April 5

April 5 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it. ~ C.S. Lewis
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them; but they are the money of fools. ~ Thomas Hobbes (born 5 April 1588)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * Do not that to another, which thou wouldest not have done to thy selfe. ~ Thomas Hobbes (born 5 April 1588)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2007
 * The world is fast learning that of all forms of slavery there is none that is so harmful and degrading as that form of slavery which tempts one human being to hate another by reason of his race or color. One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him. ~ Booker T. Washington (born 5 April 1856)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2008
 * I learned the lesson that great men cultivate love, and that only little men cherish a spirit of hatred. I learned that assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; and that oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak. ~ Booker T. Washington
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * God's own hand Holds fast all issues of our deeds: with him The end of all our ends is, but with us Our ends are, just or unjust: though our works Find righteous or unrighteous judgment, this At least is ours, to make them righteous. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible. ~ Colin Powell (born April 5)
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2011
 * At the door of life, by the gate of breath, There are worse things waiting for men than death; Death could not sever my soul and you, As these have severed your soul from me. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne ~
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2012
 * O my Father, if this cup may not pass away from me, except I drink it, thy will be done. ~ Jesus
 * proposed by 99of9


 * 2013
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2016


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki; in regard of the recent acceptance of Finland into NATO.


 * 2024


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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


 * I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. ~ Booker T. Washington
 * used 18 March 2004, selected by Kalki

Suggestions
Man gives indifferent names to one and the same thing from the difference of their own passions; as they that approve a private opinion call it opinion; but they that mislike it, heresy: and yet heresy signifies no more than private opinion. ~ Thomas Hobbes
 * 3 Kalki 12:53, 4 April 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 13:04, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:23, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Such truth as opposeth no man's profit nor pleasure is to all men welcome. ~ Thomas Hobbes
 * 3 Kalki 12:53, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 13:04, 4 April 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 23:23, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most. ~ Colin Powell (born April 5)
 * 3 because everyone can attack, but it takes a man of high caliber to restrain oneself. Zarbon 17:06, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 04:54, 29 March 2009 (UTC) (but this is a quote of Thucydides which Powell used, and should be noted as such — and thus I am inclined to rank at 3 if properly cited.)
 * 2 if credited to Thucydides. - InvisibleSun 22:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude. ~ Colin Powell (born April 5)
 * 3 because this is a principle to live by. Zarbon 17:06, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 04:54, 29 March 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Character, not circumstances, makes the man. ~ Booker T. Washington
 * 3 because everyone can be placed under the same circumstances...but sometimes, it is the man's character that differentiates him from others. Zarbon 04:54, 3 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 04:54, 29 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Before the beginning of years There came to the making of man Time with a gift of tears, Grief with a glass that ran, Pleasure with pain for leaven, Summer with flowers that fell, Remembrance fallen from heaven, And Madness risen from hell, Strength without hands to smite, Love that endures for a breath; Night, the shadow of light, And Life, the shadow of death. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
 * 2 Zarbon 04:16, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:21, 4 April 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3, or eventual 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

When the hounds of spring are on winter's traces, The mother of months in meadow or plain Fills the shadows and windy places With lisp of leaves and ripple of rain. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
 * 3 Zarbon 04:16, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:21, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together In sad or singing weather, Blown fields or flowerful closes, Green pasture or gray grief; If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
 * 3 Zarbon 04:16, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 15:21, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Forget that I remember And dream that I forget. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
 * 3 Zarbon 04:16, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:21, 4 April 2009 (UTC) needs more context.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Dream that the lips once breathless Might quicken if they would; Say that the soul is deathless; Dream that the gods are good; Say March may wed September, And time divorce regret; But not that you remember, And not that I forget. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
 * 3 Zarbon 04:16, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:21, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

For in the days we know not of Did fate begin Weaving the web of days that wove Your doom. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
 * 3 Zarbon 04:16, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:21, 4 April 2009 (UTC) (but would trim the first word, as there really isn't much context here, without the preceding stanza of the poem "Faustine" and the final words of this one.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

I remember the way we parted, The day and the way we met; You hoped we were both broken-hearted And knew we should both forget. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
 * 3 Zarbon 04:16, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:21, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

And the best and the worst of this is That neither is most to blame, If you have forgotten my kisses And I have forgotten your name. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
 * 3 Zarbon 04:16, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:21, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Not with dreams, but with blood and with iron, Shall a nation be moulded at last. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
 * 3 Zarbon 04:16, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:21, 4 April 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Fear that makes faith may break faith. ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
 * 3 and lean toward 4. Zarbon 04:16, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 15:21, 4 April 2009 (UTC) but only if extended to read:
 * Fear that makes faith may break faith; and a fool Is but in folly stable.


