September 24

September 24 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2003
 * Since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved. ~ Niccolo Machiavelli
 * selected by Nanobug


 * 2004
 * To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals. ~ William Penn
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * I wait . . . Wait for the mists and for the blacker rain — Heavier winds that stir the veil of fate, happier winds that pile her hair; Again they tear me, teach me, strew the heavy air upon me, winds that I know, and storm. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald (born 24 September 1896, and correlation to the current period of powerful storms)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is, and despise affectation. ~ Horace Walpole
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2007
 * My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * Extremism. It is an almost infallible sign — a kind of death-rattle — when a human institution is forced by its members into stressing those and only those factors which are identificatory, at the expense of others which it necessarily shares with competing institutions because human beings belong to all of them. ~ John Brunner (born 24 September 1934)
 * proposed by Ningauble


 * 2010
 * Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * The whole secret of life is to be interested in one thing profoundly and in a thousand things well. ~ Hugh Walpole
 * proposed by Kalki — this was originally proposed and selected as a statement cited to Horace Walpole — but this has since been determined to be a misattribution which began as early as the 1930s. ~ ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:49, 13 March 2020 (UTC)


 * 2012


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by DanielTom


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on the Russo-Ukrainian War.


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

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


 * There are no days in life so memorable as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination. ~ F. Scott Fitzgerald
 * used 21 December 2008, proposed by UDScott

Suggestions
The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will. ~ John Marshall
 * 2 Zarbon 04:03, 10 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:24, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:57, 23 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 23:42, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

There are two kinds of fool. One says, "This is old, and therefore good." And one says, "This is new, and therefore better." ~ John Brunner (born September 24, 1934)
 * 3.5 ~ Ningauble 23:42, 23 September 2009 (UTC) * 3 Ningauble 15:57, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 0 – Misattributed: this is a close paraphrase of Dean Inge ~ Ningauble 12:33, 3 October 2010 (UTC)
 * 3 Kalki 17:17, 23 September 2009 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.

It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is … If two laws conflict with each other, the courts must decide on the operation of each...This is of the very essence of judicial duty. ~ John Marshall
 * 3 Kalki 17:17, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 2.5 Ningauble 23:42, 23 September 2009 (UTC) An important quote, but maybe not for this context

Prognostics do not always prove prophecies, — at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first. ~ Horace Walpole
 * 3 Kalki 17:17, 23 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 23:42, 23 September 2009 (UTC)

HIPCRIME You committed one when you opened this book. Keep it up. It's our only hope. ~ John Brunner
 * 3 Kalki (talk &middot; contributions) 01:49, 21 September 2011 (UTC)