May 29

May 29 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking. ~ Steven Wright
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn. ~ T. H. White (born 29 May 1906)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * It is idle to talk always of the alternative of reason and faith. Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at all. ~ G. K. Chesterton (born 29 May 1874)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2007
 * The pessimist is commonly spoken of as the man in revolt. He is not. Firstly, because it requires some cheerfulness to continue in revolt, and secondly, because pessimism appeals to the weaker side of everybody, and the pessimist, therefore, drives as roaring a trade as the publican. The person who is really in revolt is the optimist, who generally lives and dies in a desperate and suicidal effort to persuade all the other people how good they are. It has been proved a hundred times over that if you really wish to enrage people and make them angry, even unto death, the right way to do it is to tell them that they are all the sons of God. ~ G. K. Chesterton
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. ~ John F. Kennedy
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2009
 * Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. ~ John F. Kennedy
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2010
 * The most unfathomable schools and sages have never attained to the gravity which dwells in the eyes of a baby of three months old. It is the gravity of astonishment at the universe, and astonishment at the universe is not mysticism, but a transcendent common-sense. The fascination of children lies in this: that with each of them all things are remade, and the universe is put again upon its trial. ~ G. K. Chesterton
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011 :
 * Religious and philosophical beliefs are, indeed, as dangerous as fire, and nothing can take from them that beauty of danger. But there is only one way of really guarding ourselves against the excessive danger of them, and that is to be steeped in philosophy and soaked in religion. ~ G. K. Chesterton
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Ningauble


 * 2016


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2025 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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


 * Our chiefs said 'Done,' and I did not deem it; Our seers said 'Peace,' and it was not peace; Earth will grow worse till men redeem it, And wars more evil, ere all wars cease. ~ "A Song of Defeat" by Gilbert Keith Chesterton ~
 * used 15 September 2003, selected by Nanobug


 * Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable. ~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton
 * used 21 January 2004, selected by Kalki


 * If we cannot end now our differences, at least we can make the world safe for diversity. ~ John F. Kennedy
 * used 12 February 2004, selected by Kalki


 * Materialists and madmen never have doubts. ~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton
 * 19 April 2004, selected by Kalki


 * There is a great man who makes every man feel small. But the real great man is the man who makes every man feel great. ~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton
 * used 18 June 2004, selected by Kalki


 * What kind of peace do we seek? Not a Pax Americana enforced on the world by American weapons of war. Not the peace of the grave or the security of the slave. I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children — not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women — not merely peace in our time but peace for all time. ~ John F. Kennedy
 * used 12 July 2004, selected by Kalki


 * Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity. ~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton
 * used 13 July 2004, selected by Kalki


 * The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange. ~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton
 * used 16 December 2004, selected by Kalki


 * There is a road from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. ~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton
 * used 14 August 2005, proposed by MosheZadka


 * Mankind must put an end to war or war will put an end to mankind. ~ John F. Kennedy
 * used 8 November 2005, proposed by MosheZadka


 * We must face problems which do not lend themselves to easy or quick or permanent solutions. And we must face the fact that the United States is neither omnipotent nor omniscient, that we are only six percent of the world's population, that we cannot impose our will upon the other ninety-four percent of mankind, that we cannot right every wrong or reverse each adversity, and that therefore there cannot be an American solution to every world problem. ~ John F. Kennedy
 * 16 November 2007, proposed by Jeff Q

Suggestions
For fear of the newspapers politicians are dull, and at last they are too dull even for the newspapers. - G. K. Chesterton
 * 3 Herby  talk thyme 14:02, 18 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 22:52, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:01, 28 May 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 05:46, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 19:24, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 12:21, 4 May 2024 (UTC)

When I was a child, I was told anyone can become president. Now, I'm starting to believe it. (Found on a "Good Earth" tea bag)


 * 2 Kalki 06:26, 5 June 2007 (UTC) Interesting quote, but no clear author, and no clear relationship to the date.
 * 3 but I wonder who said it Zarbon 05:46, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 0 Unless source found. InvisibleSun 21:35, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * ~ Clarence Darrow ~ bystander (talk) 05:39, 21 May 2012 (UTC)


 * 0 No particular interest to see quote + there is no source for it. J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 19:24, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

One day the last portrait of Rembrandt and the last bar of Mozart will have ceased to be — though possibly a colored canvas and a sheet of notes will remain — because the last eye and the last ear accessible to their message will have gone. ~ Oswald Spengler
 * 3 Zarbon 04:37, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:35, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 21:47, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 19:24, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

This is our purpose: to make as meaningful as possible this life that has been bestowed upon us; to live in such a way that we may be proud of ourselves; to act in such a way that some part of us lives on. ~ Oswald Spengler
 * 3 Zarbon 04:37, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:35, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 21:47, 28 May 2008 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 19:24, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

A man does what he must — in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers, and pressures — and that is the basis of all human morality. ~ John F. Kennedy
 * 2 Zarbon 04:51, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:35, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 21:47, 28 May 2008 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 19:24, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a period of moral crisis, maintain their neutrality. ~ John F. Kennedy
 * 2 Zarbon 04:51, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:35, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 21:47, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 with a mild lean toward 3 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 19:24, 27 May 2018 (UTC)

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. ~ John F. Kennedy
 * 3 Zarbon 04:51, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:35, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 21:47, 28 May 2008 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 19:24, 27 May 2018 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
 * 2 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 19:24, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
 * 2.5 needs a bit of a crop, if done, 3 dibbydib ⌐■_■ ( barate me ) 03:29, 21 May 2020 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 19:24, 27 May 2018 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
 * 2 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 19:24, 27 May 2018 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:58, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 19:24, 27 May 2018 (UTC)


 * 3 Anniversary of Hillary and Tenzing reaching the summit of Mt. Everest. J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣 19:24, 27 May 2018 (UTC)
 * This quote was already used as QOTD, precisely in this form, less than 2 years ago, for Quote of the day/July 20, 2016. Though there have been a few times over the years in which a QOTD or portions of it have been used as a portion of a later QOTD, and a few occasions where one was accidentally repeated in exactly the form it was once used before, generally repetition has been avoided in the QOTD. ~ ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 21:11, 28 May 2018 (UTC)