December 8

Category:DaysDecember 8 Quotes of the day from previous years: 2004 You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one; I hope some day you'll join us, and the world will live as one. ~ John Lennon (died 8 December 1980) selected by Kalki 2005 It is better to ask some of the questions than to know all the answers. ~ James Thurber (born 8 December 1894) proposed by UDScott 2006 May memory restore again and again The smallest color of the smallest day: Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn. ~ Delmore Schwartz ~ (born 8 December 1913) proposed by InvisibleSun 2007 A hero is someone who rebels or seems to rebel against the facts of existence and seems to conquer them. Obviously that can only work at moments. It can't be a lasting thing. That's not saying that people shouldn't keep trying to rebel against the facts of existence. Someday, who knows, we might conquer death, disease and war. ~ Jim Morrison (born 8 December 1943) proposed by UDScott 2008 The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people — that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing their true nature. ~ James Thurber proposed by InvisibleSun 2009 I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter. ~ Horace proposed by Zarbon 2010 Better than a thousand hollow words Is one word that brings peace. Better than a thousand hollow verses Is one verse that brings peace. Better than a hundred hollow lines Is one line of the law, bringing peace. ~ Gautama Buddha (Bodhi Day a traditional date of celebration of his enlightenment) proposed by Kalki 2011 Just as a solid rock is not shaken by the storm, even so the wise are not affected by praise or blame. ~ Gautama Buddha (Bodhi Day a traditional date of celebration of his enlightenment) proposed by Kalki 2012 How could I think the brief years were enough To prove the reality of endless love? Delmore Schwartz proposed by Kalki 2013 It is difficult to speak of what is common in a way of your own. Horace proposed by Kalki 2014 No one saves us but ourselves, No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path Buddhas merely teach the way. By ourselves is evil done, By ourselves we pain endure, By ourselves we cease from wrong, By ourselves become we pure. Gautama Buddha ~ as translated by ~ Paul Carus proposed by Kalki 2015 Whence, if ever, shall come the actuality Of a voice speaking the mind's knowing, The sunlight bright on the green windowshade, And the self articulate, affectionate, and flowing, Ease, warmth, light, the utter showing, When in the white bed all things are made. Delmore Schwartz proposed by InvisibleSun 2016 Force without wisdom falls of its own weight. Horace proposed by InvisibleSun 2017 Semel emissum volat irrevocabile verbum. Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. Horace proposed by Kalki 2018 He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise; begin! Horace proposed by Kalki 2019 There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else. James Thurber proposed by InvisibleSun 2020 When I look at a body I know it gives me choices of what to put in a painting; what will suit me and what won't. There is a distinction between fact and truth. Truth has an element of revelation about it. If something is true, it does more than strike one as merely being so. Lucian Freud proposed by InvisibleSun 2021 Last thing I remember, I was Running for the door. I had to find the passage back To the place I was before. "Relax," said the night man, "We are programmed to receive. You can check-out any time you like, but you can never leave!" Eagles proposed by UDScott 2022 I want to say thank you. And I want to say thank you to my mother, who is here tonight. You’ll see her in a little while. But she grew up in the 1950s, in Waycross, Georgia, picking somebody else’s cotton and somebody else’s tobacco. But tonight she helped pick her youngest son to be a United States senator. Raphael Warnock proposed by Kalki 2023 Let your love flow outward through the universe, To its height, its depth, its broad extent, A limitless love, without hatred or enmity. Then, as you stand or walk, Sit or