June 13
2004
- To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level. ~ Bertrand Russell
- selected by Kalki
2005
- Talent perceives differences, Genius unity. ~ William Butler Yeats (born 13 June 1865)
- selected by Kalki
2006
- It is difficult to know yourself if you do not know others. To all Ways there are side-tracks. If you study a Way daily, and your spirit diverges, you may think you are obeying a good way, but objectively it is not the true Way. If you are following the true Way and diverge a little, this will later become a large divergence. You must realise this. ~ Miyamoto Musashi (died 13 June 1645)
- selected by Kalki
2007
- Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with the golden and silver light,
The blue and the dim and the dark cloths
Of night and light and half-light,
I would spread the cloths under your feet:
But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams beneath your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
~ William Butler Yeats ~- proposed by Kalki
2008
- So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers something to do. ~ William Butler Yeats
- proposed by InvisibleSun
2009
- A line will take us hours maybe;
Yet if it does not seem a moment’s thought,
Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.
Better go down upon your marrow-bones
And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones
Like an old pauper, in all kinds of weather;
For to articulate sweet sounds together
Is to work harder than all these, and yet
Be thought an idler by the noisy set
Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen
The martyrs call the world.
~ William Butler Yeats ~- proposed by Kalki
2010
Suggestions
I am content to follow to its sourceEvery event in action or in thought;
Measure the lot; forgive myself the lot!
When such as I cast out remorse
So great a sweetness flows into the breast
We must laugh and we must sing,
We are blest by everything,
Everything we look upon is blest.
~ William Butler Yeats ~
- 3 Kalki 03:04, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 21:15, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 13:38, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
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All hatred driven hence,
The soul recovers radical innocence
And learns at last that it is self-delighting,
Self-appeasing, self-affrighting,
And that its own sweet will is Heaven’s will;
She can, though every face should scowl
And every windy quarter howl
Or every bellows burst, be happy still.
~ William Butler Yeats ~
- 3 Kalki 03:04, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 21:15, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 13:38, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
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Man can embody truth but he cannot know it. ~ William Butler Yeats
- 3 InvisibleSun 21:15, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 01:40, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 13:38, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
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A powerful class by terror, rhetoric, and organised sentimentality, may drive their people to war but the day draws near when they cannot keep them there. ~ William Butler Yeats
- 3 InvisibleSun 21:15, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 01:40, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
- 2 Zarbon 13:38, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
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A lofty morality should be tolerant, for none declare its laws but those worn out with its warfare, and they must pity sinners. ~ William Butler Yeats
- 3 InvisibleSun 21:15, 12 June 2007 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 01:40, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 13:38, 23 April 2008 (UTC)
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Trouble shared is trouble halved. ~ Dorothy L. Sayers
- 3 Ningauble 17:46, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
- 3 Kalki 23:06, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
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The worst sin — perhaps the only sin — passion can commit, is to be joyless. ~ Dorothy L. Sayers
- 3 Ningauble 17:46, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 23:06, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
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Books ... are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development. ~ Dorothy L. Sayers
- 3 Ningauble 17:46, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 23:06, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
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