December 8

December 8 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one; I hope some day you'll join us, and the world will live as one. ~ John Lennon (died 8 December 1980)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers. ~ James Thurber (born 8 December 1894)
 * proposed by UDScott


 * 2006
 * May memory restore again and again The smallest color of the smallest day: Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn. ~ Delmore Schwartz ~ (born 8 December 1913)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2007
 * A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them. Obviously that can only work at moments. It can't be a lasting thing. That's not saying that people shouldn't keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence. Someday, who knows, we might conquer death, disease and war. ~ Jim Morrison (born 8 December 1943)
 * proposed by UDScott


 * 2008
 * The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people — that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. ~ James Thurber
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2009
 * I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter. ~ Horace
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2010
 * Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses Is one verse that brings peace. Better than a hundred hollow lines Is one line of the law, bringing peace. ~ Gautama Buddha (Bodhi Day a traditional date of celebration of his enlightenment)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame. ~ Gautama Buddha (Bodhi Day a traditional date of celebration of his enlightenment)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2016


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2020


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2021


 * proposed by UDScott


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki; in regard of Bodhi Day.


 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions

 * Bodhi Day'''
 * DOB: Lucian Freud · Horace · Jim Morrison · Delmore Schwartz · James Thurber

The covetous man is ever in want. ~ Horace
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:55, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:54, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 02:09, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 13:59, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time. ~ Horace
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:55, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:54, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 02:09, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 13:59, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

Child labor! The child must carry His fathers on his back. ~ Delmore Schwartz (born December 8, 1913)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:55, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:54, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 02:09, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Antiquary 13:59, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

For we are incomplete and know no future, And we are howling or dancing out our souls In beating syllables before the curtain: We are Shakespearean, we are strangers. ~ Delmore Schwartz
 * 3 InvisibleSun 07:55, 5 December 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:54, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 13:59, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

All we are saying is give peace a chance! ~ John Lennon (Died that die in 1980 after being shot by Mark David Chapman)


 * 1 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 15:03, 3 December 2009 (UTC) 3 Kalki 03:49, 4 December 2007 (UTC) this was used 4 April 2008.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:13, 7 December 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:54, 26 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 13:59, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Lyle 21:29, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

It is sweet and honorable to die for one's country. ~ Horace
 * 4 Zarbon 04:10, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 02:09, 29 November 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Antiquary 13:59, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:40, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 DanielTom (talk) 15:27, 7 July 2014 (UTC) (Cf. Bertrand Russell: "Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country.")

I very much consider the Internet a garden, and I'm a gardener, and I plant things in it and I work within the framework of the soil, the seasons, the climate, and the temperature, to produce plants. ~ Mark Pesce
 * 3 Zarbon 04:10, 29 October 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 02:09, 29 November 2008 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 3.
 * 3 Antiquary 13:59, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:40, 7 December 2008 (UTC)

To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom. ~ Horace
 * 3 Kalki 20:10, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:40, 7 December 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 04:52, 8 December 2008 (UTC)

The great thing about multiculturalism is it doesn't involve knowing anything about other cultures - the capital of Bhutan, the principal exports of Malawi, who cares? All it requires is feeling good about other cultures. It's fundamentally a fraud, and I think was subliminally accepted on that basis. Most adherents to the idea that all cultures are equal don't want to live in anything but an advanced Western society. ~ Mark Steyn
 * 2.5 DanielTom (talk) 14:15, 7 July 2014 (UTC)