August 17

August 17 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2003
 * I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one. ~ Marilyn Monroe
 * selected by Nanobug


 * 2004
 * Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved. ~ Søren Kierkegaard
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * Be sure that you are right, and then go ahead. ~ Davy Crockett (born 17 August 1786)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2006
 * One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas — and you have to work through it all. ~ V. S. Naipaul
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2007
 * I have always supported measures and principles and not men. I have acted fearless and independent and I never will regret my course. I would rather be politically buried than to be hypocritically immortalized. ~ Davy Crockett
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * Everything of value about me is in my books. Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will — with luck — come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise. That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. ~ V. S. Naipaul
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2009
 * To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up. ~ V. S. Naipaul (born August 17, 1932)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2010
 * Most of authors seek fame, but I seek for justice — a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess. ~ Davy Crockett
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * I have never knew what it was to sacrifice my own judgment to gratify any party and I have no doubt of the time being close at hand when I will be rewarded for letting my tongue speak what my heart thinks. I have suffered myself to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never again elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty. ~ Davy Crockett
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki, in regard to her recent death.


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:
 * I knew the Spring was come. I knew it even Better than all by this, that through my chase In bush and stone and hill and sea and heaven I seem'd to see and follow still your face. Your face my quarry was. For it I rode, My horse a thing of wings, myself a god. ~ Wilfrid Scawen Blunt ~
 * used 20 March 2012, proposed by

Suggestions
I have discovered a truly remarkable proof of this theorem that the margin of this page is too small to contain. ~ Pierre de Fermat (b. August 17, 1601)
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 06:53, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 TomPhil 11:55, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 15:55, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:01, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:39, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 05:45, 12 August 2009 (UTC) Amusing, but not sure of its appropriateness for QOTD.

One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria. ~ V. S. Naipaul
 * 3 InvisibleSun 03:03, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:39, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:45, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 05:45, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

With the emergence of nuclear-missile weaponry, cybernetics, electronics, and computer equipment, any subjective approach to military problems, hare-brained plans, and superficiality can cause irreparable damage. ~ Matvei Zakharov
 * 3 because a single miscalculated mistake nowadays can have a negative effect a thousand fold. Zarbon 05:54, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:47, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:45, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 05:45, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

Dark to me is the earth. Dark to me are the heavens. Where is she that I loved, the woman with eyes like stars? Desolate are the streets. Desolate is the city. A city taken by storm, where none are left but the slain. ~ Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
 * 2 Zarbon 05:54, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:47, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:45, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Peace and Passion ("I'm listening....") 05:45, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. ~ Davy Crockett
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 10:07, 15 August 2010 (UTC)