April 19
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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
[edit] 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)
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)
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)
