August 19

August 19 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2003
 * There comes a point when a man must refuse to answer to his leader if he is also to answer to his own conscience. ~ Hartley Shawcross
 * selected by Nanobug


 * 2004
 * Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious. ~ Peter Ustinov
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * Truth has such a face and such a mien As to be lov'd needs only to be seen. ~ John Dryden
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2006
 * How are we to survive? Solemnity is not the answer, any more than witless and irresponsible frivolity is. I think our best chance lies in humor, which in this case means a wry acceptance of our predicament. We don't have to like it but we can at least recognize its ridiculous aspects, one of which is ourselves. ~ Ogden Nash
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2007
 * Vast is the field of Science … the more a man knows, the more he will find he has to know. ~ Samuel Richardson
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2008
 * Must I at length the Sword of Justice draw? Oh curst Effects of necessary Law! How ill my Fear they by my Mercy scan, Beware the Fury of a Patient Man. ~ John Dryden ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * Let those find fault whose wit's so very small, They've need to show that they can think at all; Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below. ~ John Dryden ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * Those who matter don't mind, and those who mind don't matter. ~ Bernard Baruch (born 19 August 1870)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * The person who will bear much shall have much to bear, all the world through. ~ Samuel Richardson
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2012


 * 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


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * proposed by DanielTom


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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


 * Happy the man, and happy he alone, He who can call today his own; He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow, do thy worst, for I have lived today. Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. ~ John Dryden, based on "Ode XXIX" of Horace ~
 * used 12 May 2010, proposed by Kalki


 * The gates of hell are open night and day; Smooth the descent, and easy is the way: But to return, and view the cheerful skies, In this the task and mighty labor lies. ~ John Dryden, translation of Virgil, Aeneid, vi, 126 ~
 * used 15 October 2014, proposed by DanielTom

Suggestions
At last I've found the secret, that guarantees success. To err, and err, and err again, but less, and less, and less." ~ Ogden Nash (b. August 19, 1902)
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 06:59, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 0 Kalki 20:18, 18 August 2005 (UTC) This seems very likely to be a very recent misattribution, and perhaps a variant translation or alteration of lines by Piet Hein. There appears to be only about a half dozen sites on the internet that attribute this to Ogden Nash, perhaps the earliest appearing in "Heuristics for Iterative Software Development" by Drasko Sotirovski, IEEE Software, vol. 18, no. 3, pp. 66-73, (May/June 2001) where the author states "...as Bob Glass has said, quoting Ogden Nash, "At last I've found the secret that guarantees success: to err, and err, and err again...". If it were truly an Ogden Nash poem it's citations would likely be far more prominent.
 * 0 Zarbon 15:46, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Those who doubt most, always erred least. ~ Samuel Richardson (born August 19, 1689)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:23, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 21:53, 18 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:46, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:10, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

We are always just one successful terrorist attack away from a nuclear disaster. ~ Fred Thompson
 * 2 Zarbon 06:05, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:22, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 21:30, 18 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:10, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

O! what a Godlike Power is that of doing Good! — I envy the Rich and the Great for nothing else! ~ Samuel Richardson
 * 3 Kalki 22:10, 18 August 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2.5 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:10, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Nothing can be more wounding to a spirit not ungenerous, than a generous forgiveness. ~ Samuel Richardson
 * 3 Kalki 22:10, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:10, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

The mind can be but full. It will be as much filled with a small disagreeable occurrence, having no other, as with a large one. ~ Samuel Richardson
 * 3 Kalki 22:10, 18 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:10, 15 August 2013 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 04:53, 18 August 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 04:53, 18 August 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 04:53, 18 August 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 04:53, 18 August 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:52, 18 August 2022 (UTC) 4 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:11, 18 August 2022 (UTC) ; but still with a lean toward 4; I simply came to prefer another of Wright's statement for this year.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:52, 18 August 2022 (UTC)