

All of us who have time and money to spare, travel — that is to say, we flee; since surely it is not so much a question of travelling as of getting away? Which of us has not some sorrow to dull, or some yoke to cast off? ~ George Sand
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:53, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

I have an object, a task, let me say the word, a passion. The profession of writing is a violent and almost indestructible one. ~ George Sand
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:53, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Art for the sake of art itself is an idle sentence. Art for the sake of truth, for the sake of what is beautiful and good — that is the creed I seek. ~ George Sand
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 23:53, 29 June 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

The business of art is to enlarge and correct the heart and to lift our ideals out of the ugly and the mean through love of the ideal … The business of art is to appeal to the soul. ~ Florence Earle Coates (born 1 July 1850)
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:00, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

Maeterlinck says that compared with ordinary truths mystic truths have strange privileges—they can neither age nor die. Beauty is eternal and ugliness, thank God, is ephemeral. Can there be any question as to which should attract the poet? ~ Florence Earle Coates (born 1 July 1850)
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:00, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

They live indeed—the dead by whose example we are upward led. ~ Florence Earle Coates (born 1 July 1850)
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:00, 13 September 2010 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:58, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:58, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:58, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:58, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:58, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:58, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:58, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:58, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:58, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:58, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:58, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:58, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:58, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:58, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:58, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:58, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:58, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:58, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

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 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:58, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:58, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

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User talk:Mr. Satan666

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Fakhruddin 'Iraqi

Fakhr al-dīn Ibrahīm (10 June 1213 – 1289), usually known simply as 'Al-Irāqī or 'Araqi, was a Persian philosopher and mystic of the Islamic tradition. His works synthesize the theoretical and practical elements of Sufi teachings.

Quotes

 * Since we have quaffed the beaker of Thy love, we yield our hearts and make our Lives Thy ransom: since we come again into Thy street, we turn our backs on all that is, save Thee. Our souls are bound to serve Thee, though in grief, and we have died to selfhood! We are captives of Thy love and have not strength to flee. Thy beauty's fever has lit a flame: shall not our hearts be burned?
 * "We Yield Our Hearts" ~ Poetry for the Spirit: Poems of Universal Wisdom and Beauty (2002) Edited by Alan Jacobs

Lama’at (Divine Flashes)

 * La ilaha illa'l-'ishq
 * There is no God but Love.

 * Before this there was one heart but a thousand thoughts Now all is reduced to "There is no God but God."

 * The Morning of Manifestation sighed, the breeze of Grace breathed gently, ripples stirred upon the sea of Generosity. The clouds of Abundance poured down the rain upon the soil of preparedness; so much rain that the earth shone with Light.

 * The magic spring that gives eternal Life, is in your own heart but you have blocked the flow.

 * Beloved, I sought you here and there, asked for news of you from all I met; then saw you through myself and found we were identical. Now I blush to think I ever searched for signs of you.

 * They look, they see, but do not comprehend. They take no pleasure in the View, For to enjoy it one must know through the Truth of Certainty What he is seeing, through Whom, and why.

 * Know yourself: a cloud drifting before your sun. Cut yourself off from your senses and behold your sun of intimacy.

 * By day I praised You but never knew it; by night slept with You without realising; fancying myself to be myself; but no, I was You and never knew it.

 * The Beloved's Loveliness owns a hundred thousand faces; gaze upon a different fair one in every atom; for She needs must show to every separate thing a different aspect of Her beauty.

 * Expressions are many but Thy loveliness is one; Each of us refers to that single Beauty.

Fakhruddin Iraqi: Divine Flashes (1982)

 * As translated by William Chittick, Peter Wilson and Seyyed Hossein Nasr

 * It speaks to me in the silence of this one then through the words of that one speaking; it whispers to me through an eyebrow raised and the message of an eye winking.

 * I am Love: in heaven and earth I have no place; I am the Wondrous Phoenix whose spoor cannot be traced.

 * Like the sun I brighten each atom's cheek; I cannot be pinpointed: I am too manifest. I speak with every tongue, listen with all ears, but marvel at this: My ears and tongue are erased. Since in all the world only I exist above and below, no likeness of me can be found.

