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→ Join the army, see the world, meet interesting people — and kill 'em.

Woody Allen (1935-present) — smtchahal 09:00, 17 March 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 1, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:45, 26 March 2013 (UTC)

→ Ambition's monstrous stomach does increase
By eating, and it fears to starve unless
It still may feed, and all it sees devour.

From The Playhouse to Be Let (performed in Summer 1663; printed in 1673) by Sir William Davenant (February/March 1606 – 7 April 1668). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:27, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

  Approved per consensus. Simply south...... catching SNOWballs for just 6 years 16:05, 23 March 2013 (UTC)

→ Oaks that flourish for a thousand years do not spring up into beauty like a reed.

George Henry Lewes (1817-1878). benzband (talk) 16:28, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/May 28, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:15, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

→ Extremists think "communication" means agreeing with them.

Leo Rosten (1908–1997). benzband (talk) 16:28, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/May 27, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:14, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

→ Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955). benzband (talk) 16:28, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/May 24, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:12, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

→ When I orbited the Earth in a spaceship, I saw for the first time how beautiful our planet is. Mankind, let us preserve and increase this beauty, and not destroy it!

Yuri Gagarin (1934-1968). benzband (talk) 16:28, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/May 23, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:10, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

→ Leave everything a little better than you found it.

From Life's Little Instruction Book by H. Jackson Brown. — smtchahal 11:09, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

  Declined (in favour of Edit 1) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:08, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

→ Leave everything a little better than you found it.

Edit 1, with WP:ITJ and WP:RANPP. benzband (talk) 16:00, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

  • Support Apparently you just followed the quote! :D — smtchahal 07:27, 16 March 2013 (UTC)
  • Support (edit 1) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:32, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

  Approved (Edit 1) for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/May 22, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:08, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

→ With great power comes great responsibility.

— smtchahal 05:28, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/May 20, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:06, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

→ A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.

Paul Erdős (1913-1996). benzband (talk) 17:27, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/September 20, 2013 (per consensus) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:04, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

→ Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Exhibit 1 Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). benzband (talk) 17:27, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

  • Wikipedia solely exists for arbitration? Simply south...... catching SNOWballs for just 6 years
    • Catching typos for just 6 years? I meant to type WP:ACRE but omitted the R, thanks for spotting it :) Since no one has voted yet i've gone ahead and corrected without bothering with a new exhibit. benzband (talk) 21:19, 13 March 2013 (UTC)
      • Done the same for mine. Simply south...... catching SNOWballs for just 6 years 21:45, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

  Declined (in favour of Edit 1=Exhibit 2) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:01, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

→ Give me a museum and I'll fill it.

Exhibit 2 Also by Pablo Picasso (1881-1973). Simply south...... catching SNOWballs for just 6 years 19:57, 13 March 2013 (UTC)

  Approved (Edit 1=Exhibit 2) for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/October 25, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:01, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

→ And heaven had wanted one immortal song.
But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand,
And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land.

John Dryden (9 August 1631 – 1 May 1700), Absalom and Achitophel, Part I, lines 197–199. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:38, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/August 9, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:58, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

→ This book fills a much-needed gap.

Moses Hadas (1900-1966), in a review. benzband (talk) 15:54, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/August 17, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:56, 19 March 2013 (UTC)

→ The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing.

Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism, and Selected Critical Prose. benzband (talk) 16:50, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/October 16, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:16, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

→ Why then, can one desire too much of a good thing?

Rosalind in As You Like It (Shakespeare, 1600). Previously declined due to lack of input (see archived nomination). benzband (talk) 16:35, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/May 19, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:11, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

→ You can tell by the smile on the CEO, environmental restraints are about to go.

Propagandhi: "…And We Thought That Nation-States Were A Bad Idea", off of Less Talk, More Rock (1996) and Where Quantity is Job#1 (1998). benzband (talk) 16:35, 7 March 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/May 18, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:09, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

→ Deo volente
("God willing")

Virgil, Aeneid 1:303. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:56, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

  • Support - benzband (talk) 16:35, 7 March 2013 (UTC)
  • support - I'm not too sure about the phrase, but it's good to bring people to that page. Kayau (talk · contribs) 12:31, 10 March 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/May 17, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:07, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

→ Lowliness is young ambition's ladder,
Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;
But when he once attains the upmost round,
He then unto the ladder turns his back,
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
By which he did ascend.

