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2014
January
- 01-01 → For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice. - 01-02 → We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.
- 01-03 → Be advised;
Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot
That it do singe yourself: we may outrun.
By violent swiftness, that which we run at,
And lose by over-running. - 01-04 → Esse quam videri bonus malebat
("'He preferred to be good rather than to seem so") - 01-05 → Get away from her, you bitch!
- 01-06 → Est dolendi modus, non est timendi
("There is a limit to grief, but not to apprehension") - 01-07 → Because all you of Earth are idiots!
- 01-08 → Est natura hominum novitatis avida
("It is the nature of man to be fond of novelty") - 01-09 → Say ‘hello’ to my little friend!
- 01-10 → Don't you f**kin' look at me!
- 01-11 → I am his Highness' dog at Kew;
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you? - 01-12 → Et in Arcadia ego
("I too have been in Arcadia") - 01-13 → The little dogs and all,
Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart—see, they bark at me. - 01-14 → Et sceleratis sol oritur
("The sun shines also on the wicked") - 01-15 → Someone's been eating my porridge!
- 01-16 → Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.
- 01-17 → How, in his mid-career, the spaniel struck,
Stiff, by the tainted gale, with open nose,
Outstretched and finely sensible, draws full,
Fearful and cautious, on the latent prey. - 01-18 → Ex nihilo nihil fit
("Nothing comes from nothing") - 01-19 → Everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be foreseen.
- 01-20 → Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!
- 01-21 → How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight.
- 01-22 → Cela est bien, mais il faut cultiver notre jardin.
That is well, but we must cultivate our garden. - 01-23 → Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.
- 01-24 → Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.
- 01-25 → We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its end; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes.
- 01-26 → Go, get the butter.
- 01-27 → The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to blame it on.
- 01-28 → The courser pawed the ground with restless feet,
And snorting foamed, and champed the golden bit. - 01-29 → Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo
("I depart from life as from an inn, not as from home") - 01-30 → I won't heed the battle call.
- 01-31 → Even farts made no impression on it.
February
- 02-01 → My country is the world and my religion is to do good.
- 02-02 → Well, it's Groundhog Day... again...
- 02-03 → I don't understand it, all we're trying to do is destroy everything.
- 02-04 → I ain't got time for your jibba-jabba!
- 02-05 → Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- 02-06 → It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.
- 02-07 → I beheld the wretch — the miserable monster whom I had created.
- 02-08 → Jaką miarką mierzysz, taką ci odmierzą.
"Whatever measure you deal out to others will be dealt back to you." - 02-09 → There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams.
- 02-10 → "Courage!" he said, and pointed toward the land,
This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon. - 02-11 → Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable. Let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
- 02-12 → What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make an end is to make a beginning. - 02-13 → If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion. - 02-14 → And I would do anything for love, I'd run right into hell and back
- 02-15 → Your talk, I said, is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.
- 02-16 → What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.
- 02-17 → Some folks are born silver spoon in hand,
Lord, don't they help themselves, oh. - 02-18 → Après nous, le déluge.
"After us, the flood." - 02-19 → If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
- 02-20 → Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles!
- 02-21 → South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white, and that no government can justly claim authority unless it is based on the will of the people.
- 02-22 → Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.
- 02-23 → Let us be Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon.
- 02-24 → The world is full of Kings and Queens
Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams. - 02-25 → I don’t like to think of laws as rules you have to follow, but more as suggestions.
- 02-26 → If it requires a uniform, it’s a worthless endeavor.
- 02-27 → Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?
- 02-28 → A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?
March
- 03-01 → A semicolon, you dolt!
- 03-02 → It's so easy to see what you can ignite.
- 03-03 → I have always depended on the kindness of strangers.
- 03-04 → The pen is mightier than the sword
- 03-05 → Be like a duck. Calm on the surface, but always paddling underneath.
- 03-06 → The world is disgracefully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain.
