Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Schedule/Archive 2009

2009

January

• 01-01 → To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success
• 01-02 It's not the singer, it's the song
• 01-03 Whether it be tight or loose, we all hold on to something!
• 01-04 →Wars come and go, but my soldiers stay eternal.
• 01-05 Imagine all the people
  living in harmony
• 01-06 Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
• 01-07 →Mind what you have learned. Save you it can.
• 01-08 This is who we are. This is what we're made of. This is what we do.
• 01-09 Fly high, but don’t forget to let someone under your wing.
• 01-10 → True ease in writing comes from art, not chance,
  As those move easiest who have learned to dance.
• 01-11 Communicate, Collaborate, Cooperate, Amalgamate.
• 01-12 Genius is one percent inspiration and 99 percent perspiration
• 01-13 → It's not who I am underneath, but what I do that defines me.
• 01-14 → Hopefully, generations after us will continue to protect, preserve, and look after this wonderful land.
• 01-15 → To infinity and beyond!
  

Happy Birthday Wikipedia!!

• 01-16 Let's Roll
• 01-17 → Not by strength, but by guile
• 01-18 At the end of the game, the pawn and the king go into the same box together
• 01-19 → You don't really want to stay, no
  But you don't really want to go, oh.
• 01-20 → Be aware of the dark side
• 01-21 We've been through ups and we've been through downs, but that's what makes the world go 'round
• 01-22 → A man does what he must — in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles and dangers, and pressures — and that is the basis of all human morality.
• 01-23 Don't just do it. Do it right.
• 01-24 From a spark, there shall rise a flame.
• 01-25 →I got soul but I’m not a soldier
• 01-26 → Little strokes fell great oaks.
• 01-27 → Convictions are more dangerous enemies of truth than lies.
• 01-28 → What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult to each other?
• 01-29 → Between too early and too late, there is never more than a moment.
• 01-30 →I know that spades are the swords of a soldier, and clubs are weapons of war...but that's not the shape of my heart.
• 01-31 → I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.

February

• 02-01 → Inches make champions.
• 02-02 → There never was a good war, or a bad peace.
• 02-03 ...there is no higher lifeform than a librarian
• 02-04 → Who's the more foolish, the fool, or the fool who follows him?
• 02-05 → ...I'm exhausted, barely breathing,
  holding on to what I believe in,
  and no matter what,
  you'll never take that from me.
  My reign is as far as your eyes can see.
  It's amazing, so amazing...
• 02-06 It is important to keep in mind that neither success, nor failure, is ever final.
• 02-07 → Whenever a system of communication evolves, there is always the danger that some will exploit the system for their own ends.
• 02-08 Everyone is not out to get you.
  Relax, smile, and offer someone a helping hand.
• 02-09 Toot and come in
• 02-10 Listen up!
• 02-11 → Cheered up himself with ends of verse,
  And sayings of philosophers.
• 02-12 → Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that supports everyone. But it is also securing the space for others to contribute the best that they have and all that they are.
• 02-13 Starting things can be tough.
  But you should always
  grit, grin, and dive in.
• 02-14 → There are people with whom one does not negotiate.
• 02-15 → Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
• 02-16 → It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
• 02-17 I'm a little teapot, short and stout,
  Here is my handle and here is my spout.
  When I get all steamed up hear me shout:
  "Tip me up and pour me out!"
• 02-18 → Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place. If you want to get somewhere else, you must run at least twice as fast as that!
• 02-19 → If every man did the little he could—what a different world!
• 02-20 → Ich bin ein Berliner.
• 02-21 → Human beings are members of a whole,
  In creation of one essence and soul.
  
  If one member is afflicted with pain,
  Other members uneasy will remain.
  
  If you have no sympathy for human pain,
  The name of human you cannot retain.
• 02-22 →I sometimes go to my own little world, but that's okay, they know me there.
• 02-23 → Alone we can do so little.
  Together, we can do so much.
• 02-24 → Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty;
• 02-25 → I was very, very drunk!
• 02-26 → As sunshine, broken in the rill,
  Though turned astray, is sunshine still.
• 02-27 These aren't even oranges, they're yellows. Still, that doesn't mean we should throw them out, since there's no reason not to eat them.
• 02-28 → Act quickly... but not too quickly.

