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<div id="17" style="margin: 1em 0em; border: thin solid black; padding: 3px; background-color:#CFE5FF;color:var(--color-base-fixed,#202122); font: bold 14pt sans-serif;">[[Category:Days]][[w:August 17|August 17]]</div> <noinclude>'''Quotes of the day''' from previous years:</noinclude>

; 2003
: I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one. ~ [[Marilyn Monroe]]
:* selected by [[User:Nanobug|Nanobug]]

; 2004
: Life is a mystery to be lived, not a problem to be solved. ~ [[Søren Kierkegaard]]
:* selected by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]

; 2005
: Be sure that you are right, and then go ahead. ~ [[Davy Crockett]] (born 17 August 1786)
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]

; 2006
: One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas — and you have to work through it all. ~ [[V. S. Naipaul]]
:* proposed by [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]]<!-- * 3 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 03:03, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
* 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 23:55, 16 August 2006 (UTC) -->

; 2007
: I have always supported measures and principles and not men. I have acted fearless and independent and I never will regret my course. I would rather be politically buried than to be hypocritically immortalized. ~ [[Davy Crockett]]
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 15:55, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
* 4 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 23:01, 16 August 2007 (UTC) -->

; 2008
: Everything of value about me is in my books. Whatever extra there is in me at any given moment isn't fully formed. I am hardly aware of it; it awaits the next book. It will — with luck — come to me during the actual writing, and it will take me by surprise. That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. ~ [[V. S. Naipaul]]
:* proposed by [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] <!-- * 3 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 03:03, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
* 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 15:55, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
* 1 [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 15:39, 24 April 2008 (UTC) -->

; 2009
: To this day, if you ask me how I became a writer, I cannot give you an answer. To this day, if you ask me how a book is written, I cannot answer. For long periods, if I didn't know that somehow in the past I had written a book, I would have given up. ~ [[V. S. Naipaul]] (born August 17, 1932)
:* proposed by [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] <!-- * 3 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 03:03, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
* 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 23:55, 16 August 2006 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
* 1 [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 15:39, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
* 3 ''[[User:Peace and Passion|Peace and Passion]] ([[User talk:Peace and Passion|"I'm listening...."]])'' 05:45, 12 August 2009 (UTC) -->

; 2010
: Most of authors seek fame, but I seek for justice — a holier impulse than ever entered into the ambitious struggles of the votaries of that fickle, flirting goddess. ~ [[Davy Crockett]]
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] <!-- * 4 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ([[User talk:Kalki|talk]] &middot; [[Special:Contributions/Kalki|contributions]]) 10:07, 15 August 2010 (UTC) -->

; 2011
: I have never knew what it was to sacrifice my own judgment to gratify any party and I have no doubt of the time being close at hand when I will be rewarded for letting my tongue speak what my heart thinks. I have suffered myself to be politically sacrificed to save my country from ruin and disgrace and if I am never again elected I will have the gratification to know that I have done my duty. ~ [[Davy Crockett]]
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] <!-- * 4 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ([[User talk:Kalki|talk]] &middot; [[Special:Contributions/Kalki|contributions]]) 17:35, 12 August 2011 (UTC) <s>* 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 23:55, 15 August 2009 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.</s> -->

; 2012
: {{quote of the day
| quote = The [[w:The Iron Man (novel)|Iron Man]] came to the top of the cliff. How far had he walked? Nobody [[Knowledge|knows]]. Where did he come from? Nobody knows. How was he made? Nobody knows. Taller than a house the Iron Man stood at the top of the cliff, at the very brink, in the [[darkness]].
| author = Ted Hughes
}}
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] <!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 21:43, 9 August 2012 (UTC) <s>3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 23:45, 16 August 2008 (UTC)</s>
* 2 [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 04:24, 17 August 2008 (UTC)
* 2 ''[[User:Peace and Passion|Peace and Passion]] ([[User talk:Peace and Passion|"I'm listening...."]])'' 05:45, 12 August 2009 (UTC) -->

; 2013
{{quote of the day
| quote = [[Life]] doesn't have a neat [[beginning]] and a tidy [[end]], life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be [[all]] there.
| author = V. S. Naipaul
}}
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] <!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 02:24, 14 August 2013 (UTC) -->