- 03-07 → Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
- 03-08 → The only thing that has to be finished by next Friday is next Tuesday.
- 03-09 → The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief.
- 03-10 → Life is "trying things to see if they work".
- 03-11 → Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be surer.
- 03-12 → Cruel as Death, and hungry as the Grave!
- 03-13 → Oh-oh-oh, sweet mystery of life — at last I found you!
- 03-14 → Facilius est multa facere quam diu
("It is easier to do many things, than one thing consecutively") - 03-15 → Exegi monumentum aere perennius
("I have reared a monument more enduring than bronze") - 03-16 → Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.
- 03-17 → If you steal from one author, it’s plagiarism; if you steal from many, it’s research.
- 03-18 → I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.
- 03-19 → Infinite riches in a little room.
- 03-20 → Factum fieri infectum non potest
("It is impossible for a deed to be undone") - 03-21 → The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
- 03-22 → T'is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all
- 03-23 → People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.
- 03-24 → Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy.
- 03-25 → Throw that junk.
- 03-26 → Old, but I'm not that old. Young, but I'm not that bold.
- 03-27 → When now, unsparing as the scourge of war,
Blast follow blasts and groves dismantled roar;
Around their home the storm-pinched cattle lows,
No nourishment in frozen pasture grows. - 03-28 → I couldn’t repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.
- 03-29 → Every time you hear a bell ring, it means that some angel's just got his wings.
- 03-30 → Thin, airy shoals of visionary ghosts.
- 03-31 → Fas est et ab hoste doceri
("It is lawful to be taught even by an enemy")
April
- 04-01 → He who breathes deepest lives most.
- 04-02 → Yes, you're very smart. Shut up.
- 04-03 → Who ordered that?
- 04-04 → There is nothing so annoying as to have two people go right on talking when you’re interrupting.
- 04-05 To cause harm to other living beings is to accept and revel in the imperfections of the world
- 04-06 → We all go a little mad sometimes…. Haven't you?
- 04-07 → The glass of fashion, and the mould of form,
The observed of all observers! - 04-08 → Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas
("Happy is he who can discover the causes of things") - 04-09 → When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
- 04-10 → Were't not for laughing, I should pity him.
- 04-11 → Fere libenter homines id quod volunt credunt
("Men readily believe what they want to believe") - 04-12 → If you build it, he will come.
- 04-13 → Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look;
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. - 04-14 → Festina lente
("Make haste slowly") - 04-15 → Mr. Rusk, you're not wearing your tie.
- 04-16 → Seemed washing his hands with invisible soap
In imperceptible water. - 04-17 → Fiat justitia ruat caelum
("Let justice be done though the heavens fall") - 04-18 → Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.
- 04-19 → I can tell you this, we're not going to get anywhere unless we do it together.
- 04-20 → The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are the easiest person to fool.
- 04-21 → Don't argue with idiots because they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.
- 04-22 → La-dee-da, la-dee-da.
- 04-23 → Her pretty feet
Like snails did creep
A little out, and then,
As if they played at bo-peep
Did soon draw in agen. - 04-24 → Finis coronat opus
("The end crowns the work") - 04-25 → You won't find that island on any chart.
- 04-26 → I'm here tonight to tell you a very strange story — a story so strange that no one will believe it — but, ladies and gentlemen, seeing is believing.
- 04-27 → It is the folly of too many, to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
- 04-28 → I am told there are people who do not care for maps, and I find it hard to believe.
- 04-29 → "What in heaven's name brought you to Casablanca?" – "My health. I came to Casablanca for the waters."
"The waters? What waters? We're in the desert." – "I was misinformed." - 04-30 → Who the silent man can prize,
If a fool he be or wise?
May
- 05-01 → Formosam resonare doces Amaryllida silvas
("Teach the woods to re-echo “fair Amaryllis”") - 05-02 → Last night I saw a flying object that couldn't have possibly been from this planet…But I can't say a word! I'm muzzled by army brass!
