September 13

September 13 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * He, who will not reason, is a bigot; he, who cannot, is a fool; and he, who dares not, is a slave. ~ William Drummond of Logiealmond
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * Miss Manners does not mind explaining the finer points of gracious living, but she feels that anyone without the sense to pick up a potato chip and stuff it in their face should probably not be running around loose on the streets. ~ Judith Martin, widely known as "Miss Manners" (born 13 September 1938)
 * proposed by MosheZadka


 * 2006
 * What I need is a good defense 'Cause I'm feeling like a criminal And I need to be redeemed To the one I've sinned against Because he's all I ever knew of love. ~ Fiona Apple ~ (born 13 September 1977)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2007
 * Worldly renown is naught but a breath of wind, which now comes this way and now comes that, and changes name because it changes quarter. ~ Dante Alighieri (died 13 or 14 September 1321)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don't believe in magic will never find it. ~ Roald Dahl
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2009
 * By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent, And what to those we give, to Jove is lent. ~ Alexander Pope, in his interpretation of The Odyssey by Homer
 * proposed by Kalki (in relation to the legendary date of the dedication of the Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill on the ides of September, 13 September 509 BC)


 * 2010
 * Everyone in the world is Christ and they are all crucified. ~ Sherwood Anderson
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * Something there is more immortal even than the stars, (Many the burials, many the days and nights, passing away,) Something that shall endure longer even than lustrous Jupiter Longer than sun or any revolving satellite, Or the radiant sisters the Pleiades. ~ Walt Whitman in Leaves of Grass ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012


 * proposed by bystander


 * 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, in regard to the Friday the 13th full Harvest Moon of this year.


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki; in relation to the legendary date of the dedication of the Temple of Jupiter on the Capitoline Hill on the ides of September, 13 September 509 BC: Zeus/Jupiter speaking, in Sartre's play The Flies.


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
It is very difficult to phone people in China, Mr. President, the country is so full of Wings and Wongs, every time you wing you get the wong number. ~ Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator, RD was born this day.
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 19:27, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 1 ~ Kalki 10:48, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 22:27, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Jupiter, not wanting man's life to be wholly gloomy and grim, has bestowed far more passion than reason — you could reckon the ration as twenty-four to one. Moreover, he confined reason to a cramped corner of the head and left all the rest of the body to the passions. ~ Desiderius Erasmus (The temple of Jupiter on Rome's Capitoline Hill is dedicated on the ides of September, 13 September 509 BC)
 * 3 Kalki 10:48, 10 September 2006 (UTC) briefly ranked this a 4 in 2009, but kept options open for any better quotes on Jupiter or the temple, which I eventually found.
 * 2 InvisibleSun 00:38, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 22:27, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

Love, which absolves no beloved one from loving, seized me so strongly with his charm that, as thous seest, it does not leave me yet. ~ Dante Alighieri (died 13 or 14 September 1321)
 * 3 Kalki 10:48, 10 September 2006 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 00:38, 11 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 22:27, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

A speech is entertaining only when serenely detached from all information. ~ Henry Fountain Ashurst (born September 13, 1874)


 * 2 Kalki 00:06, 13 September 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 22:27, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

To the dread rattling thunder Have I given fire, and rifted Jove's stout oak With his own bolt; the strong-bas'd promontory Have I made shake, and by the spurs pluck'd up The pine and cedar. Graves at my command, Have wak'd their sleepers, op'd, and let 'em forth, By my so potent art. But this rough magic I here abjure; and, when I have requir'd Some heavenly music — which even now I do, — To work mine end upon their senses that This airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, Bury it certain fathoms in the earth, And, deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book. ~ William Shakespeare in The Tempest ~
 * 3 Kalki 20:29, 12 September 2009 (UTC) in relation to the Temple of Jupiter.

Your entire universe will not be enough to make me guilty. You are the king of the Gods, Jupiter, the king of the stones and of the stars, the king of the waves of the sea. But you are not the king of men. ~ Jean-Paul Sartre
 * 3 Kalki 20:29, 12 September 2009 (UTC) in relation to the Temple of Jupiter.

Ask me no more where Jove bestows, When June is past, the fading rose; For in your beauties, orient deep These flow'rs, as in their causes, steep. ~ Thomas Carew ~
 * 3 Kalki 20:29, 12 September 2009 (UTC) in relation to the Temple of Jupiter.

Where is the key that locked these gates of speech, Once beautiful, where thought stood sentinel, Where sweetness sat, where wisdom passed, to teach Our weakness strength, our homage to compel? ''Despoiled at last, and waste and barren lies This once so rich domain. Where lives and moves, In what new world, the splendor of these eyes That dauntless lightened like imperial Jove's?'' ~ Celia Thaxter ~
 * 3 Kalki 00:20, 13 September 2009 (UTC) in relation to the Temple of Jupiter.

Grown-ups are quirky creatures, full of quirks and secrets. ~ Roald Dahl
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 22:09, 6 September 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

A Message to Children Who Have Read This Book — When you grow up and have children of your own, do please remember something important: a stodgy parent is no fun at all. What a child wants and deserves is a parent who is SPARKY. ~ Roald Dahl
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 22:09, 6 September 2010 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you. ~ Roald Dahl
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 22:09, 6 September 2010 (UTC)

"Dreams is very mystical things," the BFG said. "Human beans is not understanding them at all. Not even their brainiest prossefors is understanding them." ~ Roald Dahl
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 22:09, 6 September 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Little Billy’s mother was always telling him exactly what he was allowed to do and what he was not allowed to do. All the things he was allowed to do were boring. All the things he was not allowed to do were exciting. One of the things he NEVER NEVER was allowed to do, the most exiting of them all, was to go out through the garden gate all by himself and explore the world beyond. ~ Roald Dahl
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 22:09, 6 September 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

Love is like a wind stirring the grass beneath trees on a black night … You must not try to be definite and sure about it and to live beneath the trees, where soft night winds blow, the long hot day of disappointment comes swiftly and the gritty dust from passing wagons gathers upon lips inflamed and made tender by kisses. ~ Sherwood Anderson
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 22:09, 6 September 2010 (UTC)