September 2
2003
- Ars longa, vita brevis. (Art is long, life is short.) ~ Horace
- selected by Nanobug
2004
- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~ George Bernard Shaw
- selected by Kalki
2005
- Speak softly and carry a big stick. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
- proposed by MosheZadka: First public use of the phrase by Roosevelt in a speech at the Minnesota State Fair (2 September 1901)
2006
- Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process. ~ Salma Hayek (born 2 September 1966)
- proposed by Kalki
2007
- There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood. ~ Paul Bourget (born 2 September 1852)
- proposed by Kalki
2008
- The first casualty when war comes is truth. ~ Hiram Johnson (born 2 September 1866)
- proposed by Zarbon
2009
- If thinking men are few, they are for that reason all the more powerful. Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power. ~ Henry George (born 2 September 1839)
- proposed by Zarbon
2010
Suggestions
Vietnam is a country, not a war ~ Le Van Bang, former Vietnamese Ambassador to the United States- 3 - for Vietnamese National Day. LordAmeth 18:48, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 23:58, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 21:51, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 21:54, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
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We to a little ale-house on the Bankside, over against the Three Cranes, and there stayed till it was dark almost, and saw the fire grow; and, as it grew darker, appeared more and more, and in corners and upon steeples, and between churches and houses, as far as we could see up the hill of the City, in a most horrid malicious bloody flame, not like the fine flame of an ordinary fire... We stayed till, it being darkish, we saw the fire as only one entire arch of fire from this to the other side the bridge, and in a bow up the hill for an arch of above a mile long: it made me weep to see it. ~ Samuel Pepys (diary entry, September 2, 1666, the first day of the Great Fire of London)
- 3 InvisibleSun 19:44, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 22:59, 1 September 2007 (UTC) 2 as it stands, but I would rank it a 3 if it were trimmed to the most essential line: "We stayed till, it being darkish, we saw the fire as only one entire arch of fire from this to the other side the bridge, and in a bow up the hill for an arch of above a mile long: it made me weep to see it."
- 1 Zarbon 21:51, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
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There are some surely whom you like and whom you dislike, for whom you entertain esteem and for whom you feel contempt? Have you not thought that you have some duties toward them, that you can aid them in leading better lives? ~ Paul Bourget
- 3 Kalki 09:07, 2 September 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
- 1 Zarbon 21:51, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 21:54, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
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The forests have taught man liberty. ~ Paul Bourget
- 3 Kalki 09:07, 2 September 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
- 2 Zarbon 21:51, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 21:54, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
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At certain moments, words are nothing; it is the tone in which they are uttered. ~ Paul Bourget
- 4 Zarbon 04:57, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 00:22, 1 September 2009 (UTC)
* 3 Kalki 00:24, 1 September 2008 (UTC) - 3 InvisibleSun 21:54, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
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There is no such thing as an age for love ... because the man capable of loving — in the complex and modern sense of love as a sort of ideal exaltation — never ceases to love. ~ Paul Bourget
- 2 Zarbon 04:57, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 00:24, 1 September 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
- 3 InvisibleSun 21:54, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
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More is given to us than to any people at any time before; and, therefore, more is required of us. We have made, and still are making, enormous advances on material lines. It is necessary that we commensurately advance on moral lines. Civilization, as it progresses, requires a higher conscience, a keener sense of justice, a warmer brotherhood, a wider, loftier, truer public spirit. Falling these, civilization must pass into destruction. It cannot be maintained on the ethics of savagery. ~ Henry George
- 3 Kalki 14:17, 1 September 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
- 2 Zarbon 04:12, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
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The great work of the present for every man, and every organization of men, who would improve social conditions, is the work of education — the propagation of ideas. It is only as it aids this that anything else can avail. ~ Henry George
- 3 Kalki 14:17, 1 September 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
- 3 Zarbon 04:12, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
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Whoever becomes imbued with a noble idea kindles a flame from which other torches are lit, and influences those with whom he comes in contact, be they few or many. How far that influence, thus perpetuated, may extend, it is not given to him here to see. ~ Henry George
- 3 Kalki 14:17, 1 September 2009 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
- 2 Zarbon 04:12, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
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Social reform is not to be secured by noise and shouting; by complaints and denunciation; by the formation of parties, or the making of revolutions; but by the awakening of thought and the progress of ideas. Until there be correct thought, there cannot be right action; and when there is correct thought, right action will follow. Power is always in the hands of the masses of men. What oppresses the masses is their own ignorance, their own short-sighted selfishness. ~ Henry George
- 3 Kalki 14:17, 1 September 2009 (UTC) with a VERY strong lean toward 4.
- 2 Zarbon 04:12, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
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To prevent government from becoming corrupt and tyrannous, its organization and methods should be as simple as possible, its functions be restricted to those necessary to the common welfare, and in all its parts it should be kept as close to the people and as directly within their control as may be. ~ Henry George
- 4 Kalki 14:29, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 04:12, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
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its in rooms like this one with no windows... that we prepare our gestures so that we may best present them frightened in the face of death. -Clarice Starlin "Silence of the Lambs"