# July 19

Quotes of the day from previous years:

## 2004

    It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. ~ Mahatma Gandhi
   * selected by Kalki

## 2005

    Anyone who has ever looked into the glazed eyes of a soldier dying on the battlefield will think hard before starting a war. ~ Otto von Bismarck
   * The Franco-Prussian War von Bismarck engineered began on 19 July 1870.
   * proposed by AllanHainey

## 2006

    Truth is never ugly when one can find in it what one needs. ~ Edgar Degas (born 19 July 1834)
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2007

    The museums are here to teach the history of art and something more as well, for, if they stimulate in the weak a desire to imitate, they furnish the strong with the means of their emancipation. ~ Edgar Degas
   * proposed by InvisibleSun

## 2008

    Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty. ~ Edgar Degas
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2009

    Old anchormen, you see, don't fade away; they just keep coming back for more. And that's the way it is... ~ Walter Cronkite (recent death)
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2010

    I should like to be famous and unknown. ~ Edgar Degas
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2011

    It is very good to copy what one sees; it is much better to draw what you can't see any more but is in your memory. It is a transformation in which imagination and memory work together. You only reproduce what struck you, that is to say the necessary. ~ Edgar Degas
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2012

* We didn't start the fire — It was always burning Since the world's been turning. We didn't start the fire — No we didn't light it But we tried to fight it.
* ~ Billy Joel ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2013

* You have to have a high conception, not of what you are doing, but of what you may do one day: without that, there's no point in working.
* ~ Edgar Degas ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2014

* A painting requires a little mystery, some vagueness, and some fantasy. When you always make your meaning perfectly plain you end up boring people.
* ~ Edgar Degas ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2015

* Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again checked in a blind alley. But always, if we have faith, a door will open for us, not perhaps one that we ourselves would ever have thought of, but one that will ultimately prove good for us.
* ~ A. J. Cronin ~
   * proposed by bystander

## 2016

* You must aim high, not in what you are going to do at some future date, but in what you are going to make yourself do to-day. Otherwise, working is just a waste of time.
* ~ Edgar Degas ~
   * proposed by bystander

## 2017

* It seems to me that today, if the artist wishes to be serious — to cut out a little original niche for himself, or at least preserve his own innocence of personality — he must once more sink himself in solitude. There is too much talk and gossip; pictures are apparently made, like stock-market prices, by competition of people eager for profit; in order to do anything at all we need (so to speak) the wit and ideas of our neighbors as much as the businessmen need the funds of others to win on the market. All this traffic sharpens our intelligence and falsifies our judgment.
* ~ Edgar Degas ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2018

* Hell is that state where one has ceased to hope.
* ~ A. J. Cronin ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2019

* Buddy, you're a young man, hard man Shouting in the street, gonna take on the world someday You got blood on your face, you big disgrace Waving your banner all over the place We will, we will rock you, sing it! We will, we will rock you, yeah.
* ~ Brian May ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2020

* Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a week, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble.
* ~ John Lewis ~
   * proposed by Kalki, in regard of his recent death.

## 2021

* When I'm gone, people will no doubt remember me for Queen, but I would much rather be remembered for attempting to change the way we treat our fellow creatures.
* ~ Brian May ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2022

* There's no chance for us It's all decided for us This world has only one sweet moment Set aside for us.Who wants to live forever? Who wants to live forever? Who dares to love forever Oh, when love must die?
* ~ Brian May ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2023

* It is frequently insufficient to identify the motives that guide our conduct, or that shape our attitudes and our thinking, just by observing vaguely that there are various things we want. That often leaves out too much. In numerous contexts, it is both more precise and more fully explanatory to say that there is something we care about.
* ~ Harry Frankfurt ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2024

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## Suggestions

I've fallen and I can't get up. ~ Dorothy McHugh as Mrs. Fletcher in a famous commercial. Dorothy died on July 19th. See w:I've fallen and I can't get up
* 2 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 10:24, 25 Jun 2005 (UTC)
* 2 AllanHainey June 30, 2005 08:16 (UTC)
* 2 Kalki 14:30, 18 July 2007 (UTC)
* 1 Zarbon 06:29, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
* 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 12:54, 14 July 2013 (UTC)
War does not determine who is right — only who is left. ~ Bertrand Russell
* proposed by IP 60.234.48.116, no clear relation to date.
* 1 Kalki 14:30, 18 July 2007 (UTC) good quote, but no clear relation to date.
* 4 if it were used on the right date Zarbon 06:29, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
* 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 12:54, 14 July 2013 (UTC)
Father Ted (series two episode, "Hell") Father Dougal's take on July 19: Would that be the day the Ice Age ended?
    —This unsigned comment is by 140.203.12.240 (talk • contribs) . proposed by IP something or other, no clear relation to date.
* 2 Kalki 20:00, 14 July 2009 (UTC) Though I'm not sure of the context, I find this rather humorous.
* 1 Zarbon 18:18, 21 August 2009 (UTC)
* 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 12:54, 14 July 2013 (UTC)
* Even if my country remains at war with yours . . . remember ... I am not your enemy.
* ~ A. J. Cronin ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 09:58, 18 July 2017 (UTC)
* Humor is a very, very important part of our life. It's not just laughing at a joke, it's an attitude toward life. And as the world gets crazier, it's more important to laugh at it. It's a survival technique.
* ~ Bob Newhart ~
* 4 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:53, 18 July 2024 (UTC); in regard of his recent death.