June 2

June 2 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * The difference between a hooker and a ho ain't nothin' but a fee. ~ Cheryl James ("Salt" of the rap group "Salt 'N' Pepa")
 * proposed by IP 66.157.59.118


 * 2005
 * I'm the guy they used to call Deep Throat. ~ W. Mark Felt (recent revelation of identity)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms. ~ Thomas Hardy (born 2 June 1840)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2007
 * To find themselves utterly alone at night where company is desirable and expected makes some people fearful; but a case more trying by far to the nerves is to discover some mysterious companionship when intuition, sensation, memory, analogy, testimony, probability, induction — every kind of evidence in the logician's list — have united to persuade consciousness that it is quite in isolation. ~ Thomas Hardy
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people. ~ Cornel West
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2009
 * The Poet's License! — 't is the right, Within the rule of duty, To look on all delightful things Throughout the world of beauty.  To gaze with rapture at the stars That in the skies are glowing; To see the gems of perfect dye That in the woods are growing, — And more than sage astronomer, And more than learned florist, To read the glorious homilies Of Firmament and Forest. ~ John Godfrey Saxe ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * The ancient pulse of germ and birth Was shrunken hard and dry, And every spirit upon earth Seemed fervourless as I. At once a voice arose among The bleak twigs overhead In a full-hearted evensong Of joy illimited; An aged thrush, frail, gaunt, and small, In blast-beruffled plume, Had chosen thus to fling his soul Upon the growing gloom.  So little cause for carolings Of such ecstatic sound Was written on terrestrial things Afar or nigh around, That I could think there trembled through His happy good-night air Some blessed Hope, whereof he knew And I was unaware. ~ Thomas Hardy ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * Each in his own opinion Exceeding stiff and strong, Though each was partly in the right And all were in the wrong. So oft in theologic wars, The disputants, I ween, Rail on in utter ignorance Of what each other mean, And prate about an Elephant Not one of them has seen!  ~ John Godfrey Saxe ~
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
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 * 2013


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 * 2014


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 * 2015


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 * 2016


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 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki — a quote of the first introduction of the Wonder Woman character, in regard to the first Wonder Woman feature film, opening in the US on this date.


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time. ~ Billy Joel


 * 2 Kalki 20:53, 1 June 2007 (UTC) Good quote but no clear relation to the date; the one by Martha Washington (upon a similar theme) that I've added below is related to her birthday today.
 * 1 Zarbon 13:19, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 01:25, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

Above the plain rose the hill, above the hill rose the barrow, and above the barrow rose the figure. Above the figure was nothing that could be mapped elsewhere than on a celestial globe. ~ Thomas Hardy Such a perfect, delicate, and necessary finish did the figure give to the dark pile of hills that it seemed to be the only obvious justification of their outline. Without it, there was the dome without the lantern; with it the architectural demands of the mass were satisfied. The scene was strangely homogeneous, in that the vale, the upland, the barrow, and the figure above it amounted only to unity. Looking at this or that member of the group was not observing a complete thing, but a fraction of a thing.
 * 3 Kalki 20:53, 1 June 2007 (UTC); but would now (2023·06·01) extend this for context to read:
 * Above the plain rose the hill, above the hill rose the barrow, and above the barrow rose the figure. Above the figure was nothing that could be mapped elsewhere than on a celestial globe.


 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:46, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 13:19, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 01:25, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

They don't pay me to think, they pay me to be an Admiral. ~ Archibald Berkeley Milne
 * 3 Zarbon 06:22, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 1. This is an unsourced quote. InvisibleSun 22:12, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 01:25, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

Now at last, Patterson was ready to tackle the iron meteorite, to find the true age of the Earth. [He discovered that the] world is four and a half billion years old. . . . His reward for this discovery? A world of trouble. ~ In commemoration of the June 2, 1922 birth of Clair Cameron Patterson, from the seventh episode of the science documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014).
 * 3 Pithy Francoln (talk) 16:09, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 01:25, 1 June 2018 (UTC)

No matter where he searched on Earth, no matter how far he traveled back in time, the. . . naturally occurring [lead] levels in the air and water in the past were far lower. . . . Patterson fought the industry for [more than] 20 years before lead was finally banned in US [gasoline and other] consumer products.~ In commemoration of the June 2, 1922 birth of Clair Cameron Patterson, from the seventh episode of the science documentary television series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey (2014).
 * 4 Pithy Francoln (talk) 16:23, 11 October 2016 (UTC)
 * 1 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:14, 1 June 2017 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 01:25, 1 June 2018 (UTC)


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