; 2014
{{quote of the day
| quote = The [[idea]] of global [[unity]] is not new, but the absolute [[necessity]] of it has only just arrived, like a sudden radical alteration of the [[sun]], and we shall have to adapt or disappear. If the [[nations]] are ever to make a working synthesis of their ferocious contradictions, the plan will be created in [[spirit]] before it can be formulated or accepted in [[political]] [[fact]]. And it is in [[poetry]] that we can refresh our [[hope]] that such a unity is occupying [[people]]'s [[imaginations]] everywhere, since poetry is the [[voice]] of [[spirit]] and imagination and all that is potential, as well as of the [[healing]] [[benevolence]] that used to be the privilege of the [[gods]].
| author = Ted Hughes
}}
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] <!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 22:53, 15 August 2014 (UTC) -->

; 2015
{{quote of the day
| quote = Maybe [[all]] [[poetry]], insofar as it moves us and connects with us, is a [[revealing]] of something that the [[writer]] doesn’t actually want to say but desperately [[needs]] to [[communicate]], to be delivered of. Perhaps it’s the need to keep it hidden that makes it poetic — makes it poetry.
| author = Ted Hughes
}}
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:15, 16 August 2015 (UTC) <s>3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 22:53, 15 August 2014 (UTC) <s>4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 20:54, 15 August 2014 (UTC) </s> with a strong lean toward 4. </s> -->

; 2016
{{quote of the day
| quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> We [[now]] give more serious weight to the [[words]] of a country's [[poets]] than to the words of its [[politicians]] — though we know the latter may interfere more drastically with our [[lives]]. [[Religions]], [[ideologies]], mercantile [[competition]] divide us. The [[essential]] [[solidarity]] of the very [[diverse]] poets of the [[world]], besides being [[mysterious]] [[fact]] is one we can be thankful for, since its terms are exclusively those of [[love]], [[understanding]] and [[patience]]. It is one of the few spontaneous guarantees of possible [[unity]] that [[mankind]] can show, and the revival of an appetite for poetry is like a revival of an appetite for all man's [[saner]] possibilities, and a revulsion from the [[materialist]] cataclysms of recent years and the worse ones which the difference of [[nations]] threatens for the years ahead.
| author = Ted Hughes
}}
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 06:22, 15 August 2016 (UTC) <s> 3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 22:53, 15 August 2014 (UTC)  </s> -->

; 2017
{{quote of the day
| quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> I think it’s the shock of every [[writer]]’s [[life ]]when their first [[book]] is published. The shock of their lives. One has somehow to adjust from being [[anonymous]], a figure in ambush, [[working]] from concealment, to being and working in full [[public]] view.
| author = Ted Hughes
}}
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 00:02, 17 August 2017 (UTC) <s>3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 20:54, 15 August 2014 (UTC) </s> -->

; 2018
{{quote of the day
| quote = ''[[Respect|R-E-S-P-E-C-T]] <br /> Find out what it [[Meaning|means]] to me''
| author = Aretha Franklin
}}
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:56, 16 August 2018 (UTC) -->, in regard to her recent death.

; 2019
{{quote of the day
| quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> [[Religion]] now had to have its compartment, almost its [[social]] [[place]]. <br /> The frontier had ceased to exist. And the religions it had bred were [[beginning]] slowly to [[die]]. In the old days, when [[men]], often of little [[education]], had needed only to declare themselves ministers, [[people]] would have seen themselves reflected in the expounders of the [[Word]]. This quality of homespun would have made the religions appear [[creations]] of a [[community]], personal and close and inviolable. Now a certain distance was [[needed]].
| author = V. S. Naipaul
}}
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- 4 — I had believed I had shifted rank on this prior to posting it as QOTD — but the edit did not seem to have registered — * 3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 02:24, 14 August 2013 (UTC) -->

; 2020
{{quote of the day
| quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> [[Poems]] get to the point where they are [[stronger]] than you are. They come up from some other depth and they find a place on the page. You can never find that depth again, that same kind of [[authority]] and [[voice]]. I might [[feel]] I would like to [[change]] something about them, but they’re still stronger than I am and I cannot.
| author = Ted Hughes
}}
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- {{quote of the day
| quote = [[Poems]] get to the point where they are [[stronger]] than you are. They come up from some other depth and they find a place on the page.
| author = Ted Hughes
}}
* 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 22:20, 16 August 2020 (UTC) <s>3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 22:53, 15 August 2014 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 4.</s> but would extend this for context:
:: Poems get to the point where they are stronger than you are. They come up from some other depth and they find a place on the page. You can never find that depth again, that same kind of authority and voice. I might feel I would like to change something about them, but they’re still stronger than I am and I cannot. -->

