September 13
2004
- He, who will not reason, is a bigot; he, who cannot, is a fool; and he, who dares not, is a slave. ~ William Drummond
- selected by Kalki
2005
- Miss Manners does not mind explaining the finer points of gracious living, but she feels that anyone without the sense to pick up a potato chip and stuff it in their face should probably not be running around loose on the streets. ~ Judith Martin, widely known as "Miss Manners" (born 13 September 1938)
- proposed by MosheZadka
2006
- What I need is a good defense
'Cause I'm feeling like a criminal
And I need to be redeemed
To the one I've sinned against
Because he's all I ever knew of love.
~ Fiona Apple ~ (born 13 September 1977)- proposed by Kalki
2007
- Worldly renown is naught but a breath of wind, which now comes this way and now comes that, and changes name because it changes quarter. ~ Dante Alighieri (died 13 or 14 September 1321)
- proposed by Kalki
2008
- Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. ~ Roald Dahl
- proposed by Zarbon
2009
- By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent,
And what to those we give, to Jove is lent.
~ Alexander Pope,
in his interpretation of
The Odyssey by Homer- proposed by Kalki (in relation to the legendary date of the dedication of the Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill on the ides of September, 13 September 509 BC)
2010
Suggestions
It is very difficult to phone people in China, Mr. President, the country is so full of Wings and Wongs, every time you wing you get the wong number. ~ Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, RD was born this day.- 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 19:27, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
- 1 ~ Kalki 10:48, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 22:27, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason — you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions. ~ Desiderius Erasmus (The temple of Jupiter on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September, 13 September 509 BC)
- 3 Kalki 10:48, 10 September 2006 (UTC) briefly ranked this a 4 in 2009, but kept options open for any better quotes on Jupiter or the temple, which I eventually found.
- 2 InvisibleSun 00:38, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 22:27, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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Love, which absolves no beloved one from loving, seized me so strongly with his charm that, as thous seest, it does not leave me yet. ~ Dante Alighieri (died 13 or 14 September 1321)
- 3 Kalki 10:48, 10 September 2006 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
- 3 InvisibleSun 00:38, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 22:27, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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A speech is entertaining only when serenely detached from all information. ~ Henry Fountain Ashurst (born September 13, 1874)
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- 2 Kalki 00:06, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 22:27, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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Poets say science takes away from the beauty of the stars — mere globs of gas atoms. Nothing is "mere". I too can see the stars on a desert night, and feel them. But do I see less or more? The vastness of the heavens stretches my imagination — stuck on this carousel my little eye can catch one-million-year-old light. A vast pattern — of which I am a part... What is the pattern or the meaning or the why? It does not do harm to the mystery to know a little more about it. For far more marvelous is the truth than any artists of the past imagined it. Why do the poets of the present not speak of it? What men are poets who can speak of Jupiter if he were a man, but if he is an immense spinning sphere of methane and ammonia must be silent? ~ Richard Feynman
- 3 Kalki 20:29, 12 September 2009 (UTC) in relation to the Temple of Jupiter. I might eventually rank this higher, but most of it has previously been used as a quote of the day.
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To the dread rattling thunder
Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak
With his own bolt; the strong-bas'd promontory
Have I made shake, and by the spurs pluck'd up
The pine and cedar. Graves at my command,
Have wak'd their sleepers, op'd, and let 'em forth,
By my so potent art. But this rough magic
I here abjure; and, when I have requir'd
Some heavenly music — which even now I do, —
To work mine end upon their senses that
This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff,
Bury it certain fathoms in the earth,
And, deeper than did ever plummet sound,
I'll drown my book.
~ William Shakespeare in The Tempest ~
- 3 Kalki 20:29, 12 September 2009 (UTC) in relation to the Temple of Jupiter.
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Your entire universe will not be enough to make me guilty. You are the king of the Gods, Jupiter, the king of the stones and of the stars, the king of the waves of the sea. But you are not the king of men. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
- 3 Kalki 20:29, 12 September 2009 (UTC) in relation to the Temple of Jupiter.
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Ask me no more where Jove bestows,
When June is past, the fading rose;
For in your beauties, orient deep
These flow'rs, as in their causes, steep.
~ Thomas Carew ~
- 3 Kalki 20:29, 12 September 2009 (UTC) in relation to the Temple of Jupiter.
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ZEUS, n. The chief of Grecian gods, adored by the Romans as Jupiter and by the modern Americans as God, Gold, Mob and Dog. Some explorers who have touched upon the shores of America, and one who professes to have penetrated a considerable distance to the interior, have thought that these four names stand for as many distinct deities, but in his monumental work on Surviving Faiths, Frumpp insists that the natives are monotheists, each having no other god than himself, whom he worships under many sacred names. ~ Ambrose Bierce
- 3 Kalki 20:29, 12 September 2009 (UTC) in relation to the Temple of Jupiter.
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Where is the key that locked these gates of speech,
Once beautiful, where thought stood sentinel,
Where sweetness sat, where wisdom passed, to teach
Our weakness strength, our homage to compel?
Despoiled at last, and waste and barren lies
This once so rich domain. Where lives and moves,
In what new world, the splendor of these eyes
That dauntless lightened like imperial Jove's?
~ Sarah Orne Jewett ~
- 3 Kalki 00:20, 13 September 2009 (UTC) in relation to the Temple of Jupiter.
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Something there is more immortal even than the stars,
(Many the burials, many the days and nights, passing away,)
Something that shall endure longer even than lustrous Jupiter
Longer than sun or any revolving satellite,
Or the radiant sisters the Pleiades.
~ Walt Whitman in Leaves of Grass ~
- 3 Kalki 17:29, 13 September 2009 (UTC) in relation to the Temple of Jupiter, with a very strong lean toward 4.
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