March 10

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Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004
Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. ~ Carl Jung
2005
A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses. ~ Eric Berne
2006
All that separates, whether of race, class, creed, or sex, is inhuman, and must be overcome. ~ Kate Sheppard (born 10 March 1847)
2007
I'm not aware of too many things.
I know what I know if you know what I mean.
~ Edie Brickell ~
2008
We are tired of having a "sphere" doled out to us, and of being told that anything outside that sphere is "unwomanly". We want to be natural just for a change … we must be ourselves at all risks. ~ Kate Sheppard
2009
In men whom men condemn as ill
I find so much of goodness still,
In men whom men pronounce divine
I find so much of sin and blot,
I do not dare to draw a line
Between the two, where God has not.
~ Joaquin Miller ~
2010
I don't believe in hatred anymore.
I hate to think of how it felt before
When anger overwhelms your very soul
It's hard to realize you'll ever know
Love like we do.
~ Edie Brickell ~
2011
Where storm-born shadows hide and hunt
I knew thee, in thy glorious youth,
And loved thy vast face, white as truth;
I stood where thunderbolts were wont
To smite thy Titan-fashioned front,
And heard dark mountains rock and roll;
I saw the lightning's gleaming rod
Reach forth and write on heaven's scroll
The awful autograph of God!
~ Joaquin Miller ~
2012 
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Sail through the sea of sad faces with love.
Love. Love for everyone.
Drift like a little boat on a wave.
~ Edie Brickell ~

Choke me in the shallow water before I get too deep. ~ Edie Brickell

  • 2 Zarbon 16:26, 1 May 2008 (UTC)
  • 1 Kalki 08:05, 7 March 2009 (UTC) interesting line, but in some ways not clearly indicative of the full point of the song.
  • 2 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
  • 2 InvisibleSun 22:14, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

What I am is what I am. Are you what you are — or what?
~ Edie Brickell ~

  • 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 04:02, 2 March 2011 (UTC) 4 Kalki 08:05, 7 March 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4, major point of her most famous song.
  • 1 Zarbon 19:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
  • 3 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
  • 3 InvisibleSun 22:14, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate,
That few but such as cannot write, translate.
~ John Denham (date of birth unknown/date of death)

Books should to one of these four ends conduce,
For wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
~ John Denham

Youth, what man's age is like to be doth show,
We may our ends by our beginnings know.
~ John Denham

  • 3 and leaning toward 4 because inside the youth is hidden the man of tomorrow. Zarbon 19:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
  • 3 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
  • 3 Kalki 21:11, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
  • 2 InvisibleSun 22:14, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Search not to find what lies too deeply hid,
Nor to know things, whose knowledge is forbid.
~ John Denham

  • 3 or in other words, don't mess with what you shouldn't. Zarbon 19:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
  • 3 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
  • 2 Kalki 21:11, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
  • 2 InvisibleSun 22:14, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

But whither am I strayed? I need not raise
Trophies to thee from other men's dispraise;
Nor is thy fame on lesser ruins built;
Nor needs thy juster title the foul guilt
Of Eastern kings, who, to secure their reign,
Must have their brothers, sons, and kindred slain.
~ John Denham

The very clouds have wept and died
And only God is in the sky. ~ Joaquin Miller

  • 2 Zarbon 19:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
  • 3 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
  • 3 Kalki 21:11, 9 March 2009 (UTC) with a slight lean toward 4.

Men are like steel. When they lose their temper, they lose their worth. ~ Chuck Norris

Let justice be done, though the world perish. ~ Ferdinand I

  • 2 Zarbon 19:45, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
  • 3 UDScott 19:57, 9 March 2009 (UTC)
  • 3 Kalki 21:11, 9 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
  • 3 InvisibleSun 22:14, 9 March 2009 (UTC)

Oh, Lord! You've been wid me in six troubles, don't desert me in the seventh! ~ Harriet Tubman (date of birth unknown/date of death)

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