February 27

February 27 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * It must be so humiliating to have such a public break-up. ~ Ellen DeGeneres to Justin Timberlake
 * selected by IP 172.152.255.195


 * 2005
 * The writer is delegated to declare and to celebrate man's proven capacity for greatness of heart and spirit — for gallantry in defeat — for courage, compassion and love. In the endless war against weakness and despair, these are the bright rally-flags of hope and of emulation. I hold that a writer who does not passionately believe in the perfectibility of man, has no dedication nor any membership in literature. ~ John Steinbeck (born 27 February 1902)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * Tell me not, in mournful numbers, "Life is but an empty dream!" For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (born 27 February 1807)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2007
 * Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time. Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.  Let us, then, be up and doing. With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.  ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * Turn, turn, my wheel! All things must change To something new, to something strange; Nothing that is can pause or stay; The moon will wax, the moon will wane, The mist and cloud will turn to rain, The rain to mist and cloud again, To-morrow be to-day. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, — but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite. ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012
 * Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in art, in music, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man. ~ John Steinbeck in East of Eden
 * proposed by bystander


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by bystander


 * 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, in regard to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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


 * This I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about. I can understand why a system built on a pattern must try to destroy the free mind, for it is the one thing which can by inspection destroy such a system. Surely I can understand this, and I hate it and I will fight against it to preserve the one thing that separates us from the uncreative beasts. If the glory can be killed, we are lost. ~ John Steinbeck
 * used 20 December 2007, proposed by Kalki


 * I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. It might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. ~ John Steinbeck, from "...like captured fireflies" (1955)
 * used 20 December 2008, proposed by UDScott

Suggestions

 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki·⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 08:44, 26 February 2016 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki·⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 08:44, 26 February 2016 (UTC) with a lean toward 4, but likely to hold off a while, because a very similar statement of Steinbeck was used in 2017.


 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki·⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 08:44, 26 February 2016 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki·⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 08:44, 26 February 2016 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki·⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 08:44, 26 February 2016 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki·⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 08:44, 26 February 2016 (UTC)