January 22
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Quotes of the day from previous years:
- 2004
- I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. ~ Douglas Adams
- selected by Kalki
- 2005
- Even as the fingers of the two hands are equal, so are human beings equal to one another. No one has any right, nor any preference to claim over another. You are brothers. ~ Muhammad
- selected by Kalki
- 2006
- Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing. ~ Robert E. Howard (born 22 January 22 1906)
- selected by Kalki
- 2007
- If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them. ~ Francis Bacon (born 22 January 1561)
- proposed by InvisibleSun
- 2008
- So, we'll go no more a roving
So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving,
And the moon be still as bright.For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause to breathe,
And love itself have rest.
~ George Gordon, Lord Byron ~ (born 22 January 1788)- proposed by InvisibleSun
- 2009
[edit] Suggestions
These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves. ~ Francis Bacon (born January 22, 1561)
- 3 InvisibleSun 11:05, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 14:58, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 18:35, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule. ~ Francis Bacon
- 3 InvisibleSun 11:05, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 14:58, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 18:35, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
Certainly, in taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior; for it is a prince's part to pardon. ~ Francis Bacon
- 3 InvisibleSun 11:05, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 14:58, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Zarbon 18:35, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
All rising to great place is by a winding stair. ~ Francis Bacon
- 3 InvisibleSun 11:05, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 14:58, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 18:35, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
For the sword outwears its sheath,
And the soul wears out the breast,
And the heart must pause to breathe,
And love itself have rest.
~ George Gordon, Lord Byron ~ (born January 22, 1788)
- 3 InvisibleSun 11:05, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- 4 Kalki 15:31, 20 January 2008 (UTC)
3 Kalki 14:58, 21 January 2007 (UTC)but I would append the first stanza as well:
So, we'll go no more a roving
So late into the night,
Though the heart be still as loving,
And the moon be still as bright. - 2 Zarbon 18:35, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
Are deposited the Remains of one
Who possessed Beauty without Vanity,
Strength without Insolence,
Courage without Ferocity,
And all the Virtues of Man without his Vices.
This Praise, which would be unmeaning Flattery
If inscribed over human ashes,
Is but a just tribute to the Memory of
~ George Gordon, Lord Byron ~
- 4 InvisibleSun 11:05, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 15:03, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 18:35, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
Great Galileo was debarr'd the Sun
Because he fix'd it; and, to stop his talking,
How Earth could round the solar orbit run,
Found his own legs embargo'd from mere walking:
The man was well-nigh dead, ere men begun
To think his skull had not some need of caulking;
But now, it seems, he's right — his notion just:
No doubt a consolation to his dust.
~ George Gordon, Lord Byron ~
- 3 InvisibleSun 11:05, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Kalki 15:03, 21 January 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 18:35, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
