User:Jeffq/Experiments/QotD: March/7
Quotes of the day from previous years:
- 2004
- May Heaven exist, even if my place is Hell. ~ Jorge Luis Borges
- 2005
- Man is constituted as a speculative being; he contemplates the world, and the objects around him, not with a passive indifferent eye, but as a system disposed with order and design. ~ John Herschel (date of birth)
- 2006
- Burn all the statutes and their shelves:
They stir us up against our kind;
And worse, against ourselves.
We have a passion — make a law,
Too false to guide us or control!
And for the law itself we fight
In bitterness of soul.
And, puzzled, blinded thus, we lose
Distinctions that are plain and few:
These find I graven on my heart:
That tells me what to do.
~ William Wordsworth in "Rob Roy's Grave" ~ (date of Rob Roy's birth)
Suggestions
[edit]- … I will be a sham, but not a snob. I will let every man, woman, or child, no matter how greedy or wicked, claim to have a personal relationship with me. In other words, I will be as arbitrary, inconsistent, ignorant, pushy, and common as humans are, and what more have they ever wanted in a god? ~ the "small god"; "The Visitor" (2002) by Sheri S. Tepper (born March 1, 1968)
- In contrast to my husband, I can pronounce the word nuclear. ~ Laura Welch Bush (March 1, 2005 speech)