February 14

February 14 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * True love is inexhaustible; the more you give, the more you have. ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own. ~ Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
 * selected by Kalki : quote on love for Valentine's Day, from a story about "Valentine Michael Smith"


 * 2006
 * Some things you don't need until they leave you; they're the things that you miss. ~ Rob Thomas (born 14 February 1972)
 * proposed by User:Sir John Alexander Macdonald


 * 2007
 * When one has once fully entered the realm of love, the world — no matter how imperfect — becomes rich and beautiful, it consists solely of opportunities for love. ~ Søren Kierkegaard
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. ~ Paul of Tarsus
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday's Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints, — I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life! — and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.  ~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * Let me not to the marriage of true minds Admit impediments. Love is not love Which alters when it alteration finds, Or bends with the remover to remove: O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark, That looks on tempests and is never shaken; It is the star to every wandering bark, Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken. Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks Within his bending sickle's compass come; Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, But bears it out even to the edge of doom. If this be error and upon me prov'd, I never writ, nor no man ever lov'd. ~ William Shakespeare in Sonnet 116 ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing. Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. But whether there are prophecies, they will fail; whether there are tongues, they will cease; whether there is knowledge, it will vanish away. For we know in part and we prophesy in part. But when that which is perfect has come, then that which is in part will be done away. When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know just as I also am known. And now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is love. ~ Paul of Tarsus ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012
 * Remember only this of our hopeless love That never till Time is done Will the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind be one. ~ Edith Sitwell ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013


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 * 2014


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 * 2015


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 * 2016


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 * 2017


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 * 2018


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 * 2019


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 * 2020


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 * 2021


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 * 2022


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 * 2023


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 * 2024


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 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Love, in the final analysis, is wisdom. ~ E. W. Kenyon
 * 3 Kalki 21:38, 13 February 2007 (UTC) ( with a lean toward 4, though there is not yet a page for this author, I would probably attempt to make one before using this.)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:26, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 22:20, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 4

For God's sake, hold your tongue and let me love! - John Donne
 * 3 Poetlister 22:36, 13 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 15:51, 13 February 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 22:20, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 17:40, 11 February 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.

There really is only one question about the future of civilization: Which is stronger love or hate? If the answer is hate we are all doomed. Anonymous
 * 3 --Patriot8790 08:50, 31 December 2009 (UTC)
 * 0 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 15:55, 3 February 2010 (UTC) this seems to be a user comment, rather than a quote.

True friends tell us: “If you ever need anything, I’ll be there.” True love tells us: “You’ll never need anything; I’ll be there.” Jimi Hollemans


 * 0 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 15:55, 3 February 2010 (UTC) unsourced quote : at this point neither the authorship nor the notability Holemans is clear.

In England, we don't have any guns whatsoever.
 * Simon Pegg (Born Feb 14)


 * 0 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 19:48, 13 February 2011 (UTC), as this is as yet unsourced, it would be acceptable if provided with some sourcing.

If by enlightenment and intellectual progress we mean the freeing of man from superstitious belief in evil forces, in demons and fairies, in blind fate—in short, emancipation of fear—then denunciation of what is currently called reason is the greatest service reason can render. ~ Max Horkheimer (Born 1895 Feb 14)
 * 4 bystander 22:57, 11 February 2012 (UTC) I know, it's Valentine's Day, but I'm sick of all the Valentine's.
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 02:07, 4 February 2013 (UTC) I would probably rank this higher, if it were not Valentine's Day, as I am not sick of the holiday sentiments.

Six minutes and 20 seconds with an AR-15, and my friend Carmen would never complain to me about piano practice. Aaron Feis would never call Kyra "miss sunshine," Alex Schachter would never walk into school with his brother Ryan, Scott Beigel would never joke around with Cameron at camp, Helena Ramsay would never hang around after school with Max, Gina Montalto would never wave to her friend Liam at lunch, Joaquin Oliver would never play basketball with Sam or Dylan. Alaina Petty would never, Cara Loughren would never, Chris Hixon would never, Luke Hoyer would never, Martin Duque Anguiano would never, Peter Wang would never, Alyssa Alhadeff would never, Jamie Guttenberg would never, Jamie Pollack would never. Since the time that I came out here, it has been six minutes and 20 seconds. The shooter has ceased shooting, and will soon abandon his rifle, blend in with the students as they escape, and walk free for an hour before arrest. Fight for your lives before it's someone else's job. ~ Emma González, Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School student and Stoneman Douglas High School shooting survivor, at March for Our Lives in Washington D. C. on March 24, 2018
 * 4 on anniversary of shooting JessRek6 (talk) 20:47, 17 November 2018 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:14, 14 February 2021 (UTC); I much prefer quotes more generally applicable to St. Valentine's Day, but I could see myself eventually ranking this a 3, or perhaps even a 4, but only in particularly sombre periods of some years.


 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)


 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)


 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)


 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)


 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)


 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC) with a very strong lead toward 4.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:00, 13 February 2017 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.



Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go. ~ James Cook
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 18:21, 24 June 2024 (UTC)