March

• 03-01 There may be an "I" in Wikipedia, but there is also a "we"
• 03-02 → There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.
• 03-03 → If at first, an idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.
• 03-04 It would be unfair to compare a simple mishap to outright vandalism, for it would be like comparing the luscious fruit of a peach to the poison in its pit.
• 03-05 → He does make exceedingly good cakes
• 03-06 → Carry on, my wayward son
  There'll be peace when you are done
• 03-07 → This We'll Defend
• 03-08 →I do not want the peace that passeth understanding. I want the understanding which bringeth peace.
• 03-09 → I eat two green berets for breakfast and right now, I'm very hungry!
• 03-10 → The war is over – the rebels are our countrymen again.
• 03-11 → Regulation is of little effect, while persuasion has much more effect.
• 03-12 → I can resist everything except temptation.
• 03-13 → When you win the toss – bat. If you are in doubt, think about it, then bat. If you have very big doubts, consult a colleague – then bat.
• 03-14 Wikipedia, where the information is as abundant as the digits in pi.
• 03-15 → A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes there is no virtue but on his own side.
• 03-16 "Charity begins at home" is the voice of the world.
• 03-17 → War is what happens when language fails.
• 03-18 → Let there be light, sound, drums, guitar! Oh! Let there be rock!
• 03-19 → As you are old and reverend, you should be wise
• 03-20 Extra! Extra! Read all about it!
• 03-21 It's frustrating when you know all the answers, but nobody bothers to ask you the questions.
• 03-22 →There is many a boy today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell.
• 03-23 A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see — and hits it
• 03-24 → Yo, I know Pi to a thousand places.
• 03-25 → Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance
• 03-26 → Some attitudes may be named... which are central in effective intellectual ways of dealing with subject matter. Among the most important are directness, open-mindedness, single-mindedness (or whole-heartedness), and responsibility.
• 03-27 I'd like a cup of coffee from a proper copper coffee pot
• 03-28 → ...when we fight each other, forgive us.
  When we presume that our greatness and our prosperity is ours alone, forgive us.
  When we fail to treat our fellow human beings and all the Earth with the respect that they deserve, forgive us.
• 03-29 → When a man gets angry, he falls down.
• 03-30 →...those values upon which our success depends on hard work and honesty, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism - these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history
• 03-31 Success comes in cans. Failure comes in can'ts.

April

• 04-01 You're not gonna believe this!
• 04-02 → Everyone be quiet, including me. Shhh! Who's making that noise? Oh, it's me again.
• 04-03 Cleanup on Aisle 3!
• 04-04 → It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,
  it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,
  it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity,
  it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness,
  it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair,
  we had everything before us, we had nothing before us,
  we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way...
• 04-05 → Is this the way to Amarillo?
• 04-06 → To live with integrity in an unjust society we must work for justice. To walk with integrity through a landscape strewn with beer cans, we must stop and pick them up.
• 04-07 → The greatest challenge for eight men... was saving one.
• 04-08 → Love, Live, Pray, Think, Dare
• 04-09 If life gives you lemons, you had better go get water and sugar too or your lemonade will not taste very good.
• 04-10 → Ambition is our idol, on whose wings
  Great minds are carried only to extreme;
  To be sublimely great, or to be nothing
• 04-11 → Finally, a good use for your mouth.
• 04-12 → Hi, I'm Ed Winchester!
• 04-13 Even Einstein asked questions.
• 04-14 → Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.
• 04-15 → For those who seek to advance their aims by inducing terror and slaughtering innocents,
  we say to you now that our spirit is stronger and cannot be broken;
  you cannot outlast us, and we will defeat you.
• 04-16 → Prepare to cross the line.
• 04-17 Life lies before you like fresh fallen snow. Be careful where you walk, for every step will show.
• 04-18 → You and I, Watson, we have done our part. Shall the world, then, be overrun by oysters? No, no; horrible!
• 04-19 → Cut out the poetry, Watson.
• 04-20 → That's not gone well!
• 04-21 → You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
• 04-22 Look before you leap.
• 04-23 → Unus pro omnibus, omnes pro uno
  “One for all, all for one”
• 04-24 → In false community, members ultimately rely on power rather then love in dealing with hard decisions.
  In true community the whole remains person-conscious.
• 04-25 → No grain of sand is small in the mechanism of a watch.
• 04-26 → Eagles soar, but weasels get sucked into lawnmowers
• 04-27 → Forward, Upward, Onward Together.
• 04-28 → Well, don't just sit there, girl
• 04-29 The fish that nibbles at every bait will be caught.
• 04-30 → I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of life is to be useful, to be responsible, to be compassionate. It is above all to matter, to count, to stand for something, to have made some difference you lived at all.

