September 12
2003
- Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true. ~ Niels Bohr
2004
- The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition. ~ Carl Sagan
2005
- The world always makes the assumption that the exposure of an error is identical with the discovery of the truth — that error and truth are simply opposite. They are nothing of the sort. What the world turns to, when it has been cured of one error, is usually simply another error, and maybe one worse than the first one. ~ H. L. Mencken (born 12 September 1880)
- proposed by Kalki
2006
- When I came back to my native country, after all the stories about Hitler, I couldn't ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted. I wasn't invited to shake hands with Hitler, but I wasn't invited to the White House to shake hands with the President, either. ~ Jesse Owens (born 12 September 1913)
- proposed by Kalki
2007
- Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule — and both commonly succeed, and are right... The United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent. Its history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds. ~ H. L. Mencken (born 12 September 1880)
- proposed by Kalki
2008
- If man had more of a sense of humor, things might have turned out differently. ~ Stanisław Lem (born 12 September 1921)
- proposed by Kalki
2009
- You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads lead down. ~ Stanisław Lem
- proposed by Kalki
2010
Quotations of people born on this date already used elsewhere:
- Explanations exist; they have existed for all times, for there is always an easy solution to every human problems — neat, plausible, and wrong. ~ H. L. Mencken (used on 17 May 2004)
- One horse-laugh is worth ten thousand syllogisms. It is not only more effective; it is also vastly more intelligent. ~ H. L. Mencken (used 20 August 2004)
- Good books tell the truth, even when they're about things that never have been and never will be. They're truthful in a different way. ~ Stanisław Lem (used 29 March 2006)
Suggestions
Dalton McGuinty. He's an evil reptilian kitten eater from another planet. (sorry) ~ Ontario Progressive Conservative Party (from a press release, released this day)- 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 19:11, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
- 1. Quite funny but not really very thought-provoking. David | Talk 23:43, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
- 1 InvisibleSun 00:33, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 22:23, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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Why assume so glibly that the God who presumably created the universe is still running it? It is certainly perfectly conceivable that He may have finished it and then turned it over to lesser gods to operate. In the same way many human institutions are turned over to grossly inferior men. This is true, for example, of most universities, and of all great newspapers.. ~ H. L. Mencken (born 12 September 1880)
- 3 Kalki 21:02, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 00:33, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 22:23, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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We move toward a lofty ideal. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron. ~ H. L. Mencken (born 12 September 1880)
- 3 Kalki 21:02, 9 September 2005 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 00:33, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 22:23, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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People say that it was degrading for an Olympic champion to run against a horse, but what was I supposed to do? I had four gold medals, but you can't eat four gold medals. There was no television, no big advertising, no endorsements then. Not for a black man, anyway. ~ Jesse Owens (born 12 September 1913)
- 3 Kalki 09:42, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 00:33, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 22:23, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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It all goes so fast, and character makes the difference when it's close. ~ Jesse Owens (born 12 September 1913)
- 3 Kalki 08:51, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 20:32, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 22:23, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself — the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us — that's where it's at. ~ Jesse Owens (born 12 September 1913)
- 3 Kalki 08:51, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 20:32, 11 September 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 22:23, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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It is fortunate that each generation does not comprehend its own ignorance. We are thus enabled to call our ancestors barbarous. ~ Charles Dudley Warner
- 3 Zarbon 19:27, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 21:44, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 23:58, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
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Let us celebrate the soil. Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it. ~ Charles Dudley Warner
- 3 Zarbon 19:27, 2 June 2008 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 21:44, 11 September 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 23:58, 11 September 2008 (UTC)