 * Love plays its lute behind the screen — where is a lover to listen to its tune?

Listen yourself, for I'm no tattletale!
 * The world has spilled Love's secret — when could music ever hold its tongue? Every atom babbles the mystery —

 * Love the phoenix cannot be trapped nor in heaven or earth can it be named; no one has yet discovered its address: its desert holds not a single footprint.

 * The world but seems to be yet is nothing more than a line drawn between light and shadow. Decipher the message of this dream-script and learn to distinguish time from Eternity.

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Category:Days

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August 1

August 1 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. ~ Aristotle
 * selected by Nanobug

 * 2004
 * Called or uncalled, God is there. ~ Ancient proverb, said to be Spartan, popularized by Carl Jung
 * selected by Kalki This is a translation of the Latin phrase Vocatus atque non vocatus, Deus aderit. which Jung used as an inscription on his house, and also on his tomb. It is also commonly translated as " Called or uncalled, God is present."  or sometimes "Invoked or not invoked...", "Bidden or unbidden", or "Summoned or not summoned..." God is present.

 * 2005
 * From without, no wonderful effect is wrought within ourselves, unless some interior, responding wonder meets it. That the starry vault shall surcharge the heart with all rapturous marvelings, is only because we ourselves are greater miracles, and superber trophies than all the stars in universal space. ~ Herman Melville (born 1 August 1819)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * And now we meet in an abandoned studio We hear the playback and it seems so long ago And you remember the jingles used to go Oh, oh — You were the first one. Oh, oh — You were the last one. Video killed the radio star. ~ The Buggles ~
 * proposed by Jeff Q

 * 2007
 * People ask what are my intentions with my films — my aims. It is a difficult and dangerous question, and I usually give an evasive answer: I try to tell the truth about the human condition, the truth as I see it. ~ Ingmar Bergman (recent death)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * All visible objects, man, are but as pasteboard masks. But in each event — in the living act, the undoubted deed — there, some unknown but still reasoning thing puts forth the mouldings of its features from behind the unreasoning mask. ~ Herman Melville in Moby-Dick (born 1 August 1819)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * In this world of lies, Truth is forced to fly like a sacred white doe in the woodlands; and only by cunning glimpses will she reveal herself, as in Shakespeare and other masters of the great Art of Telling the Truth, — even though it be covertly, and by snatches. ~ Herman Melville
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * It is — or seems to be — a wise sort of thing, to realise that all that happens to a man in this life is only by way of joke, especially his misfortunes, if he have them. And it is also worth bearing in mind, that the joke is passed round pretty liberally & impartially, so that not very many are entitled to fancy that they in particular are getting the worst of it. ~ Herman Melville
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is. ~ Herman Melville, in The Confidence-Man
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

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

 * 2023

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

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:
 * Call me Ishmael. Some years ago — never mind how long precisely — having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world. It is a way I have of driving off the spleen and regulating the circulation. ~ Herman Melville in Moby-Dick
 * used 14 November 2009, proposed by MosheZadka

Suggestions
A man to thrive must keep alive.
 * 0 (no source, no anon, no relevance) ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 04:43, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 0 Zarbon 14:55, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

They took the credit for your second symphony. Rewritten by machine and new technology, and now I understand the problems you can see. ~ The Buggles, "Video Killed the Radio Star"
 * first song played on MTV, (1 August 1981)
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 04:49, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 Jeff Q (talk) 09:47, 17 July 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 14:55, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 00:29, 2 August 2008 (UTC) not as memorable as the chorus of the song, which has already been used.
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:03, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

Genius, all over the world, stands hand in hand, and one shock of recognition runs the whole circle round. ~ Herman Melville (born 1 August 1819)
 * 3 Kalki 23:33, 31 July 2005 (UTC) with a lean toward 4
 * 1 Zarbon 14:55, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:48, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:03, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. ~ Michael Badnarik
 * 3 Zarbon 03:23, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 Kalki 19:22, 1 June 2009 (UTC) because this is apparently a misattribution, at least in terms of authorship. 1 Kalki 11:00, 31 July 2008 (UTC) I would rank this higher, but I don't believe this actually originates with Badnarik.
 * PhR 18:36, 1 June 2009 (UTC)NPOV prevents me from commenting on Badnarik. Check http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Rita_Mae_Brown right here.
 * You seem to assert that this did not originate with Badnarik, which is fairly well evidenced, but you have numerically ranked this high, by our system in which the highest favor is 4, and the lowest is 0. ~ Kalki 19:21, 1 June 2009 (UTC)
 * I didn't mean to rank the quote at all, Kalki, so I just removed the ranking. Hope it's ok. --PhR 00:11, 2 June 2009 (UTC)

