December 8 Quotations

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one; I hope some day you'll join us, and the world will live as one. ~ John Lennon

selected by Kalki

2005

It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers. ~ James Thurber (born 8 December 1894)

proposed by UDScott

2006

May memory restore again and again
The smallest color of the smallest day:
Time is the school in which we learn,
Time is the fire in which we burn.
~ Delmore Schwartz ~ (born 8 December 1913)

proposed by InvisibleSun

2007

A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them. Obviously that can only work at moments. It can't be a lasting thing. That's not saying that people shouldn't keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence. Someday, who knows, we might conquer death, disease and war. ~ Jim Morrison (born 8 December 1943)

proposed by UDScott

2008

The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people — that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. ~ James Thurber

proposed by InvisibleSun

2009

Suggestions

You can check out any time you like
But you can never leave
~ Hotel California, The Eagles (from the Hotel California album, released that day 1976

2 ~ UDScott 23:09, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
2 InvisibleSun 03:11, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
0 Zarbon 15:54, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
3 Kalki 02:09, 29 November 2008 (UTC) but would extend it a bit for context.
2 Antiquary 13:59, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

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There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so. ~ Lucian Freud (born December 8, 1922)

3 InvisibleSun 03:11, 1 December 2006 (UTC)
3 Kalki 21:41, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
2 Zarbon 15:54, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
3 Antiquary 13:59, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

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Force without wisdom falls of its own weight. ~ Horace (born December 8, 65 B.C.)

3 InvisibleSun 07:55, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
3 Kalki 21:41, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
3 Zarbon 15:54, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
3 Antiquary 13:59, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

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The covetous man is ever in want. ~ Horace

3 InvisibleSun 07:55, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
1 Zarbon 15:54, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
3 Kalki 02:09, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
2 Antiquary 13:59, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

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He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time. ~ Horace

3 InvisibleSun 07:55, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
1 Zarbon 15:54, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
2 Kalki 02:09, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
2 Antiquary 13:59, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

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There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else. ~ James Thurber

3 InvisibleSun 07:55, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
3 Kalki 21:41, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
2 Zarbon 15:54, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
3 Antiquary 13:59, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

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Child labor! The child must carry
His fathers on his back.
~ Delmore Schwartz (born December 8, 1913)

3 InvisibleSun 07:55, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
1 Zarbon 15:54, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
2 Kalki 02:09, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
3 Antiquary 13:59, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

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Whence, if ever, shall come the actuality
Of a voice speaking the mind's knowing,
The sunlight bright on the green windowshade,
And the self articulate, affectionate, and flowing,
Ease, warmth, light, the utter showing,
When in the white bed all things are made.
~ Delmore Schwartz

4 InvisibleSun 07:55, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
3 Kalki 21:41, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
1 Zarbon 15:54, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
2 Antiquary 13:59, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

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For we are incomplete and know no future,
And we are howling or dancing out our souls
In beating syllables before the curtain:
We are Shakespearean, we are strangers.
~ Delmore Schwartz

3 InvisibleSun 07:55, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
1 Zarbon 15:54, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
2 Antiquary 13:59, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

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How could I think the brief years were enough
To prove the reality of endless love?
~ Delmore Schwartz

3 Kalki 21:41, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
3 InvisibleSun 22:13, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
2 Zarbon 15:54, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
3 Lyle 21:29, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

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All we are saying is give peace a chance! ~ John Lennon
(Died that die in 1980 after being shot by Mark David Chapman)

3 Kalki 03:49, 4 December 2007 (UTC)
3 InvisibleSun 22:13, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
1 Zarbon 15:54, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
2 Antiquary 13:59, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
3 Lyle 21:29, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

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It is sweet and honorable to die for one's country. ~ Horace

4 Zarbon 04:10, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
2 Kalki 02:09, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
2 Antiquary 13:59, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
2 InvisibleSun 22:40, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

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I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter. ~ Horace

3 Zarbon 04:10, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
3 Kalki 02:09, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
3 Antiquary 13:59, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
3 InvisibleSun 22:40, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
3 Lyle 21:29, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

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I very much consider the Internet a garden, and I'm a gardener, and I plant things in it and I work within the framework of the soil, the seasons, the climate, and the temperature, to produce plants. ~ Mark Pesce

3 Zarbon 04:10, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
2 Kalki 02:09, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
3 Antiquary 13:59, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
3 InvisibleSun 22:40, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

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Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame. ~ Gautama Buddha (Bodhi Day a traditional date of celebration of his enlightenment)

3 Kalki 20:10, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
2 InvisibleSun 22:40, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
3 Zarbon 04:52, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
3 Lyle 21:29, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

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Better than a thousand hollow words
Is one word that brings peace.
Better than a thousand hollow verses
Is one verse that brings peace.
Better than a hundred hollow lines
Is one line of the law, bringing peace.
~ Gautama Buddha (Bodhi Day a traditional date of celebration of his enlightenment)

3 Kalki 20:10, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
3 InvisibleSun 22:40, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
1 this is very repetitive. Zarbon 04:52, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
3 Lyle 21:29, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

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No one saves us but ourselves, no one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path but Buddhas clearly show the way.~ Gautama Buddha (Bodhi Day a traditional date of celebration of his enlightenment)

3 Kalki 20:10, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
3 InvisibleSun 22:40, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
1 Zarbon 04:52, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

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To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom. ~ Horace

3 Kalki 20:10, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
2 InvisibleSun 22:40, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
1 Zarbon 04:52, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

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Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. ~ Horace

3 Kalki 20:10, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
3 InvisibleSun 22:40, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
2 what's been said has been said. Zarbon 04:52, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

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It is difficult to speak of what is common in a way of your own. ~ Horace

3 Kalki 20:10, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
2 InvisibleSun 22:40, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
1 Zarbon 04:52, 8 December 2008 (UTC)
3 Lyle 21:29, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

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He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin! ~ Horace

3 Kalki 20:10, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
3 InvisibleSun 22:40, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
2 because taking a chance counts. Zarbon 04:52, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

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