William Shakespeare (1564–1616), Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene I. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:18, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/May 16, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:05, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

→ Wikipedia has trained us to believe anything followed by little blue numbers in brackets.

Kayau (talk · contribs) 03:28, 3 March 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/May 15, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:03, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

→ Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.

Mark Twain (1835-1910). benzband (talk) 15:54, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/May 14, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:01, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

→ Egotist: A person of low taste, a person more interested in himself than in me.

Ambrose Bierce, The Cynic's Word Book (1906). benzband (talk) 15:54, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

  • 'Support' (changing my preference to Edit 1 below) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:41, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

  Declined (in favour of Edit 1) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:59, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

→ Egotist: A person of low taste, a person more interested in himself than in me.

Edit 1 with addition of WP:TASTE. benzband (talk) 09:24, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 26, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:59, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

→ A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Dwight D. Eisenhower, Inaugural Address (January 20, 1953). benzband (talk) 15:54, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

  Declined (in favour of Edit 1) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:56, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

→ A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both.

Edit 1 –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:51, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/October 14, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:56, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

→ C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.

Bjarne Stroustrup (1950—). benzband (talk) 15:54, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/May 13, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:54, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

→ Write drunk; edit sober.

Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961). benzband (talk) 15:54, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/July 21, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:59, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

→ Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.

Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961). benzband (talk) 15:54, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/June 6, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:57, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

→ Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Albert Einstein (1879-1955). benzband (talk) 15:54, 2 March 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/May 11, 2013 (per consensus; 3.5 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:55, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

→ If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.

Denis Healey (1917—). benzband (talk) 11:27, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/May 10, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:53, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

→ I will withdraw to my fortress, and after the slaughter, I will restore order.

…or chaos?. benzband (talk) 11:27, 27 February 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/May 8, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:48, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

→ I will work harder.

Boxer's motto in Animal Farm by George Orwell. HueSatLum 23:52, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/May 4, 2013 (per consensus) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:45, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

→ All right everyone, line up alphabetically according to your height.

Casey Stengel (1980-1975). benzband (talk) 21:40, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/July 30, 2013 (per consensus) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:42, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

→ If anything can go wrong, it will.

Murphy's law. benzband (talk) 21:40, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/May 3, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:38, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

→ Rather than be less
Cared not to be at all.

John Milton (9 December 1608, Bread Street, Cheapside, London, England – 8 November 1674, Bunhill, London), Paradise Lost, Book II (1667). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:41, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 9, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:35, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

→ De mortuis nil nisi bonum
("Of the dead, nothing unless good")

Latin phrase. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:33, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/May 2, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:32, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

→ We ought to show them great kindness and gentleness for many reasons, but, above all, because they are of the same origin as ourselves.

John Chrysostom (ca. 347–407). ("them" refers to animals.) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:30, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

  • Support - and how about changing the link on "them" to WP:IP to avoid using WP:HUMAN twice? benzband (talk) 21:12, 26 February 2013 (UTC)
  • Support – agree with Benzband. HueSatLum 23:52, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

→ We ought to show them great Using kindness and gentleness for many reasons, but, above all, because they are of the same origin as ourselves.

Edit 1. Using WP:IP for the first link per benzband (see above). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:28, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/May 1, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:28, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

→ Ambition is our idol, on whose wings
Great minds are carried only to extreme;
To be sublimely great, or to be nothing.

Thomas Southerne (1660 – 26 May 1746), The Loyal Brother, Act I, Scene I (1682). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:19, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

  • Support HueSatLum 00:20, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

  Reopened (not enough discussion) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:57, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/May 26, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:10, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

→ Ce que l'on conçoit bien s'énonce clairement, et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisément.
(Whatever is well conceived is clearly said, and the words to say it flow with ease.)

Nicolas Boileau, L'Art poétique (1674). benzband (talk) 17:51, 14 January 2013 (UTC)

  • Pour - et merci de m'apprendre un mot ! Kayau (talk · contribs) 06:13, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
  • Conditional Support (if mine fails). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:41, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

  Declined (in favour of Edit 1) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:08, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

→ Ce que l'on conçoit bien s'énonce clairement, et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisément.
("Whatever is well conceived is clearly said, and the words to say it flow with ease.")