- 05-03 → Incens'd with indignation Satan stood
Unterrify'd, and like a comet burn'd
That fires the length of Ophiuchus huge
In th' arctic sky, and from his horrid hair
Shakes pestilence and war. - 05-04 → Here's looking at you, kid.
- 05-05 → HORATIO. I saw him once: he was a goodly king.
HAMLET. He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again. - 05-06 → Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit
("Perhaps even these things will be good to remember one day") - 05-07 → Attica! Attica!
- 05-08 → Forward and frolic glee was there,
The will to do, the soul to dare,
The sparkling glance, soon blown to fire,
Of hasty love or headlong ire. - 05-09 → Gaudeamus igitur / Juvenes dum sumus
("Let us then rejoice / While we are young") - 05-10 → Mislike me not for my complexion,
The shadowed livery of the burnished sun,
To whom I am a neighbor, and near bred.
Bring me the fairest creature northward born,
Where Phoebus' fire scarce thaws the icicles,
And let us make incision for your love,
To prove whose blood is reddest, his or mine. - 05-11 → No wire hangers, ever!
- 05-12 → I see dead people.
- 05-13 → Graecia capta ferum victorem cepit
("Conquered Greece in turn defeated its savage conqueror") - 05-14 → I used to hate the water. — I can't imagine why.
- 05-15 → A combination and a form indeed
Where every god did seem to set his seal
To give the world assurance of a man. - 05-16 → Sed terrae graviora manent
("But on earth, worse things await") - 05-17 → Gloria invidiam vicisti
("By your fame you have conquered envy") - 05-18 → Ay, every inch a king.
- 05-19 → gutta cavat lapidem [non vi sed saepe cadendo]
("a water drop hollows a stone [not by force, but by falling often]") - 05-20 → There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep.
- 05-21 → Effort Achieves
- 05-22 → Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
- 05-23 → I wish I knew how to quit you.
- 05-24 → Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self.
- 05-25 → Buckle Your Pants!
- 05-26 → O snail
Climb Mount Fuji
But slowly, slowly! - 05-27 → Few of them were to be trusted within reach of a trowel and a pile of bricks.
- 05-28 → Give a good deed the credit of a good motive; and give an evil deed the benefit of the doubt.
- 05-29 → Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.
- 05-30 → A town just ran over him. I shouldn't think he's very well....
- 05-31 → It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish.
June
- 06-01 → 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. - 06-02 → Pro captu lectoris habent sua fata libelli
("According to the capabilities of the reader, books have their destiny") - 06-03 → The hasty multitude
Admiring entered, and the work some praise,
And some the architect: his hand was known
In heaven by many a towered structure high,
Where sceptred angels held their residence,
And sat as princes. - 06-04 → CLEAN ALL THE THINGS!
- 06-05 → I am, George…. I am.
- 06-06 → Haec olim meminisse iuvabit
("One day, this will be pleasing to remember") - 06-07 → Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.
- 06-08 → Licence to kill.
- 06-09 → I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.
- 06-10 → Yo, Adrian, I did it!
- 06-11 → You want answers?
— I want the truth!
— You can't handle the truth! - 06-12 This motto is under construction and you can help!
- 06-13 This motto is under construction and you can help!
- 06-14 This motto is under construction and you can help!
- 06-15 This motto is under construction and you can help!
- 06-16 This motto is under construction and you can help!
- 06-17 This motto is under construction and you can help!
- 06-18 → I've got his trunk all packed. I've had it packed for a week now.
- 06-19 → I'll be back
- 06-20 → Reproachful speech from either side
The want of argument supplied:
They rail, reviled; as often ends
The contests of disputing friends. - 06-21 → ...Bond. James Bond.
- 06-22 → The spice must flow
- 06-23 This motto is under construction and you can help!
- 06-24 → Of all the things that drive men to sea...