May

• 05-01 → Don’t ever wrestle with a pig. You’ll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it.
• 05-02 → Victory comes from harmony.
• 05-03 → You had me at hello
• 05-04 → Miracles don't come cheap.
• 05-05 You will never stand taller than when you kneel to help a child.
• 05-06 → If you need instructions on how to get through the hotels, check out the enclosed instruction book.
• 05-07 → Looking for extreme possibilities may make you blind to the probable explanation right in front of you.
• 05-08 → This land does not belong to one person, but to all. Let us together build this world, that we may share in the days of peace.
• 05-09 → You, you and you... panic. The rest of you, come with me.
• 05-10 → You can`t start a fire without a spark.
• 05-11 → Beginnings are usually scary and endings are usually sad, but it's everything in between that makes it all worth living
• 05-12 → These are the faces of evil. You must conquer each.
• 05-13 Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds
• 05-14 → Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
• 05-15 → When you're on the Titanic and you're manning the life boats, you don't stop to yell at the iceberg.
• 05-16 → Standby for action! Anything could happen in the next half an hour
• 05-17 → "Who's that then?"
  "I dunno, must be a King."
  "Why?"
  "He hasn't got shit all over him."
• 05-18 → No one can think clearly when his fists are clenched.
• 05-19 → I know a lot about love. I've seen it, centuries and centuries of it, and it was the only thing that made watching this world bearable.
  All those wars. Pain, lies, hate... It made me want to turn away and never look down again.
  But when I see the way that mankind loves...
  You could search to the furthest reaches of the universe and never find anything more beautiful.
• 05-20 → A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!
• 05-21 → In wars, boy, fools kill other fools for foolish causes.
• 05-22 → A pig painted gold is still a pig.
• 05-23 → One pretty woman means fun at the dance. Two pretty women mean trouble in the house. Three pretty women mean run for the hills.
• 05-24 → Do not climb heights in order to fight.
• 05-25 → When we mean to build,
  We first survey the plot, then draw the model;
  And when we see the figure of the house,
  Then must we rate the cost of the erection.
• 05-26 → A man without trust might as well be dead.
• 05-27 → To lead is neither to push nor pull.
• 05-28 → But words are things, and a small drop of ink,
  Falling, like dew, upon a thought, produces
  That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think.
• 05-29 → I don't what he's after, but it's not peace.
• 05-30 → And, in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make.
• 05-31 The steeper the mountain, the harder the climb, the better the view from the finishing line

June

• 06-01 → Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself.
• 06-02 → He's too big to go in there. What shall I do?
• 06-03 → Love is all you need
• 06-04 → The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
• 06-05 → Theirs is not to question why,
  Theirs is just to do or die.
• 06-06 There's no time like the present.
• 06-07 It's okay to bend the rules, but you should never break them.
• 06-08 Every dog deserves two bites
• 06-09 Focusing too hard on the needle will prevent you from seeing the haystack.
• 06-10 → The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.
• 06-11 A diamond in the rough.
• 06-12 If you're going to do it...why not do it in style?
• 06-13 The cogs that keep the wheel turning.
• 06-14 → And so I penn’d
  It down, until it came at last to be
  For length and breadth the bigness which you see.
• 06-15 → Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.
• 06-16 → No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
• 06-17 → Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.
• 06-18 → Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money
• 06-19 → Livery: Like a liver
• 06-20 This is a world full of strong opinions,
  you just have to know where to find them.
• 06-21 The only thing more rewarding then helping someone.
  Is helping someone in need.
• 06-22 → The art of knowing is knowing what to ignore.
• 06-23 The onus is on us.
• 06-24 Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness forces you to grow beyond what you were.
• 06-25 → From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step.
• 06-26 → Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied.
• 06-27 → I felt that as long as we were being honest,
  and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal...
  we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.
• 06-28 → There’s a time and place for everything
• 06-29 You can't accomplish very much in life if you don't believe you can
• 06-30 Awards aren't very important, but once you get it you realize that you aren't proud that you got it, you are proud of what you did to get it.

