June 11

June 11 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * Whatever else history may say about me when I'm gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears; to your confidence rather than your doubts. My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way. ~ Ronald Reagan (recent death)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis, and we'd have a mighty dull literature if all the writers that came along were a bunch of happy chuckleheads. ~ William Styron (born 11 June 1925)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * In small proportions we just beauties see, And in short measures life may perfect be. ~ Ben Jonson (born 11 June 1572)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2007
 * The world is wide; no two days are alike, nor even two hours; neither were there ever two leaves of a tree alike since the creation of the world; and the genuine productions of art, like those of nature, are all distinct from one another. ~ John Constable
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2008
 * Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks. ~ Ben Jonson (born 11 June 1572)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * There is nothing ugly; I never saw an ugly thing in my life: for let the form of an object be what it may, — light, shade, and perspective will always make it beautiful. ~ John Constable
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2010
 * Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the cup And I'll not look for wine. ~ Ben Jonson ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * It is hopelessness even more than pain that crushes the soul. So the decision-making of daily life involves not, as in normal affairs, shifting from one annoying situation to another less annoying — or from discomfort to relative comfort, or from boredom to activity — but moving from pain to pain. One does not abandon, even briefly, one's bed of nails, but is attached to it wherever one goes. ~ William Styron
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by bystander


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on notable historical events.


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Robes loosely flowing, hair as free, Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art: They strike mine eyes, but not my heart. ~ Ben Jonson ~ (born June 11, 1572)
 * 3 Kalki 21:47, 10 June 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 06:18, 10 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 13:35, 23 April 2008 (UTC)

No one will ever understand Auschwitz. ~ William Styron
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 10:09, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

This was not judgement day — only morning. Morning: excellent and fair. ~ William Styron
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 10:09, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

''Triumph, my Britain, thou hast one to show To whom all Scenes of Europe homage owe. He was not of an age, but for all time!'' ~ Ben Jonson ~
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 10:09, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

The Devil is an Ass, I do acknowledge it. ~ Ben Jonson
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 10:09, 30 May 2011 (UTC)

A good life is a main argument. ~ Ben Jonson
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 10:09, 30 May 2011 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.