lie down, As long as you are awake, Strive for this with a one-pointed mind; Your life will bring heaven to earth. Gautama Buddha proposed by Kalki; in regard of Bodhi Day. 2024 To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom. Horace proposed by Kalki 2025 Regard the child, regard the animal,Welcome strangers, but study daily things,Knowing that heaven and hell surround us,But this, this which we say before we're sorry,This which we live behind our unseen faces,Is neither dream, nor childhood, neitherMyth, nor landscape, final, nor finished,For we are incomplete and know no future,And we are howling or dancing out our soulsIn beating syllables before the curtain:We are Shakespearean, we are strangers. Delmore Schwartz proposed by InvisibleSun 2026 Rank or add further suggestions… <noinclude> Suggestions Bodhi DayDOB''' Lucian Freud · Horace · Jim Morrison · Delmore Schwartz · James Thurber The covetous man is ever in want. ~ Horace 3 InvisibleSun 07:55, 5 December 2006 (UTC) 1 Zarbon 15:54, 26 April 2008 (UTC) 3 Kalki 02:09, 29 November 2008 (UTC) 2 Antiquary 13:59, 7 December 2008 (UTC) He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time. ~ Horace 3 InvisibleSun 07:55, 5 December 2006 (UTC) 1 Zarbon 15:54, 26 April 2008 (UTC) 2 Kalki 02:09, 29 November 2008 (UTC) 2 Antiquary 13:59, 7 December 2008 (UTC) Child labor! The child must carryHis fathers on his back.~ Delmore Schwartz (born December 8, 1913) 3 InvisibleSun 07:55, 5 December 2006 (UTC) 1 Zarbon 15:54, 26 April 2008 (UTC) 2 Kalki 02:09, 29 November 2008 (UTC) 3 Antiquary 13:59, 7 December 2008 (UTC) All we are saying is give peace a chance! ~ John Lennon (Died that die in 1980 after being shot by Mark David Chapman) Mrfandango 1 Kalki (talk · contributions) 15:03, 3 December 2009 (UTC) 3 Kalki 03:49, 4 December 2007 (UTC) this was used 4 April 2008. 3 InvisibleSun 22:13, 7 December 2007 (UTC) 1 Zarbon 15:54, 26 April 2008 (UTC) 2 Antiquary 13:59, 7 December 2008 (UTC) 3 Lyle 21:29, 8 December 2008 (UTC) It is sweet and honorable to die for one's country. ~ Horace 4 Zarbon 04:10, 29 October 2008 (UTC) 2 Kalki 02:09, 29 November 2008 (UTC) 2 Antiquary 13:59, 7 December 2008 (UTC) 2 InvisibleSun 22:40, 7 December 2008 (UTC) 2 DanielTom (talk) 15:27, 7 July 2014 (UTC) (Cf. Bertrand Russell: "Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country.") I very much consider the Internet a garden, and I'm a gardener, and I plant things in it and I work within the framework of the soil, the seasons, the climate, and the temperature, to produce plants. ~ Mark Pesce 3 Zarbon 04:10, 29 October 2008 (UTC) 2 Kalki 02:09, 29 November 2008 (UTC) with a strong lean toward 3. 3 Antiquary 13:59, 7 December 2008 (UTC) 3 InvisibleSun 22:40, 7 December 2008 (UTC) The great thing about multiculturalism is it doesn't involve knowing anything about other cultures - the capital of Bhutan, the principal exports of Malawi, who cares? All it requires is feeling good about other cultures. It's fundamentally a fraud, and I think was subliminally accepted on that basis. Most adherents to the idea that all cultures are equal don't want to live in anything but an advanced Western society. ~ Mark Steyn 2.5 DanielTom (talk) 14:15, 7 July 2014 (UTC) And as I see through the real youI'm falling straight intoA thousand broken MirrorsI can't hideAnd outside the bright lightsCan't hide the pain insideAnd I've broken a thousand mirrors Sinéad O'Connor 3 --ᘙ (talk) 22:29, 5 September 2025 (UTC) (?) —  I had intended to use this, but in prepping for it, found that though she was the vocalist of the released song, she has no writing credits regarding it. I am certainly still open to using it in the future, but properly sourcing the lyrics and creating a page for the authors will take time, and has yet to be done. ~ ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:00, 8 December 2025 (UTC) + tweaks You will rise You'll return The phoenix from the flame You will learn You will rise You'll return Being what you are There is no other Troy For you to burn. Sinéad O'Connor 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 00:32, 8 December 2025 (UTC)