; 2021
{{quote of the day
| quote =  <!-- ⨀ <br /> -->  ''[[Life]] is a [[play]] acted by dying men, <br /> Where, if its [[heroes]] seem to foot it well <br /> And go light-tongued without grimace of [[pain]], <br /> [[Death]] will be found anon. And who shall tell <br /> Which part was [[saddest]], or in youth or age, <br /> When the tired actor stops and leaves the stage?''
| author = Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
}}
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 21:59, 16 August 2021 (UTC) -->

; 2022
{{quote of the day
| quote =  <!-- ⨀ <br /> -->The [[universal]] [[civilization]] has been a long time in the making. It wasn't always universal; it wasn't always as attractive as it is today. <!-- The expansion of Europe gave it for at least three centuries a racial taint, which still causes pain. --> … the [[beauty]] of the [[idea]] of the pursuit of [[happiness]]. Familiar [[words]], easy to take for granted; easy to misconstrue. <br /> This idea of the pursuit of happiness is at the [[heart]] of the attractiveness of the civilization to so many outside it or on its periphery. I find it marvelous to contemplate to what an extent, after two centuries, and after the terrible history of the earlier part of this century, the idea has come to a kind of fruition. It is an elastic idea; it fits all men. It implies a certain kind of [[society]], a certain kind of [[awakened]] [[spirit]]. <!-- I don't imagine my father's Hindu parents would have been able to understand the idea.  -->  … So much is contained in it: the idea of the [[individual]], [[responsibility]], [[choice]], the [[life]] of the [[intellect]], the idea of [[vocation]] and [[perfectibility]] and [[achievement]]. It is an immense [[human]] idea. It cannot be reduced to a fixed system. It cannot generate [[fanaticism]]. But it is known to exist, and because of that, other more rigid systems in the end blow away.
| author = V. S. Naipaul
}}
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:58, 16 August 2022 (UTC) --> 

; 2023
 {{quote of the day
| quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> What matters in the end in [[literature]], what is always there, is the truly [[good]]. And — though played out forms can throw up [[miraculous]] sports like ''[[Oscar_Wilde#The_Importance_of_Being_Earnest_(1895)|The Importance of Being Earnest]]'' or ''[[The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire|Decline and Fall]]'' — what is good is always what is new, in both form and content. What is good forgets whatever models it might have had, and is unexpected; we have to catch it on the wing.
| author = V. S. Naipaul
}}
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:56, 16 August 2023 (UTC) -->

; 2024
{{quote of the day
| quote =  <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> We are [[w:August 2024 Kursk Oblast incursion|expanding the area of active operations]]. … Hundreds of [[Russian]] servicemen have already surrendered, and all of them will receive humane treatment — they did not experience such treatment even in their own Russian army. … And now all of us in [[Ukraine]] should act as unitedly and efficiently as we did in the first weeks and months of [[Russian invasion of Ukraine|this war]], when Ukraine took the initiative and began to turn the situation to the benefit of our state.<!--  Now we have done the exact same thing — --> … we have [[proven]] once again that we, Ukrainians, are capable of [[achieving]] our goals in any situation — capable of defending our interests and our [[independence]]. And we must make full use of our achievements. And we will. … Special attention is paid to the Kursk region, and thus to the protection of all our border communities nearby. The more the Russian military presence in the border area is destroyed, the closer [[peace]] and real security will be for our country. The Russian state must be held [[accountable]] for what it has done. And it is.<!-- <br /> I am proud of our people! <br /> Glory to Ukraine! --> 
| author = Volodymyr Zelenskyy
}}
:* proposed by [[User:Kalki|Kalki]]<!-- * 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver;">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 00:00, 17 August 2024 (UTC) -->; recent remarks on recent situations.

; 2025
{{quote of the day
| quote =  <!-- ⨀ <br /> --> ''[[Dark]] to me is the [[earth]]. [[Dark]] to me are the [[heavens]]. <br /> Where is she that I [[loved]], the [[woman]] with [[eyes]] like [[stars]]? <br /> Desolate are the streets. Desolate is the [[city]]. <br /> A city taken by [[storm]], where none are left but the [[slain]].''
| author = Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
}}
:* proposed by [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]]<!-- * 2 [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 05:54, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
* 3 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 22:47, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
* 4 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:51, 16 August 2025 (UTC) <s> 2 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 23:45, 16 August 2008 (UTC) </s>
* 3 ''[[User:Peace and Passion|Peace and Passion]] ([[User talk:Peace and Passion|"I'm listening...."]])'' 05:45, 12 August 2009 (UTC) -->

