April 28
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Quotes of the day from previous years:
- 2004
- The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches, but to reveal to him his own. ~ Benjamin Disraeli
- selected by Kalki
- 2005
- It is well known that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done. ~ Terry Pratchett (born 28 April 1948)
- selected by Kalki
- 2006
- War: first, one hopes to win; then one expects the enemy to lose; then, one is satisfied that he too is suffering; in the end, one is surprised that everyone has lost. ~ Karl Kraus (born 28 April 1874)
- selected by Kalki
- 2007
- The Truth Shall Make Ye Fret. ~ Terry Pratchett
- selected by Kalki
- 2008
- The pen is mightier than the sword if the sword is very short, and the pen is very sharp. ~ Terry Pratchett
- proposed by Kalki
- 2009
[edit] Suggestions
My unconscious knows more about the consciousness of the psychologist than his consciousness knows about my unconscious. ~ Karl Kraus
- 3 Kalki 01:17, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 00:17, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 10:18, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
Science is spectral analysis. Art is light synthesis. ~ Karl Kraus
- 3 Kalki 01:17, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 00:17, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 10:18, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
Love and art do not embrace what is beautiful but what is is made beautiful by this embrace. ~ Karl Kraus
- 3 Kalki 01:17, 28 April 2007 (UTC) (I have modified this from its current listing on the Kraus page, because I believe this form makes more sense. We have at least about a year to check out which is more accurate depiction of the German original.)
- 1 Zarbon 00:17, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
- 2 pending resolution of this form of the quote. - InvisibleSun 10:18, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
Too much magic could wrap time and space around itself, and that wasn't good news for the kind of person who had grown used to things like effects following things like causes. ~ Terry Pratchett
- 3 Kalki 01:17, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 00:17, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 10:18, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
You can't go around building a better world for people. Only people can build a better world for people. Otherwise it's just a cage. ~ Terry Pratchett
- 3 Kalki 01:17, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Zarbon 00:17, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 10:18, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
Everything makes sense a bit at a time. But when you try to think of it all at once, it comes out wrong. ~ Terry Pratchett
- 3 Kalki 01:17, 28 April 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 00:17, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
- 4 InvisibleSun 10:18, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
Soup is never eaten as hot as it is cooked. ~ Heinrich Müller (born April 28)
- 2 Zarbon 17:00, 21 April 2008 (UTC)
- 1. The quote is unsourced and should therefore be avoided as a QOTD choice. - InvisibleSun 10:18, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
Let us not allow disorder enter where order prevails. ~ António de Oliveira Salazar (born April 28)
- 2 Zarbon 04:28, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
- 1. The quote is unsourced and should therefore be avoided as a QOTD choice. - InvisibleSun 10:18, 27 April 2008 (UTC)
