Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004
Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so. ~ Robert G. Ingersoll
  • selected by Kalki
2005
I cannot think we are useless or Usen would not have created us. He created all tribes of men and certainly had a righteous purpose in creating each. ~ Geronimo (born 16 June 1829)
  • selected by Kalki
2006
If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. ~ Abraham Lincoln's "House Divided" speech, 16 June 1858)
  • selected by Kalki
2007
It's no use, says he. Force, hatred, history, all that. That's not life for men and women, insult and hatred. And everybody knows that it's the very opposite of that that is really life. ~ James Joyce in Ulysses
2008
When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven’t thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity — but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial. ~ Joyce Carol Oates
  • proposed by Zarbon
2009
A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals to discovery. ~ James Joyce in Ulysses
  • proposed by Kalki
2010
It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born. ~ James Joyce in Ulysses
  • proposed by Kalki
2011
The mocker is never taken seriously when he is most serious. ~ James Joyce in Ulysses
  • proposed by Kalki
2012
If others have their will Ann hath a way.
~ James Joyce ~
in
~ Ulysses ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2013
Values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time. They can neither be fought for, nor destroyed.
~ Enoch Powell ~
  • proposed by Zarbon
2014
I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.
~ James Joyce ~
in
~ Ulysses ~
  • selected by Kalki
2015
As we, or mother Dana, weave and unweave our bodies, Stephen said, from day to day, their molecules shuttled to and fro, so does the artist weave and unweave his image.
~ James Joyce ~
in
~ Ulysses ~
2016
Secrets, silent, stony
sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their
tyranny: tyrants, willing to be dethroned.
~ James Joyce ~
in
~ Ulysses ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2017
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.
~ Joyce Carol Oates ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2018
Nothing is accidental in the universe — this is one of my Laws of Physics — except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.
~ Joyce Carol Oates ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2019
If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework — you can still be writing, because you have that space.
~ Joyce Carol Oates ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2020 
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Adam Smith (16 June 1723 – 17 July 1790)

I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.
~ James Joyce ~
in
~ Ulysses ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
  • 1 What is this quote referring to? J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣️|📧 17:52, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
Our national epic has yet to be written.
~ James Joyce ~
in
~ Ulysses ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
  • 2 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣️|📧 17:52, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
Come forth Lazarus! And he came fifth and lost the job.
~ James Joyce ~
in
~ Ulysses ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
  • 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣️|📧 17:52, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
Unsheathe your dagger definitions. Horseness is the whatness of allhorse. Streams of tendency and eons they worship.
~ James Joyce ~
in
~ Ulysses ~
  • 3 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
  • 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣️|📧 17:52, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
~ Adam Smith ~
  • 3 DanielTom (talk) 01:57, 6 March 2018 (UTC)
  • 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣️|📧 17:52, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
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