July

• 07-01 → There's something strange about that "SOP" sign.
• 07-02 Everything is permitted. It does not tell us to be free. It tells us to be wise.
• 07-03 The apple doesn't fall far from the tree.
• 07-04 → Wikipedia: The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave
• 07-05 → Around the mighty master came
  The marvels which his pencil wrought,
  Those miracles of power whose fame
  Is wide as human thought.
• 07-06 There are more than two sides to every story
• 07-07 When two elephants fight, the grass gets hurt.
• 07-08 → Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
• 07-09 → Lamp oil, rope, bombs? You want it? It's yours, my friend, as long as you have enough rupees.
• 07-10 The absence of a yes rarely equals the presence of a no.
• 07-11 → You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
• 07-12 → The house is on fire!
  No, mother. It's just the Northern Lights.
• 07-13 What You See Is What You Get
• 07-14 → One love, one heart
  Let's get together and feel all right.
• 07-15 Edit mercilessly, critique mercifully.
• 07-16 → abundans cautela non nocet
  ("abundant caution does no harm")
• 07-17 → Wikipedia, the free, multilingual encyclopedia to which people of all ages, cultures, and social backgrounds can contribute.
• 07-18 → Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.
• 07-19 → May this new saxophone bring you years of—D'oh!
• 07-20 → Wine, Women and Song
• 07-21 → Why did I write? what sin to me unknown
  Dipped me in ink,—my parents', or my own!
• 07-22 The best edits aren't to the subjects of popularity, however big the edit is, the best edits are to the subject that needs it.
• 07-23 As a military general, there are always troops to clean threats off the globe, but in Wikipedia, we have to do it ourselves.
• 07-24 → Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da, life goes on.
• 07-25 Love the sinner; Hate the sin.
• 07-26 Always reveal your sources!
• 07-27 → Papa's got a brand new bag
• 07-28 → A man who trusts everyone is a fool, and a man who trusts no one is a fool.
• 07-29 → Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?
• 07-30 → abusus non tollit usum
  ("misuse does not remove use")
• 07-31 → None but an author knows an author's cares,
  Or Fancy's fondness for the child she bears.

August

• 08-01 → How may days' walk?
  Oh, about two years.
• 08-02 → We are one people.
• 08-03 → Abstruse and mystic thought you must express
  With painful care, but seeming easiness;
  For truth shines brightest thro' the plainest dress.
• 08-04 → acta est fabula plaudite
  ("The play has been performed; applaud!")
• 08-05 → Whether the charmer sinner it, or saint it,
  If folly grow romantic. I must paint it.
• 08-06 → Legend tells of a legendary warrior whose kung fu skills were the stuff of legend.
• 08-07 All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
• 08-08 → A beautiful battle is one you don't have to fight.
• 08-09 → All things must pass
• 08-10 → You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.
• 08-11 → The blue dye extracted from indigo is bluer than indigo.
• 08-12 → Autobots – transform and roll out.
• 08-13 Don't rush towards the finish line,
  Spend time with your fellow runners.
• 08-14 Seeing is believing
• 08-15 To make this work, just add water.
• 08-16 He who speaks in anger makes his anger heard, but his words are forgotten.
• 08-17 The early bird catches the worm.
• 08-18 → ad astra per aspera
  ("to the stars through difficulty")
• 08-19 → As living jewels dropped unstained from heaven
• 08-20 → I didn't put my name in that cup...I don't want eternal glory. I just want to be...
• 08-21 → acta non verba
  ("actions, not words")
• 08-22 → It may be glorious to write
  Thoughts that shall glad the two or three
  High souls, like those far stars that come in sight
  Once in a century.
• 08-23 → Love worketh no ill to his neighbour: therefore love is the fulfilling of the law.
• 08-24 There are no stupid questions.
• 08-25 → Where men are the most sure and arrogant, they are commonly the most mistaken, and have there given reins to passion, without that proper deliberation and suspense, which can alone secure them from the grossest absurdities.
• 08-26 → Fail to prepare, prepare to fail
• 08-27 → Let him who would enjoy a good future waste none of his present.
• 08-28 → The pen is mightier than the sword.
• 08-29 Good game.
• 08-30 → A cat may look at a king. The cat may be wrong in its conclusions, but others, following its gaze, can draw their own.
• 08-31 War is meaningless action but peace is the strongest force