 * 3 for the extended quote. - InvisibleSun 22:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Sudden glory is the passion which maketh those grimaces called laughter. ~ Thomas Hobbes
 * 3 Zarbon 04:16, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:21, 4 April 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

To this war of every man against every man, this also is consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues. ~ Thomas Hobbes
 * 3 Zarbon 04:16, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:21, 4 April 2009 (UTC) the full context is not provided by this, but I could rank it a 3 or 4 eventually if extended to read:
 * Though there had never been any time wherein particular men were in a condition of war one against another, yet in all times kings and persons of sovereign authority, because of their independency, are in continual jealousies, and in the state and posture of gladiators, having their weapons pointing, and their eyes fixed on one another; that is, their forts, garrisons, and guns upon the frontiers of their kingdoms, and continual spies upon their neighbours, which is a posture of war. But because they uphold thereby the industry of their subjects, there does not follow from it that misery which accompanies the liberty of particular men. To this war of every man against every man, this also is consequent; that nothing can be unjust. The notions of right and wrong, justice and injustice have there no place. Where there is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.


 * 3 for either form of the quote. - InvisibleSun 22:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

No arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. ~ Thomas Hobbes
 * 3 Zarbon 04:16, 31 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:21, 4 April 2009 (UTC) there is too little context within this and the previous quote to provide clear and proper sense of what Hobbes was actually saying, and I would prefer to extend this considerably to indicate more of that, and in extended form I could rank it a 3 or a 4:
 * Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such condition there is no place for industry, because the fruit thereof is uncertain: and consequently no culture of the earth; no navigation, nor use of the commodities that may be imported by sea; no commodious building; no instruments of moving and removing such things as require much force; no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.


 * 3 for the extended quote. - InvisibleSun 22:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

War consisteth not in battle only, or the act of fighting, but in a tract of time, wherein the will to contend by battle is sufficiently known: and therefore the notion of time is to be considered in the nature of war, as it is in the nature of weather. For as the nature of foul weather lieth not in a shower or two of rain, but in an inclination thereto of many days together: so the nature of war consisteth not in actual fighting, but in the known disposition thereto during all the time there is no assurance to the contrary. All other time is peace. ~ Thomas Hobbes
 * 3 Kalki 15:21, 4 April 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 with a lean toward 2. Zarbon 18:15, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

The passions that incline men to peace are: fear of death; desire of such things as are necessary to commodious living; and a hope by their industry to obtain them. And reason suggesteth convenient articles of peace upon which men may be drawn to agreement. These articles are they which otherwise are called the laws of nature... ~ Thomas Hobbes
 * 3 Kalki 15:21, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 18:15, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

''Being come to flood and fullness now, the tide Is risen in mine as in the sea's own heart To tempest and to triumph. Not for nought Am I that wild wife's bridegroom — old and hoar, Not sapless yet nor soulless.'' ~ Algernon Charles Swinburne
 * 3 Kalki 15:21, 4 April 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 18:15, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:47, 4 April 2009 (UTC)

Apple makes the arrogant assumption of thinking that it knows what you want and need. It, unfortunately, leaves the “why” out of the equation — as in “why would I want this?” The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a “mouse”. There is no evidence that people want to use these things. I don’t want one of these new fangled devices. ~ John C. Dvorak
 * 2 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 12:29, 30 December 2010 (UTC)

The absolute deterioration of the wiki concept is just a matter of time. ~ John C. Dvorak
 * 2 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 12:29, 30 December 2010 (UTC) with a slight lean toward 3.

We take no note of time but from its loss. ~ Edward Young
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:17, 5 April 2019 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:17, 5 April 2019 (UTC)


 * 4 Lisa (talk) 08:21, 31 March 2021 (UTC) thought provoking and poetic
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:49, 4 April 2021 (UTC) — but would extend this for context to read:
 * Eyes are sensory organs. They sense what’s going on in the world around us, but they also tell others how we feel. Eyes are verbs that conjugate the emotions.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:49, 4 April 2024 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:49, 4 April 2024 (UTC)