October 1

October 1 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * When you get to a fork in the road, take it. ~ Yogi Berra
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children. ~ Jimmy Carter (born 1 October 1924)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2006
 * Love and music and happiness and family, that's what it's all about. I believe in these things. It would be awful not to, wouldn't it? ~ Julie Andrews
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2007
 * Creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer. The story of discoverers could be told in simple chronological order, since the latest science replaces what went before. But the arts are another story — a story of infinite addition. We must find order in the random flexings of the imagination. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2008
 * Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black. ~ Henry Ford (100th anniversary of Ford putting the Model T on the market at a price of US$825)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good. ~ Rufus Choate
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2010
 * Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * THE OCTOBER COUNTRY … that country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coalbins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain… ~ Ray Bradbury
 * proposed by Kalki, for the start of the month of October 2011


 * 2012


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on current events.


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
We strive to form a single national front against the Judeo-Masonic lodges, against Moscow and the Marxist societies. ~ Francisco Franco (attained office October 1, 1938)
 * 3 Gleethorpe man 20202 (talk) 22:22, 29 September 2015 (UTC)

While the easiest way in metaphysics is to condemn all metaphysics as nonsense, the easiest way in morals is to elevate the common practice of the community into a moral absolute. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin
 * 3 InvisibleSun 00:41, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:55, 30 September 2007 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 03:44, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:25, 16 August 2013 (UTC) I don't get it.

Since the Creator had made the facts of the after-life inaccessible to man, He must not have required that man understand death in order to live fruitfully. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin
 * 3 InvisibleSun 00:41, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 23:55, 30 September 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 03:44, 25 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 It crosses the line and actually assumes that the creator took personal interest in shaping man! I don't like this line crossed. N6n 04:10, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:25, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

A book is the only immortality. ~ Rufus Choate
 * 2 Zarbon 03:54, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:16, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:17, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:25, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
 * 2 DutchOff (talk) 09:40, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

They were afraid of dying but even more afraid to show it. ~ Tim O'Brien
 * 2 Zarbon 03:54, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:16, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:17, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:25, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

They carried the soldier's greatest fear, which was the fear of blushing. Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to. ~ Tim O'Brien
 * 2 Zarbon 03:54, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 22:16, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 20:17, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:25, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon. ~ Jimmy Carter
 * 2 Zarbon 03:54, 13 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:16, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 20:17, 30 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2.5 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:25, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
 * 1 DutchOff (talk) 09:40, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

A Contemplation of What Has Been Created, and Why ''I tried to fathom nature's laws From twirling models and schoolroom sketches Of molecules and parts of atoms, And nearly believed — but then came quarks, Bosons, leptons, antiparticles, Opposite turning mirror images, Some that perforate the earth, Never swerving from their certain paths. I've listened to conflicting views About the grand and lesser worlds: A big bang where it all began; Of curved, ever-expanding space; Perhaps tremendous whirling yo-yos That will someday reach the end Of cosmic gravity and then Fly back to where they can restart Or cataclysmically blow apart — And then, and then the next event. And is that all an accident?'' ~ Jimmy Carter
 * 3 Zarbon 19:18, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:55, 30 September 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:25, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

I never felt that my dedication to military service was a violation of my faith in Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace. ~ Jimmy Carter
 * 3 Zarbon 19:18, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:55, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 0 N6n 04:10, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:25, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
 * 1 DutchOff (talk) 09:40, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

For me personally and for most other Americans, this commitment to peace and diplomacy does not imply a blind or total pacifism. There are times when war is justified, and for many centuries the moral criteria for violence have been carefully delineated. ~ Jimmy Carter
 * 3 Zarbon 19:18, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 19:55, 30 September 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:25, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 DutchOff (talk) 09:40, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

When combined, the small individual contributors of caring, friendship, forgiveness, and love, each of us different from our next-door neighbors, can form a phalanx, an army, with great capability. ~ Jimmy Carter
 * 2 Zarbon 19:18, 10 August 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 19:55, 30 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:25, 16 August 2013 (UTC)

We have the heaviest concentration of lawyers on Earth — one for every five-hundred Americans … We have more litigation, but I am not sure that we have more justice. No resources of talent and training in our own society, even including the medical care, is more wastefully or unfairly distributed than legal skills. Ninety percent of our lawyers serve 10 percent of our people. We are over-lawyered and under-represented. ~ Jimmy Carter
 * 3 Kalki 19:55, 30 September 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 13:11, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:25, 16 August 2013 (UTC)
 * 3 DutchOff (talk) 09:40, 12 October 2022 (UTC)

While the Jeffersonian did not flatly deny the Creator's power to perform miracles, he admired His refusal to do so. ~ Daniel J. Boorstin
 * 3 Kalki 19:55, 30 September 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 13:11, 2 October 2009 (UTC)
 * 3 N6n 04:10, 14 September 2010 (UTC)
 * 2.5 //Gbern3 (talk) 03:25, 16 August 2013 (UTC


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 07:15, 30 September 2014 (UTC)
 * 1 DutchOff (talk) 09:40, 12 October 2022 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 07:15, 30 September 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 --ΞΔΞ (talk) 05:50, 18 January 2019 (UTC)
 * 3 DutchOff (talk) 09:40, 12 October 2022 (UTC)


 * Since honour from the honourer proceeds, How well do they deserve that memorize And leave in Books, for all posterities The names of worthies and their virtuous deeds: When all their glory else, like water-weeds Without their element, presèntly dies, And all their greatness quite forgotten lies, And when and how they flourished no man heeds! How poor remembrances are statues, tombs, And other monuments that men erect To princes, which remain in closèd rooms Where but a few behold them, in respect Of Books, that to the universal eye Show how they lived; the other where they lie! ~ John Florio (probably died in October)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 18:37, 28 May 2024 (UTC)