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→ It's so easy to see what you can ignite.

From the song Fire, Fire. buffbills7701 14:06, 27 December 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/March 2, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:59, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ A semicolon, you dolt!

Miss Shields grading themes in Ralphie's imagination, from A Christmas Story ~HueSatLum 23:41, 26 December 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/March 1, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:57, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy?

Albert Einstein (1879—1955). benzband (talk) 18:30, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/February 28, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:56, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?

George Carlin (1937—2008). benzband (talk) 18:30, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/February 27, 2014 (per consensus; 4 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:54, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ If it requires a uniform, it’s a worthless endeavor.

George Carlin (1937—2008). benzband (talk) 18:30, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/February 26, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:53, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ I don’t like to think of laws as rules you have to follow, but more as suggestions.

George Carlin (1937—2008). benzband (talk) 18:30, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/February 25, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:51, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ The world is full of Kings and Queens
Who blind your eyes and steal your dreams.

Black Sabbath: Heaven and Hell (1980): "Heaven and Hell". benzband (talk) 18:30, 23 December 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/February 24, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:49, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Let us be Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon.

William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Part 1 (Scene 2). benzband (talk) 19:23, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/February 23, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:48, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.

Terry Pratchett. benzband (talk) 19:23, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/February 22, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:45, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ 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.

Nelson Mandela (18 July 1918 – 5 December 2013), opening words of the Freedom Charter (26 June 1955). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:46, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/February 21, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:44, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Billions of bilious blue blistering barnacles!

Captain Haddock (character in The Adventures of Tintin). benzband (talk) 22:09, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/February 20, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:42, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.

Albert Einstein (1879—1955). benzband (talk) 22:09, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/February 19, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:41, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Après nous, le déluge.
"After us, the flood."

Madame de Pompadour, (1761—1764). benzband (talk) 22:09, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/February 18, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:39, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Some folks are born silver spoon in hand,
Lord, don't they help themselves, oh.

Creedence Clearwater Revival: Willy and the Poor Boys: "Fortunate Son". benzband (talk) 22:09, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/February 17, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:37, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.

The Third Policeman (Flann O'Brien, 1939). benzband (talk) 22:09, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/February 16, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:35, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.

Edit 1. benzband (talk) 22:09, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

no Declined (in favour of the original) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:35, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Your talk, I said, is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.

The Third Policeman (Flann O'Brien, 1939). benzband (talk) 22:09, 8 December 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/February 15, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:33, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ If you want others to be happy, practice compassion.
If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Dalai Lama. benzband (talk) 17:30, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/February 13, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:31, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ What we call the beginning is often the end
And to make an end is to make a beginning.

T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding. benzband (talk) 17:30, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/February 12, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:29, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ 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.

Douglas Adams, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency. benzband (talk) 17:30, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/February 11, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:28, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ "Courage!" he said, and pointed toward the land,
This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.

Alfred Tennyson, The Lotos-Eaters. benzband (talk) 17:30, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/February 10, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:26, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ There are six components of wellness: proper weight and diet, proper exercise, breaking the smoking habit, control of alcohol, stress management and periodic exams.

Kenneth H. Cooper. benzband (talk) 17:30, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/February 9, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:23, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Jaką miarką mierzysz, taką ci odmierzą.
"Whatever measure you deal out to others will be dealt back to you."

Emanuel Strauss, Dictionary of European proverbs (1994). benzband (talk) 16:53, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/February 8, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:22, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ I beheld the wretch — the miserable monster whom I had created.

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (1818). benzband (talk) 16:15, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/February 7, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:20, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ It was all completely incomprehensible to me. I was fearful of the language. You had to look up every third word.

Kevin Kline (1947–). benzband (talk) 16:15, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/February 6, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:19, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950). benzband (talk) 16:15, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/February 5, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:17, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ I ain't got time for your jibba-jabba!

Mr. T (1952–). benzband (talk) 16:15, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/February 4, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:16, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ I don't understand it, all we're trying to do is destroy everything.

John Lydon a.k.a Johnny Rotten (1956–). benzband (talk) 16:15, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/February 3, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:14, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ My country is the world and my religion is to do good.

Thomas Paine (1737–1809). benzband (talk) 16:15, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/February 1, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:13, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Even farts made no impression on it.

Samuel Beckett, Molloy (novel). benzband (talk) 16:15, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/January 31, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:11, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo
("I depart from life as from an inn, not as from home")

Cicero, Cato Maior de Senectute 23. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:39, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/January 29, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:09, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ The courser pawed the ground with restless feet,
And snorting foamed, and champed the golden bit.

John Dryden (1631–1700), Fables, Ancient and Modern, "Palamon and Arcite", Part III. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:39, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/January 28, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:07, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Go, get the butter.