Allow me to dispel a myth. People in the Middle East do not hate us for our freedom. They do not hate us for our lifestyle. They hate us because we have spent many years attempting to force them to emulate our lifestyle. ~ Michael Badnarik
 * 2 Zarbon 03:23, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 11:00, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:48, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 2.5 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:03, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

The question is: How bad do things have to get before you will do something about it? Where is your line in the sand? If you don't enforce the constitutional limitations on your government very soon, you are likely to find out what World War III will be like. I'm quite sure that I will never experience that war - because dissidents are always the first to be eliminated. ~ Michael Badnarik
 * 2 Zarbon 03:23, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 11:00, 31 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:48, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 2.5 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:03, 29 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 14:02, 31 July 2016 (UTC)

I am a very peaceful man. I love people and am known for my gregarious personality. However, if you try to confiscate my guns, I will feel compelled to give them to you, one bullet at a time. ~ Michael Badnarik
 * 4 Zarbon 03:23, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 11:00, 31 July 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:48, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 ~ DanielTom (talk) 01:39, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:03, 29 July 2013 (UTC)

 * 4. Anti-slavery quote, explaining the difference between the benefits of free men versus the detriment of slavery. Speaker was born on August 1. Source here. – Illegitimate Barrister 20:21, 4 August 2015 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:23, 31 July 2016 (UTC)

This is how evil thrives. We find an herb that cures disease, and someone will make a poison from it. We forge iron to make a better plow, and someone will make a sharper sword. There can be no power that evil will not corrupt. ~ David Gemmell (dob)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 14:02, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:23, 31 July 2016 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

Never let anger, or outrage, or fear affect you. That is easy advice to give, but hard to follow. Men will bait you, they will laugh at you, they will jeer. But it is just noise… They will hurt the people you love. They will do anything to make you angry or emotional. But the only way you can make them suffer is to win. And to do that you must remain cool. ~ David Gemmell
 * 3 bystander (talk) 14:02, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:23, 31 July 2016 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

It is the curse of absolute power… There is no one to admonish you, no laws save those you make. We like to believe there is something special, even alien, about evil. We like to think that tyrants are different from the rest of us. That they are somehow inhuman. They are not. They are merely unchained, unfettered; free to do as they please. ~ David Gemmell
 * 3 bystander (talk) 14:02, 31 July 2016 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:23, 31 July 2016 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:23, 31 July 2016 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:23, 31 July 2016 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:23, 31 July 2016 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:23, 31 July 2016 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:23, 31 July 2016 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

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September 1

September 1 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * There is no sudden entrance into Heaven. Slow is the ascent by the path of Love. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls. ~ Bruce Fairchild Barton
 * proposed by Kalki, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina

 * 2006
 * I like a huge range of comedy — from broad and farcical, the most sensitive, the most understated — but I always wanted my comedy to be more embracing of the species rather than debasing of it. ~ Lily Tomlin
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves… I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness. ~ Lily Tomlin
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * Deep in the minds of the apes was rooted the conviction that Tarzan was a mighty fighter and a strange creature. Strange because he had had it in his power to kill his enemy, but had allowed him to live — unharmed. ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants thereof. Lev. XXV X ~ Inscription on the Liberty Bell ~ (delivered to Philadelphia on this date in 1752)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * We've traveled halfway 'round the world To find ourselves again — September morn — We danced until the night became a brand new day, Two lovers playing scenes from some romantic play — September morning still can make me feel that way. ~ Neil Diamond ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death. ~ C. J. Cherryh
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012

 * proposed by bystander

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki — in regard to the close approach of the 5 km NEO 3122 Florence, on this date.

