February 26

February 26 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * An interesting thing has happened since San Francisco started granting marriage licenses to same-sex couples: my marriage is just fine! Even though there are thousands of gay and lesbian couples affirming their love for and commitment to each other, my marriage — my affirmation of love and commitment to (my wife) — isn't threatened at all. As a matter of fact, the only people who can really "threaten" my marriage are the two of us. ~ Wil Wheaton
 * selected by IP 172.143.235.101


 * 2005
 * The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge. ~ Victor Hugo (born 26 February 1802)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * Sure, ninety percent of science fiction is crud. That's because ninety percent of everything is crud. ~ Theodore Sturgeon (born 26 February 1918)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2007
 * To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better. ~ Victor Hugo
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * A man is not idle, because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labour and there is an invisible labour. ~ Victor Hugo in Les Misérables
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal. ~ Victor Hugo
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas. A day will come when the bullets and bombs are replaced by votes, by universal suffrage, by the venerable arbitration of a great supreme senate which will be to Europe what Parliament is to England, the Diet to Germany, and the Legislative Assembly to France. A day will come when a cannon will be a museum-piece, as instruments of torture are today. And we will be amazed to think that these things once existed! ~ Victor Hugo
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2011
 * God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art. ~ Victor Hugo
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2012
 * You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear. ~ Victor Hugo
 * proposed by bystander


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by bystander


 * 2015


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2016


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki, from her song Ring of Fire which was one of the top hits of her and her husband Johnny Cash, who was born on this day, and "Ring of Fire" also being a popular name for an annular eclipse, one of which is occurring across the southern hemisphere on this date in 2017.


 * 2018


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2019


 * proposed by


 * 2020


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2021


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki; remarks on the current Russian military invasion of Ukraine.


 * 2023


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2024


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Was this the face that launch'd a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss! Her lips suck forth my soul: see, where it flies! ~ Christopher Marlowe (baptized February 26, 1564)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:42, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:45, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:52, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Logic ignores the Almost, just as the sun ignores the candle. ~ Victor Hugo, from Les Misérables
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:42, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:45, 25 February 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 05:52, 27 February 2009 (UTC)

Where the telescope ends, the microscope begins. Which of the two has the grander view? ~ Victor Hugo, from Les Misérables
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:42, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:45, 25 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 05:52, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 bystander (talk) 21:02, 16 February 2012 (UTC)