Last Tango in Paris (1972). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:05, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/January 26, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:06, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882). benzband (talk) 20:47, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/January 25, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:04, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955). benzband (talk) 20:47, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/January 24, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:03, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Begin, be bold, and venture to be wise.

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65-8 BC). benzband (talk) 20:47, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/January 23, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:01, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Cela est bien, mais il faut cultiver notre jardin.
That is well, but we must cultivate our garden.

Voltaire, Candide (1759). benzband (talk) 20:47, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/January 22, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:58, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight.

Dejan Stojanovic, The Sun Watches the Sun (1999). benzband (talk) 20:47, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/January 21, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:56, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!

William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (1599). benzband (talk) 20:47, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/January 20, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:54, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Everything is made up of so many unique particulars that cannot be foreseen.

Rainer Maria Rilke (1825-1926). benzband (talk) 20:47, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/January 19, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:53, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Ex nihilo nihil fit
("Nothing comes from nothing")

Titus Lucretius Carus (c. 99 BC – c. 55 BC) De rerum natura ([On the Nature of Things] Error: {{Langx}}: text has italic markup (help); 1st-century BC). Note: WP:N is an alternative link. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:51, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/January 18, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:51, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ 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.

James Thomson (1700-1748), The Seasons: Autumn (c. 1730). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:37, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/January 17, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:49, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Louis, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship.

Casablanca (1942). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:08, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/January 16, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:47, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Someone's been eating my porridge!

"Goldilocks and the Three Bears" (first recorded by Robert Southey, 1837). benzband (talk) 12:48, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/January 15, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:46, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Et sceleratis sol oritur
("The sun shines also on the wicked")

Seneca, De Beneficiis 3:25. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:19, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/January 14, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:44, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ The little dogs and all,
Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart—see, they bark at me.

Lear in William Shakespeare's King Lear (Act I, Scene VI, Page III). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:14, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/January 13, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:42, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Et in Arcadia ego
("I too have been in Arcadia")

"Even in Arcadia, there am I" (I was once happy and/or alive; a person who once enjoyed the pleasures of life on earth; and here means the pleasure and joy of contributing to Wikipedia). It has about the same meaning as "memento mori" ("remember that you will die" … and who will forget this reminder :D). This Latin phrase derives from the scene of Daphnis's tomb —Daphnis was a Sicilian shepherd and inventor of pastoral poetry— in Virgil's Eclogues 5:42–44. Arcadia (portayed by Wikipedia) is an utopian Pastoral State, a vision of living in harmony with nature. It is also the title (or the main theme) of three Baroque paintings: one by Guercino (1622) and two by Poussin (Les Bergers d'Arcadie: 1627 and 1637). Goethe quoted this phrase, recalling his youthful travels in Italy. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:08, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/January 12, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:41, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ I am his Highness' dog at Kew;
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?

Alexander Pope (1688–1744), "On the Collar of a Dog" (1738). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:13, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

no Declined (in favour of Edit 1) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:39, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ I am his Highness' dog at Kew;
Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you?

Edit 1 using WP:PAY instead of WP:PEDIANS for the second link. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:13, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/January 11, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:39, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Don't you f**kin' look at me!

Blue Velvet (1986) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:17, 8 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/January 10, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:37, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Say ‘hello’ to my little friend!

Scarface (1983). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:21, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/January 9, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:34, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Say ‘hello’ to my little friend!

Edit 1 with WP:PLEASEBITE. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:21, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

no Declined (in favour of the original) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:34, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Est natura hominum novitatis avida
("It is the nature of man to be fond of novelty")

Pliny the Elder, Historia Naturalis 12/1:11.
V. 1.0 with Wikipedia:News. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:32, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

no Declined (in favour of Edit 1) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:32, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Est natura hominum novitatis avida
("It is the nature of man to be fond of novelty")

V. 2.0 using Wikipedia:Village pump (proposals). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:32, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/January 8, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:32, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Because all you of Earth are idiots!

Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:15, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/January 7, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:30, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Est dolendi modus, non est timendi
("There is a limit to grief, but not to apprehension")

Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 8:17. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:44, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/January 6, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:28, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Get away from her, you bitch!

Aliens (1986). Wikipedia:Vandalism should be an alternative. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:19, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/January 5, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:27, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Esse quam videri bonus malebat
("'He preferred to be good rather than to seem so")

Sallust (Gaius Sallustius Crispus; 86 BC – ca. 35 BC), Bellum Catilinae (54.6).
"Virtute enim ipsa non tam multi praediti esse quam videri volunt" ("Few are those who wish to be endowed with virtue rather than to seem so"). — Cicero's essay "On Friendship" ("De amicitia", chapter 98).
–pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:30, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/January 4, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:25, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ 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.