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

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

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * We'd all like t'vote fer th'best man, but he's never a candidate. ~ Kin Hubbard
 * used 2 November 2004, selected by Kalki

Suggestions
It is well that war is so terrible — lest we should grow too fond of it. ~ Robert E. Lee
 * Comment: WWII started on Sept. 1
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 13:18, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 ~ Kalki I would prefer to use this on a day more associated with Lee, or the US Civil War rather than another specific war, there I might rank it 3 or 4.
 * 1 but a 3 if used on a more relevant date Zarbon 21:49, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 22:06, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

If I go out of public life with one feeling, with one conviction, it is this: a deep regret for many bitter words I have used in my life, deep sincere repentance for my violence of language. But I hope they will be forgiven me by God and man, because not once in all my life have I attacked anybody unjustly from my point of view, and without believing it was my duty to do so. ~ Henri Bourassa
 * 2 Zarbon 04:37, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:06, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:13, 31 August 2008 (UTC)

DO NOT HARM THE THINGS WHICH ARE TARZAN'S. TARZAN WATCHES. TARZAN OF THE APES. ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs (born 1 September 1875)
 * 3 Kalki 23:13, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 and I like Clayton the hunter. Zarbon 15:26, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

A personification, was Tarzan of the Apes, of the primitive man, the hunter, the warrior. With the noble poise of his handsome head upon those broad shoulders, and the fire of life and intelligence in those fine, clear eyes, he might readily have typified some demigod of a wild and warlike bygone people of his ancient forest. ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:38, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

He progressed very, very slowly, for it was a hard and laborious task which he had set himself without knowing it — a task which might seem to you or me impossible — learning to read without having the slightest knowledge of letters or written language, or the faintest idea that such things existed. He did not accomplish it in a day, or in a week, or in a month, or in a year; but slowly, very slowly, he learned. ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:38, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

His strange life had left him neither morose nor bloodthirsty. That he joyed in killing, and that he killed with a joyous laugh upon his handsome lips betokened no innate cruelty. He killed for food most often, but, being a man, he sometimes killed for pleasure, a thing which no other animal does; for it has remained for man alone among all creatures to kill senselessly and wantonly for the mere pleasure of inflicting suffering and death. And when he killed for revenge, or in self-defense, he did that also without hysteria, for it was a very businesslike proceeding which admitted of no levity. ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:38, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Let all respect Tarzan of the Apes and Kala, his mother. There be none among you as mighty as Tarzan. Let his enemies beware. ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:38, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Only those who saw this terrible god of the jungle died; for was it not true that none left alive in the village had ever seen him? Therefore, those who had died at his hands must have seen him and paid the penalty with their lives. ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:38, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch. ~ Jane Wagner & Lily Tomlin
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:38, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. ~ Jane Wagner & Lily Tomlin
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:38, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. ~ Jane Wagner & Lily Tomlin
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:38, 30 August 2010 (UTC)

Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. ~ Chapman Cohen
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 02:36, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 02:45, 16 January 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:23, 31 August 2018 (UTC)

When you lov’d me, and I lov’d you, Then both of us were born anew. ~ William Cartwright (dramatist)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 02:42, 15 July 2024 (UTC)

title: September 1


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October 1

October 1 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * When you get to a fork in the road, take it. ~ Yogi Berra
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. ~ Jimmy Carter (born 1 October 1924)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * Love and music and happiness and family, that's what it's all about. I believe in these things. It would be awful not to, wouldn't it? ~ Julie Andrews
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer. The story of discoverers could be told in simple chronological order, since the latest science replaces what went before. But the arts are another story — a story of infinite addition. We must find order in the random flexings of the imagination. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2008
 * Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black. ~ Henry Ford (100th anniversary of Ford putting the Model T on the market at a price of US$825)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good. ~ Rufus Choate
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2010
 * Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * THE OCTOBER COUNTRY … that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coalbins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain… ~ Ray Bradbury
 * proposed by Kalki, for the start of the month of October 2011

 * 2012

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on current events.

