Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. ~ Zhuang Zi

• selected by Kalki

2005

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense. ~ Gautama Buddha

• selected by Kalki; 8 April is Hana Matsuri (Flower Festival), the fixed-date celebration of Buddha's Birthday in Japan.

2006

Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love. This is the eternal rule. ~ Gautama Buddha

• selected by Kalki

2007

Blessed are the poor in spirit:
    for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are they that mourn:
    for they shall be comforted.
Blessed are the meek:
    for they shall inherit the earth.
Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness:
    for they shall be filled.
Blessed are the merciful:
    for they shall obtain mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart:
    for they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers:
    for they shall be called the children of God.
Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness' sake:
    for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
~ Yeshua (Jesus Christ) ~ (for Easter Sunday 2007 in both the Gregorian calendar and Eastern Orthodox reckonings)

• proposed by Kalki

2008

Look, look, look to the rainbow
Follow it over the hill and stream
Look, look, look to the rainbow
Follow the fellow who follows a dream.
~ Yip Harburg ~ (born 8 April 1896)

• proposed by Kalki

2009

Somewhere over the rainbow
Skies are blue
And the dreams that you dare to dream
Really do come true.
~ Yip Harburg ~

• proposed by Kalki

2010

You can do a lot with diplomacy, but with diplomacy backed up by force you can get a lot more done. ~ Kofi Annan (born 8 April 1938)

• proposed by Zarbon

2011

Life by life and love by love
We passed through the cycles strange,
And breath by breath and death by death
We followed the chain of change.
Till there came a time in the law of life
When o’er the nursing sod,
The shadows broke and soul awoke
In a strange, dim dream of God.
~ Langdon Smith ~ (died 8 April 1908)

• proposed by Kalki

2012

I have cast fire upon the world, and see, I am guarding it until it blazes. ~ Jesus

• proposed by Kalki

2013

• proposed by Kalki

2014

• proposed by Kalki

2015

• proposed by Kalki

2016

• proposed by Kalki, in regard of his recent death.

2017

• proposed by Kalki

2018 

• proposed by Jeff Q as a quote of Londo Mollari, Babylon 5, "Ceremonies of Light and Dark"; first broadcast 8 April 1996

2019

• proposed by Kalki

2020

• proposed by Kalki

2021 

Rank or add further suggestions…

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

• We have entered the third millennium through a gate of fire. If today, after the horror of 11 September, we see better, and we see further — we will realize that humanity is indivisible. New threats make no distinction between races, nations or regions. A new insecurity has entered every mind, regardless of wealth or status. A deeper awareness of the bonds that bind us all — in pain as in prosperity — has gripped young and old.
  In the early beginnings of the 21st century — a century already violently disabused of any hopes that progress towards global peace and prosperity is inevitable — this new reality can no longer be ignored. It must be confronted. ~ Kofi Annan ~
  • used 11 September 2010, proposed by Kalki

Suggestions

The desire to die was my one and only concern; to it I have sacrificed everything, even death. ~ Emile Cioran

• 3 Zarbon 01:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki 13:33, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 20:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

What to think of other people? I ask myself this question each time I make a new acquaintance. So strange does it seem to me that we exist, and that we consent to exist. ~ Emile Cioran

• 3 Zarbon 01:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 13:33, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 20:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Chaos is rejecting all you have learned. Chaos is being yourself. ~ Emile Cioran

• 2 Zarbon 01:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 13:33, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 20:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Man starts over again everyday, in spite of all he knows, against all he knows. ~ Emile Cioran

• 2 Zarbon 01:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 13:33, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 20:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

It is because we are all impostors that we endure each other. ~ Emile Cioran

• 3 Zarbon 01:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki 13:33, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 20:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Glory—once achieved, what is it worth? ~ Emile Cioran

• 4 Zarbon 01:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki 13:33, 5 April 2009 (UTC) A rather simplistic and presumptive rhetorical question — the worth of any form of glory is in how it was obtained, among whom it is manifest, and how it is used.
• 2 InvisibleSun 20:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

What does the future, that half of time, matter to the man who is infatuated with eternity? ~ Emile Cioran

• 3 Zarbon 01:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki 13:33, 5 April 2009 (UTC) All things matter to those with a profound sense of Eternity.
• 2 InvisibleSun 20:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

For you who no longer posses it, freedom is everything, for us who do, it is merely an illusion. ~ Emile Cioran

• 3 Zarbon 01:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 13:33, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 20:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

One hardly saves a world without ruling it. ~ Emile Cioran

• 2 Zarbon 01:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki 13:33, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 20:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

To devastate by language, to blow up the word and with it the world. ~ Emile Cioran

• 3 and strong lean toward 4. Zarbon 01:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 13:33, 5 April 2009 (UTC) but this needs context.
• 2 InvisibleSun 20:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Revenge is not always sweet, once it is consummated we feel inferior to our victim. ~ Emile Cioran

• 3 Zarbon 01:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 13:33, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 20:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

The more we try to wrest ourselves from our ego, the deeper we sink into it. ~ Emile Cioran

• 3 Zarbon 01:35, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 13:33, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3. I have corrected the misquote here and on the Cioran page by changing "rest" to "wrest" (confirmed by Google Book Search). - InvisibleSun 20:50, 7 April 2009 (UTC)

Say, its only a paper moon
Sailing over a cardboard sea
But it wouldn't be make-believe
If you believed in me.
~ Yip Harburg ~

• 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:44, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

I am a rebel by birth. … I contest anything that is unjust, that causes suffering in humanity. My feelings about that are so strong, I don't think I could live with myself if I weren't honest.
~ Yip Harburg ~

• 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 22:44, 3 April 2011 (UTC)

• 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 20:52, 11 January 2015 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.