William Shakespeare (1564–1616), Henry VIII of England, Act I, Scene I. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:43, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

recycle Reopened (not enough discussion) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:35, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

recycle Reopened - not enough consensus. Simply south...... fighting ovens for just 7 years 15:37, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/January 3, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:23, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ We are all interested in the future, for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives.

Plan 9 from Outer Space (1956). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:29, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

recycle Reopened (not enough discussion) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:34, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

recycle Reopened - not enough consensus. Simply south...... fighting ovens for just 7 years 15:37, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/January 2, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:21, 31 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.

The River of Winged Dreams (Aberjhani, 2010). benzband (talk) 12:48, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 30, 2013 (emergency care; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:21, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

→ I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing — that it was all started by a mouse.

Walt Disney buffbills7701 01:42, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 28, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:19, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Blow, bugles of battle, the marches of peace;
East, west, north, and south let the long quarrel cease;

John Greenleaf Whittier (17 December 1807 – 7 September 1892), "A Christmas Carmen". Isn't good for the 25th? –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:39, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 25, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:15, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

→ How far that little candle throws his beams!

(So shines a good deed in a weary world.) William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice (1596—98). benzband (talk) 20:47, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 24, 2013 (emergency care; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:56, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

→ I’m so tired... I was up all night trying to round off infinity.

Steven Alexander Wright (1955—). benzband (talk) 12:48, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 23, 2013 (emergency care; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:53, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

→ The train bore me away, through the monstrous scenery of slag-heaps, chimneys, piled scrap-iron, foul canals, paths of cindery mud criss-crossed by the prints of clogs.

The Road to Wigan Pier (George Orwell, 1937). benzband (talk) 12:48, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 27, 2013 (emergency care; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:51, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

→ I offered you help. You refused to take our money. And then I said, "guess you're really up sh*t creek"!

Jake in The Blues Brothers (1980). benzband (talk) 12:48, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 20, 2013 (emergency care; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:49, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

→ I offered you help; you refused to take our money!

Edit 1, without the last sentence. benzband (talk) 17:09, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

no Declined (in favour of the original) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:49, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

→ I love mankind... it's people I can't stand!

Charles M. Schulz, The Complete Peanuts. benzband (talk) 19:23, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 19, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:45, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

→ It is easier to destroy than to create.

Larry Niven, b. 1938. TeleComNasSprVen (talk • contribs) 07:01, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 18, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:44, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

→ No one gives a **** if you smoke or you don't.

The Infested: Myths, Lies And Hypocrites (2008): "Fadz". benzband (talk) 12:48, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

no Declined (withdrawn by nominator) ~ benzband (talk) 18:57, 16 December 2013 (UTC)

→ The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that you can never know if they are genuine. —Abraham Lincoln

A fake Abraham Lincoln quote. buffbills7701 23:46, 21 November 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 17, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:01, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Hallo Rabbit, he said, is that you?

A. A. Milne, Winnie The Pooh. benzband (talk) 12:48, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 16, 2013 (emergency care; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:58, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

→ No one is useless in this world who lightens the burden of it to anyone else.

The secretary in Our Mutual Friend (Charles Dickens, (1864—65). benzband (talk) 12:48, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 14, 2013 (emergency care; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:56, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

→ What's done to children, they will do to society.

Karl Menninger (1893-1990). benzband (talk) 12:48, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 13, 2013 (emergency care; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:55, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

→ It’s really hard to be conscious of this on a minute-by-minute basis online, but the Internet is made of people, and it works best when we remember that this thing is not a series of tubes but a conglomeration of human beings.

John Green (1977—). benzband (talk) 12:48, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 12, 2013 (emergency care; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:53, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

→ All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900). benzband (talk) 10:54, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

  • What about using WP:CREATE instead of WP:WCAA? –pjoef (talk • contribs) 06:59, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
    • Sounds good better! See edit - benzband (talk) 11:11, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
      • … then go with it, Ben, by changing the original or adding a new 1b version. Just in case, I think that it's (or it would be) better to switch the first and second links, Isn't?
        P.S. (where the capital "P" stands for "post", you know, but also for somethin' "personal" :D): A couple of days ago I was listening to 999's "Nasty Nasty", and I would liked to use a couple of lines of the song: "what the hell is wrong with you" and "what the hell you gonna do" here at MotD :D … but I did nothin' ~ lol. The very strange thingY is that the very last verse of the song (Emergency 1997 version, which is a little bit longer than other versions, including the 1977 single) sounded to me as "Benny" or "Bennieee" … lol … but not for a similarity between you and Nasty … lol … but for your "punk attitude"!!! :D
        "Have a drink on me … but go easy … step lightly … STAY FREE"!
        P.S.2 (the consolol): WhyTF The Biggest Prize in Sport by 999 isn't on Wikipedia? WTF, it's a super-fantastic album (and an ultra-favourite of mine)!!! One day I will add it to Wikipedia!
        "Come on and hit me, give me sympathy"!!! :D –pjoef (talk • contribs) 12:23, 22 October 2013 (UTC)
  • Support (original version). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 13:22, 23 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 11, 2013 (emergency care; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:51, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

→ All I need is a sheet of paper and something to write with, and then I can turn the world upside down.