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
We strive to form a single national front against the Judeo-Masonic lodges, against Moscow and the Marxist societies. ~ Francisco Franco (attained office October 1, 1938)
 * 3 Gleethorpe man 20202 (talk) 22:22, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

While the easiest way in metaphysics is to condemn all metaphysics as nonsense, the easiest way in morals is to elevate the common practice of the community into a moral absolute. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin
 * 3 InvisibleSun 00:41, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:55, 30 September 2007 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 03:44, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:25, 16 August 2013 (UTC) I don't get it.

Since the Creator had made the facts of the after-life inaccessible to man, He must not have required that man understand death in order to live fruitfully. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin
 * 3 InvisibleSun 00:41, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:55, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 03:44, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 It crosses the line and actually assumes that the creator took personal interest in shaping man! I don't like this line crossed. N6n 04:10, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:25, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

A book is the only immortality. ~ Rufus Choate
 * 2 Zarbon 03:54, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:16, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:17, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:25, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
 * 2 DutchOff (talk) 09:40, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

They were afraid of dying but even more afraid to show it. ~ Tim O'Brien
 * 2 Zarbon 03:54, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:16, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:17, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:25, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

They carried the soldier's greatest fear, which was the fear of blushing. Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to. ~ Tim O'Brien
 * 2 Zarbon 03:54, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:16, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:17, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:25, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon. ~ Jimmy Carter
 * 2 Zarbon 03:54, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:16, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:17, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2.5 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:25, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
 * 1 DutchOff (talk) 09:40, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

A Contemplation of What Has Been Created, and Why ''I tried to fathom nature's laws From twirling models and schoolroom sketches Of molecules and parts of atoms, And nearly believed — but then came quarks, Bosons, leptons, antiparticles, Opposite turning mirror images, Some that perforate the earth, Never swerving from their certain paths. I've listened to conflicting views About the grand and lesser worlds: A big bang where it all began; Of curved, ever-expanding space; Perhaps tremendous whirling yo-yos That will someday reach the end Of cosmic gravity and then Fly back to where they can restart Or cataclysmically blow apart — And then, and then the next event. And is that all an accident?'' ~ Jimmy Carter
 * 3 Zarbon 19:18, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:55, 30 September 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:25, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

I never felt that my dedication to military service was a violation of my faith in Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace. ~ Jimmy Carter
 * 3 Zarbon 19:18, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:55, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 0 N6n 04:10, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:25, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
 * 1 DutchOff (talk) 09:40, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

For me personally and for most other Americans, this commitment to peace and diplomacy does not imply a blind or total pacifism. There are times when war is justified, and for many centuries the moral criteria for violence have been carefully delineated. ~ Jimmy Carter
 * 3 Zarbon 19:18, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:55, 30 September 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:25, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 DutchOff (talk) 09:40, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

When combined, the small individual contributors of caring, friendship, forgiveness, and love, each of us different from our next-door neighbors, can form a phalanx, an army, with great capability. ~ Jimmy Carter
 * 2 Zarbon 19:18, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:55, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:25, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth — one for every five-hundred Americans … We have more litigation, but I am not sure that we have more justice. No resources of talent and training in our own society, even including the medical care, is more wastefully or unfairly distributed than legal skills. Ninety percent of our lawyers serve 10 percent of our people. We are over-lawyered and under-represented. ~ Jimmy Carter
 * 3 Kalki 19:55, 30 September 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 13:11, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:25, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 DutchOff (talk) 09:40, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

While the Jeffersonian did not flatly deny the Creator's power to perform miracles, he admired His refusal to do so. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin
 * 3 Kalki 19:55, 30 September 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 13:11, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 04:10, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 2.5 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:25, 16 August 2013 (UTC

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 07:15, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
 * 1 DutchOff (talk) 09:40, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 07:15, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

 * 3 --ΞΔΞ (talk) 05:50, 18 January 2019 (UTC)
 * 3 DutchOff (talk) 09:40, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

