May 25
2004
- I got some new underwear the other day. Well, new to me. ~ Emo Philips
- selected by Kalki
2005
- If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown! But every night come out these envoys of beauty, and light the universe with their admonishing smile. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (born 25 May 1803)
- selected by Kalki
2006
- They reckon ill who leave me out;
When me they fly, I am the wings;
I am the doubter and the doubt,
And I the hymn the Brahmin sings.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (born 25 May 1803)- selected by Kalki
2007
- Is pain a promise? I was schooled in pain,
And found out what I could of all desire;
I weep for what I'm like when I'm alone
In the deep center of the voice and fire.I know the motion of the deepest stone.
Each one's himself, yet each one's everyone.
~ Theodore Roethke ~- proposed by InvisibleSun
2008
- Any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with. ~ Douglas Adams in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. May 25th is Towel Day
- proposed by IP 70.158.160.6
2009
- You will hear every day the maxims of a low prudence. You will hear, that the first duty is to get land and money, place and name. "What is this Truth you seek? What is this Beauty?" men will ask, with derision. If, nevertheless, God have called any of you to explore truth and beauty, be bold, be firm, be true. When you shall say, "As others do, so will I. I renounce, I am sorry for it, my early visions; I must eat the good of the land, and let learning and romantic expectations go, until a more convenient season." — then dies the man in you; then once more perish the buds of art, and poetry, and science, as they have died already in a thousand thousand men. The hour of that choice is the crisis of your history; and see that you hold yourself fast by the intellect. ... Bend to the persuasion which is flowing to you from every object in Nature, to be its tongue to the heart of man, and to show the besotted world how passing fair is wisdom. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- proposed by Kalki
2010
Suggestions
Remember, the Force will be with you, always. ~ Obi-Wan Kenobi, Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope, released on May 25, 1977.-
3Aphaia 23:43, 12 May 2007 (UTC) - 3 ~ Kalki 06:31, 24 May 2007 (UTC) (but a variant of this has already been used
- 2 I changed my vote to avoid feeling of duplication. --Aphaia 10:10, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 10:04, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
- 2 Herby talk thyme 14:13, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
- 1 If only it were as compelling as something Darth Sidious said in Episode III Zarbon 05:39, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Lyle 14:45, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
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Death was not. I lived in a simple drowse:
Hands and hair moved through a dream of wakening blossoms.
Rain sweetened the cave and the dove still called;
The flowers leaned on themselves, the flowers in hollows;
And love, love sang toward.
~ Theodore Roethke (born May 25, 1908)
- 3 InvisibleSun 10:04, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Aphaia 10:10, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 22:52, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 05:39, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Lyle 14:45, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
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- I'll seek my own meekness.
What grace I have is enough.
The lost have their own pace.
The stalks ask something else.
What the grave says,
The nest denies.
~ Theodore Roethke - 3 InvisibleSun 10:04, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Aphaia 10:10, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Herby talk thyme 14:13, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 22:52, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 05:39, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
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The moon draws back its waters from the shore.
By the lake's edge, I see a silver swan,
And she is what I would. In this light air,
Lost opposites bend down —
Sing of that nothing of which all is made,
Or listen into silence, like a god.
~ Theodore Roethke
- 3 InvisibleSun 10:04, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Aphaia 10:10, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 22:52, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 05:39, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
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I have gone into the waste lonely places
Behind the eye.
~ Theodore Roethke
- 3 InvisibleSun 10:04, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Herby talk thyme 14:13, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 05:39, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
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God bless the roots! — Body and soul are one!
The small become the great, the great the small;
The right thing happens to the happy man.
~ Theodore Roethke
- 3 InvisibleSun 10:04, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Aphaia 10:10, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Herby talk thyme 14:13, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 22:52, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 05:39, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Lyle 14:45, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
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I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow.
I feel my fate in what I cannot fear.
I learn by going where I have to go.
