September 3

September 3 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2003
 * There's nothing in the middle of the road but a yellow stripe and dead armadillos. ~ Jim Hightower
 * selected by Nanobug


 * 2004
 * I'm standing on the edge of some crazy cliff. What I have to do, I have to catch everybody if they start to go over the cliff — I mean if they're running and they don't look where they're going I have to come out from somewhere and catch them. That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all. I know it's crazy, but that's the only thing I'd really like to be. I know it's crazy. ~ J. D. Salinger in The Catcher in the Rye
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. ~ Frederick Douglass
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2006
 * Your pretended fear lest error should step in, is like the man that would keep all the wine out of the country lest men should be drunk. It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy, to deny a man the liberty he hath by nature upon a supposition that he may abuse it. ~ Oliver Cromwell
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2007
 * A harbor, even if it is a little harbor, is a good thing, since adventurers come into it as well as go out, and the life in it grows strong, because it takes something from the world, and has something to give in return. ~ Sarah Orne Jewett (born 3 September 1849)
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2008
 * The old poets little knew what comfort they could be to a man. ~ Sarah Orne Jewett
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2009
 * Whether it be the sweeping eagle in his flight, or the open apple-blossom, the toiling work-horse, the blithe swan, the branching oak, the winding stream at its base, the drifting clouds, over all the coursing sun, form ever follows function, and this is the law. Where function does not change form does not change. The granite rocks, the ever brooding hills, remain for ages; the lightning lives, comes into shape, and dies in a twinkling. It is the pervading law of all things organic and inorganic, of all things physical and metaphysical, of all things human and all things superhuman, of all true manifestations of the head, of the heart, of the soul, that the life is recognizable in its expression, that form ever follows function. This is the law. ~ Louis Sullivan (born 3 September 1856)
 * proposed by Ningauble


 * 2010
 * Your patience may have long to wait, Whether in little things or great, But all good luck, you soon will learn, Must come to those who nobly earn. Who hunts the hay-field over Will find the four-leaved clover. ~ Sarah Orne Jewett ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * The warm sun kissed the earth To consecrate thy birth, And from his close embrace Thy radiant face Sprang into sight, A blossoming delight. ~ Sarah Orne Jewett ~
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012
 * proposed by InvisibleSun
 * proposed by InvisibleSun


 * 2013


 * proposed by bystander


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 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 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
Once you learn to read you will be forever free. ~ Frederick Douglass, who boarded a train that day on 1838 on his way to freedom.
 * 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 13:22, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 ~ Kalki 22:54, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 13:13, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 21:53, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 2.5 Ningauble 15:51, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:24, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle. ~ Frederick Douglass
 * 0 This has now already been used on 20 February 2007 Kalki * 3 Kalki 01:32, 2 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 3 InvisibleSun 02:43, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
 * 3 Zarbon 21:53, 24 April 2008 (UTC)

It is not my design to drink or to sleep, but my design is to make what haste I can to be gone. ~ Oliver Cromwell (died 3 September 1658)
 * 3 Kalki 00:45, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 Zarbon 15:29, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 InvisibleSun 22:52, 2 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 15:51, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:24, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

In the life of each of us … there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness. ~ Sarah Orne Jewett
 * 3 Kalki 23:58, 2 September 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 2 Zarbon 04:46, 3 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Ningauble 15:51, 2 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:24, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

"Dear robin," said this sad young flower, "Perhaps you'd not mind trying To find a nice white frill for me, Some day when you are flying?" ''"You silly thing!" the robin said; "I think you must be crazy! I'd rather be my honest self Than any made-up daisy.  "You're nicer in your own bright gown, The little children love you; Be the best buttercup you can, And think no flower above you.  "Though swallows leave me out of sight, We'd better keep our places; Perhaps the world would all go wrong With one too many daisies.  "Look bravely up into the sky, And be content with knowing That God wished for a buttercup Just here, where you are growing."'' ~ Sarah Orne Jewett ~
 * 3 Kalki 20:35, 2 September 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 04:14, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:24, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

OR these stanzas separately:


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 02:17, 2 September 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 02:17, 2 September 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 02:17, 2 September 2014 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 02:17, 2 September 2014 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 02:17, 2 September 2014 (UTC); but with a lean toward 2, as I used this as part of another quote in 2023. — Kalki 2023·09·02


 * For us, the Battle of the Atlantic was becoming a private war. If you were in it, you knew all about it. You knew how to keep watch on filthy nights, and how to go without sleep; and how to bury the dead and how to die without wasting anyone's time.
 * The Cruel Sea (1953 film)
 * Rationale: anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 16:16, 31 May 2024 (UTC)