Edit 1 –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:41, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

  • Support - benzband (talk) 21:37, 15 January 2013 (UTC)
  • Support - any. HueSatLum 00:20, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

  Approved (Edit 1) for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 1, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:08, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

→ Ce que l'on conçoit bien s'énonce clairement, et les mots pour le dire arrivent aisément.
("Whatever is well conceived is clearly said, and the words to say it flow with ease.")

edit 2 - Changing the ce que l'on conçoit bien link to the quality scale. Kayau (talk · contribs) 23:41, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

  Reopened (all versions; not enough discussion) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:07, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

  Declined (in favour of Edit 1) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:08, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

→ Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.

Mark Twain (1835-1910). benzband (talk) 21:30, 4 December 2012 (UTC)

  • Strong oppose all - I think that no matter what link are used, the whole message gives the wrong idea. Simply south...... walking into bells for just 6 years 22:21, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
  • Weak support I think a better link could be used for the second link. ⋘HueSatLum ? ❢⋙ 23:55, 4 December 2012 (UTC)
  • WP:NPOV, WP:OR, or WP:V could be used for the second link. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:48, 11 December 2012 (UTC)

  Declined (in favour of Edit 1) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:04, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

  Reopened - no consensus. Simply south...... walking into bells for just 6 years 18:25, 21 December 2012 (UTC)

Ah, your right ;). Weak support to to the origional. meshach (talk) 17:04, 24 February 2013 (UTC)

→ Get your facts first.

Edit 1. benzband (talk) 11:49, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

  Reopened (both the original and edit 1; last chance) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:31, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

  • Support I think this is the best. HueSatLum 23:52, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

  Approved (Edit 1) for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/April 30, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:04, 5 March 2013 (UTC)

→ How can you expect to be rescued if you don't put things first and act proper?

Lord of the Flies by William Golding. öBrambleberry of RiverClan 18:19, 23 February 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/June 19, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:57, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

→ All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others.

Animal Farm by George Orwell. HueSatLum 00:20, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Support— nerdfighter 01:28, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

  • Withdraw, then. (I supported it, too!) HueSatLum 21:57, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
  • Oppose 25 June 2013 is too close. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:44, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

  Declined (used before) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:55, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

→ We shall creep out quietly into the butler's pantry—
—with out pistols and swords and sticks—
—and rush in upon them,
—and whack 'em, and whack 'em, and whack 'em!

The Wind In The Willows by Kenneth Grahame. benzband (talk) 16:35, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

  Reopened (not enough discussion) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:17, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

  • Support HueSatLum 00:20, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/April 25, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:53, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

→ As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport.

King Lear, William Shakespeare. benzband (talk) 16:35, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

  Reopened (not enough discussion) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:17, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

  • Support HueSatLum 00:20, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/April 20, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:51, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

→ Tyger, tyger, burning bright
In the forests of the night,
What immortal hand or eye
Could frame thy fearful symmetry?

"The Tyger" by William Blake in Songs of Innocence and of Experience (1794). benzband (talk) 16:35, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

  Reopened (not enough discussion) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:16, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

  • Support HueSatLum 00:20, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/August 12, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:49, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

→ As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.

William Shakespeare (1564–1616), King Lear, Act I, Scene IV (1623) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:31, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

  Reopened (not enough discussion) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:15, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

  • Support HueSatLum 00:20, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/April 16, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:46, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

→ Cum odio sui coepit veritas
("The first response to truth is with hatred")

Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus (Tertullian; c. 160 – c. 225), Apologeticus 7:3 –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:22, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

  Reopened (not enough discussion) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:15, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

  • Support HueSatLum 00:20, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/April 15, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:44, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

→ if you beat your head against the wall it is your head which breaks and not the wall

Antonio Gramsci (22 January 1891 – 27 April 1937) , The Modern Prince and other Writings (quoting a letter to his sister). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:14, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

  Reopened (not enough discussion) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:14, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

  • Support HueSatLum 00:20, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/April 28, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:42, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

→ We must display determination, endurance, firmness and unanimity.

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), Speech to Third All-Russia Congress of Textile Workers (1920). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:37, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

  Reopened (not enough discussion) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:13, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

  • Support HueSatLum 00:20, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/April 22, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:40, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

→ I feel so useless down here with no one to love.

