September 7

September 7 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. ~ Martin Luther King, Jr.
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. ~ Edith Sitwell (born 7 September 1887)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2006
 * Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd. ~ Edith Sitwell (born 7 September 1887)
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2007
 * Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?. ~ Edith Sitwell
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2008
 * The more bombers, the less room for doves of peace. ~ Nikita Khrushchev
 * proposed by MosheZadka


 * 2009
 * I have written my life in small sketches, a little today, a little yesterday, as I have thought of it, as I remember all the things from childhood on through the years, good ones, and unpleasant ones, that is how they come out and that is how we have to take them. I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it. I was happy and contented, I knew nothing better and made the best out of what life offered. And life is what we make it, always has been, always will be. ~ Grandma Moses
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy to us. The poet should speak to all men, for a moment, of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. ~ Edith Sitwell
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * It is a part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees. ~ Edith Sitwell
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2014


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Kalki; not only is it Sitwell's birthday, but it is also the date on which the Blitz which she writes about in the poem began.


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki, in regard to his recent death.


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2021


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki in regard of her recent appointment as Prime Minister of the UK.


 * 2023


 * proposed by Kalki; in regard of his recent death.


 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Suggestions
God may forgive you, but I never can. ~ Elizabeth I of England (date of birth)
 * 3 Kalki 22:50, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
 * 2 Zarbon 21:59, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:45, 23 August 2013 (UTC) No context.

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government. ~ Taylor Caldwell
 * 3 Zarbon 06:50, 1 June 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 Kalki 23:56, 6 September 2008 (UTC)
 * 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:45, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

Within your magic web of hair, lies furled The fire and splendour of the ancient world; The dire gold of the comet's wind-blown hair; The songs that turned to gold the evening air When all the stars of heaven sang for joy. ~ Edith Sitwell
 * 3 Kalki 15:58, 6 September 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
 * 1 Zarbon 04:23, 8 September 2009 (UTC)
 * 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:45, 23 August 2013 (UTC)

It is a stern fact of history that no nation that rushed to the abyss ever turned back. Not ever, in the long history of the world. We are now on the edge of the abyss. Can we, for the first time in history, turn back? It is up to you. ~ Taylor Caldwell
 * 3 bystander (talk) 23:21, 2 September 2012 (UTC)
 * 2.5 //Gbern3 (talk) 14:45, 23 August 2013 (UTC)
 * 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:44, 6 September 2016 (UTC)