April 16
From Wikiquote
Quotes of the day from previous years:
- 2004
- Curse on all laws but those which love has made! ~ Alexander Pope
- selected by Kalki
- 2005
- In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. ~ Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator (born 16 April 1889)
- selected by Kalki
- 2006
- The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. ~ Yeshua (Jesus Christ) (Easter Sunday 2006)
- selected by Kalki
- 2007
- The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. ~ Anatole France (born 16 April 1844)
- proposed by Kalki
- 2008
- All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. ~ Anatole France
- proposed by InvisibleSun
- 2009
[edit] Suggestions
It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill. This I conceive to be fortunate, for man, by reason of his greater intellect, can more reasonably hope to equal birds in knowledge than to equal nature in the perfection of her machinery... ~ Wilbur Wright (born 16 April 1867)
- 3 Kalki 14:54, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 09:39, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
- 2. Something very similar used on December 17. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 21:02, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 23:50, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones. ~ Kingsley Amis (born 16 April 1922)
- 3 Kalki 14:54, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 09:39, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
- 3. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 21:02, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 23:50, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. ~ Anatole France (born 16 April 1844)
