# 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
   * proposed by Kalki, for Bloomsday

## 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 ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2013

* Values exist in a transcendental realm, beyond space and time. They can neither be fought for, nor destroyed.
* ~ Enoch Powell ~
   * proposed by Zarbon

## 2014

* I was a Flower of the mountain yes when I put the rose in my hair like the Andalusian girls used or shall I wear a red yes and how he kissed me under the Moorish wall and I thought well as well him as another and then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes to say yes my mountain flower and first I put my arms around him yes and drew him down to me so he could feel my breasts all perfume yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will Yes.
* ~ James Joyce ~ in ~ Ulysses ~
   * selected by Kalki

## 2015

* As we, or mother Dana, weave and unweave our bodies, Stephen said, from day to day, their molecules shuttled to and fro, so does the artist weave and unweave his image.
* ~ James Joyce ~ in ~ Ulysses ~
   * proposed by Kalki, for Bloomsday

## 2016

* Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants, willing to be dethroned.
* ~ James Joyce ~ in ~ Ulysses ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2017

* Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.
* ~ Joyce Carol Oates ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2018

* Nothing is accidental in the universe — this is one of my Laws of Physics — except the entire universe itself, which is Pure Accident, pure divinity.
* ~ Joyce Carol Oates ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2019

* If you are a writer you locate yourself behind a wall of silence and no matter what you are doing, driving a car or walking or doing housework — you can still be writing, because you have that space.
* ~ Joyce Carol Oates ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2020

* "A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become lawful in all the States, old as well as new — North as well as South.
* ~ Abraham Lincoln ~
   * proposed by Kalki, as the date of Lincoln's delivery of this "House Divided" speech, in 1858.

## 2021

* my God after that long kiss I near lost my breath yes he said I was a flower of the mountain yes so we are flowers all a womans body yes that was one true thing he said in his life and the sun shines for you today yes that was why I liked him because I saw he understood or felt what a woman is and I knew I could always get round him and I gave him all the pleasure I could leading him on till he asked me to say yes and I wouldnt answer first only looked out over the sea and the sky I was thinking of so many things he didnt know
* ~ James Joyce ~ in ~ Ulysses ~

## 2022

* I love flowers Id love to have the whole place swimming in roses God of heaven theres nothing like nature the wild mountains then the sea and the waves rushing then the beautiful country with the fields of oats and wheat and all kinds of things
* ~ James Joyce ~ in ~ Ulysses ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2023

* It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity, but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities, but of their advantages. Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow-citizens. Even a beggar does not depend upon it entirely.
* ~ Adam Smith ~
   * proposed by DanielTom

## 2024

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## Suggestions

Adam Smith (16 June 1723 – 17 July 1790)
Murray Leinster (16 June 1896 – 8 June 1975)
Joyce Carol Oates (born 16 June 1938)
* I fear those big words, Stephen said, which make us so unhappy.
* ~ James Joyce ~ in ~ Ulysses ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
* 1 What is this quote referring to? J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣️|📧 17:52, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
* Our national epic has yet to be written.
* ~ James Joyce ~ in ~ Ulysses ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
* 2 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣️|📧 17:52, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
* 3 Ficaia (talk) 18:34, 31 May 2024 (UTC)
* Come forth Lazarus! And he came fifth and lost the job.
* ~ James Joyce ~ in ~ Ulysses ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
* 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣️|📧 17:52, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
* Unsheathe your dagger definitions. Horseness is the whatness of allhorse. Streams of tendency and eons they worship.
* ~ James Joyce ~ in ~ Ulysses ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
* 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣️|📧 17:52, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
* He that to ancient wreaths can bring no more From his own worth, dies bankrupt on the score. ~ John Cleveland (dob)
** 3 Ficaia (talk) 18:34, 31 May 2024 (UTC) We could also run the slightly modernised text quoted in The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton (1897), p. 10:He, who to ancient wreaths can bring no more From his own worth, dies bankrupt on the score.