September 2

September 2 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2003
 * Ars longa, vita brevis. (Art is long, life is short.) ~ Horace
 * selected by Nanobug


 * 2004
 * The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. ~ George Bernard Shaw
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * Speak softly and carry a big stick. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
 * proposed by MosheZadka: First public use of the phrase by Roosevelt in a speech at the Minnesota State Fair (2 September 1901)


 * 2006
 * Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process. ~ Salma Hayek (born 2 September 1966)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2007
 * There is only one thing infamous in love, and that is a falsehood. ~ Paul Bourget (born 2 September 1852)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * The first casualty when war comes is truth. ~ Hiram Johnson (born 2 September 1866)
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2009
 * If thinking men are few, they are for that reason all the more powerful. Let no man imagine that he has no influence. Whoever he may be, and wherever he may be placed, the man who thinks becomes a light and a power. ~ Henry George (born 2 September 1839)
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2010
 * To prevent government from becoming corrupt and tyrannous, its organization and methods should be as simple as possible, its functions be restricted to those necessary to the common welfare, and in all its parts it should be kept as close to the people and as directly within their control as may be. ~ Henry George
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * The great work of the present for every man, and every organization of men, who would improve social conditions, is the work of education — the propagation of ideas. It is only as it aids this that anything else can avail. ~ Henry George
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012


 * proposed by bystander


 * 2013


 * proposed by bystander


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2016


 * proposed by bystander


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by DanielTom


 * 2019


 * proposed by bystander


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Vietnam is a country, not a war ~ Le Van Bang, former Vietnamese Ambassador to the United States
 * 3 - for Vietnamese National Day. LordAmeth 18:48, 23 May 2006 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:58, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 21:51, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:54, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

We to a little ale-house on the Bankside, over against the Three Cranes, and there stayed till it was dark almost, and saw the fire grow; and, as it grew darker, appeared more and more, and in corners and upon steeples, and between churches and houses, as far as we could see up the hill of the City, in a most horrid malicious bloody flame, not like the fine flame of an ordinary fire... We stayed till, it being darkish, we saw the fire as only one entire arch of fire from this to the other side the bridge, and in a bow up the hill for an arch of above a mile long: it made me weep to see it. ~ Samuel Pepys (diary entry, September 2, 1666, the first day of the Great Fire of London)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 19:44, 1 September 2007 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 22:59, 1 September 2007 (UTC) 2 as it stands, but I would rank it a 3 if it were trimmed to the most essential line: "We stayed till, it being darkish, we saw the fire as only one entire arch of fire from this to the other side the bridge, and in a bow up the hill for an arch of above a mile long: it made me weep to see it."
 * 1 Zarbon 21:51, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

There are some surely whom you like and whom you dislike, for whom you entertain esteem and for whom you feel contempt? Have you not thought that you have some duties toward them, that you can aid them in leading better lives? ~ Paul Bourget
 * 3 Kalki 09:07, 2 September 2007 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 21:51, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 21:54, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

The forests have taught man liberty. ~ Paul Bourget
 * 3 Kalki 09:07, 2 September 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 21:51, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:54, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

There is no such thing as an age for love … because the man capable of loving — in the complex and modern sense of love as a sort of ideal exaltation — never ceases to love. ~ Paul Bourget
 * 2 Zarbon 04:57, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 00:24, 1 September 2008 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.
 * 3 InvisibleSun 21:54, 1 September 2008 (UTC)

its in rooms like this one with no windows... that we prepare our gestures so that we may best present them frightened in the face of death. -Clarice Starling "Silence of the Lambs"


 * 1 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 21:53, 30 August 2010 (UTC) no clear relation to the date.

There is iconoclasm in the excessively intellectual, and they delight in destroying their dearest moral or sentimental idols, the better to prove their strength. ~ Paul Bourget
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 06:24, 31 August 2010 (UTC)

Scientific men can hardly escape the charge of ignorance with regard to the precise effect of the impact of modern science upon the mode of living of the people and upon their civilisation. For them, such a charge is worse than that of crime. ~ Frederick Soddy
 * 3 bystander (talk) 19:56, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 18:26, 31 August 2012 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

Some of the beliefs and legends bequeathed to us by Antiquity are so universally and firmly established that we have become accustomed to consider them as being almost as ancient as humanity itself. Nevertheless we are tempted to inquire how far the fact that some of these beliefs and legends have so many features in common is due to chance, and whether the similarity between them may not point to the existence of an ancient, totally unknown and unsuspected civilization of which all other traces have disappeared. ~ Frederick Soddy
 * 3 bystander (talk) 19:56, 26 August 2012 (UTC)
 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 18:26, 31 August 2012 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:11, 1 October 2016 (UTC)