 * Since honour from the honourer proceeds, How well do they deserve that memorize And leave in Books, for all posterities The names of worthies and their virtuous deeds: When all their glory else, like water-weeds Without their element, presèntly dies, And all their greatness quite forgotten lies, And when and how they flourished no man heeds! How poor remembrances are statues, tombs, And other monuments that men erect To princes, which remain in closèd rooms Where but a few behold them, in respect Of Books, that to the universal eye Show how they lived; the other where they lie! ~ John Florio (probably died in October)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 18:37, 28 May 2024 (UTC)

title: October 1


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November 1

November 1 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * God is an Iron ~ Spider Robinson
 * selected by Moby (Kalki)

 * 2004
 * The progress of the intellect is to the clearer vision of causes, which neglects surface differences. To the poet, to the philosopher, to the saint, all things are friendly and sacred, all events profitable, all days holy, all men divine. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * I am everything — Tonight I'll be your mother — I will Do such things to ease your pain — Free your mind and you won't feel ashamed. ~ "Damn I Wish I Was Your Lover" by Sophie B. Hawkins (born 1 November 1967)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * The wayfarer, Perceiving the pathway to truth, Was struck with astonishment. It was thickly grown with weeds. "Ha," he said, "I see that none has passed here In a long time." Later he saw that each weed Was a singular knife. "Well," he mumbled at last, "Doubtless there are other roads."  ~ Stephen Crane ~ (born 1 November 1871)
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2007
 * You cannot choose your battlefield, God does that for you; But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew. ~ Nathalia Crane ~
 * proposed by Kalki (Originally proposed here because this had become attributed to Stephen Crane, retained and eventually chosen because of the touch of irony of it having originally placed here by mistake, where the first quote of the day had been "God is an Iron".)

 * 2008
 * The wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all. ~ Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2009
 * Some say this world of trouble Is the only one we need But I’m waiting for that morning When the new world is revealed. Oh, when the saints go marching in, When the saints go marching in, Oh Lord, I want to be in that number, When the saints go marching in!  ~ When the Saints Go Marching In ~ (quotes from one of Louis Armstrong's versions of the traditional song, with reference to All Saints Day)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * It's not too near for me Like a flower I need the rain Though it's not clear to me Every season has it's change And I will see you When the sun comes out again. ~ Sophie B. Hawkins ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Hasten slowly, and without losing heart, Put your work twenty times upon the anvil. ~ Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki as a quote on the nature of sainthood, and the attitudes, behavior and conduct of saints, for "All Saints Day."

 * 2014

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki, as this works well for both his date of birth, on All Saint's Day, and the associated All Soul's Day.

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki, for All Saints Day.

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

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

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Zarbon

 * 2023

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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

 * A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." ~ Stephen Crane
 * used 8 August 2003, selected by Nanobug

Suggestions
There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums. ~ Larry Flynt, born that day.
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 10:13, 30 October 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 --Angel 13:39, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 17:14, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 16:58, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 Ningauble 22:02, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 because it is unsourced. - InvisibleSun 22:19, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Damn I wish I was your lover I'll rock you till the daylight comes Make sure you are smiling and warm. ~ Sophie B. Hawkins ~ (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 23:35, 31 October 2005 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 ShanghaiTim 11:16, 14 November 2006
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:22, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 because this one is rather sexual, something I'd try to avoid as QOTD. Zarbon 17:14, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 22:02, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

As I lay me down to sleep This I pray That you will hold me dear ~ Sophie B. Hawkins ~ (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 23:35, 31 October 2005 (UTC) with a lean to 4.
 * 3 --Angel 13:39, 14 November 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:22, 31 October 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 although this is actually one of my alltime favorite songs (and I truly love it), it doesn't hold powerful moral as QOTD. Zarbon 17:14, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 22:02, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Honor is like an island, rugged and without a beach; Once we have left it, we can never return. ~ Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
 * 3 Zarbon 17:12, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 16:58, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 22:02, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:19, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

If your descent is from heroic sires, Show in your life a remnant of their fires. ~ Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
 * 3 Zarbon 17:12, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 16:58, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 22:02, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:19, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Happy the poet who with ease can steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. ~ Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux
 * 3 Zarbon 17:12, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 16:58, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 22:02, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:19, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

