Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004
Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke
  • selected by Kalki
2005
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. ~ T. E. Lawrence (born 16 August 1888)
  • proposed by User:Kalki
2006
The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is some one outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; some one strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action. ~ Winston Churchill (said about T. E. Lawrence, born 16 August 1888)
  • proposed by Kalki
2007
The printing press is the greatest weapon in the armoury of the modern commander. ~ T. E. Lawrence
  • proposed by Kalki
2008
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not. ~ Jean de La Bruyère
  • proposed by Kalki
2009
Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals. It can only be ensured by instinct, sharpened by thought practising the stroke so often that at the crisis it is as natural as a reflex. ~ T. E. Lawrence
  • proposed by Kalki
2010
Some men, like a tiled house, are long before they take fire, but once on flame there is no coming near to quench them. ~ Thomas Fuller (date of death)
  • proposed by Zarbon
2011
From time to time there appear on the face of the earth men of rare and consummate excellence, who dazzle us by their virtue, and whose outstanding qualities shed a stupendous light. Like those extraordinary stars of whose origins we are ignorant, and of whose fate, once they have vanished, we know even less, such men have neither forebears nor descendants: they are the whole of their race. ~ Jean de La Bruyère
  • proposed by Kalki
2012
Rebellion must have an unassailable base, something guarded not merely from attack, but from the fear of it:
~ T. E. Lawrence ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2013
Liberality consists less in giving a great deal than in gifts well timed.
~ Jean de La Bruyère ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2014
That man is good who does good to others; if he suffers on account of the good he does, he is very good; if he suffers at the hands of those to whom he has done good, then his goodness is so great that it could be enhanced only by greater sufferings; and if he should die at their hands, his virtue can go no further: it is heroic, it is perfect.
~ Jean de La Bruyère ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2015
True greatness is free, kind, familiar and popular; it lets itself be touched and handled, it loses nothing by being seen at close quarters; the better one knows it, the more one admires it.
~ Jean de La Bruyère ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2016
It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well, nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the root of all impertinence.
~ Jean de La Bruyère ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2017
Lofty posts make great men greater still, and small men much smaller.
~ Jean de La Bruyère ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2018
There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet's bombast!
~ Jean de La Bruyère ~
  • proposed by Kalki
2019 
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America: It's like Britain, only with buttons. ~ Ringo Starr, joined The Beatles that day.

  • 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 06:45, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
  • 3 AllanHainey 12:00, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
  • 1 Kalki 14:12, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
  • 1 Zarbon 15:37, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
  • 1 InvisibleSun 18:38, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
  • 2 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 05:40, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

We come too late to say anything which has not been said already. ~ Jean de La Bruyère

  • 3 Kalki 14:12, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
  • 3 InvisibleSun 22:13, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
  • 2 Zarbon 15:37, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
  • 2 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 02:46, 14 August 2009 (UTC)

It is always darkest just before the day dawneth. ~ Thomas Fuller (date of death, birth unknown)

  • 3 Zarbon 05:46, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
  • 2 InvisibleSun 18:38, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
  • 4 ♞☤☮♌Kalki·†·⚓⊙☳☶⚡ 00:01, 16 August 2019 (UTC) 3 Kalki 00:06, 16 August 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

but would extend this for context to read:

As it is always darkest just before the day dawneth, so God useth to visit His servants with greatest afflictions when he intendeth their speedy advancement.
  • 2 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 05:40, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul; he that wants it hath a maimed mind. ~ Thomas Fuller (date of death)

  • 2 Zarbon 05:46, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
  • 2 InvisibleSun 18:38, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
  • 2 Kalki 00:06, 16 August 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
  • 2 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 05:40, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Only a fool has no regrets and I'm not a fool. ~ George Galloway

  • 2 Zarbon 05:46, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
  • 1 InvisibleSun 18:38, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
  • 1 Kalki 00:06, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
  • 3 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 05:40, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Do not in an instant what an age cannot recompense. ~ Thomas Fuller

  • 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 20:44, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

The desert was held in a crazed communism by which Nature and the elements were for the free use of every known friendly person for his own purposes and no more. ~ T. E. Lawrence

  • 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 20:44, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one’s tail. ~ T. E. Lawrence

  • 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 20:44, 12 August 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

I've been & am absurdly over-estimated. There are no supermen & I'm quite ordinary, & will say so whatever the artistic results. In that point I'm one of the few people who tell the truth about myself. ~ T. E. Lawrence

  • 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 20:44, 12 August 2010 (UTC)

We can recognize the dawn and the decline of love by the uneasiness we feel when alone together. ~ Jean de La Bruyère

  • 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 20:44, 12 August 2010 (UTC)
Outward simplicity befits ordinary men, like a garment made to measure for them; but it serves as an adornment to those who have filled their lives with great ]deeds: they might be compared to some beauty carelessly dressed and thereby all the more attractive.
~ Jean de La Bruyère ~
  • 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 20:44, 12 August 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.


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