July 23

July 23 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2003
 * I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations.' ~ Winston Churchill
 * selected by Nanobug


 * 2004
 * I'll tell you this — No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn. ~ Jim Morrison
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * The private detective of fiction is a fantastic creation who acts and speaks like a real man. He can be completely realistic in every sense but one, that one sense being that in life as we know it such a man would not be a private detective. ~ Raymond Chandler (born 23 July 1888)
 * proposed by MosheZadka


 * 2006
 * Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean, who is neither tarnished nor afraid. The detective must be a complete man and a common man and yet an unusual man. He must be, to use a rather weathered phrase, a man of honor. He talks as the man of his age talks, that is, with rude wit, a lively sense of the grotesque, a disgust for sham, and a contempt for pettiness. ~ Raymond Chandler (born 23 July 1888)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2007
 * Our system presumes that there are certain principles that are more important than the temper of the times. ~ Anthony Kennedy (born 23 July 1936)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2008
 * Throughout history, it has been the inaction of those who could have acted, the indifference of those who should have known better, the silence of the voice of justice when it mattered most, that has made it possible for evil to triumph. ~ Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia (born 23 July 1892)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * The preservation of peace and the guaranteeing of man's basic freedoms and rights require courage and eternal vigilance: courage to speak and act — and if necessary, to suffer and die — for truth and justice; eternal vigilance, that the least transgression of international morality shall not go undetected and unremedied. These lessons must be learned anew by each succeeding generation, and that generation is fortunate indeed which learns from other than its own bitter experience. ~ Haile Selassie I of Ethiopia
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * There are two kinds of truth: the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of these is science, and the second is art. Neither is independent of the other or more important than the other. Without art science would be as useless as a pair of high forceps in the hands of a plumber. Without science art would become a crude mess of folklore and emotional quackery. The truth of art keeps science from becoming inhuman, and the truth of science keeps art from becoming ridiculous. ~ Raymond Chandler
 * last sentence proposed by Ningauble; extension suggested and used by Kalki


 * 2011
 * The First Amendment is often inconvenient. But that is beside the point. Inconvenience does not absolve the government of its obligation to tolerate speech. ~ Anthony Kennedy
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2016


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on the 2021 United States Capitol attack.


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki; to close out the first weekend of "Barbenheimmer" viewings.


 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
I knew one thing: as soon as anyone said you didn't need a gun, you'd better take one along that worked. ~ Raymond Chandler (born 23 July 1888)
 * 3 Kalki 21:53, 22 July 2005 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 08:19, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 because trust is fine, but sometimes it is better to be prepared. Zarbon 06:36, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 13:38, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

Chess is as elaborate a waste of human intelligence as you can find outside an advertising agency. ~ Raymond Chandler (born 23 July 1888)
 * 3 Kalki 21:53, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 08:19, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 06:36, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 13:38, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

The solution, once revealed, must seem to have been inevitable. At least half of all the mystery novels published violate this law. ~ Raymond Chandler
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 19:59, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 13:38, 14 July 2013 (UTC)

I write in a sort of broken-down patois which is something like the way a Swiss-waiter talks, and that when I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it will remain split, and when I interrupt the velvety smoothness of my more or less literate syntax with a few sudden words of barroom vernacular, this is done with the eyes wide open and the mind relaxed and attentive. The method may not be perfect, but it is all I have. ~ Raymond Chandler
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 19:59, 19 July 2010 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 13:38, 14 July 2013 (UTC)