February 25

February 25 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * An amicable divorce is like a ventilated condom; it just doesn't work. ~ Rita Rudner
 * selected by IP 172.161.111.38


 * 2005
 * Little darling, I feel that ice is slowly melting. Little darling, It seems like years since it's been clear. Here comes the sun... Here comes the sun, And I say It's alright. ~ George Harrison ~ (born 25 February 1943, according to death certificate)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * That so many writers have been prepared to accept a kind of martyrdom is the best tribute that flesh can pay to the living spirit of man as expressed in his literature. One cannot doubt that the martyrdom will continue to be gladly embraced. To some of us, the wresting of beauty out of language is the only thing in the world that matters. ~ Anthony Burgess (born 25 February 1917)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2007
 * I look at the world and I notice it’s turning. While my guitar gently weeps. With every mistake we must surely be learning, Still my guitar gently weeps. ~ George Harrison ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * Every intelligent child is an amateur anthropologist. The first thing such a child notices is that adults don't make sense. ~ John Leonard (born 25 February 1939)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2009
 * Do what you want to do And go where you're going to Think for yourself 'Cause I won't be there with you. ~ George Harrison ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * When the state murders, it assumes an authority I refuse to concede: the authority of perfect knowledge in final things. ~ John Leonard
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2011
 * If there is victory in overcoming the enemy, there is a greater victory when a man overcomes himself. ~ José de San Martín
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012
 * The scientist, like the magician, possesses secrets. A secret — expertise — is somehow perceived as antidemocratic, and therefore ought to be unnatural. We have come a long way from Prometheus to Faust to Frankenstein. And even Frankenstein's monster is now a joke. ~ John Leonard
 * proposed by bystander


 * 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 Zarbon


 * 2020


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2021


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki; recent remark’s on the Russian government’s invasion of Ukraine.


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on current events.


 * 2024


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
The books we love, love us back. In gratitude, we should promise not to cheat on them — not to pretend we're better than they are; not to use them as target practice, agit-prop, trampolines, photo ops or stalking horses; not to sell out scruple to that scratch-and-sniff info-tainment racket in which we posture in front of experience instead of engaging it. ~ John Leonard
 * 3 InvisibleSun 15:58, 16 February 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 16:09, 24 February 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 22:51, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 bystander (talk) 20:39, 16 February 2012 (UTC)

A well-fought defeat is worth more than a casual victory. ~ José de San Martín (born February 25)
 * 4 because I love this one. For to lose in style is better than to win without enthralling magnificence. Zarbon 17:12, 22 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 00:17, 20 February 2009 (UTC)

In God's body shop, each of us was customized. But science came along to substitute statistical inference for free will. We are now a tribe of likelihoods. ~ John Leonard
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 22:55, 6 February 2010 (UTC)

Granted, religion is wishful thinking, but there is no other kind of thinking. ~ John Leonard
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 22:55, 6 February 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

The words, the style always reflects a habit of mind. And the habit of mind comes in from a different angle. ~ John Leonard
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 22:55, 6 February 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Everybody is forever saying that the essay is dead. This is always said in essays. ~ John Leonard
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 22:55, 6 February 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

There are too many ironies in the fire! ~ John Leonard
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 22:55, 6 February 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Let us be free, the rest matters not. ~ José de San Martín
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 19:41, 22 February 2011 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

I only want Lions in my regiment. ~ José de San Martín
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 19:41, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

You will be what you must be, or else you will be nothing. ~ José de San Martín
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 19:41, 22 February 2011 (UTC)

My promises to the people for whom I have waged war have been fulfilled — to accomplish their independence and leave the choice of their rulers to their own will. ~ José de San Martín
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 19:41, 22 February 2011 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

The conscience is the best and most impartial judge that a righteous man has. ~ José de San Martín
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 19:41, 22 February 2011 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.


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