A line from "Work Me, Lord" written by Nick Gravenites for "The Pearl", Janis Joplin (January 19, 1943 – October 4, 1970), featured on I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! (1969). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:16, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

  Reopened (not enough discussion) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:12, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

  • Support HueSatLum 00:20, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/April 14, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:37, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

→ The only thing that's important is random acts of kindness

… The only thing that's important is random acts of kindness, loving life and I guess spending time with people and being concerned with other people's problems other than your own. … ~ Jaz Coleman of Killing Joke interviewed by Rob Haynes of The Quietus (12 August 2010), talking about Paul Raven (16 January 1961 – 20 October 2007) and "The Raven King", a song dedicated to him from their 2010 album, Absolute Dissent. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:09, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

  Reopened (not enough discussion) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:11, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

  • Support HueSatLum 00:20, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/April 12, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:36, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

→ So hold your head up high, forgotten man.

Bad Religion: True North (2013): "Dept. of False Hope". benzband (talk) 22:05, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

→ So hold your head up high, forgotten man.

Kayau (talk · contribs) 09:25, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

  Declined (in favour of the original) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:31, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

  Reopened (both versions; not enough discussion) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:11, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

  Approved (original version) for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/April 9, 2013 (per consensus) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:31, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

→ Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.

Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress (1869). benzband (talk) 22:05, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

  Reopened (not enough discussion) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:09, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

  • Support HueSatLum 00:20, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/April 11, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:27, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

→ I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom

Martin Luther King, Jr. (15 January 1929, Atlanta, Georgia, US - 4 April 1968, Memphis, Tennessee, US), "I Have a Dream" (28 August 1963). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 11:14, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

  Reopened (not enough discussion) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:08, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

  • Support HueSatLum 00:20, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/August 28, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:25, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

→ The masses are the decisive element, they are the rock on which the final victory of the revolution will be built.

Rosa Luxemburg (5 March 1871, Zamość, Vistula Land, Russia – 15 January 1919, Berlin, Germany), "Order Reigns in Berlin", 14 January 1919, Collected Works 4, p. 536. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 11:08, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

  Reopened (not enough discussion) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:08, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

  • Support HueSatLum 00:20, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/April 8, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:23, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

→ Life's Tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

(Benjamin Franklin)... I think that this will ring true for a lot of users. — nerdfighter 02:06, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/April 7, 2013 (per consensus) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:21, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

→ If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

Seamus Heaney (1939—). benzband (talk) 15:49, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/April 13, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:18, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

→ It is very important not to mistake hemlock for parsley; but not at all so to believe or not in God.

Denis Diderot (1713-1784). benzband (talk) 15:49, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/July 31, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:17, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

→ I read back over things that I wrote three years ago.

RVIVR, RVIVR (2010), "Real Mean". benzband (talk) 15:49, 16 February 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/April 6, 2013 (per consensus) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:14, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

Put that in your pipe and smoke it

It is a common phrase about being proven right. For a better understanding. Simply south...... catching SNOWballs for just 6 years 18:20, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/April 5, 2013 (per consensus) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:13, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

→ Don't hate the media; be the media.

Become the Media (2000) by Jello Biafra. benzband (talk) 13:21, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/June 17, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:10, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

→ No fly list. No drive list. No walk list. No talk list.
No muckraking journalist left to take stock of
the wholesale omission of outside perspectives.

Propagandhi: Failed States (2012): "Note To Self". benzband (talk) 13:21, 12 February 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/April 4, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:07, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

→ Every wall is a door.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882). benzband (talk) 23:25, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/May 25, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:05, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

→ Look out, listen can you hear it?
Panic in the County Hall.

"Up Against The Wall" (1978 single) by the Tom Robinson Band. benzband (talk) 23:25, 9 February 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/April 3, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:02, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

→ De minimis non curat lex
("The law does not concern itself with trifles")

Latin motto. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:01, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/March 29, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:00, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

→ Mama says stupid is as stupid does.

Forrest Gump (1994). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:49, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/March 27, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:58, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

→ They can't block out the light in here.

Giuseppe Conlon (Pete Postlethwaite) in In The Name Of The Father (1993) by Jim Sheridan. They're in prison, and he's referring to the light inside his head. benzband (talk) 21:12, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/March 26, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:54, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

→ Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.

Winston Churchill (1874-1965). It could do with some link improving though. benzband (talk) 21:12, 31 January 2013 (UTC)

  • Oppose in favour of edit 1 –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:52, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

  Declined (in favour of Edit 1) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:52, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

→ Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful.

Edit 1. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:57, 5 February 2013 (UTC)

  • Support either edit. HueSatLum 00:20, 20 February 2013 (UTC)
  • Support - benzband (talk) 15:20, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/March 25, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 2 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:52, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

→ Look here come your teachers, expecting you to be whatever makes them see themselves the way they wanna be seen.

