April 20

April 20 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped. ~ Elbert Hubbard
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope, John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me, a simple and humble worker in the Lord's vineyard. The fact that the Lord can work and act even with insufficient means consoles me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers. ~ Pope Benedict XVI (recent papal election)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * Oh, the comfort — the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person — having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together; certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then with the breath of kindness blow the rest away. ~ Dinah Craik (born 20 April 1826)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2007
 * It may often be noticed, the less virtuous people are, the more they shrink away from the slightest whiff of the odour of un-sanctity. The good are ever the most charitable, the pure are the most brave. ~ Dinah Craik
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * The true secret in being a hero lies in knowing the order of things. … Things must happen when it is time for them to happen. Quests may not simply be abandoned; prophecies may not be left to rot like unpicked fruit; unicorns may go unrescued for a very long time, but not forever. The happy ending cannot come in the middle of the story. ~ Peter S. Beagle in The Last Unicorn
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * Let every one of us cultivate, in every word that issues from our mouth, absolute truth. I say cultivate, because to very few people — as may be noticed of most young children — does truth, this rigid, literal veracity, come by nature. To many, even who love it and prize it dearly in others, it comes only after the self-control, watchfulness, and bitter experience of years. ~ Dinah Craik
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * Schmendrick stepped out into the open and said a few words. They were short words, undistinguished either by melody or harshness, and Schmendrick himself could not hear them for the Red Bull's dreadful bawling. But he knew what they meant, and he knew exactly how to say them, and he knew that he could say them again when he wanted to, in the same way or in a different way. Now he spoke them gently and with joy, and as did so he felt his immortality fall from him like an armour, or like a shroud. ~ Peter S. Beagle in The Last Unicorn
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * Society, in the aggregate, is no fool. It is astonishing what an amount of "eccentricity" it will stand from anybody who takes the bull by the horns, too fearless or too indifferent to think of consequences. ~ Dinah Craik
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012
 * Awakener, come! Fling wide the gate of an eternal year, The April of that glad new heavens and earth Which shall grow out of these, as spring-tide grows Slow out of winter's breast. Let Thy wide hand Gather us all — with none left out (O God! Leave Thou out none!) from the east and from the west. Loose Thou our burdens: heal our sicknesses; Give us one heart, one tongue, one faith, one love. In Thy great Oneness made complete and strong — To do Thy work throughout the happy world — Thy world, All-merciful, Thy perfect world. ~ Dinah Craik ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


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 * 2015


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 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki, in regard to 420 (cannabis culture).


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki; a bit over fourscore years ago, HItler began his invasion of Poland with these quite false declarations of noble and peaceful dispositions and intentions — in such ways as have many parallels with other aggressive dictators throughout the ages, unto the present times.


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:
 * The god of war has gone over to the other side. ~ Adolf Hitler
 * used 30 April 2010, proposed by Zarbon

Suggestions
If freedom is short of weapons, we must compensate with willpower. ~ Adolf Hitler (born April 20)
 * 3 Zarbon 06:12, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 17:13, 19 April 2008 (UTC) The statements and innumerable hypocrisies of Hitler are not such things as if find to be great material for qoute of the day.

Life never forgives weaknesses. ~ Adolf Hitler (born April 20)
 * 3 Zarbon 06:12, 18 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 17:13, 19 April 2008 (UTC) I might have some desire to use this eventually, but no strong desire to use anything by Hitler for quote of the day.

The rebels are not the despicable rabble too many have supposed them to be. … In all their wars against the French they never showed such conduct, attention, and perseverance as they do now. ~ General Thomas Gage, on the Siege of Boston, which began on 20 April 1776
 * 3 Kalki 20:48, 20 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:58, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

My people are in the world again. No sorrow will live in my heart as long as that joy — save one, and I thank you for that, too. ~ Peter S. Beagle in The Last Unicorn
 * 2 Kalki 00:58, 18 April 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3 or an eventual 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 15:21, 18 April 2009 (UTC)

The Unicorn Sonata … tells us that our true home is often right around the corner, if we'd only open our eyes — and our ears — to find it. ~ Peter S. Beagle
 * 3 Kalki 00:58, 18 April 2009 (UTC) with lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 15:21, 18 April 2009 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 05:33, 17 April 2013 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 05:33, 17 April 2013 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 05:33, 17 April 2013 (UTC)