We can regret what might have been... but we have no reason to be ungrateful for what there is. ~ Edward Said
 * 3 Zarbon 17:12, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 16:58, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 22:02, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 because it is unsourced. - InvisibleSun 22:19, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Tired with dull grief, grown old before my day, I sit in solitude and only hear Long silent laughters, murmurings of dismay, The lost intensities of hope and fear; In those old marshes yet the rifles lie, On the thin breastwork flutter the grey rags, The very books I read are there—and I Dead as the men I loved, wait while life drags ~ Edmund Charles Blunden
 * 3 Zarbon 17:12, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 16:58, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Ningauble 22:02, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:19, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

Its wounded length from those sad streets of war Into green places here, that were my own; But now what once was mine is mine no more, I seek such neighbours here and I find none. With such strong gentleness and tireless will Those ruined houses seared themselves in me, Passionate I look for their dumb story still, And the charred stub outspeaks the living tree. ~ Edmund Charles Blunden
 * 3 Zarbon 17:12, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 16:58, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Ningauble 22:02, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 for starting the quote at "With such strong..."

I saw a man pursuing the horizon; Round and round they sped. I was disturbed at this; I accosted the man. "It is futile," I said, "You can never — " "You lie," he cried, And ran on. ~ Stephen Crane ~
 * 3 Kalki 16:58, 18 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 12:43, 23 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Ningauble 22:02, 31 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:19, 31 October 2008 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:29, 28 March 2015 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 20:29, 28 March 2015 (UTC)

title: November 1


text:
December 1

December 1 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2003
 * For myself, I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else. ~ Winston Churchill
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2004
 * Ooh, with a little luck — December will be magic again. ~ Kate Bush
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2005
 * The important thing, I think, is not to be bitter... if it turns about that there is a God, I don't think that he is evil. I think that the worst thing you could say is that he is, basically, an under-achiever. ~ Woody Allen (born 1 December 1935)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2006
 * If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name in a Swiss bank. ~ Woody Allen
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * December will be magic again. Don't miss the brightest star. Kiss under mistletoe. I want to hear you laugh. Don't let the mystery go now. ~ Kate Bush ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * There's an old joke... two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of 'em says, "Boy, the food at this place is really terrible." The other one says, "Yeah, I know; and such small portions." Well, that's essentially how I feel about life — full of loneliness, and misery, and suffering, and unhappiness — and it's all over much too quickly. ~ Woody Allen
 * proposed by UDScott

 * 2009
 * The AIDS crisis is evidence of a world in which nothing important is regional, local, limited; in which everything that can circulate does, and every problem is, or is destined to become, worldwide. ~ Susan Sontag (anniversary of World AIDS Day)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun

 * 2010
 * Stop the habit of wishful thinking and start the habit of thoughtful wishes. ~ Mary Martin
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * December will be magic again. Take a husky to the ice While Bing Crosby sings White Christmas. He makes you feel nice. December will be magic again. ~ Kate Bush ~
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 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, in regard of her recent induction into the French Pantheon.

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

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

 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
If an expert says it can't be done, get another expert. ~ David Ben-Gurion (date of death)
 * 3 ~ UDScott 23:09, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 09:28, 5 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 18:27, 30 November 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Zarbon 15:17, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

I have always been amazed at the way an ordinary observer lends so much more credence and attaches so much more importance to waking events than to those occurring in dreams... Man... is above all the plaything of his memory. ~ Andre Breton

 * 2 Kalki 21:23, 20 December 2007 (UTC) Good quote, but no clear relation to the date; it would be better on a birthday, but might be usable here if there's ever a shortage of date-related quotes.
 * 1 Zarbon 15:17, 26 April 2008 (UTC)

Only in our dreams are we free. The rest of the time we need wages. ~ Terry Pratchett

 * 2 Kalki 21:23, 20 December 2007 (UTC) Another good quote, but no clear relation to the date.
 * 2 Zarbon 15:17, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 76.0.79.210 02:48, 8 June 2008 (UTC)

If the nation only knew their hands dripped with innocent blood, it would have met them not with applause but with stones. ~ Georgy Zhukov (born December 1)
 * 4 because hell hath no fury like that of a scorned nation. Zarbon 04:11, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * SOURCE: A Century of Violence in Soviet Russia - Page 3 by Alexander N. Yakovlev, Anthony Austin - Political Science - 2002
 * 1 Kalki 00:08, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 17:44, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 19:08, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

