Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004 : Materialists and madmen never have doubts. ~ G. K. Chesterton

• selected by Kalki

2005 : Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. ~ Benjamin Disraeli (died 19 April 1881)

• selected by Kalki

2006 : By the rude bridge that arched the flood,
Their flag to April's breeze unfurled;
Here once the embattled farmers stood;
And fired the shot heard round the world.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (The Battles of Lexington and Concord were fought on 19 April 1775)

• selected by Kalki

2007

Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth. ~ Jehanne Darc (Joan of Arc) (Official Beatification by the Roman Catholic Church in 1903)

• proposed by Kalki

2008

When you study natural science and the miracles of creation, if you don't turn into a mystic you are not a natural scientist. ~ Albert Hofmann (for Bicycle Day)

• proposed by Kalki

2009

Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls. For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light. ~ Yeshua (Jesus Christ) (Easter Sunday by the reckonings of the Eastern Orthodox traditions 2009

• proposed by Kalki

2010

Suggestions

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. ~ Jimmy Carter

• suggested for 2006 by Yorktown1776
• this was already used on 1 October 2005 ~ Kalki 12:08, 19 April 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 23:56, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

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Byron was dead! I thought the whole world was at an end. I thought everything was over and finished for everyone — that nothing else mattered. I remembered I walked out alone, and carved "Byron is dead" into the sandstone. - Alfred Tennyson

• Byron died on April 19, 1824
• 3 InvisibleSun 00:02, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 23:56, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:14, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

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If they had said that the sun or the moon had gone out of the heavens, it could not have struck me with the idea of a more awful and dreary blank in creation than the words: "Byron is dead!" - Jane Welsh Carlyle

• 3 InvisibleSun 00:02, 13 April 2008 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 23:56, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:14, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

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We painters use the same license as poets and madmen. ~ Paolo Veronese

• 3 Zarbon 04:34, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:14, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

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I paint my pictures with all the considerations which are natural to my intelligence, and according as my intelligence understands them. ~ Paolo Veronese

• 2 Zarbon 04:34, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:14, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

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Age is deformed, youth unkind,
We scorn their bodies, they our mind. ~ Thomas Bastard

• 3 Zarbon 04:34, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:14, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

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A good film is one that requires the viewer to create, through an orchestration of impressions, the meaning of its events. It is, in the end, our ability to create meaning out of the raw experience of life that makes us human. It is the exercise of our faculty to discover meaning which is the purpose of art. The didactic imparting of moral or political messages is emphatically not the purpose of art — that is what we call propaganda. ~ Peter Chung

• 3 Zarbon 04:34, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 00:14, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

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I do not yet want to form a hypothesis to test, because as soon as you make a hypothesis, you become prejudiced. Your mind slides into a groove, and once it is in that groove, has difficulty noticing anything outside of it. During this time, my sense must be sharp; that is the main thing — to be sharp, yet open. ~ Bernd Heinrich

• 3 Zarbon 04:34, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 00:38, 18 April 2009 (UTC) * 4 Kalki 00:14, 18 April 2009 (UTC) but still with a strong lean toward 4.

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For right will alwayes live, and rise at length,
But wrong can never take deepe roote to last. ~ Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset

• 3 Zarbon 04:34, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 00:14, 18 April 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

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The wrathfull winter proching on apace,
With blustering blasts had all ybarde the treene,
And olde Saturnus, with his frosty face
With chilling cold had pearst the tender greene. ~ Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset

• 2 Zarbon 04:34, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 00:14, 18 April 2009 (UTC) but this might be better as a suggestion towards the end of fall, rather than in spring...

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And sorrowing I to see the sommer flowers,
The lively greene, the lusty lease, forlorne,
The sturdy trees so shattred with the showers,
The fieldes so fade, that florisht so beforne:
It taught mee well, all earthly things be borne
To dye the death: for nought long time may last:
The sommer's beauty yeeldes to winter's blast. ~ Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset

• 2 Zarbon 04:34, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki 00:14, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

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His drinke, the running streame, his cup, the bare
Of his palme cloasde, his bed, the hard cold ground:
To this poore life was Misery ybound. ~ Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset

• 3 Zarbon 04:34, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki 00:14, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

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Crookebackt hee was, toothshaken, and blere eyed,
Went on three feete, and somtyme, crept on fowre,
With olde lame boanes, that ratled by his syde,
His scalpe all pild, and hee with eld forlore:
His withred fist still knocking at Death's dore,
Fumbling, and driveling, as hee drawes his breath,
For briefe, the shape and messenger of Death. ~ Thomas Sackville, 1st Earl of Dorset

• 3 Zarbon 04:34, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki 00:14, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

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Conditions are seldom ideal, and if one waits long enough for ideal conditions one is just making excuses. ~ Bernd Heinrich

• 3 Kalki 00:14, 18 April 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 15:19, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

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