Ex Friends: Twisted Around: "Model Citizen". benzband (talk) 20:01, 25 January 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/March 24, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:47, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

→ 'We should travel and see the world.'
'Okay... How about this?... We walk to the window and look out.'

7 Jan, ellipses + question mark intentional Kayau (talk · contribs) 09:25, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

  • We really need to Featured Article in order to Adminship? No, all we need to do is Your First Article and Not now. This really sounds like a link salad. And if this means what I think it means, I do diisagree i.e. you do not have to get a Featured Article in order to make you adminship or the best candidate. Oppose. Difficultly north (talk) - Simply south alt. 15:25, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
    • reply - um, I didn't mean to present the first two as a conditional relationship. All I wanted to say was, don't nominate freshly started articles for FA, and don't nominate yourself for RfA if you aren't fit. Kayau (talk · contribs) 22:30, 16 January 2013 (UTC)
    • A couple of rereads later and I see what you mean. I still don't really think the links work very well though. Simply south...... walking into bells for just 6 years 23:29, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

  Declined (in favour of Edit 1) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:39, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

→ 'We should travel and see the world.'
'Okay... How about this?... We walk to the window and look out.'

How about this? edit 1? Simply south...... walking into bells for just 6 years

  • Support ~ the original version is not so "bad", but this is easier to understand. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:38, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
  • Support - benzband (talk) 16:35, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/March 23, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:39, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

→ Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad, or The New Pilgrims' Progress (1869). benzband (talk) 22:05, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

  • conditional support if mine fails. Kayau (talk · contribs) 09:43, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

  Declined (in favour of Edit 2) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:36, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

→ Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

Edit 1 (more humorous). benzband (talk) 22:05, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

  • oppose in favour of original and edit 2. Kayau (talk · contribs) 09:43, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

  Declined (in favour of Edit 2) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:36, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

→ Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.

Edit 2, trying to get the best of both worlds, er, mottos Kayau (talk · contribs) 09:43, 16 January 2013 (UTC)

  • Support ~ both the original and edit 2, with a slight preference for edit 2. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:44, 22 January 2013 (UTC)
  • Support - benzband (talk) 16:35, 22 January 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/March 22, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:36, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

→ It's not about what you've done, it's what you still have left to do that makes life so much fun.

Toxik Ephex: Does Someone Have To Die To Show What Heroin Can Do? (1988): "Life Is For Living". benzband (talk) 22:02, 8 January 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/March 21, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:33, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

→ Time is very slow for those who wait
Very fast for those who are scared
Very long for those who lament
Very short for those who celebrate
But for those who love time is eternal

William Shakespeare Henry van Dyke (10 November 1852 – 10 April 1933), "For Katrina's Sun-Dial", Greetings and Inscriptions, Music and Other Poems. benzband (talk) 10:02, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

 KATRINA'S SUN-DIAL

             Hours fly,
             Flowers die:
             New days,
             New ways:
             Pass by!
             Love stays.

                 **

             Time is
     Too Slow for those who Wait,
     Too Swift for those who Fear,
     Too Long for those who Grieve,
     Too Short for those who Rejoice;
         But for those who Love,
             Time is not.

  Approved per consensus. Difficultly north (talk) - Simply south alt. 12:16, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

→ The worst is not, so long as we can say 'This is the worst'.

Edgar in William Shakespeare's King Lear, Act 4, Scene 1. benzband (talk) 10:02, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/March 17, 2013 (per consensus) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:47, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

→ No book worth its salt is meant to put you to sleep, it's meant to make you jump out of your bed in your underwear and run and beat the author's brains out.

Bohumil Hrabal (1914-1997). benzband (talk) 10:02, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

  • Support –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:42, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
  • Weak support - not sure about the 'beat the author's brains out' bit. Kayau (talk · contribs) 08:15, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
  • Support HueSatLum 00:02, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/March 28, 2013 (per consensus) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:45, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

→ London calling to the underworld
Come out of the cupboard, you boys and girls
London calling, now don't look to us
Phoney Beatlemania has bitten the dust

The Clash: London Calling (1979): "London Calling". benzband (talk) 10:10, 5 January 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/March 16, 2013 (per consensus) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:43, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

→ London calling but I have no fear
Ms. Ella Fitzgerald got no peer
Music sweet music make the truth so clear
Classics of love make a dark day light
If you don't believe the words just look into their eyes

"Classics Of Love" off of Last Last Wave Rockers (1999) by Common Rider. benzband (talk) 19:09, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/March 15, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:41, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

→ Seems like he had to look a long time
Before he gathered any answers

"Signal, Signal" off of Last Wave Rockers. benzband (talk) 19:09, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/March 13, 2013 (per consensus) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:39, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

→ I wanna know, did you get what you came for?
I wanna know, did you leave satisfied?