~ Theodore Roethke ~
- 3 Kalki 16:36, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
* 4 Kalki 22:52, 24 May 2007 (UTC)but still with a lean toward 4. - 1 Zarbon 05:39, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Lyle 14:45, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 22:11, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
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Try not. Do, or do not, there is no try. ~Master Yoda, as played by Frank Oz (born May 25, 1944) Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back
- 4 Lyle 14:45, 21 November 2008 (UTC)
- 0 this was already used on October 17, 2004. Zarbon 05:02, 22 November 2008 (UTC)
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Don't put your trust in revolutions. They always come around again. That's why they're called revolutions. People die, and nothing changes. ~ Terry Pratchett, Night Watch, for Lilac Day
- 4 Sketchmoose 20:41, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 16:32, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 02:41, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 22:11, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
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Ninety per cent of most magic merely consists of knowing one extra fact. ~ Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
- 3 Sketchmoose 20:41, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 16:32, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 02:41, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 22:11, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
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People on the side of The People always ended up disappointed, in any case. They found that The People tended not to be grateful or appreciative or forward-thinking or obedient. The People tended to be small-minded and conservative and not very clever and were even distrustful of cleverness. And so the children of the revolution were faced with the age-old problem: it wasn't that you had the wrong kind of government, which was obvious, but that you had the wrong kind of people.
As soon as you saw people as things to be measured, they didn't measure up... ~ Terry Pratchett, Night Watch
- 3 Sketchmoose 20:41, 24 April 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 23:57, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
* 3 Kalki 16:32, 19 May 2009 (UTC) - 3 Zarbon 02:41, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 22:11, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
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The less government we have, the better, — the fewer laws, and the less confided power. The antidote to this abuse of formal Government, is, the influence of private character, the growth of the Individual. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 3 Kalki 16:32, 19 May 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
- 2 Zarbon 02:41, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 22:11, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
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To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men, — that is genius. Speak your latent conviction, and it shall be the universal sense; for the inmost in due time becomes the outmost, — and our first thought is rendered back to us by the trumpets of the Last Judgment. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 3 Kalki 16:32, 19 May 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 02:41, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 22:11, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
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Whosoever hereafter shall name my name, shall not record a malefactor, but a benefactor in the earth. If there be power in good intention, in fidelity, and in toil, the north wind shall be purer, the stars in heaven shall glow with a kindlier beam, that I have lived. I am primarily engaged to myself to be a public servant of all the gods, to demonstrate to all men that there is intelligence and good will at the heart of things, and ever higher and yet higher leadings. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 3 Kalki 16:32, 19 May 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
- 2 Zarbon 02:41, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 22:11, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
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To speak truly, few adult persons can see nature. Most persons do not see the sun. At least they have a very superficial seeing. The sun illuminates only the eye of the man, but shines into the eye and the heart of the child. The lover of nature is he whose inward and outward senses are still truly adjusted to each other; who has retained the spirit of infancy even into the era of manhood. His intercourse with heaven and earth, becomes part of his daily food. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 3 Kalki 16:32, 19 May 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
- 2 Zarbon 02:41, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 22:11, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
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The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible; but all natural objects make a kindred impression, when the mind is open to their influence. Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection. Nature never became a toy to a wise spirit. The flowers, the animals, the mountains, reflected the wisdom of his best hour, as much as they had delighted the simplicity of his childhood. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 3 Kalki 16:32, 19 May 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
- 1 Zarbon 02:41, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 22:11, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
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I have been writing & speaking what were once called novelties, for twenty five or thirty year, & have not now one disciple. Why? Not that what I said was not true; not that it has not found intelligent receivers but because it did not go from any wish in me to bring men to me, but to themselves. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 3 Kalki 16:32, 19 May 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
- 3 Zarbon 02:41, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 22:11, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
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Be an artist superior to tricks of art. Show frankly, as a saint would do, all your experience, your methods, tools, and means. Welcome all comers to the freest use of the same. And out of this superior frankness and charity, you shall learn higher secrets of your nature, which gods will bend and aid you to communicate. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 3 Kalki 16:32, 19 May 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
- 3 Zarbon 02:41, 20 May 2009 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 22:11, 24 May 2009 (UTC)
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