Quotes of the day
from previous years:
- 2004
- You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one; I hope some day you'll join us, and the world will live as one. ~
John Lennon
(died 8 December 1980)
- 2005
- It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers. ~
James Thurber
(born 8 December 1894)
- 2006
- May memory restore again and again
The smallest color of the smallest day:
Time is the school in which we learn,
Time is the fire in which we burn.
~
Delmore Schwartz
~ (born 8 December 1913)
- 2007
- A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them. Obviously that can only work at moments. It can't be a lasting thing. That's not saying that people shouldn't keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence. Someday, who knows, we might conquer death, disease and war. ~
Jim Morrison
(born 8 December 1943)
- 2008
- The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people ? that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. ~
James Thurber
- 2009
- I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter. ~
Horace
- 2010
- Better than a thousand hollow words
Is one word that brings peace.
Better than a thousand hollow verses
Is one verse that brings peace.
Better than a hundred hollow lines
Is one line of the law, bringing peace.
~
Gautama Buddha
(
Bodhi Day
a traditional date of celebration of his enlightenment)
- 2011
- Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame. ~
Gautama Buddha
(
Bodhi Day
a traditional date of celebration of his enlightenment)
- 2012
- 2013
- 2014
- 2015
Whence, if ever, shall come the actuality
Of a
voice
speaking
the
mind
's
knowing
,
The
sun
light
bright on the green windowshade,
And the
self
articulate,
affectionate
, and flowing,
Ease, warmth, light, the utter showing,
When in the white bed
all
things are made.
|
~
Delmore Schwartz
~
|
- 2016
- 2017
Semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum.
Once a
word
has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.
|
~
Horace
~
|
- 2018
- 2019
- 2020
- 2021
Last thing I
remember
, I was
Running for the
door
.
I had to find the passage back
To the
place
I was before.
"Relax," said the night man,
"We are programmed to receive.
You can check-out any time you like,
but you can never leave!"
|
~
Eagles
~
|
- 2022
I want to say
thank you
. And I want to say thank you to my
mother
, who is here tonight. You’ll see her in a little while. But she grew up in the 1950s, in Waycross, Georgia, picking somebody else’s cotton and somebody else’s tobacco. But tonight she helped pick her youngest son to be a
United States
senator.
|
~
Raphael Warnock
~
|
- 2023
Let your
love
flow outward through the
universe
,
To its height, its depth, its broad extent,
A limitless love, without
hatred
or
enmity
.
Then, as you stand or walk,
Sit or lie down,
As long as you are
awake
,
Strive for this with a one-pointed
mind
;
Your
life
will bring
heaven
to
earth
.
|
~
Gautama Buddha
~
|
- 2024
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The covetous man is ever in want. ~
Horace
He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time. ~
Horace
Child labor! The child must carry
His fathers on his back.
~
Delmore Schwartz
(born December 8, 1913)
For we are incomplete and know no future,
And we are howling or dancing out our souls
In beating syllables before the curtain:
We are Shakespearean, we are strangers.
~
Delmore Schwartz
All we are saying is give peace a chance! ~
John Lennon
(Died that die in 1980 after being shot by Mark David Chapman)
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It is sweet and honorable to die for one's country. ~
Horace
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Zarbon
04:10, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
- 2
Kalki
02:09, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
- 2
Antiquary
13:59, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2
InvisibleSun
22:40, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2
DanielTom
(
talk
) 15:27, 7 July 2014 (UTC) (Cf.
Bertrand Russell
: "Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country.")
I very much consider the Internet a garden, and I'm a gardener, and I plant things in it and I work within the framework of the soil, the seasons, the climate, and the temperature, to produce plants. ~
Mark Pesce
- 3
Zarbon
04:10, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
- 2
Kalki
02:09, 29 November 2008 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 3.
- 3
Antiquary
13:59, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
- 3
InvisibleSun
22:40, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom. ~
Horace
- 3
Kalki
20:10, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
- 2
InvisibleSun
22:40, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
- 1
Zarbon
04:52, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
The great thing about multiculturalism is it doesn't involve knowing anything about other cultures - the capital of Bhutan, the principal exports of Malawi, who cares? All it requires is feeling good about other cultures. It's fundamentally a fraud, and I think was subliminally accepted on that basis. Most adherents to the idea that all cultures are equal don't want to live in anything but an advanced Western society. ~
Mark Steyn