# September 1

Quotes of the day from previous years:

## 2004

    There is no sudden entrance into Heaven. Slow is the ascent by the path of Love. ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
   * selected by Kalki

## 2005

    It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls. ~ Bruce Fairchild Barton
   * proposed by Kalki, in the wake of Hurricane Katrina

## 2006

    I like a huge range of comedy — from broad and farcical, the most sensitive, the most understated — but I always wanted my comedy to be more embracing of the species rather than debasing of it. ~ Lily Tomlin
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2007

    I have always felt that humor was a wonderful vehicle to let us become connected with each other and ourselves… I try to portray the similarities and polarities in men and women, so that we can acknowledge and embrace our collective consciousness. ~ Lily Tomlin
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2008

    Deep in the minds of the apes was rooted the conviction that Tarzan was a mighty fighter and a strange creature. Strange because he had had it in his power to kill his enemy, but had allowed him to live — unharmed. ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2009

    Proclaim LIBERTY throughout all the Land unto all the Inhabitants thereof. Lev. XXV X ~ Inscription on the Liberty Bell ~ (delivered to Philadelphia on this date in 1752)
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2010

    We've traveled halfway 'round the world To find ourselves again — September morn — We danced until the night became a brand new day, Two lovers playing scenes from some romantic play — September morning still can make me feel that way. ~ Neil Diamond ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2011

    If you're up against a smart opponent, make him think himself to death. ~ C. J. Cherryh
   * proposed by Zarbon

## 2012

* When the legend is retold, it mirrors the reality of the time, and one can learn from studying how various authors have attempted to retell the story. I don't think we have an obligation to change it radically. I think that if we ever move too far from the basic story, we would lose something very precious. I don't, for instance, approve of fantasy that attempts to go back and rewrite the Middle Ages until it conforms to political correctness in the twentieth century. That removes all the benefit from reading the story. If you don't understand other people in their time and why they did what they did, then you don't understand your own past. And when you lose your past, you lose some potential for your own future.
* ~ C. J. Cherryh ~
   * proposed by bystander

## 2013

* Why is it when we talk to God we're said to be praying — but when God talks to us, we're said to be schizophrenic?
* ~ Jane Wagner for Lily Tomlin ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2014

* Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
* ~ Jane Wagner for Lily Tomlin ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2015

* Remember we're all in this alone.
* ~ Jane Wagner & Lily Tomlin ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2016

* As he had grown older, he found that he had grown away from his people. Their interests and his were far removed. They had not kept pace with him, nor could they understand aught of the many strange and wonderful dreams that passed through the active brain of their human king. So limited was their vocabulary that Tarzan could not even talk with them of the many new truths, and the great fields of thought that his reading had opened up before his longing eyes, or make known ambitions which stirred his soul. Among the tribe he no longer had friends as of old. A little child may find companionship in many strange and simple creatures, but to a grown man there must be some semblance of equality in intellect as the basis for agreeable association.
* ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2017

* There’s very good news from the asteroids. It appears that a large fraction of them, including the big ones, are actually very rich in H$_2$O. Nobody imagined that. They thought they were just big rocks … It’s easier to get to an asteroid than to Mars, because the gravity is lower and landing is easier. Certainly the asteroids are much more practical, right now. If we start space colonies in, say, the next 20 years, I would put my money on the asteroids.
* ~ Freeman Dyson ~
   * proposed by Kalki — in regard to the close approach of the 5 km NEO 3122 Florence, on this date.

## 2018

* Trade isn't about goods. Trade is about information. Goods sit in the warehouse until information moves them.
* ~ C. J. Cherryh ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2019

* People ask where writers get ideas. Take my advice. Some cool, clear night, drive to a country place where city lights don’t block your view. Turn off the car lights. Get out and look up. And see our real neighborhood.
* ~ C. J. Cherryh ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2020

* All my life, I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.
* ~ Jane Wagner & Lily Tomlin ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2021

* My fellow Americans, the war in Afghanistan is now over. I’m the fourth president who has faced the issue of whether and when to end this war. When I was running for president, I made a commitment to the American people that I would end this war. Today, I’ve honored that commitment. It was time to be honest with the American people again. We no longer had a clear purpose and an open-ended mission in Afghanistan. After 20 years of war in Afghanistan, I refuse to send another generation of America’s sons and daughters to fight a war should have ended long ago.
* ~ Joe Biden ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2022

* This is what Russia wants. A primitive plot in three acts for the world to make three dramatic mistakes. To get used to the war. To put up with the war. To forget about the war. This intention should never succeed. … Your position is important, your voice is influential, your word is loud. The least you can do today, or rather, NOT do, is not to be silent, not to be afraid, not to turn away, not to pass by and not to be indifferent to the war in Ukraine, which was unleashed by Russia.
* ~ Volodymyr Zelenskyy ~
   * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks on the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