- 06-25 → Old houses mended,
Cost little less than new, before they're ended. - 06-26 → The architect
Built his great heart into these sculptured stones,
And with him toiled his children, and their lives
Were builded, with his own, into the walls,
As offerings unto God. - 06-27 → Hominem pagina nostra sapit
("It is of man that my page smells") - 06-28 → Homo homini lupus est
("Man is a wolf to [his fellow] man.") - 06-29 → He-e-e-e-re's Johnnie!
- 06-30 → Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes
Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.
July
- 07-01 → He'd undertake to prove, by force
Of argument, a man's no horse.
He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl,
And that a Lord may be an owl,
A calf an Alderman, a goose a Justice,
And rooks, Committee-men or Trustees. - 07-02 → Homo sum; humani nil a me alienum puto
("I am a man; I regard nothing human as alien to me") - 07-03 → I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!
- 07-04 → You had me at ‘hello’.
- 07-05 → Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, but I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops, that is, depending on the breaks.
- 07-06 → One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.
- 07-07 → In argument
Similes are like songs in love:
They must describe; they nothing prove. - 07-08 → Agreed to differ.
- 07-09 Id est (i.e.)
("That is") - 07-10 Id quod plerumque accidit.
("That which generally happens.") - 07-11 → Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.
("Therefore whoever desires peace, let him prepare for war.") - 07-12 → One single positive weighs more,
You know, than negatives a score. - 07-13 → Alien
- 07-14 → Hinc illae lacrimae
("Hence those tears") - 07-15 → Hoc genus omne
("All that people") - 07-16 → There's no crying in baseball!
- 07-17 → My mind is going. There is no question about it.
- 07-18 → Who shall decide, when doctors disagree,
And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me? - 07-19 → How vain are all hereditary honors,
Those poor possessions from another's deeds. - 07-20 → A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.
- 07-21 → Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.
- 07-22 → I have always imagined paradise as a kind of library.
- 07-23 → A bed shouldn’t have instructions. Except for, like, "Sleep".
- 07-24 → — That's Edinburgh Castle, Albert.
— Is it? What did they put it up there for? - 07-25 → I don't think I'm easy to talk about.
- 07-26 → He lives to build, not boast, a generous race;
No tenth transmitter of a foolish face. - 07-27 → Impossibilium nulla obligatio est
("There is no obligation to do the impossible") - 07-28 → My people are the people. They’re everywhere on the planet.
- 07-29 → Moment of inner freedom
when the mind is opened & the
infinite universe revealed
& the soul is left to wander
dazed & confus'd searching
here & there for teachers & friends. - 07-30 → What a dump.
- 07-31 → Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die,
But leave us still our old nobility.
August
- 08-01 → Well I could call out when the going gets tough.
- 08-02 → How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!
- 08-03 → You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought.
- 08-04 → Whoe'er amidst the sons
→ Of reason, valor, liberty, and virtue,
→ Displays distinguished merit, is a noble
→ Of Nature's own creating. - 08-05 → Fond man! though all the heroes of your line
→ Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine
→ In proud display; yet take this truth from me—
→ Virtue alone is true nobility! - 08-06 → Boast not the titles of your ancestors, brave youth!
→ They're their possessions, none of yours. - 08-07 → Iniuriae qui addideris contumeliam
→ ("You who have added insult to injury") - 08-08 → Inopiae desunt multa, avaritiae omnia
→ ("To poverty many things are lacking; to avarice, everything") - 08-09 Wikipedia:Motto of the day/August 9, 2014
- 08-10 Create something new through which the soul will find the meaning of life.
- 08-11 → Nobler is a limited command
Given by the love of all your native land,
Than a successive title, long and dark,
Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark. - 08-12 → They're heee-re.
- 08-13 → I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner.
- 08-14 → Oh! You cursed brat. Look what you've done. I'm melting! Melting! Oh, what a world! What a world! Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness.