Edit 2. benzband (talk) 10:54, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

no Declined (in favour of the original) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:51, 10 December 2013 (UTC)

→ The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of.

Humphrey Bogart as Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon (1941). benzband (talk) 16:15, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

no Declined (Withdrawn by nominator) - benzband (talk) 15:54, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Houston, we have a problem.

Apollo 13 (1995). benzband (talk) 16:15, 17 November 2013 (UTC)

no Declined (Withdrawn by nominator) - benzband (talk) 15:54, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Honesty is the best policy.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). benzband (talk) 11:58, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 10, 2013 (emergency care; 2.5 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:22, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Tolle, lege.
"Take up and read."

Augustine of Hippo, Confessions. benzband (talk) 10:54, 20 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 7, 2013 (emergency care; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:20, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary. benzband (talk) 15:55, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 6, 2013 (emergency care; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:17, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head.

Herman Melville: Moby-Dick; or, The Whale (1851). benzband (talk) 15:55, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 5, 2013 (emergency care; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:15, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Silence! I kill you!

Jeff Dunham's character "Achmed The Dead Terrorist". benzband (talk) 15:55, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 4, 2013 (emergency care; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:13, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Only after disaster can we be resurrected.

Fight Club (Chuck Palahniuk, 1996). benzband (talk) 20:37, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 3, 2013 (emergency care; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:56, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

→ In a time of destruction, create something.

Maxine Hong Kingston (1940—). benzband (talk) 20:37, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 2, 2013 (emergency care; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:54, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

→ Up and down the avenues they're always leaving little clues.

Uncle Slam, Say Uncle (1988), "Micro Logic". benzband (talk) 20:02, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 29, 2013 (emergency care; X in support and X opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:51, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

→ Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936). benzband (talk) 16:53, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 28, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:47, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

→ Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

Edit 1. benzband (talk) 16:53, 20 November 2013 (UTC)

no Declined (in favour of the original) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:48, 26 November 2013 (UTC)

→ Let the peace of this day be here tomorrow when I wake up.

Gravity's Rainbow (Thomas Pynchon, 1973). benzband (talk) 20:37, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 26, 2013 (emergency care; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:40, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

→ We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.

Donald "Duck" Dunn in The Blues Brothers (1980). benzband (talk) 14:43, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 25, 2013 (emergency operation; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:38, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

→ Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769–1821). benzband (talk) 20:02, 26 September 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 24, 2013 (emergency care; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:35, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

→ This won't bring back our children.

Ellen Widmann as Frau Beckmann in M (Fritz Lang, 1931). benzband (talk) 18:41, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 23, 2013 (emergency operation; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:33, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

→ Has the whole world gone crazy?! Am I the only one around here who gives a sh*t about the rules?!

John Goodman as Walter Sobchak in The Big Lebowski (Coen Brothers, 1998). benzband (talk) 11:58, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

no Declined (in favour of Edit 1) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:30, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

→ Has the whole world gone crazy?!

Edit 1, without the second sentence. benzband (talk) 17:09, 9 November 2013 (UTC)

Approved (Edit 1) for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 20, 2013 (emergency care; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:30, 19 November 2013 (UTC)

→ Who's this "we" you're talking about?

The Infested: Eaten From The Inside (2013): "Deficit (Our Generation)". benzband (talk) 11:58, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 19, 2013 (emergency care; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:37, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

→ Don't call me that. Please.

Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1998). benzband (talk) 11:58, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 18, 2013 (emergency care; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:33, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

→ Shouldn’t you not call them minorities when they get to be 80 percent of the population?

Louis C.K. (1967—). benzband (talk) 11:58, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 17, 2013 (emergency care; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:29, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

→ Leap, and the net will appear.

John Burroughs (1837–1921). benzband (talk) 12:33, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 16, 2013 (emergency care; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:27, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

→ This is getting rather abstract, I perceive.

Robert Anton Wilson, What I didn't learn at college (1961). benzband (talk) 18:25, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 15, 2013 (emergency care; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:24, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

→ All experience is an arch, to build upon.

Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams (1907). benzband (talk) 18:25, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 14, 2013 (emergency care; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:23, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

→ Because things change. And friends leave. And life doesn’t stop for anybody.

Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999). benzband (talk) 18:25, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 13, 2013 (emergency care; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:21, 12 November 2013 (UTC)

→ This particular, as in many others, blustering assertion goes for proof, half over the world.

Little Dorrit (1855—1857) by Charles Dickens. benzband (talk) 08:32, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

recycle Reopened (not enough discussion) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:32, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

recycle Reopened - not enough consensus. Simply south...... fighting ovens for just 7 years 15:37, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 10, 2013 (emergency operation; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:57, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

→ I don’t want to belong to any club that will accept people like me as a member.

Groucho Marx (1890–1977) in a telegram to the Friars Club of Beverly Hills. benzband (talk) 08:32, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

recycle Reopened (not enough discussion) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:31, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

recycle Reopened - not enough consensus. Simply south...... fighting ovens for just 7 years 15:37, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 9, 2013 (emergency care; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:55, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

→ While I'm at it, why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard? I could be elected president.

Will in Good Will Hunting (1997). benzband (talk) 08:32, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

recycle Reopened (no consensus; 2 in support and 1 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:29, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

→ While I'm at it, why not just shoot my buddy, take his job, give it to his sworn enemy, hike up gas prices, bomb a village, club a baby seal, hit the hash pipe and join the National Guard?

Edit 1. benzband (talk) 16:43, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

recycle Reopened - no consensus. Simply south...... fighting ovens for just 7 years 15:37, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

no Declined (both versions; no consensus) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:52, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

→ You shouldn't ask me for advice…. When it comes to relationships with women, I'm the winner of the August Strindberg award.

Manhattan (1979). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:02, 15 October 2013 (UTC)

no Declined (no consensus) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:50, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

→ One learns to itch where one can scratch.

Scott Reed. buffbills7701 13:08, 5 July 2013 (UTC) Sorry if this isn't good. This is my first attempt at a motto.

It's a link for the "Don't feed the Trolls" page. If we allow them to troll, they will troll. buffbills7701 12:57, 6 July 2013 (UTC)
Yep, what I meant was what does it mean in the context of the motto? Anyway I just realized I could interpret as a way trolls work (vandalize where it will cause the most disturbance), so Support. benzband (talk) 13:07, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

no Declined (in favour of Edit 1) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:47, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

→ One learns to itch where one can scratch.

Edit 1. benzband (talk) 09:37, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

recycle Reopened (both versions; not enough discussion) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:12, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

recycle Reopened - no consensus. Simply south...... fighting ovens for just 7 years 15:37, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 8, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:47, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

→ If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.

Mahatma Gandhi (1869—1948). benzband (talk) 08:32, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

recycle Reopened (not enough discussion) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:33, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

recycle Reopened - no consensus. Simply south...... fighting ovens for just 7 years 15:37, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 6, 2013 (per bland consensus; 3 in support and 1 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:42, 5 November 2013 (UTC)

→ Distringit librorum multitudo.
"The abundance of books is distraction."

Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4BC–AD65). benzband (talk) 15:55, 13 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 5, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:59, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

→ A huge adrenaline rush is usually followed by a pretty low point.

Bode Miller (1977—). benzband (talk) 20:37, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 3, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:57, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

→ Miscreants — they are telling everything!

King Leopold's Soliloquy by Mark Twain (1905). benzband (talk) 08:32, 17 June 2013 (UTC)

recycle Reopened (not enough discussion) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:30, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

recycle Reopened - not enough consensus. Simply south...... fighting ovens for just 7 years 15:37, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 2, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:53, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

→ And that's a threat. Beginning to understand the difference?

Butch (Kevin Costner) in A Perfect World (1993). benzband (talk) 20:14, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

no Declined (in favour of Edit 1) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:51, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

→ And that's a threat. Beginning to understand the difference?

Edit 1, with WP:IUC for the second link. benzband (talk) 16:43, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

recycle Reopened - no consensus. Simply south...... fighting ovens for just 7 years 15:37, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Approved Edit 1 for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/October 31, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:51, 29 October 2013 (UTC)

→ A harmless necessary cat.

William Shakespeare (1564–1616), The Merchant of Venice, Act IV, Scene I (1623). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:21, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/October 30, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:05, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

→ A harmless necessary cat.

Edit 1: Shylock in The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (1564–1616), Act IV, Scene I (1623; written between 1596 and 1598).
WP:HARM is an alternative for the first link while WP:NECESSARY is also good but not with WP:PROJCATS. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:42, 24 September 2013 (UTC)

Note: I have moved this into an edit of the previous nomination using this quote. benzband (talk) 13:27, 21 October 2013 (UTC)

no Declined (in favour of the original) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:05, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

→ Nobody listens to mathematicians.

