April 13

April 13 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * Rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not add "within the limits of the law" because law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the rights of the individual. ~ Thomas Jefferson (born 13 April 1743 (N.S.))
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. ~ Thomas Jefferson
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2007
 * The secular state is the guarantee of religious pluralism. This apparent paradox, again, is the simplest and most elegant of political truths. ~ Christopher Hitchens
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2008
 * If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. ~ Thomas Jefferson
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2009
 * I have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man. ~ Thomas Jefferson
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * History says don't hope On this side of the grave. But then, once in a lifetime The longed for tidal wave Of justice can rise up And hope and history rhyme. So hope for a great sea-change on the far side of revenge. Believe that a further shore is reachable from here. Believe in miracles and cures and healing wells. ~ Seamus Heaney ~
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2011
 * There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive. ~ Thomas Jefferson
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012
 * A desperate disease requires a dangerous remedy. ~ Guy Fawkes
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2015


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2016


 * proposed by Nuktut


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by InvisibleSun in 2007 in a shorter form; a more extensive form proposed in 2018 by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki ; recent remarks regarding the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:


 * We are not afraid to follow truth wherever it may lead, nor to tolerate any error so long as reason is left free to combat it. ~ Thomas Jefferson
 * used 21 December 2003, selected by Kalki

Suggestions
Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea. ~ Samuel Beckett (born April 13, 1906)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:35, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 09:12, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:45, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

These things I say, and shall say, if I can, are no longer, or are not yet, or never were, or never will be, or if they were, if they are, if they will be, were not here, are not here, will not be here, but elsewhere. ~ Samuel Beckett
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:35, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 09:10, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:45, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Perhaps it's done already, perhaps they have said me already, perhaps they have carried me to the threshold of my story, before the door that opens on my story, that would surprise me, if it opens, it will be I, it will be the silence, where I am, I don't know, I'll never know, in the silence you don't know, you must go on, I can't go on, I'll go on. ~ Samuel Beckett
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:35, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 09:10, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:45, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

The fact is that serious trials and fearless investigations often are the cause of great division, and rightly so. ~ Christopher Hitchens (born April 13, 1949)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:35, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 13:58, 11 April 2007 (UTC) with a slight lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 23:45, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

All the excitements of a prohibited book had their usual effect, one of which, as always, is to expose the fact that the censors don't know what they are talking about. ~ Christopher Hitchens
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:35, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:45, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 21:57, 10 April 2010 (UTC)

Yes, in my life, since we must call it so, there were three things, the inability to speak, the inability to be silent, and solitude, that’s what I’ve had to make the best of. ~ Samuel Beckett
 * 3 Kalki 13:58, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 15:40, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:45, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

We are all born mad. Some remain so. ~ Samuel Beckett
 * 3 Kalki 13:58, 11 April 2007 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 15:40, 11 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 23:45, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

God is a foreman with certain definite views Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure. ~ Seamus Heaney
 * 3 Zarbon 05:21, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 05:44, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:46, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

In conclusion, if you want to unravel the multitude of secrets of chess then don't begrudge the time. ~ Garry Kasparov
 * 3 Zarbon 05:21, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 05:44, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2. Would not include the first two words. - InvisibleSun 22:46, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Alekhine's attacks came suddenly, like destructive thunderstorms that erupted from a clear sky. ~ Garry Kasparov
 * 2 Zarbon 05:21, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 21:57, 10 April 2010 (UTC) 2 Kalki 05:44, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

The most completely wasted of all days is that in which we have not laughed. ~ Nicolas Chamfort
 * 3 Zarbon 05:21, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 05:44, 8 April 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3 or even 4.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:46, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

Anyone who has no character is not a man, but a thing. ~ Nicolas Chamfort
 * 3 Zarbon 05:21, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 05:44, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:46, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

The only thing that stops God sending a second Flood is that the first one was useless. ~ Nicolas Chamfort
 * 4 Zarbon 05:21, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 05:44, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:46, 12 April 2009 (UTC)

A good snapshot stops a moment from running away. ~ Eudora Welty
 * 2 Zarbon 05:21, 8 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 05:44, 8 April 2009 (UTC)

Name me an ethical statement made or an action performed by a believer that could not have been made or performed by a non-believer. ~ Christopher Hitchens
 * 2.5 DanielTom (talk) 14:33, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:51, 11 April 2014 (UTC)

Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way. ~ Christopher Hitchens
 * 3 DanielTom (talk) 14:33, 27 January 2014 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:51, 11 April 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 20:17, 3 December 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.


 * 3. – Illegitimate Barrister, 13:31, 13 September 2015 (UTC)


 * 3. – Illegitimate Barrister, 05:42, 22 January 2016 (UTC)


 * Originally suggested at 21 March, but also moved here as a more appropriate date.

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. ~ Samuel Ullman
 * 2 Zarbon 03:13, 14 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 01:16, 21 March 2020 (UTC) 2 Kalki 22:55, 20 March 2009 (UTC), with but corrected to read:
 * Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, a quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.


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 * Nec tumulum curo. Sepelit natura relictos.
 * I want no tomb; for Nature doth provide For outcast bodies burial. ~ Gaius Maecenas (birthday)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 04:44, 24 May 2024 (UTC)


 * Debilem facito manu, debilem pede, coxo, tuber adstrue gibberum, lubricos quate dentis: vita dum superest, bene est.
 * Fashion me with a palsied hand, Weak of foot, and a cripple; Build upon me a crook-backed hump; Shake my teeth till they rattle; All is well, if my life remains. Save, oh, save it, I pray you, Though I sit on the piercing cross! ~ Gaius Maecenas (birthday)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 04:44, 24 May 2024 (UTC)