- 08-15 Wikipedia:Motto of the day/August 15, 2014
- 08-16 Wikipedia:Motto of the day/August 16, 2014
- 08-17 Wikipedia:Motto of the day/August 17, 2014
- 08-18 Wikipedia:Motto of the day/August 18, 2014
- 08-19 Wikipedia:Motto of the day/August 19, 2014
- 08-20 Wikipedia:Motto of the day/August 20, 2014
- 08-21 Wikipedia:Motto of the day/August 21, 2014
- 08-22 Wikipedia:Motto of the day/August 22, 2014
- 08-23 Wikipedia:Motto of the day/August 23, 2014
- 08-24 Wikipedia:Motto of the day/August 24, 2014
- 08-25 Wikipedia:Motto of the day/August 25, 2014
- 08-26 Wikipedia:Motto of the day/August 26, 2014
- 08-27 Wikipedia:Motto of the day/August 27, 2014
- 08-28 Wikipedia:Motto of the day/August 28, 2014
- 08-29 Wikipedia:Motto of the day/August 29, 2014
- 08-30 Wikipedia:Motto of the day/August 30, 2014
- 08-31 Wikipedia:Motto of the day/August 31, 2014
September
- 09-01 Wikipedia:Motto of the day/September 1, 2014
- 09-02 → It was almost worth dying to know all the trouble he’d made.
- 09-03 → Winter is coming.
- 09-04 Wikipedia:Motto of the day/September 4, 2014
- 09-05 Wikipedia:Motto of the day/September 5, 2014
- 09-06 Wikipedia:Motto of the day/September 6, 2014
- 09-07 Wikipedia:Motto of the day/September 7, 2014
- 09-08 Wikipedia:Motto of the day/September 8, 2014
- 09-09 → Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!
- 09-10 → I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
- 09-11 → But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle — built - for - two.
- 09-12 → I once fixed a door that wasn't even broken yet.
- 09-13 → A thing worth having is worth cheating for.
- 09-14 → I am not an animal! I am a human being.
- 09-15 → They that on glorious ancestors enlarge,
Produce their debt, instead of their discharge. - 09-16 → What the hell happened?
- 09-17 → Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus
→ ("I too am annoyed whenever good Homer nods off") - 09-18 → Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.
- 09-19 → The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong done them by man, beast or fate.
- 09-20 → Intus et in cute
("Inwardly, under the skin") - 09-21 → Molten steel, razor-sharp blades, lots of time to himself - what could possibly go wrong?
- 09-22 → I don't want to be a hero! All I want is the money! The money!
- 09-23 Quick! Someone Call The Fire Brigade! There's A Fire!
- 09-24 → In se magna ruunt
("Great things collapse of their own weight") - 09-25 → Integer vitae scelerisque purus
("Unimpaired by life and clean of wickedness") - 09-26 → All the time you spend trying to get back what's been took from you, more is going out the back door.
- 09-27 → Strike me pink!
- 09-28 → The organs of state must practice democratic centralism, they must rely on the masses and their personnel must serve the people.
- 09-29 → Klaatu barada nikto
- 09-30 → Few sons attain the praise of their great sires, and most
their sires disgrace.
October
- 10-01 → Invenias etiam disiecti membra poetae
("You would still recognize the scattered fragments of a poet") - 10-02 → Good. For a moment there, I thought we were in trouble.
- 10-03 → He stands for fame on his forefather's feet,
By heraldry, proved valiant or discreet! - 10-04 → We'll always have Paris.
- 10-05 → Great families of yesterday we show,
And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who. - 10-06 → Iucunda memoria est praeteritorum malorum
("Pleasant is the memory of past troubles") - 10-07 → Upon the brimming water among the stones
Are nine and fifty swans. - 10-08 This motto is empty!
Please, take a moment to review the nominations and nominate your own new mottos at Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/In review and Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/Specials.
Any help would be appreciated. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:16, 7 October 2014 (UTC) - 10-09 This motto is empty!