Carl Sagan, Cosmos, 1980. benzband (talk) 11:58, 15 September 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/October 29, 2013 (per consensus; 3.5 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:02, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

→ Hey, don't knock masturbation. It's sex with someone I love.

Annie Hall (1977). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:11, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

no Declined (no consensus) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:00, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

→ Hide a stone among stones and a man among men.

General Makabe Rokurōta (Toshiro Mifune) in The Hidden Fortress (1958). benzband (talk) 17:10, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

recycle Reopened (not enough discussion) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:40, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

  • Oppose. Do we really want to "hide" things or just organize them, where more people can learn? I get the point, but there's too much room for misinterpretation. HeathenBenny (talk) 14:02, 13 July 2013 (UTC)

no Declined (in favour of Edit 1) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:58, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

→ Hide a stone among stones and a man among men.

Edit 1, with WP:HIDDENCAT. benzband (talk) 16:43, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

recycle Reopened - not enough consensus. Simply south...... fighting ovens for just 7 years 15:37, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Approved (Edit 1) for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/October 28, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:58, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

→ And the whole huge town of a million people was locked in a sort of violent inertia, a nightmare of noise without movement.

Homage to Catalonia (George Orwell, 1938). benzband (talk) 09:37, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

recycle Reopened - not enough consensus. Simply south...... fighting ovens for just 7 years 15:37, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/October 27, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:54, 22 October 2013 (UTC)

→ All's fish they get
That cometh to net.

Thomas Tusser (1524 – 3 May 1580), Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry: "February Abstract" (1557). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:03, 3 September 2013 (UTC)

no Declined (Withdrawn by nominator) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:25, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

→ Will you give all you can give so that our banner may advance?

From Les Misérables (2012 film), but the original song is from the musical. This motto also references our infamous fundraising banners. ~HueSatLum 20:40, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/October 26, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:34, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

→ They made it in the city, which represented a double network of territorial units connected with guilds, these latter arising out of the common prosecution of a given art or craft, or for mutual support and defense.

Peter Kropotkin in Mutual Aid: A Factor of Evolution (1902). benzband (talk) 13:04, 27 August 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/October 24, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:31, 10 September 2013 (UTC)

→ Good manners don't cost nothing

"I mean good manners don't cost nothing do they, eh?" — Pink Floyd, "Us and Them". –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:41, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

Approved per consensus. Simply south...... fighting ovens for just 7 years 15:38, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

→ And the license fee has gone up, up, up, up again

Culture Shock: Onwards and Upwards: "Colour T.V.". benzband (talk) 15:51, 26 July 2013 (UTC)

Approved per consensus. Simply south...... fighting ovens for just 7 years 15:38, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

→ March boldly ahead, don't be late!

Vladimir Mayakovsky, "Left March (Sailors)" (1918). Note: I do not like the 3rd link (WP:MOSTEDITS) very much and Wikipedia:LATE is about deceased wikipedians, so I've decided to use WP:BREAK instead. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:53, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Approved per consensus. Simply south...... fighting ovens for just 7 years 15:38, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

→ A habit is hell for those you love.

Billie Holiday with William Dufty, Lady Sings the Blues (1956). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:53, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Approved per consensus. Simply south...... fighting ovens for just 7 years 15:38, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

→ Hey, everybody! Check your guns at the bar!

Joe Strummer as Johnny in Mystery Train (1989). benzband (talk) 09:37, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

recycle Reopened (not enough discussion) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:14, 23 July 2013 (UTC)

Approved per consensus. Simply south...... fighting ovens for just 7 years 15:38, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

→ Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor.

Sholem Aleichem (1859-1916). benzband (talk) 12:45, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Approved per consensus. Simply south...... fighting ovens for just 7 years 15:38, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

→ Computers make me totally blank out.

14th Dalai Lama. benzband (talk) 12:45, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Approved per consensus. Simply south...... fighting ovens for just 7 years 15:38, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

→ Each of us inevitable;
Each of us limitless—each of us with his or her right upon the earth.

Walt Whitman, Salut au Monde (collected in Leaves of Grass, 1900). benzband (talk) 12:45, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Approved per consensus. Simply south...... fighting ovens for just 7 years 15:38, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

→ A little more persistence, a little more effort, and what seemed hopeless failure may turn to glorious success.

Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915). benzband (talk) 12:45, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Approved per consensus. Simply south...... fighting ovens for just 7 years 15:38, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

→ If you intend to live in peace and harmony with your fellow men, you and they should cultivate brotherhood and respect for each other. If you want to work together with them for your mutual benefit, you must practice cooperation.

