August 25

August 25 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2003
 * What can be said at all can be said clearly. ~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
 * selected by Nanobug


 * 2004
 * It’s no use crying over spilt evils. It’s better to mop them up laughing. ~ Eleanor Farjeon
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * We have met the enemy and he is us. ~ Walt Kelly in Pogo (Kelly born 25 August 1913)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2006
 * Being inoffensive, and being offended, are now the twin addictions of the culture. ~ Martin Amis
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2007
 * The humourless as a bunch don't just not know what's funny, they don't know what's serious. They have no common sense, either, and shouldn't be trusted with anything. ~ Martin Amis
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * Against boredom even gods struggle in vain. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche (date of death)
 * proposed by LrdChaos


 * 2009
 * My ultimate vocation in life is to be an irritant, someone who disrupts the daily drag of life just enough to leave the victim thinking there's maybe more to it all than the mere hum-drum quality of existence. ~ Elvis Costello
 * proposed by Kalki

~ Johann Gottfried Herder
 * 2010
 * Calmly take what ill betideth; Patience wins the crown at length Rich repayment him abideth Who endures in quiet strength. Brave the tamer of the lion; Brave whom conquered kingdoms praise; Bravest he who rules his passions, Who his own impatience sways.
 * partially proposed by Ningauble, suggestion extended by Kalki


 * 2011
 * We live in a world we ourselves create. ~ Johann Gottfried Herder
 * 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 InvisibleSun


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Ningauble


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions

 * DOB: Martin Amis · Elvis Costello · Bret Harte · Johann Gottfried Herder · Walt Kelly · Robert J. Marks II · DOD: Friedrich Nietzsche

I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. ~ Linus Torvalds announcing Linux in a post dated 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 07:29, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 4 User:Warrior-Poet 20 July, 2005 8:49 (CST)
 * 2 121a0012 02:57, July 21, 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 23:48, 20 August 2008 (UTC) * 2 Kalki 23:10, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 18:49, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 16:09, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:36, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
 * 1 (leaning toward 2) allixpeeke (talk) 02:52, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture — it's a really stupid thing to want to do. ~ Elvis Costello
 * 3 Kalki 18:34, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 18:49, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 16:09, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2.5 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:36, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
 * 1 allixpeeke (talk) 02:52, 25 August 2014 (UTC) (Dancing about architecture is not stupid, nor is writing about music. Art inspired by art is still art.)

Saying the Bible is not a book about science is like saying a cookbook is not a book about chemistry. ~ Robert J. Marks II
 * 2 Zarbon 05:54, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 23:48, 20 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:20, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2.5 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:36, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

Virtue always meets reward, But quicker when it wears a sword. ~ Bret Harte
 * 4 Zarbon 05:54, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:48, 20 August 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:20, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:36, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself. ~ Johann Gottfried Herder (DoB)
 * 3 Ningauble 17:19, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:09, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:36, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
 * 1 allixpeeke (talk) 02:52, 25 August 2014 (UTC) (Craving is displeasure. Consumption of something pleasant is pleasant.)

Militant fundamentalism is convulsed in a late-medieval phase of its evolution. We would have to sit through a renaissance and a reformation, and then await an enlightenment. And we're not going to do that. ~ Martin Amis (DoB)
 * 2.5 Ningauble 17:19, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:09, 25 August 2009 (UTC) but with a lean toward 3, or even 4, if extended for more context.
 * 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:36, 15 August 2013 (UTC)

With the greatest possible solicitude avoid authorship. Too early or immoderately employed, it makes the head waste and the heart empty; even were there no other worse consequences. A person, who reads only to print, to all probability reads amiss; and he, who sends away through the pen and the press every thought, the moment it occurs to him, will in a short time have sent all away, and will become a mere journeyman of the printing-office, a compositor. ~ Johann Gottfried Herder
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 16:52, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:36, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
 * 2 (leaning toward 1) allixpeeke (talk) 02:52, 25 August 2014 (UTC)


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