August 22

August 22 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2003
 * I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to. ~ Elvis Presley
 * selected by Nanobug


 * 2004
 * The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * By a free country, I mean a country where people are allowed, so long as they do not hurt their neighbours, to do as they like. I do not mean a country where six men may make five men do exactly as they like. ~ Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (died 22 August 1903)
 * proposed by MosheZadka


 * 2006
 * No lesson seems to be so deeply inculcated by the experience of life as that you should never trust experts. If you believe doctors, nothing is wholesome: if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent: if you believe the soldiers, nothing is safe. They all require their strong wine diluted by a very large admixture of insipid common sense. ~ Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Lord Salisbury (died 22 August 1903)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2007
 * I wish to write down my musical dreams in a spirit of utter self-detachment. I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naïve candour of a child. No doubt, this simple musical grammar will jar on some people. It is bound to offend the partisans of deceit and artifice. I foresee that and rejoice at it. ~ Claude Debussy (born 22 August 1862)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * Leadership is a potent combination of strategy and character. But if you must be without one, be without the strategy. ~ Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2009
 * Works of art make rules but rules do not make works of art. ~ Claude Debussy
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * A gram of experience is worth a ton of theory. ~ Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, Lord Salisbury (died 22 August 1903)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * Parliament is a potent engine, and its enactments must always do something, but they very seldom do what the originators of these enactments meant. - Robert Gascoyne-Cecil, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury
 * proposed by AllanHainey


 * 2012


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 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 Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions

 * Battle of Bosworth Field
 * DOB: Ray Bradbury · Henri Cartier-Bresson · Claude Debussy · Valerie Harper · Scooter Libby · Dorothy Parker · Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.

I'm never going to accomplish anything; that's perfectly clear to me. I'm never going to be famous. My name will never be writ large on the roster of Those Who Do Things. I don't do anything. Not one single thing. I used to bite my nails, but I don't even do that any more. ~ Dorothy Parker
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 07:08, 20 July 2005 (UTC) (just for the extreme case of irony)
 * 3 I hadn't heard of her anyway but assume she's well known. AllanHainey 12:00, 26 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 04:31, 21 August 2007 (UTC) I'd prefer something else by her.
 * 1 Zarbon 15:56, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 18:18, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

You can't teach an old dogma new tricks. ~ Dorothy Parker
 * 3 Kalki 22:48, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:52, 21 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 because I strongly dislike dogmatism. Zarbon 15:56, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it. ~ Norman Schwarzkopf, Jr.
 * 3 Zarbon 05:16, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:27, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 18:18, 21 August 2008 (UTC)

Joy is the grace we say to God. ~ Ray Bradbury
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 00:55, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. ~ Ray Bradbury
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 00:55, 29 September 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

We must move into the universe. Mankind must save itself. We must escape the danger of war and politics. We must become astronauts and go out into the universe and discover the God in ourselves. ~ Ray Bradbury
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 00:55, 29 September 2011 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage. ~ Ray Bradbury
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 00:55, 29 September 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none. ~ Ray Bradbury
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 00:55, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves. ~ Ray Bradbury
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 00:55, 29 September 2011 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you, and you'll never learn. ~ Ray Bradbury
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 00:55, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. ~ Ray Bradbury
 * 2 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 00:55, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

We never sit anything out. We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out. ~ Ray Bradbury
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 00:55, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers. ~ Ray Bradbury
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 00:55, 29 September 2011 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones. ~ Ray Bradbury
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 00:55, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

''That so much time was wasted in this pain. Ten thousand years ago he might have let off down To not return again! A dreadful laugh at last escapes his lips; The laughter sets him free. A Fool lives in the Universe! he cries. The Fool is me! And with one final shake of laughter Breaks his bonds. The nails fall skittering to marble floors. And Christ, knelt at the rail, sees miracle As Man steps down in amiable wisdom To give himself what no one else can give: His liberty.'' ~ Ray Bradbury
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 00:55, 29 September 2011 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

Trapped in the blood, athirst for air, Christ, who once was employed as single Son of God Now finds Himself among three billion on a billion Brother sons, their arms thrown wide to grasp and hold and walk them everywhere Now weaving this, now weaving that in swoons… ~ Ray Bradbury
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 00:55, 29 September 2011 (UTC)

''I am the dreamer and the doer I the hearer and the knower I the giver and the taker I the sword and the wound of sword. If this be true, then let sword fall free from hand. I embrace myself. I laugh until I weep And weep until I smile…  Leave off losings, and take on winnings, Erase all mortal ends, give birth to only new beginnings, In a billion years of morning and a billion years of sleep.'' ~ Ray Bradbury
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 00:55, 29 September 2011 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4, but with perhaps the last couple lines trimmed off.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:51, 21 August 2020 (UTC)

We could find much more relevant ones to the ongoing global situation, but anyway it wouldn't be toxic to remember Battle of Bosworth was fought in this day, 1485-08-22. --Aphaia (talk) 16:15, 20 August 2021 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:17, 22 August 2021 (UTC)