Alexander Berkman, Now and After: The ABC of Communist Anarchism (1929). benzband (talk) 12:45, 21 July 2013 (UTC)

Approved per consensus. Simply south...... fighting ovens for just 7 years 15:38, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

→ Love the land and fellow man
Peace is what we strive to have
Some folks have none of this
Hatred and prejudice

Anthrax (band): Among The Living (1987): "Indians". benzband (talk) 11:58, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Approved per consensus. Simply south...... fighting ovens for just 7 years 15:38, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

→ Well I could call out when the going gets tough.

Joy Division, "Transmission" (Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook, Stephen Morris, Ian Curtis; October 1979; Factory Records). WP:DROPIT and WP:STICK are also good alternatives. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:17, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Approved per consensus. Simply south...... fighting ovens for just 7 years 15:38, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

→ The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul.

Mark Twain (1835-1910). benzband (talk) 15:46, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

recycle Reopened (not enough discussion) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:01, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Approved per consensus. Simply south...... fighting ovens for just 7 years 15:38, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

→ Durante bene placito [regis]
("At the pleasure [of the monarch]")

Mediaeval legal Latin phrase which means that nobody could hold an official position against his will. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:14, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

recycle Reopened (not enough discussion) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:01, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Approved per consensus. Simply south...... fighting ovens for just 7 years 15:38, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

→ Never anger made good guard for itself.

William Shakespeare (1564–1616), Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV, Scene I (1623). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:51, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

recycle Reopened (not enough discussion) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 06:59, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Approved per consensus. Simply south...... fighting ovens for just 7 years 15:38, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

→ Anoint, v: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

The Devil's Dictionary by Ambrose Bierce, 1906. benzband (talk) 15:45, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Approved per consensus. Simply south...... fighting ovens for just 7 years 15:38, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

→ The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes.

Michael Parenti (1933—). benzband (talk) 15:45, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Approved per consensus. Simply south...... fighting ovens for just 7 years 15:38, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

→ Just like old Ollinger - has the minority opinion on everything.

Pat Garrett (James Coburn) in Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973). benzband (talk) 15:45, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Approved per consensus. Simply south...... fighting ovens for just 7 years 15:38, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

→ If you don't turn them over to the MPs this minute, I - I'm going to resign my commission!

Major Houlihan (Sally Kellerman) in M*A*S*H (1970). benzband (talk) 15:45, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Approved per consensus. Simply south...... fighting ovens for just 7 years 15:38, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

→ It helps if you have some kind of football team, or some nuclear weapons, but in the very least you need a beer.

Frank Zappa (1940—1993). benzband (talk) 15:45, 15 July 2013 (UTC)

Approved per consensus. Simply south...... fighting ovens for just 7 years 15:38, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

→ "Le train de tes injures roule sur le rail de mon indifférence."
"The train of your insults rolls on the rail of my indifference."

George Abitbol (John Wayne) in La Classe américaine (1993). benzband (talk) 17:10, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

recycle Reopened (not enough discussion) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:41, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Approved per consensus. Simply south...... fighting ovens for just 7 years 15:38, 2 September 2013 (UTC)

→ Se una nuova vocalità può esistere deve essere vissuta da tutti
("If a new vocality can exist, it must be lived by all")

Demetrio Stratos, Metrodora (1976). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:59, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

recycle Reopened (not enough discussion) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:36, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

→ Se una nuova vocalità può esistere deve essere vissuta da tutti
("If a new vocality can exist, it must be lived by all")

Edit 1 with different links. benzband (talk) 16:43, 15 July 2013 (UTC) I made a typo on the first link (W instead of V), which when corrected makes the same link as Edit 1-bis. benzband (talk) 10:55, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

→ Se una nuova vocalità può esistere deve essere vissuta da tutti
("If a new vocality can exist, it must be lived by all")

Edit 1-bis (with WP:PROPS for the first link). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 06:31, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

Red X I withdraw my nomination (all versions). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:02, 30 July 2013 (UTC)

→ Dumque punitur scelus, crescit
("Even as crime is punished, it increases")

Seneca, Thyestes:31. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:52, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

recycle Reopened (not enough discussion) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:36, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/September 27, 2013 (per consensus) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:05, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

→ Always see everything, my brother.

Forest Whitaker as Ghost Dog (1999). benzband (talk) 09:37, 6 July 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/September 26, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:03, 16 July 2013 (UTC)

→ Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem
("Entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity")

William of Ockham (c. 1287–1347), Occam's razor. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:02, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/September 25, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:54, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

→ All's fish they get
That cometh to net.