; 2026
{{quote of the day
| quote = <!-- ⨀ <br /> -->With the emergence of [[Nuclear weapons|nuclear-missile weaponry]], [[cybernetics]], electronics, and [[computer]] equipment, any [[subjective]] approach to [[military]] [[problems]], hare-brained [[plans]], and [[superficiality]] can cause irreparable [[damage]].
| author = Matvei Zakharov
}}
:* proposed by [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]]<!-- * 3 because a single miscalculated mistake nowadays can have a negative effect a thousand fold. [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 05:54, 28 May 2008 (UTC)
* 2 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 22:47, 16 August 2008 (UTC)
* 3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:54, 16 August 2026 (UTC) <s>2 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 23:45, 16 August 2008 (UTC)</s> 
* 1 ''[[User:Peace and Passion|Peace and Passion]] ([[User talk:Peace and Passion|"I'm listening...."]])'' 05:45, 12 August 2009 (UTC) -->

; 2027 : ''[[August 17|Rank or add further suggestions…]]''
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'''Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:'''
* ''I knew the [[Spring]] was come. I knew it even <br> Better than all by this, that through my chase <br> In [[wilderness|bush]] and [[stone]] and [[hill]] and [[sea]] and [[heaven]] <br> I seem'd to see and follow still your [[face]]. <br> [[Life|Your face]] my quarry was. For it I rode, <br> My [[horse]] a thing of [[Flight|wings]], myself a [[god]].'' <p><small> ~ [[Wilfrid Scawen Blunt]] ~ </small></p>
** used [[20 March]] 2012, proposed by {{user|Kalki}}

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== Suggestions ==

I have discovered a truly remarkable proof of this theorem that the margin of this page is too small to contain. ~ [[Pierre de Fermat]] (b. August 17, 1601)
* 3 ~ [[User:MosheZadka|MosheZadka]] [[User talk:MosheZadka|(Talk)]] 06:53, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
* 3 [[w:user:TomPhil|TomPhil]] 11:55, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
* 2 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 15:55, 15 August 2007 (UTC)
* 2 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 23:01, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
* 1 [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 15:39, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
* 2 ''[[User:Peace and Passion|Peace and Passion]] ([[User talk:Peace and Passion|"I'm listening...."]])'' 05:45, 12 August 2009 (UTC) ''Amusing, but not sure of its appropriateness for QOTD.''

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One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria. ~ [[V. S. Naipaul]]
* 3 [[User:InvisibleSun|InvisibleSun]] 03:03, 15 August 2006 (UTC)
* 1 [[User:Zarbon|Zarbon]] 15:39, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
* 3 <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:54, 16 August 2026 (UTC) <s>2 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] 23:45, 16 August 2008 (UTC)</s> 
* 2 ''[[User:Peace and Passion|Peace and Passion]] ([[User talk:Peace and Passion|"I'm listening...."]])'' 05:45, 12 August 2009 (UTC)

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<s>We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. ~ [[Davy Crockett]]
* 3 [[User:Kalki|Kalki]] ([[User talk:Kalki|talk]] &middot; [[Special:Contributions/Kalki|contributions]]) 10:07, 15 August 2010 (UTC)</s> 0 — this "quotation" was definitely debunked in 2004 as clearly fraudulent creation of [[w:Edward S. Ellis|Edward S. Ellis]] using the pseudonym "J. Bethune" in "Davy Crockett's Electioneering Tour" by J. Bethune, in ''Harper's New Monthly Magazine'' (April 1867) Vol. 34, No. 203, p. 607, as noted in [https://constitution.org/1-Constitution/cons/ann_toplovich_crockett.htm Ann Toplovich, Executive Director of the Tennessee Historical Society, posting] at the Constitution Society, and in [https://ghostsofdc.org/2026/05/16/david-crockett-congressman-indian-removal-vote/ "David Crockett’s Vote Against Indian Removal : The 1830 Stand That Cost Him Congress" — A note on a speech he did not give, in ''Ghosts of DC'' (16 May 2026)]. I will be updating the Crockett page on this shortly ~ <span style= "border-radius:99em;color:white;background:silver">♞[[User:Kalki/Kalkiswords|☤]][[User:Kalki/Magic|☮]]♌︎[[User:Kalki|Kalki]] [[User talk:Kalki|⚚]][[User:Kalki/index|⚓︎]]⊙[[User:Kalki/Chronology|☳]][[User:Kalki/Vox Box|☶]]⚡</span> 23:54, 16 August 2026 (UTC)

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