…and "Castle In The Sky" of off Classics Of Love (2012) by Classics Of Love. benzband (talk) 19:09, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/March 12, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:37, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

→ Most of us employ the Internet not to seek the best information, but rather to select information that confirms our prejudices.

Nicholas Kristof in the New York Times, 2009. benzband (talk) 11:49, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

  • Support –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:46, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
  • Weak support - not sure about the 'most of us' bit; most Wikipedians try to be NPOV... Kayau (talk · contribs) 07:48, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
  • Support HueSatLum 00:02, 9 January 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/March 10, 2013 (per consensus) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:35, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

→ Dignity does not come in possessing honors, but in deserving them.

Aristotle (384-322 BC). benzband (talk) 11:49, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/March 9, 2013 (per consensus) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:32, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

→ Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Isaac Asimov (1920-1992). benzband (talk) 11:49, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

  • Weak oppose - seems to imply that newbies like resorting to violence. Kayau (talk · contribs) 12:26, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

→ Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

Edit 1, with Wikilawyering and Competence Is Required. benzband (talk) 20:58, 4 January 2013 (UTC)

  Declined (withdrawn per consensus) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:29, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

→ For myself, I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use being anything else.

Winston Churchill (1874-1965). benzband (talk) 11:49, 2 January 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/March 8, 2013 (per consensus) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:27, 15 January 2013 (UTC)

Special nominations

→ Feedback is the breakfast of champions.

For July 17, 2012, planned date for the Article Feedback Tool to widen it's use from 0.6% to 10% of articles (proposed by Okeyes (WMF)). benzband (talk) 17:36, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

→ An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Edit 1A: an alternative to the above (proposed by Utar). benzband (talk) 17:46, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

→ An apple a day keeps the doctor away.

Edit 1B: using WP:FAR instead of WP:AFD. benzband (talk) 17:54, 21 June 2012 (UTC)

  • Support (all three versions with a preference for the original version) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 13:21, 26 June 2012 (UTC)
  • Oppose - Doesn't seem like an occasion that warrants a special motto. Also, let's make it a Strong Oppose for edit 1B- I don't like the implication that a Featured Article Review is a bad thing- they're supposed to be for improvement. Nutiketaiel (talk) 12:59, 11 July 2012 (UTC)
    • The WMF has developed a new toy tool for the community, which many probably don't know of yet. Informing people about it, what's more on the same day as the upgrade, seems like a good idea to me. benzband (talk) 10:30, 17 July 2012 (UTC)
      • Yes, I was just writing about this, and today is the 17th of July. It seems that v. 5 will be available by fall 2012. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 11:02, 17 July 2012 (UTC)

  Declined all versions, no consensus. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 11:01, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

→ The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie — deliberate, contrived and dishonest — but the myth — persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.

John F. Kennedy during the commencement address for Yale University. For November 22, the 50th anniversary of the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. öBrambleberry of RiverClan 21:43, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 22, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:55, 12 March 2013 (UTC)

→ There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.

For April Fools Day. This is an actual quote (There are a bunch more here.) —HueSatLum 00:50, 24 July 2012 (UTC)

  • Support - for April fools 2013 or maybe another day… ("computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons" ~ well mine doesn't haha). benzband (talk) 10:43, 24 July 2012 (UTC)
  • Support AutomaticStrikeout (T • C) 03:17, 21 December 2012 (UTC)
  • Support –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:03, 19 February 2013 (UTC)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/April 1, 2013 (per consensus) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:59, 26 February 2013 (UTC)

→ O, 'tis a parlous boy;
Bold, quick, ingenious, forward, capable;
He is all the mother's from the top to toe.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616), Richard III, Act III, Scene I.
For Mother's Day on the second Sunday of May (12 May 2013 or 11 May 2014). –pjoef (talk • contribs)

  Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/May 12, 2013 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:42, 29 January 2013 (UTC)

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