Quotes of the day
from previous years:
- 2004
- Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. ~
Martin Luther King, Jr.
- 2005
- I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. ~
Edith Sitwell
(born 7 September 1887)
- 2006
- Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd. ~
Edith Sitwell
(born 7 September 1887)
- 2007
- Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?. ~
Edith Sitwell
- 2008
- The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace. ~
Nikita Khrushchev
- 2009
- I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday, as I have thought of it, as I remember all the things from childhood on through the years, good ones, and unpleasant ones, that is how they come out and that is how we have to take them.
I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it. I was happy and contented, I knew nothing better and made the best out of what life offered. And life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. ~
Grandma Moses
- 2010
- As for the
usefulness
of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy to us. The poet should speak to all men, for a moment, of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. ~
Edith Sitwell
- 2011
- It is a part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees. ~
Edith Sitwell
- 2012
- 2013
- 2014
- 2015
- proposed by
Kalki
; not only is it Sitwell's birthday, but it is also the date on which
the Blitz
which she writes about in the poem began.
- 2016
When a
nation
threatens another nation the
people
of the latter forget their factionalism, their local antagonisms, their
political
differences, their
suspicions
of each other, their
religious
hostilities
, and band together
as one unit
.
Leaders
know
that, and that is why so many of them whip up
wars
during periods of national
crisis
, or when the people become
discontented
and
angry
. The leaders stigmatize the
enemy
with every
vice
they can think of, every
evil
and human
depravity
. They stimulate their people’s natural
fear
of all other men by channeling it into a defined fear of just certain men, or nations. Attacking another nation, then, acts as a sort of catharsis, temporarily, on men’s fear of their immediate neighbors. This is the explanation of all wars, all
racial
and religious
hatreds
, all massacres, and all attempts at
genocide
.
|
~
Taylor Caldwell
~
|
- 2017
- 2018
We’re only here for a little while, and you’ve got to have some
fun
, right? I don’t take myself seriously, and I think the ones that do, there’s some
sickness
with
people
like that.
|
~
Burt Reynolds
~
|
- proposed by
Kalki
, in regard to his recent death.
- 2019
- 2020
- 2021
Learning
… should be a
joy
and full of excitement. It is
life
's greatest
adventure
; it is an illustrated excursion into the
minds
of
noble
and learned men, not a conducted tour through a jail. So its surroundings should be as gracious as possible, to complement it.
|
~
Taylor Caldwell
~
|
- 2022
- proposed by
Kalki
in regard of her recent appointment as Prime Minister of the UK.
- 2023
Fly
me high through the
starry
skies
Maybe to an astral plane
Cross the highways of
fantasy
Help
me to forget today's
pain
.
Ooh,
dream
weaver
I
believe
you can get me through the
night
Ooh, dream weaver
I believe we can reach the
morning
light
Though the dawn may be coming soon
There still may be some
time
Fly me away to the bright side of the
moon
Meet me on the other side.
|
~
Gary Wright
~
|
- proposed by
Kalki
; in regard of his recent death.
- 2024
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God
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forgive
you, but I never can. ~
Elizabeth I of England
(date of birth)
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Kalki
22:50, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
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Zarbon
21:59, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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Gbern3
(
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) 14:45, 23 August 2013 (UTC) No context.
A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government. ~
Taylor Caldwell
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Zarbon
06:50, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
- 2
Kalki
23:56, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
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Gbern3
(
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) 14:45, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
Within your magic web of hair, lies furled
The fire and splendour of the ancient world;
The dire gold of the comet's wind-blown hair;
The songs that turned to gold the evening air
When all the stars of heaven sang for joy.
~
Edith Sitwell
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Kalki
15:58, 6 September 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
- 1
Zarbon
04:23, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
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Gbern3
(
talk
) 14:45, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you. ~
Taylor Caldwell