September 16
2003
- One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power. ~ Human, All Too Human by Friedrich Nietzsche
- selected by Nanobug
2004
- The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. ~ Wilhelm Stekel
- selected by Kalki
2005
- A planned life is a dead life. ~ Lauren Bacall (born 16 September 1924)
- proposed by Kalki
2006
- The public does not like you to mislead or represent yourself to be something you're not. And the other thing that the public really does like is the self-examination to say, you know, I'm not perfect. I'm just like you. They don't ask their public officials to be perfect. They just ask them to be smart, truthful, honest, and show a modicum of good sense. ~ Ann Richards (recent death)
- proposed by Kalki
2007
- Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense. ~ Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (born 16 September 1678)
- proposed by David
2008
- It is the modest, not the presumptuous, inquirer who makes a real and safe progress in the discovery of divine truths. One follows Nature and Nature's God; that is, he follows God in his works and in his word. ~ Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (born 16 September 1678)
- proposed by Dbiv
2009
- Descend, descend, Urania, speak
To men in their own tongue!
Leave not the breaking heart to break
Because thine own is strong.
This is the law, in dream and deed,
That heaven must walk on earth!
O, shine upon the humble creed
That holds the heavenly birth.
~ Alfred Noyes ~- proposed by Kalki
2010
Suggestions
We have believed and we do believe now that freedom is indivisible, that peace is indivisible, that economic prosperity is indivisible. ~ Mahatma Gandhi- 2 Kalki 22:40, 15 September 2005 (UTC) A good quote, which I would rank higher on other days, but it has no clear correlation with the date and thus is not likely to become preferred over any good ones which do.
- 2 InvisibleSun 08:22, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 23:02, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly. ~ Lauren Bacall (date of birth)
- 3 Kalki 22:40, 15 September 2005 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
- 2 InvisibleSun 08:22, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 23:02, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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Nations, like men, have their infancy. ~ Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke (born 16 September 1678)
- 4. David | Talk 21:10, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 08:22, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
- 1 Kalki 23:42, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
* 2 Kalki 00:26, 15 September 2007 (UTC)Very true, but not profoundly striking of itself. - 2 Zarbon 23:02, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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Faithfulness to the truth of history involves far more than a research, however patient and scrupulous, into special facts. Such facts may be detailed with the most minute exactness, and yet the narrative, taken as a whole, may be unmeaning or untrue. The narrator must seek to imbue himself with the life and spirit of the time. He must study events in their bearings near and remote; in the character, habits, and manners of those who took part in them, he must himself be, as it were, a sharer or a spectator of the action he describes. ~ Francis Parkman (born September 16, 1823)
- 3 InvisibleSun 04:23, 15 September 2007 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 23:02, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 23:38, 15 September 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
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A shadow leaned over me, whispering, in the darkness,
Thoughts without sound ~ Alfred Noyes
- 3 Zarbon 04:03, 9 June 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 23:38, 15 September 2008 (UTC)
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In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence. ~ Laurence J. Peter
- 2.5 Ningauble 00:28, 20 July 2009 (UTC)
- 3 Zarbon 17:53, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
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Yes; as the music changes,
Like a prismatic glass,
It takes the light and ranges
Through all the moods that pass;
Dissects the common carnival
Of passions and regrets,
And gives the world a glimpse of all
The colours it forgets.
~ Alfred Noyes ~
- 3 Kalki 23:42, 15 September 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
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This is the sign we bring you, before the darkness fall,
That Spring is risen, is risen again,
That Life is risen, is risen again,
That Love is risen, is risen again, and
Love is Lord of all.
~ Alfred Noyes ~
- 3 Kalki 23:42, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
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Enough of dreams! No longer mock
The burdened hearts of men!
Not on the cloud, but on the rock
Build thou thy faith again;
O range no more the realms of air,
Stoop to the glen-bound streams;
Thy hope was all too like despair:
Enough, enough of dreams.
~ Alfred Noyes ~
- 3 Kalki 23:42, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
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Heart of my heart, we cannot die!
Love triumphant in flower and tree,
Every life that laughs at the sky
Tells us nothing can cease to be:
One, we are one with the song to-day,
One with the clover that scents the world,
One with the Unknown, far away,
One with the stars, when earth grows old.
~ Alfred Noyes ~
- 3 Kalki 23:42, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
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Heart of my heart, we are one with the wind,
One with the clouds that are whirled o'er the lea,
One in many, O broken and blind,
One as the waves are at one with the sea!
Ay! when life seems scattered apart,
Darkens, ends as a tale that is told,
One, we are one, O heart of my heart,
One, still one, while the world grows old.
~ Alfred Noyes ~
- 3 Kalki 23:42, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
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