June 16
Quotes of the day from previous years:
- 2004
- Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so. ~ Robert G. Ingersoll
- selected by Kalki
- 2005
- I cannot think we are useless or Usen would not have created us. He created all tribes of men and certainly had a righteous purpose in creating each. ~ Geronimo (born 16 June 1829)
- selected by Kalki
- 2006
- If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. ~ Abraham Lincoln's "House Divided" speech, 16 June 1858)
- selected by Kalki
- 2007
- It's no use, says he. Force, hatred, history, all that. That's not life for men and women, insult and hatred. And everybody knows that it's the very opposite of that that is really life. ~ James Joyce in Ulysses
- 2008
- When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven’t thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity — but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial. ~ Joyce Carol Oates
- proposed by Zarbon
- 2009
- A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals to discovery. ~ James Joyce in Ulysses
- proposed by Kalki
- 2010
- It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born. ~ James Joyce in Ulysses
- proposed by Kalki
- 2011
- The mocker is never taken seriously when he is most serious. ~ James Joyce in Ulysses
- proposed by Kalki
- 2012
| If others have their will Ann hath a way. |
| ~ James Joyce ~ in ~ Ulysses ~ |
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- proposed by Kalki
- 2013
- Rank or add further suggestions…
Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD, or from Ulysses by James Joyce (Bloomsday):
- Love loves to love love. ~ James Joyce in Ulysses
- History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. ~ James Joyce in Ulysses
- used 2 February 2008, proposed by InvisibleSun
Ranking system:
- 4 : Excellent - should definitely be used.
- 3 : Very Good - strong desire to see it used.
- 2 : Good - some desire to see it used.
- 1 : Acceptable - but with no particular desire to see it used.
- 0 : Not acceptable - not appropriate for use as a quote of the day.
Suggestions
Values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time. They can neither be fought for, nor destroyed. ~ Enoch Powell
- 3 Zarbon 03:07, 19 May 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 21:01, 14 June 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
- 2 InvisibleSun 15:43, 15 June 2008 (UTC)