Please, take a moment to review the nominations and nominate your own new mottos at Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/In review and Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/Specials.
Any help would be appreciated. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:17, 7 October 2014 (UTC) - 10-10 This motto is empty!
Please, take a moment to review the nominations and nominate your own new mottos at Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/In review and Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/Specials.
Any help would be appreciated. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:17, 7 October 2014 (UTC) - 10-11 This motto is empty!
Please, take a moment to review the nominations and nominate your own new mottos at Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/In review and Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/Specials.
Any help would be appreciated. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:17, 7 October 2014 (UTC) - 10-12 This motto is empty!
Please, take a moment to review the nominations and nominate your own new mottos at Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/In review and Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/Specials.
Any help would be appreciated. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:18, 7 October 2014 (UTC) - 10-13 This motto is empty!
Please, take a moment to review the nominations and nominate your own new mottos at Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/In review and Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/Specials.
Any help would be appreciated. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:18, 7 October 2014 (UTC) - 10-14 This motto is empty!
Please, take a moment to review the nominations and nominate your own new mottos at Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/In review and Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/Specials.
Any help would be appreciated. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:18, 7 October 2014 (UTC) - 10-15 → Give me a gig!
- 10-16 → Well, a boy's best friend is his mother.
- 10-17 → Toga! Toga!
- 10-18 → I suppose it'd been better if I'd never been born at all.
- 10-19 → For Art is Nature made by Man
To Man the interpreter of God. - 10-20 → In the elder days of Art.
Builders wrought with greatest care
Each minute and unseen part;
For the gods see everywhere. - 10-21 → I usually play for twenty minutes, and the longest I've ever done was under thirty.
- 10-22 → Food fight!
- 10-23 → For me, music and life are all about style.
- 10-24 → Labor ipse voluptas
("The pleasure is in the work itself") - 10-25 → Lacrimae rerum
("The poignancy of things") - 10-26 → The clock is running, make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.
- 10-27 → Inveniet quod quisque velit
("Each shall find what he desires") - 10-28 → Is it safe?
- 10-29 → It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize,
And to be swift is less than to be wise.
'Tis more by art, than force of numerous strokes. - 10-30 → Latius est impunitum relinqui facinus nocentis [quam innocentem damnari]
("It is better to let the crime of the guilty go unpunished [than to condemn the innocent]") - 10-31 → — They gave me all kinds of hell.
— Well, they had a point: you're an idiot!
November
- 11-01 → You sure throwing him in is the best way to get him to learn how to swim?
- 11-02 → I am a meat popsicle!
- 11-03 → You're in a pretty bad fix.
- 11-04 → It happened once... It happened once, and so it will be forever.
- 11-05 → With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world.
- 11-06 → Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop.
- 11-07 This motto is empty!
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Any help would be appreciated. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:29, 4 November 2014 (UTC) - 11-12 → Now I want you to remember that no bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
- 11-13 → His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand;
His manners were gentle, complying, and bland;
Still born to improve us in every part,
His pencil our faces, his manners our heart. - 11-14 → Far more important than a good remuneration is the pride of serving one's neighbor.
- 11-15 → You say you want a Revolution; you better get it on right away.
- 11-16 → Laudator temporis acti
("Praiser of time past") - 11-17 → Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.
- 11-18 → I love it. … God help me, I do love it so. I love it more than my life.
- 11-19 → Around the mighty master came
The marvels which his pencil wrought,
Those miracles of power whose fame
Is wide as human thought. - 11-20 → Tra voi, tra voi saprò dividere
("With you all, I can share") - 11-21 → You just have to get on the plane with one song you can teach to everybody — and that's what I'm telling everybody.
- 11-22 → Lectio brevior potior
("The shorter reading is the better") - 11-23 → Lectori salutem
("Greetings reader") - 11-24 → — "You know what they call a - a - a Quarter Pounder with cheese in Paris?"
— "They don't call it a Quarter Pounder with cheese?"