September

• 09-01 → E'en copious Dryden wanted, or forgot,
  The last and greatest art—the art to blot.
• 09-02 → Live long and prosper
• 09-03 Time is money
• 09-04 It's not the winning, it's the taking part that counts
• 09-05 Learn from yesterday, live for today, dream of tomorrow
• 09-06 Friendship is the brightest light in the darkness of times.
• 09-07 → No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
• 09-08 → As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields.
• 09-09 Daunting but rewarding
• 09-10 → Homer do good?
• 09-11 → We are family
• 09-12 Treat other editors like they are in your home, not in your way.
• 09-13 → Audemus jura nostra defendere
  ("We Dare To Defend Our Rights")
• 09-14 How sweet and fitting it is to edit for Wikipedia
• 09-15 Live and let live
• 09-16 → Salus populi suprema lex esto.
  ("The welfare of the people shall be the supreme law.")
• 09-17 → Carpe diem
  ("seize the day")
• 09-18 Wikipedia: A change in the way you think
• 09-19→ Feeling gratitude and not expressing it is like wrapping a present and not giving it.
• 09-20 → Even after all this time.
  The sun never says to the earth,
  "You owe Me."
• 09-21 Man's greatest gift is knowledge.
• 09-22 → Panic at the thought of doing a thing is a challenge to do it.
• 09-23 → Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future.
• 09-24 → Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best.
• 09-25 → Don´t leave home without it.
• 09-26 → It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken.
• 09-27 Think big
• 09-28 → Every single man, woman and child is a partner in the most tremendous undertaking in our... history. We must share the good news and the bad news, the defeats and victories.
• 09-29 → Crescit eundo
  ("It grows as it goes")
• 09-30 → I do not look upon these United States as a finished product. We are still in the making.

October

• 10-01 → The shadows of the past can be felt by the present.
• 10-02 → With more power comes more responsibility... and fewer coffee breaks.
• 10-03 → Lipsmackin' thirstquenchin' acetastin' motivatin' goodbuzzin' cooltalkin' highwalkin' fastlivin' evergivin' coolfizzin' Pepsi.
• 10-04 → Raise your hand if you're sure.
• 10-05 → Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever
• 10-06 → Ah! A heading. Set sail in a... general... that way direction.
• 10-07 → Have you seen me?
• 10-08 A place to grow.
• 10-09 آزموده را آزمودن خطاست
  ("It is a mistake to try the tried one.")
• 10-10 Every article is a story, make yours a best seller
• 10-11 Don’t fight fire with fire,
  Water works a lot better.
• 10-12 → Don't click this link or you will crash Wikipedia!
• 10-13 → A rosebud set with little wilful thorns.
  And sweet as English air could make her, she.
• 10-14 → Love is something if you give it away,
  Give it away, give it away.
  Love is something if you give it away,
  You end up having more.
• 10-15 As long as it's true,
  The bizarre can stay too.
• 10-16 → A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down
• 10-17 → I have not failed;
  I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
• 10-18 → Thou who hast
  The fatal gift of beauty
• 10-19 → One determined person can make a significant difference;
  But a small group of determined people
  Can change the course of history.
• 10-20 → Nothing that is complete breathes.
• 10-21 → Come on, Step it up!
• 10-22 → Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold but be not too bold
• 10-23 → Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.
• 10-24 → Work hard, eat right, and you'll never stop earning your stripes.
• 10-25 → Minna, miteite kure! ("Everyone, Please look!")
• 10-26 → An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
• 10-27 Do not be discouraged if for everything you do well, someone else does better, for surely for everything you do poorly, someone else does worse
• 10-28 → There's nothing that allays an angry mind
  So soon as a sweet beauty.
• 10-29 → It don't matter if you're black or white
• 10-30 → No soup for you!
• 10-31 Trick or Treat,
  Smell my feet,
  Give me something good to eat.

