February 7

February 7 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2005
 * It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way — in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only. ~ Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities (born 7 February 1812)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * He judged it not fit to determine anything rashly; and seemed to doubt whether those different forms of religion might not all come from God, who might inspire man in a different manner, and be pleased with this variety; he therefore thought it indecent and foolish for any man to threaten and terrify another to make him believe what did not appear to him to be true. ~ Thomas More (born 7 February 1478)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2007
 * Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people we most despise. ~ Charles Dickens
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2008
 * A man acts suitably to his nature, when he conquers his enemy in such a way as that no other creature but a man could be capable of, and that is by the strength of his understanding. ~ Thomas More
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * It is the same with any life. Imagine one selected day struck out of it, and think how different its course would have been. Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day. ~ Charles Dickens
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * Extreme justice is an extreme injury: for we ought not to approve of those terrible laws that make the smallest offences capital, nor of that opinion of the Stoics that makes all crimes equal; as if there were no difference to be made between the killing a man and the taking his purse, between which, if we examine things impartially, there is no likeness nor proportion. ~ Thomas More
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * In no victory do they glory so much as in that which is gained by dexterity and good conduct without bloodshed. In such cases they appoint public triumphs, and erect trophies to the honour of those who have succeeded; for then do they reckon that a man acts suitably to his nature, when he conquers his enemy in such a way as that no other creature but a man could be capable of, and that is by the strength of his understanding. ~ Thomas More
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012
 * There are many pleasant fictions of the law in constant operation, but there is not one so pleasant or practically humorous as that which supposes every man to be of equal value in its impartial eye, and the benefits of all laws to be equally attainable by all men, without the smallest reference to the furniture of their pockets. ~ Charles Dickens
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 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 Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


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 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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


 * "Business!" cried the Ghost, wringing its hands again. "Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business. The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the comprehensive ocean of my business!" ~ Charles Dickens in A Christmas Carol
 * used 19 December 2009, proposed by InvisibleSun

Suggestions
For men use, if they have an evil turn, to write it in marble: and whoso doth us a good turn we write it in dust. ~ Thomas More (born February 7, 1478)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 16:45, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:11, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 21:56, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Here's the rule for bargains — 'Do other men, for they would do you.' That's the true business precept. ~ Charles Dickens
 * 3 InvisibleSun 16:45, 6 February 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:11, 6 February 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 21:56, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire. ~ Charles Dickens
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 17:02, 1 February 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

The law is a ass — a idiot. ~ Charles Dickens in Oliver Twist
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 17:02, 1 February 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius. ~ An Wang
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 21:55, 23 November 2010 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 04:05, 14 June 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 04:05, 14 June 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 04:05, 14 June 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:16, 7 February 2023 (UTC)