## 2023

* ੴ One Universal Creator God. The Name Is Truth. Creative Being Personified. No Fear. No Hatred. Image Of The Undying, Beyond Birth, Self-Existent. … True In The Primal Beginning. True Throughout The Ages. True Here And Now. O Nanak, Forever And Ever True. By thinking, He cannot be reduced to thought, even by thinking hundreds of thousands of times. By remaining silent, inner silence is not obtained, even by remaining lovingly absorbed deep within. The hunger of the hungry is not appeased, even by piling up loads of worldly goods. Hundreds of thousands of clever tricks, but not even one of them will go along with you in the end. So how can you become truthful? And how can the veil of illusion be torn away? O Nanak, it is written that you shall obey the Hukam of His Command, and walk in the Way of His Will. By His Command, bodies are created; His Command cannot be described. By His Command, souls come into being; by His Command, glory and greatness are obtained. By His Command, some are high and some are low; by His Written Command, pain and pleasure are obtained. Some, by His Command, are blessed and forgiven; others, by His Command, wander aimlessly forever. Everyone is subject to His Command; no one is beyond His Command. O Nanak, one who understands His Command, does not speak in ego.
* ~ Sri Guru Granth Sahib ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2024

* Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
* ~ Jane Wagner & Lily Tomlin ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2025

    Rank or add further suggestions…
Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD:
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## Suggestions

It is well that war is so terrible — lest we should grow too fond of it. ~ Robert E. Lee
* Comment: WWII started on Sept. 1
* 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 13:18, 1 August 2005 (UTC)
* 2 ~ Kalki I would prefer to use this on a day more associated with Lee, or the US Civil War rather than another specific war, there I might rank it 3 or 4.
* 1 but a 3 if used on a more relevant date Zarbon 21:49, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
* 1 InvisibleSun 22:06, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
If I go out of public life with one feeling, with one conviction, it is this: a deep regret for many bitter words I have used in my life, deep sincere repentance for my violence of language. But I hope they will be forgiven me by God and man, because not once in all my life have I attacked anybody unjustly from my point of view, and without believing it was my duty to do so. ~ Henri Bourassa
* 2 Zarbon 04:37, 30 May 2008 (UTC)
* 2 InvisibleSun 22:06, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
* 2 Kalki 23:13, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
DO NOT HARM THE THINGS WHICH ARE TARZAN'S. TARZAN WATCHES. TARZAN OF THE APES. ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs (born 1 September 1875)
* 3 Kalki 23:13, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
* 1 and I like Clayton the hunter. Zarbon 15:26, 1 September 2008 (UTC)
A personification, was Tarzan of the Apes, of the primitive man, the hunter, the warrior. With the noble poise of his handsome head upon those broad shoulders, and the fire of life and intelligence in those fine, clear eyes, he might readily have typified some demigod of a wild and warlike bygone people of his ancient forest. ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
* 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:38, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
He progressed very, very slowly, for it was a hard and laborious task which he had set himself without knowing it — a task which might seem to you or me impossible — learning to read without having the slightest knowledge of letters or written language, or the faintest idea that such things existed. He did not accomplish it in a day, or in a week, or in a month, or in a year; but slowly, very slowly, he learned. ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
* 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:38, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
His strange life had left him neither morose nor bloodthirsty. That he joyed in killing, and that he killed with a joyous laugh upon his handsome lips betokened no innate cruelty. He killed for food most often, but, being a man, he sometimes killed for pleasure, a thing which no other animal does; for it has remained for man alone among all creatures to kill senselessly and wantonly for the mere pleasure of inflicting suffering and death. And when he killed for revenge, or in self-defense, he did that also without hysteria, for it was a very businesslike proceeding which admitted of no levity. ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
* 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:38, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Let all respect Tarzan of the Apes and Kala, his mother. There be none among you as mighty as Tarzan. Let his enemies beware. ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
* 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:38, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Only those who saw this terrible god of the jungle died; for was it not true that none left alive in the village had ever seen him? Therefore, those who had died at his hands must have seen him and paid the penalty with their lives. ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs
* 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:38, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world. ~ Jane Wagner & Lily Tomlin
* 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:38, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. ~ Jane Wagner & Lily Tomlin
* 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:38, 30 August 2010 (UTC)
Gods are fragile things, they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. ~ Chapman Cohen
* 3 DanielTom (talk) 02:36, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
* 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 02:45, 16 January 2014 (UTC)
* What the visual media could not carry into living rooms, the general public could not long remain exercised about. Statistically, a majority of the electorate could not or did not read complicated issues; no pictures, no news; no news, no event.
* ~ C. J. Cherryh ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:23, 31 August 2018 (UTC)
When you lov’d me, and I lov’d you, Then both of us were born anew. ~ William Cartwright (dramatist)
* 3 Ficaia (talk) 02:42, 15 July 2024 (UTC)