Thomas Tusser, Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, "February's Abstract" (1557). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:39, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

no Declined (in favour of Edit 1) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:53, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

→ All's fish they get
That cometh to net.

Edit 1 with Special:Random as its first link.. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:39, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Approved (Edit 1) for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/September 24, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:53, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

→ They call me Mister Tibbs.

In the Heat of the Night (1967) based on the novel of the same name (John Ball; 1965). This is not the very best link out there. Isn't? :) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:07, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

no Declined (in favour of Edit 1) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:50, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

→ They call me Mister Tibbs.

Edit 1, using WP:SPADE. benzband (talk) 09:25, 2 July 2013 (UTC)

Approved (Edit 1) for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/September 22, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:50, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

→ Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

Howard Zinn (1922-2010). benzband (talk) 15:46, 1 July 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/September 21, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:48, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

→ Nothing like a good piece of hickory.

The Preacher (Clint Eastwood) in Pale Rider (1985). benzband (talk) 20:14, 28 June 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/September 19, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:44, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

→ I'm not bad, I'm just drawn that way.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:47, 25 June 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/September 17, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:42, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

→ One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.

Ernesto "Che" Guevara (14 June 1928, Rosario, Argentina – 9 October 1967, La Higuera, Bolivia). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:08, 18 June 2013 (UTC)

WP:STATS is more about Wikipedia than editors, so it's fine to me. What about Wikipedia:Modelling Wikipedia's growth instead of it? –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:12, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/September 16, 2013 (per consensus; 2.5 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:38, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

→ Why worry about the beard, when the head is about to fall?

Gisaku in Akira Kurosawa's Seven Samurai (1954). benzband (talk) 09:37, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/September 15, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:15, 9 July 2013 (UTC)

Special nominations

April fool!

For April Fool's Day. Kayau Odyssey HUCK FINN to the lighthouse 11:21, 8 February 2010 (UTC)

no Declined (no consensus; sorry but it has no chance of being approved) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:31, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

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Edit 1 for April Fools' Day (^____^) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 13:00, 9 February 2010 (UTC)

no Declined (no consensus) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:35, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

→ For last year's words belong to last year's language
And next year's words await another voice.

T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding. For January 1. benzband (talk) 16:43, 3 December 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/January 1, 2014 (per bland consensus; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:23, 24 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Well, it's Groundhog Day... again...

February 2 (Groundhog Day). Bill Murray as "Phil" in Groundhog Day. benzband (talk) 11:12, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/February 2, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:48, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

→ I won't heed the battle call.

For January 30, 2013→2014, 41st→42nd anniversary of Bloody Sunday (1972). benzband (talk) 16:52, 14 July 2012 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/January 30, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:46, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

→ You lit a flame in my heart
And it is burning still
And every time I hear you shout
It still gives me a thrill

Stiff Little Fingers: Guitar and Drum! (2004): "Strummerville". For 22 December, 11th anniversary of the death of Joe Strummer. benzband (talk) 22:21, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 22, 2013 (per very bland consensus; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:03, 17 December 2013 (UTC)

→ Tornate all'antico e sarà un progresso.
("Let us turn to the past: that will be progress.")

Giuseppe Verdi, Letter to Francesco Florimo, 5 January 1871; translation from Charles Osborne (ed. and trans.) Letters of Giuseppe Verdi. For 10 October 2013.
Note: on 10 October 2013 there is a quote by Prince Charles, Count of Flanders (10 October 1903 – 1 June 1983). Do you think it is possible to have 2 mottos for the same day? –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:09, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

Strong support. I think one or the other of these should be used, as it's the 200th anniversary of his birth. So it's a milestone anniversary, and I think it ought to be marked as such. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 15:33, 2 October 2013 (UTC)
Support. benzband (talk) 20:41, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/October 10, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 12:00, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

→ E vo gridando: pace!
E vo gridando: amor!
And I cry to you: peace!
And I cry to you: love!

Giuseppe Verdi, Simon Boccanegra (1881 revision). For either 9 or 10 October (I don't know which is being celebrated), the 200th anniversary of Verdi's birth. --Ser Amantio di NicolaoChe dicono a Signa?Lo dicono a Signa. 16:41, 7 August 2013 (UTC)

Note: for 9 October 2013 is scheduled a line taken from "All You Need Is Love" for John Lennon's birth (9 October 1940 – 8 December 1980). What about adding this quote by Verdi and having two mottos scheduled for 9 October 2013? –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:09, 17 September 2013 (UTC)

  • I would support having two mottoes on the same day but then on the other hand several days at the end of October don't have any (thus making the "random motto" templates fail if they land on one of those days)… benzband (talk) 21:16, 2 October 2013 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/October 9, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 12:00, 6 October 2013 (UTC)

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