January 29
2004
- I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow human being let me do it now. Let me not defer nor neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again. ~ Stephen Grellet
- selected by Kalki
2005
- Time's glory is to command contending kings,
To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light.
~ William Shakespeare ~- selected by Kalki
2006
- Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring — it was peace. ~ Milan Kundera
- selected by Kalki — 29 January 2006 is the start of the Chinese New Year 4704, a "Year of the Dog".
2007
- I speak an open and disinterested language, dictated by no passion but that of humanity. To me, who have not only refused offers, because I thought them improper, but have declined rewards I might with reputation have accepted, it is no wonder that meanness and imposition appear disgustful. Independence is my happiness, and I view things as they are, without regard to place or person; my country is the world, and my religion is to do good. ~ Thomas Paine
- proposed by Kalki
2008
- The fear of freedom is strong in us. We call it chaos or anarchy, and the words are threatening. We live in a true chaos of contradicting authorities, an age of conformism without community, of proximity without communication. We could only fear chaos if we imagined that it was unknown to us, but in fact we know it very well. ~ Germaine Greer (born 29 January 1939)
- proposed by InvisibleSun
2009
- The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one's obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all. ~ John Updike (recent death)
- proposed by Kalki
2010
Suggestions
Man is not the enemy of man but through the medium of a false system of government. ~ Thomas Paine (born January 29, 1737)- 3 InvisibleSun 14:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 00:14, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
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Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer, or are exposed to the same miseries BY A GOVERNMENT, which we might expect in a country WITHOUT GOVERNMENT, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by which we suffer. ~ Thomas Paine
- 3 InvisibleSun 14:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 23:12, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind, as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe, he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime. ~ Thomas Paine
- 3 InvisibleSun 14:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 00:29, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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Every science has for its basis a system of principles as fixed and unalterable as those by which the universe is regulated and governed. Man cannot make principles, he can only discover them. ~ Thomas Paine
- 3 InvisibleSun 14:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 23:12, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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People who live alone always have something on their minds that they would willingly share. ~ Anton Chekhov (born January 29, 1860)
- 3 InvisibleSun 14:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 00:14, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
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Medicine is my lawful wife and literature is my mistress. When I get tired of one I spend the night with the other. Though it's disorderly it's not so dull, and besides, neither really loses anything through my infidelity. ~ Anton Chekhov
- 3 InvisibleSun 14:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 00:14, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
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He who doesn’t know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master; the interests of public life are alien to anyone who is unable to enjoy others’ successes, and such a person should never be entrusted with public affairs. ~ Anton Chekhov
- 3 InvisibleSun 14:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 23:12, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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Despicable means used to achieve laudable goals render the goals themselves despicable. ~ Anton Chekhov
- 3 InvisibleSun 14:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 00:14, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
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The person who wants nothing, hopes for nothing, and fears nothing can never be an artist. ~ Anton Chekhov
- 3 InvisibleSun 14:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 00:29, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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We're all undesireable elements from somebody's point of view. ~ Edward Abbey (born January 29, 1927)
- 3 InvisibleSun 14:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 23:12, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may not ever need to go there. ~ Edward Abbey
- 3 InvisibleSun 14:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- 3 ~ Kalki 23:12, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- 3 because it's true. People want many things although they may never need them. It's a perplex explanation of the human spirit and the will for things, and refuge would suffice as a perfect example, for someone to want to have it regardless of ever needing it. Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only home we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need — if only we had the eyes to see. ~ Edward Abbey
- 3 InvisibleSun 14:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- 3 ~ Kalki 00:29, 29 January 2007 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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Next time round Hitler will be a machine. ~ Germaine Greer
- 3 InvisibleSun 14:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 00:14, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
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Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace, and wit, reminders of order, calm, and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark. The pleasure they give is steady, unorgastic, reliable, deep, and long-lasting. In any library in the world, I am at home, unselfconscious, still, and absorbed. ~ Germaine Greer
- 3 InvisibleSun 14:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- 3 ~ Kalki 23:12, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living. ~ Germaine Greer
- 3 InvisibleSun 14:15, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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When a person doesn’t understand something, he feels internal discord: however he doesn’t search for that discord in himself, as he should, but searches outside of himself. Thence a war develops with that which he doesn’t understand. ~ Anton Chekhov
- 3 Kalki 23:12, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 23:21, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
- 3 because people search for fault in others when it may lie in themselves. Very true and very well said, climactic. Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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Thought and beauty, like a hurricane or waves, should not know conventional, delimited forms. ~ Anton Chekhov (born 29 January 1860)
- 3 Kalki 23:12, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 23:21, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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It’s not a matter of old or new forms; a person writes without thinking about any forms, he writes because it flows freely from his soul. ~ Anton Chekhov
- 3 Kalki 23:12, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 23:21, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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Each of us is full of too many wheels, screws and valves to permit us to judge one another on a first impression or by two or three external signs. ~ Anton Chekhov
- 3 Kalki 23:12, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 23:21, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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A long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. ~ Thomas Paine (born 29 January 1737)
- 3 Kalki 23:12, 28 January 2007 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 23:21, 27 January 2008 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 19:21, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
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Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something. ~ Anton Chekhov
- 4 Zarbon 06:18, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 00:14, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 21:22, 28 January 2009 (UTC)
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