November

• 11-01 Revenge is a dish best not served at all.
• 11-02 → Tenka Fubu
  ("Conquer all under heaven")
• 11-03 → "Time's glory is to command contending kings
  To unmask falsehood, and bring truth to light."
• 11-04 → We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.
• 11-05 Funny.
• 11-06 → How near to good is what is fair,
  Which we no sooner see,
  But with the lines and outward air
  Our senses taken be.
  We wish to see it still, and prove
  What ways we may deserve;
  We court, we praise, we more than love,
  We are not grieved to serve.
• 11-07 If it wasn't for you, there would be nothing
• 11-08 Having a high position doesn't make you great, what you do is what makes you great.
• 11-09 Which came first, the seed or the plant?
• 11-10 → To freely bloom — that is my definition of success
• 11-11 → A small act of kindness can go a long way.
• 11-12 → Even though I walk through the valley of the shadows of death, I fear no evil, for you are with me
• 11-13 → It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously
• 11-14 While one person hesitates because he feels inferior, the other is busy making mistakes and becoming superior.
• 11-15 A reputation isn't something you buy or inherit, it's something you earn
• 11-16 → We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
• 11-17 → Food is essential to life. Therefore, make it good.
• 11-18 → To all who come to this happy place - welcome.
• 11-19→ Beauty is Nature's coin, must not be hoarded.
  But must be current, and the good thereof
  Consists in mutual and partaken bliss.
  Unsavory in th' enjoyment of itself:
  If you let slip time, like a neglected rose,
  It withers on the stalk with languished head.
• 11-20 → Wherever they burn books, in the end will also burn human beings.
• 11-21 → Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle
• 11-22 → Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes
• 11-23 Love like you've never been hurt, Dance like nobody's watching, and Live everyday for itself.
• 11-24 → In beauty, faults conspicuous grow;
  The smallest speck is seen on snow
• 11-25 → Evil triumphs when good men do nothing.
• 11-26 → We have so much to be thankful for...
• 11-27 → Hard work conquers everything.
• 11-28 → Without hard work, nothing grows but weeds.
• 11-29 → A little price. A lot of cover
• 11-30 → Limpia, fija y da esplendor
  ("It cleans, sets, and gives splendor")

December

• 12-01 → Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.
• 12-02 → I'm gonna try with a little help from my friends
• 12-03 → How come we don't say I love you enough? It's not too late.
• 12-04 → I've been spendin' way too long checkin' my tongue in the mirror
  and bendin' over backwards just to try to see it clearer
  But my breath fogged up the glass
  and so I drew a new face and I laughed
• 12-05 → Etiquette—a fancy word for simple kindness
• 12-06 → Thinking of you, wherever you are.
  We pray for our sorrows to end,
  and hope that our hearts will blend.
  Now I will step forward to realize this wish.
  And who knows:
  starting a new journey may not so hard
  or maybe it has already begun.
  There are many worlds,
  but they share the same sky-
  one sky, one destiny.
• 12-07 → Say I do, I do, I do, I do, I do
• 12-08 →When I find myself in times of trouble
  Mother Mary comes to me
  Speaking words of wisdom, let it be.
• 12-09 → If you want to make the world a better place,
  take a look at yourself and make that change
• 12-10 → Treat a man as he is, he will remain so.
  Treat a man the way he can be and ought to be, and he will become as he can be and should be.
• 12-11 Cover before you smother
• 12-12 → Knowledge grows when shared
• 12-13 Together, Everyone Achieves More.
• 12-14 Have you had your five-a-day?
• 12-15 → Those who can make you believe absurdities, can also make you commit atrocities
• 12-16 → The pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity. The optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.
• 12-17 Try before you buy
• 12-18 → Great leaders inspire greatness in others.
• 12-19 → Peace on earth, good will to men
  Is the greatest gift of all
• 12-20 → Hey my children
  What seems important won't last forever
• 12-21 → The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds.
• 12-22 → The best index to a person's character is
  (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and
  (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.
• 12-23 → Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
• 12-24 He who has not Christmas in his heart will never find it under a tree
• 12-25 The first noel
  The angels did say
  Was to certain good shepherds
  In fields where they lay.
  
  Merry Christmas, Wikipedians, from the team at MOTD!
• 12-26 → That's the funny thing about arriving somewhere... Once you're there, the only thing you can really do is leave again.
• 12-27 Holy Bible, book divine,
  Precious treasure, thou art mine;
  Mine to tell me whence I came;
  Mine to teach me what I am.
   
  Mine to chide me when I rove;
  Mine to shew a Saviour's love;
  Mine art thou to guide my feet;
  Mine to judge, condemn, acquit.
• 12-28 → My Book and Heart
  Must never part.
• 12-29 → Friendship before statehood.
• 12-30 → The bells themselves are the best of preachers,
  Their brazen lips are learned teachers,
  From their pulpits of stone, in the upper air,
  Sounding aloft, without crack or flaw,
  Shriller than trumpets under the Law,
  Now a sermon and now a prayer.
• 12-31 → You unlock this door with the key of imagination.
  Beyond it is another dimension: A dimension of helping, sharing, and doing.
  You’re moving into a land of things and ideas.
  You've just crossed over into...The Twilight Zone.