The mere existence of atomic weapons implies the possibility of their use. ~ Georgy Zhukov (born December 1)
 * 3 Zarbon 02:47, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:08, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Antiquary 17:44, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:08, 30 November 2008 (UTC)

I really feel pressure to create something that is as strong as possible.The war has really swept away eveything from the past. ~ Karl Schmidt-Rottluff
 * 2 Zarbon 03:32, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 00:08, 29 November 2008 (UTC)

Is your mind so big that it can encompass galaxies or is the universe little enough to fit in one's head? ~ John Crowley Note: This is a paraphrase. I have corrected the author article. Ningauble 16:57, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 03:32, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:08, 29 November 2008 (UTC) — originally ranked for the first suggestion, but ranking remains the same for the corrected version added to the author's page by Ninguable:
 * She wondered whether her head were so big as to be able to contain all this starry universe, or whether the universe were so little that it would fit within the compass of her human head. She alternated between these feelings, expanding and diminishing.

Seasons don't fear the reaper, nor do the wind, the sun, or the rain. ~Eric Bloom, singer and songwriter of Blue Öyster Cult
 * 3 Lyle 20:31, 10 December 2008 (UTC) * 0 I misattributed these lyrics. Lyle 14:56, 11 December 2008 (UTC)

Even as a baby I quickly learned to crawl out of my crib. … They'd put up barriers but I learned how to go over them. ~ Mary Martin
 * 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:38, 27 November 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

A person who does not read cannot think. He may have good mental processes, but he has nothing to think about. You can feel for people or natural phenomena and react to them, but they are not ideas. You cannot think about them. ~ Rex Stout
 * 3 bystander (talk) 14:42, 1 December 2012 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:56, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:56, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:56, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:56, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:56, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:56, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:56, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:56, 30 November 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:56, 30 November 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:56, 30 November 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:56, 30 November 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:56, 30 November 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:56, 30 November 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:56, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:56, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:56, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:56, 30 November 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:56, 30 November 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:56, 30 November 2013 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 23:56, 30 November 2013 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

title: December 1


text:
January 2

January 2 Quotes of the day from previous years:

 * 2004
 * Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind. ~ Albert Einstein
 * selected by Basil Fawlty

 * 2005
 * We are all in this together. ~ English proverb
 * selected by Kalki

 * 2006
 * How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection...That is all wrong. The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true scientist is quite imaginative as well as rational, and sometimes leaps to solutions where reason can follow only slowly; if he does not, his science suffers. ~ Isaac Asimov (born c. 2 January 1920)
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2007
 * Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. ~ Isaac Asimov
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2008
 * When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise — even in their own field. ~ Isaac Asimov
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2009
 * It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be … ~ Isaac Asimov
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2010
 * I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be. ~ Isaac Asimov
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2011
 * Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not. ~ Isaac Asimov
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2012
 * It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety. ~ Isaac Asimov
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2013

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2014
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2015

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2016

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2017 :
 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2018

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2019

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2020

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2021

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2022

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2023

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

 * 2024

 * proposed by Kalki

 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
DOB: Isaac Asimov · Philip Morin Freneau · Gilbert Murray

I prefer rationalism to atheism. The question of God and other objects-of-faith are outside reason and play no part in rationalism, thus you don't have to waste your time in either attacking or defending. ~ Isaac Asimov (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 01:10, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 13:51, 1 January 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 17:51, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Then rushed to meet the insulting foe; They took the spear, but left the shield. ~ Philip Morin Freneau
 * 3 because in the heat of combat, defense is as important as offense, if not more important. Zarbon 05:33, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 16:55, 1 January 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:24, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 05:29, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 05:29, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki ⚚⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 13:54, 25 May 2023 (UTC); with a lean toward 4.

 * An old eagle, a blind eagle, who waits hungry and cold and still; He seeks nothing, he fears nothing: he stands lone on a lonely hill. ~ Gilbert Murray
 * 4 Ficaia (talk) 12:59, 22 May 2024 (UTC)

title: January 2