March 14

March 14 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace. ~ Helen Keller
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * Measured objectively, what a man can wrest from Truth by passionate striving is utterly infinitesimal. But the striving frees us from the bonds of the self and makes us comrades of those who are the best and the greatest. ~ Albert Einstein (born 14 March 1879)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. ~ Albert Einstein (born 14 March 1879)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2007
 * Let us not forget that human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth. What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind. What these blessed men have given us we must guard and try to keep alive with all our strength if humanity is not to lose its dignity, the security of its existence, and its joy in living. ~ Albert Einstein
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster. Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars... The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope — we must hope — that man’s own creation, man’s own genius, will not destroy him. ~ Albert Einstein
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * Only the individual can think, and thereby create new values for society — nay, even set up new moral standards to which the life of the community conforms. Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community. The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion. ~ Albert Einstein
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2010
 * We are the music makers, And we are the dreamers of dreams, Wandering by lone sea-breakers, And sitting by desolate streams; — World-losers and world-forsakers, On whom the pale moon gleams: Yet we are the movers and shakers Of the world for ever, it seems. ~ Arthur O'Shaughnessy ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * With wonderful deathless ditties We build up the world's great cities, And out of a fabulous story We fashion an empire's glory: One man with a dream, at pleasure, Shall go forth and conquer a crown; And three with a new song's measure Can trample a kingdom down. ~ Arthur O'Shaughnessy
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2012
 * We, in the ages lying In the buried past of the earth, Built Nineveh with our sighing, And Babel itself with our mirth; And o'erthrew them with prophesying To the old of the new world's worth; For each age is a dream that is dying, Or one that is coming to birth. ~ Arthur O'Shaughnessy ~
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 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 InvisibleSun


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.


 * 2023


 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2024


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions

 * This is the date of Pi Day, and a quote explicitly related to π was particularly apt in 2015: on that date of 3/14/15 the time at 9:26:53 corresponded to 3.141592653 — π to 9 decimal places. ~ ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡

Cupid has offered his arrows for Jesus to try; He has offered his bow for the game. But Jesus went weeping away, and left him there wondering why. ~ Harold Monro
 * 4 Zarbon 20:36, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 08:50, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Ningauble 18:25, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:40, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

I am a mighty Garage, On the corner of the Square, And it is all my pleasure, To provide a quick repair, Or I can do your service, In the blinking of an eye, I wouldn't say it's thorough, But it'll get you by. ~ Pam Ayres
 * 2 Zarbon 20:36, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Kalki 08:50, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 InvisibleSun 23:40, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

The lesson is that dying men must groan; And poets groan in rhymes that please the ear. ~ John Wain
 * 2 Zarbon 20:36, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 08:50, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:40, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

Poetry is to prose as dancing is to walking. ~ John Wain
 * 3 Zarbon 20:36, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 08:50, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 Ningauble 18:25, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 23:40, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

A breath of our inspiration Is the life of each generation; A wondrous thing of our dreaming Unearthly, impossible seeming- The soldier, the king, and the peasant Are working together in one, Till our dream shall become their present, And their work in the world be done. ~ Arthur O'Shaughnessy
 * 3 Zarbon 20:36, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 08:50, 13 March 2009 (UTC) with a VERY strong lean toward 4.
 * 2.5 Ningauble 18:25, 13 March 2009 (UTC) Difficult without context for "our inspiration"
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:40, 13 March 2009 (UTC)

They had no vision amazing Of the goodly house they are raising; They had no divine foreshowing Of the land to which they are going: But on one man's soul it hath broken, A light that doth not depart; And his look, or a word he hath spoken, Wrought flame in another man's heart. ~ Arthur O'Shaughnessy
 * 3 Zarbon 20:36, 10 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 08:50, 13 March 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 23:40, 13 March 2009 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 21:04, 7 March 2013 (UTC) in relation to π day.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 21:04, 7 March 2013 (UTC) in relation to π day.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 18:59, 26 October 2014 (UTC)