# April 6

Quotes of the day from previous years:

## 2004

    There is no sincerer love than the love of food. ~ George Bernard Shaw
   * selected by Poor Yorick

## 2005

    See, I write jokes for a living, man. I sit in my hotel at night and think of something that's funny and then I go get a pen and write 'em down. Or, if the pen's too far away, I have to convince myself that what I thought of ain't funny. ~ Mitch Hedberg (recent death)
   * selected by Kalki

## 2006

    Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. ~ Isaac Asimov (died 6 April 1992)
   * selected by Kalki

## 2007

    I am less concerned with expressing the motions of the soul and mind than to render visible, so to speak, the inner flashes of intuition which have something divine in their apparent insignificance and reveal magic, even divine horizons, when they are transposed into the marvellous effects of pure plastic art. ~ Gustave Moreau
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2008

    I have never looked for dream in reality or reality in dream. I have allowed my imagination free play, and I have not been led astray by it. ~ Gustave Moreau
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2009

    Little deeds of kindness, Little words of love, Make our pleasant earth below Like the heaven above. ~ Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney ~
   * proposed by Zarbon

## 2010

    Little drops of water, Little grains of sand, Make the mighty ocean And the pleasant land.Thus the little minutes, Humble though they be, Make the mighty ages Of eternity. ~ Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney ~
   * proposed by Zarbon

## 2011

    I believe neither in what I touch nor what I see. I only believe in what I do not see, and solely in what I feel. ~ Gustave Moreau
   * proposed by Zarbon

## 2012

    אלהי אלהי למא שבקתני ελωι ελωι λεμα σαβαχθανι My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? ~ Jesus ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2013

* No one could have less faith in the absolute and definitive importance of the work created by man, because I believe that this world is nothing but a dream.
* ~ Gustave Moreau ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2014

* Whenever the powers of government are placed in any hands other than those of the community, whether those of one man, of a few, or of several, those principles of human nature which imply that government is at all necessary, imply that those persons will make use of them to defeat the very end for which government exists.
* ~ James Mill ~
   * proposed by Zarbon

## 2015

* Speak kindly to the erring; Thou yet may'st lead them back, With holy words and tones of love, From misery's thorny track. Forget not thou hast often sinned. And sinful yet must be; Deal gently with the erring one, As God hath dealt with thee.
* ~ Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2016

* Sleep and death of the senses; tears and the death of the heart. Do you understand the progression? Sleep, though sad, is gentler than tears which, though painful, are gentler than death. Ecstasy is more delightful than song, which is gentler than work. Prayer is superior to dreaming which is more elevated than manual work.
* ~ Gustave Moreau ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2017

* Today I started loving you again I'm right back where I've really always been; I got over you just long enough to let my heartache mend, Then today I started loving you again.
* ~ Merle Haggard ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2018

* Of the laws of nature on which the condition of man depends, that which is attended with the greatest number of consequences is the necessity of labor for obtaining the means of subsistence, as well as the means of the greatest part of our pleasures. This is no doubt the primary cause of government; for if nature had produced spontaneously all the objects which we desire, and in sufficient abundance for the desires of all, there would have been no source of dispute or of injury among men, nor would any man have possessed the means of ever acquiring authority over another. The results are exceedingly different when nature produces the objects of desire not in sufficient abundance for all. The source of dispute is then exhaustless, and every man has the means of acquiring authority over others in proportion to the quantity of those objects which he is able to possess. In this case the end to be obtained through government as the means, is to make that distribution of the scanty materials of happiness which would insure the greatest sum of it in the members of the community taken altogether, preventing every individual or combination of individuals from interfering with that distribution or making any man to have less than his share.
* ~ James Mill ~
   * proposed by Zarbon

## 2019

* The government and the people are under a moral necessity of acting together; a free press compels them to bend to one another.
* ~ James Mill ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2020

* Sometimes in our lives we all have pain We all have sorrow But if we are wise We know that there's always tomorrow. Lean on me, when you're not strong And I'll be your friend I'll help you carry on For it won't be long 'Til I'm gonna need Somebody to lean on.
* ~ Bill Withers ~
   * proposed by Kalki, in regard of his recent death.

## 2021

* This habit of forming opinions, and acting upon them without evidence, is one of the most immoral habits of the mind. ... As our opinions are the fathers of our actions, to be indifferent about the evidence of our opinions is to be indifferent about the consequences of our actions. But the consequences of our actions are the good and evil of our fellow-creatures. The habit of the neglect of evidence, therefore, is the habit of disregarding the good and evil of our fellow-creatures.
* ~ James Mill ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2022

* The war in Ukraine is one of the greatest challenges ever to the international order and the global peace architecture, founded on the United Nations Charter. Because of its nature, intensity, and consequences. We are dealing with the full-fledged invasion, on several fronts, of one Member State of the United Nations, Ukraine, by another, the Russian Federation — a Permanent Member of the Security Council — in violation of the United Nations Charter, and with several aims, including redrawing the internationally-recognized borders between the two countries. The war has led to senseless loss of life, massive devastation in urban centres, and the destruction of civilian infrastructure. I will never forget the horrifying images of civilians killed in Bucha. I immediately called for an independent investigation to guarantee effective accountability.
* ~ António Guterres ~
   * proposed by Kalki; recent remarks regarding the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.

## 2023

* No good government can ever want more than two things for its support: 1st, Its own excellence; and, 2dly, a people sufficiently instructed, to be aware of that excellence. Every other pretended support, must ultimately tend to its subversion, by lessening its dependence upon these.
* ~ James Mill ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2024

* Every fool has a rainbow But he never seems to find The reward that should be waiting At the end of the line. But he'll give up a bed of roses For a hammock filled with thorns And go chasing after rainbows Every time a dream is born.
* ~ Merle Haggard ~
   * proposed by Kalki

## 2025

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## Suggestions

If we don't play God, who will? ~ James D. Watson
* 3 Zarbon 00:37, 4 April 2009 (UTC)
* 3 Kalki 02:01, 5 April 2009 (UTC) there is ambiguity and significance here beyond his intentions.
* 2 InvisibleSun 20:23, 5 April 2009 (UTC)
* Do things as soon as you can. If a decision needs to be made, make it. It gives you more time to change your mind.
* ~ James D. Watson ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:29, 5 April 2016 (UTC)
* Every fool has a rainbow That only he can see Every fool has a rainbow And the rule applies to me.
* ~ Merle Haggard ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:33, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
* When the world wide war is over and done And the dream of peace comes through We'll all be drinking some free bubble up And eating some rainbow stew.
* ~ Merle Haggard ~
* 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:33, 8 April 2016 (UTC)
* Having lots of ideas doesn't mean you're clever, any more than having lots of soldiers means you're a good general.
* ~ Nicolas Chamfort (dob) ~
* 3 Lisa (talk) 08:34, 31 March 2021 (UTC)
* 2 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:46, 6 April 2021 (UTC), with a lean toward 3.