— "No man, they got the metric system. They wouldn't know what the f--k a Quarter Pounder is."
— "Then what do they call it?"
— "They call it a 'Royale' with cheese."
— "A 'Royale' with cheese!...What do they call a Big Mac?"
— "A Big Mac's a Big Mac, but they call it 'Le Big Mac.'"
— "'Le Big Mac!' What do they call a 'Whopper'?"
— "I dunno, I didn't go into Burger King." - 11-25 → Oh! could I throw aside these earthly bands
That tie me down where wretched mortals sigh—
To join blest spirits in celestial lands! - 11-26 → Littera scripta manet
("The written word endures") - 11-27 → Nothing beats 2 guitars, drum and bass.
- 11-28 → Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still - real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever.
- 11-29 → Happy the heart that keeps its twilight hour,
And, in the depths of heavenly peace reclined,
Loves to commune with thoughts of tender power,—
Thoughts that ascend, like angels beautiful,
A shining Jacob's ladder of the mind! - 11-30 → Longissimus dies cito conditur
("Even the longest day soon ends")
December
- 12-01 → If after reading this book you come to my home and brutally murder me, I do not blame you.
- 12-02 → You enjoyin' that sandwich, are you?
- 12-03 → The most important person is the one you are with in this moment.
- 12-04 → We left. Walking uphill and into the wind.
- 12-05 → It is very nice how many books there are, indeed. And on so many subjects!
- 12-06 Just one more level...
- 12-07 → I tried to find out where the term came from, but the one explanation I got was really idiotic.
- 12-08 → That's mighty brave talk for a one-eyed fat man.
- 12-09 → The desire of the moth for the star,
→ Of the night for the morrow,
→The devotion to something afar
→ From the sphere of our sorrow? - 12-10 → Lucida sidera
("The shining stars") - 12-11 → Well sir, goin' 'ome...'Ome, sir.
- 12-12 → I held it truth, with him who sings
To one clear harp in divers tones,
That men may rise on stepping-stones
Of their dead selves to higher things. - 12-13 → But who shall so forecast the years
And find in loss a gain to match?
Or reach a hand thro' time to catch
The far-off interest of tears? - 12-14 → Let Love clasp Grief lest both be drown'd,
Let darkness keep her raven gloss:
Ah, sweeter to be drunk with loss,
To dance with death, to beat the ground, - 12-15 → Than that the victor Hours should scorn
The long result of love, and boast,
'Behold the man that loved and lost,
But all he was is overworn.' - 12-16 → Lucus a non lucendo
("[It is] a grove by not being light.") - 12-17 → Someday I think you and I are going to have a serious disagreement.
- 12-18 → Not all those who wander are lost.
- 12-19 → Why does the Earth have colors?
- 12-20 → Be careful — with quotations, you can damn anything.
- 12-21 This motto is empty!
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Any help would be appreciated. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:00, 16 December 2014 (UTC) - 12-24 → Lupus est homo homini
("A man to a man is a wolf") - 12-25 → That's what makes us tough. Rich fellas come up an' they die an' their kids ain't no good, an' they die out. But we keep a-comin'. We're the people that live. They can't wipe us out. They can't lick us. And we'll go on forever, Pa... 'cause... we're the people.
- 12-26 → I can stand anything but pain.
- 12-27 → Magnum vectigal est parsimonia
("Economy is a great revenue") - 12-28 → Never be jealous again. Never doubt that I love you more than the world. More than myself.
- 12-29 → O, what authority and show of truth
Can cunning sin cover itself withal! - 12-30 → Marcet sine adversario virtus
("Valor becomes feeble without an opponent") - 12-31 → Ah si, godiamo, la tazza, la tazza e il cantico,
la notte abbella e il riso;
in questo, in questo paradiso ne scopra il nuovo dì.
("Let's enjoy the wine and the singing, the beautiful night, and the laughter. Let the new day find us in this paradise.")