August 5

August 5 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2003
 * Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. ~ Edsger Dijkstra
 * selected by Nanobug


 * 2004
 * Your strength is but an accident arising from the weakness of others. ~ Joseph Conrad in Heart of Darkness
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. ~ Mohandas Gandhi
 * proposed by Jeffq


 * 2006
 * Music I heard with you was more than music, and bread I broke with you was more than bread... ~ Conrad Aiken (born 5 August 1889)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2007
 * There is only one good thing in life, and that is love. ~ Guy de Maupassant (born 5 August 1850)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * Those works of art which have scooped up the truth and presented it to us as a living force — they take hold of us, compel us, and nobody ever, not even in ages to come, will appear to refute them. ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (recent death)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * Do not think me gentle because I speak in praise of gentleness, or elegant because I honor the grace that keeps this world. I am a man crude as any, gross of speech, intolerant, stubborn, angry, full of fits and furies. That I may have spoken well at times, is not natural. A wonder is what it is. ~ Wendell Berry ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * 'Tis true, my form is something odd but blaming me, is blaming God, Could I create myself anew I would not fail in pleasing you. ~ Joseph Merrick ~ (born 5 August 1862)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011:
 * We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. We have been wrong. We must change our lives, so that it will be possible to live by the contrary assumption that what is good for the world will be good for us. ~ Wendell Berry
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 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 Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki; remarks on the continuing war in Ukraine.


 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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


 * Whether we and our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do. ~ Wendell Berry
 * used 7 November 2004, selected by Kalki


 * If I could reach from pole to pole or grasp the ocean with a span, I would be measured by the soul The mind's the standard of the Man. ~ Isaac Watts ~ (poem often used by Joseph Merrick, "The Elephant Man", who was born this day)
 * used 17 July 2006, proposed by Kalki

Suggestions
Blond hair and breasts, that's how I got started. I couldn't act. All I had was blond hair and a body men liked. The reason I got ahead is that I was lucky and met the right men. ~ Marilyn Monroe, found dead in her apartment that day
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 05:36, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 ~ Jeff Q (talk) 13:31, 2 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 ~ Kalki 21:22, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:03, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:16, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Separate we come, and separate we go, and this be it known, is all that we know. ~ Conrad Aiken (born 5 August 1889)
 * 3 Kalki 21:22, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 15:03, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 ~ DanielTom (talk) 01:47, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:16, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind. ~ Neil Armstrong
 * 3 ~ DanielTom (talk) 01:47, 27 July 2013 (UTC) (or a variant) ; better to use this on July 21, otherwise it might be confusing to readers. ~ DanielTom (talk) 09:54, 27 July 2013 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 10:16, 30 July 2013 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 11:35, 4 August 2016 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 11:35, 4 August 2016 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 11:35, 4 August 2016 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 11:35, 4 August 2016 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 11:35, 4 August 2016 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 11:35, 4 August 2016 (UTC)


 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:33, 4 August 2022 (UTC)


 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:33, 4 August 2022 (UTC)


 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:33, 4 August 2022 (UTC); for this date — I am more inclined to prefer it for July 20, and perhaps even there not until the 60th anniversary of the first moon landing in 2029.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:33, 4 August 2022 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:33, 4 August 2022 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:33, 4 August 2022 (UTC)