Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations/Archive 53

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I'm A Real Boy

!

343 Guilty Spark does make me Laugh sometimes. TF ^{{ Contribs }} 18:58, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

• Comment: I Don't actually know if this is from Halo 3 Specifically. Someone Go Play Halo for me, I'm Too Lazy. TF ^{{ Contribs }} 19:00, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
  • Re: it seems to be from Halo 3 (343 Guilty Spark with IWHBYD skull on). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:03, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
• Support. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:03, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
• Support - benzband (talk) 14:12, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/January 6, 2015 (per bland consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:40, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

The gods care about great matters, but they neglect small ones

")

Cicero (106–43 BC), De Natura Deorum (On the Nature of the Gods; 45 BC), 2:167. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:00, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

• Support - benzband (talk) 14:12, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/January 4, 2015 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:37, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

And make men giddy, proud, and vain.

Samuel Butler (1612–1680), Miscellaneous Thoughts. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:29, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

• Comment perhaps one link to user access levels? --Mrjulesd (talk) 14:16, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

 Declined (in favour of Edit 1) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:36, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Authority intoxicates,
And makes mere sots of magistrates;
The fumes of it invade the brain,
And make men giddy, proud, and vain.

Edit 1 (linking to

• Support (both versionsEdit 1). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:24, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
• Support both versions. - benzband (talk) 14:12, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

Approved (Edit 1) for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/January 3, 2015 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:36, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

One must be chief
In war and one the king.

Homer (c. 8th century BCE), Iliad, Book II, translated by William Cullen Bryant (1794–1878). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:20, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

• Support good quote. Perhaps one link to admins? --Mrjulesd (talk) 14:16, 22 December 2014 (UTC)
• Support original. - benzband (talk) 14:12, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

Approved (original version) for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/January 2, 2015 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:33, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

The rule
Of the many is not well. One must be chief
In war and one the king.

Edit 1 with just one link to

• Support (both original versions). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:13, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

 Declined (in favour of the original) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:33, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

I'll give you the moon

.

It's a Wonderful Life (1946). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:12, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

• Support perhaps last link to article creation? --Mrjulesd (talk) 14:16, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

 Declined (in favour of Edit 1) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:30, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

I'll give you the moon

.

Edit 1 with

• Support (both versionsEdit 1). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:11, 23 December 2014 (UTC)
• Support both versions. - benzband (talk) 14:12, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

Approved (edit 1) for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/January 1, 2015 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:30, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Marcet sine adversario virtus

("Valor becomes feeble without an opponent")

Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC – 65 AC), De Providentia ("On Providence") 2:4. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:35, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

• Support I like this quote, it has a lot of bite. WP:consensus seems a reasonable target. --Mrjulesd (talk) 14:16, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 30, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:36, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

O, what authority and show of truth
Can cunning sin cover itself withal!

William Shakespeare (1564–1616), Much Ado About Nothing (c. 1600), Act IV, Scene I. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:21, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

• Support Another great quote, and a suitable link. --Mrjulesd (talk) 14:16, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 29, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:34, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

Never doubt that I love you more than the world. More than myself.

Camille (1936). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:06, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

• Support good target. --Mrjulesd (talk) 14:16, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 28, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:33, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

→ Magnum vectigal est parsimonia
("Economy is a great revenue")

Cicero (106–43 BC), Paradoxa 6/3:49. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 11:01, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

• Support too true. --Mrjulesd (talk) 14:16, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 27, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:31, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

I can stand anything but pain.

The Band Wagon (1953). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:50, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

• Support. --Mrjulesd (talk) 14:16, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 26, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:25, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

We're the people that live. They can't wipe us out. They can't lick us. And we'll go on forever, Pa... 'cause... we're the people.

The Grapes of Wrath (1940), directed by John Ford, based on John Steinbeck's novel of the same name (1939). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:14, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

• Support I like the quote. --Mrjulesd (talk) 14:16, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 25, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:20, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

A man to a man is a wolf

")

Plautus' adaptation of an old Roman proverb: homo homini lupus est ("man is a wolf to [his fellow] man"). In Asinaria, act II, scene IV, verse 89 [495 overall]. Lupus est homo homini, non homo, quom qualis sit non novit ("a man to a man is a wolf, not a man, when the other doesn't know of what character he is."). Translated by Henry Thomas Riley (1816–1878), in The Comedies of Plautus (1912), Asinaria, or The Ass-Dealer, act II, scene IV, London: George Bell & Sons. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:40, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

• Support good essay choice. --Mrjulesd (talk) 14:16, 22 December 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 24, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:18, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

Be careful — with quotations, you can damn anything.

André Malraux, anti-censorship address (12 November 1966). benzband (talk) 16:37, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

• Support –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:47, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 20, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:58, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

Why does the Earth have colors?

Pocahontas (Q'orianka Kilcher) in The New World (Terrence Malick, 2005). benzband (talk) 16:37, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

• Support –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:47, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 19, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:56, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

Not all those who wander are lost.

• Support –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:48, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 18, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:55, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

Someday I think you and I are going to have a serious disagreement.

• Support –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:48, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 17, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:53, 16 December 2014 (UTC)

→ Lucus a non lucendo
("[It is] a grove by not being light.")

From late 4th-century grammarian Honoratus Maurus, derived from

• Support - benzband (talk) 16:37, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 16, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:38, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Than that the victor Hours should scorn
The long result of love, and boast,
'Behold the man that loved and lost,
But all he was is overworn.'

• Support - benzband (talk) 16:37, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 15, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:36, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Let Love clasp Grief lest both be drown'd,
Let darkness keep her raven gloss:
Ah, sweeter to be drunk with loss,
To dance with death, to beat the ground,

• Support - benzband (talk) 16:37, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 14, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:35, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

But who shall so forecast the years
And find in loss a gain to match?
Or reach a hand thro' time to catch
The far-off interest of tears?

• Support - benzband (talk) 16:37, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 13, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:32, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

I held it truth, with him who sings
To one clear harp in divers tones,
That men may rise on stepping-stones
Of their dead selves to higher things.

• Support - benzband (talk) 16:37, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 12, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:30, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

Well sir, goin' 'ome...'Ome, sir.

Lawrence of Arabia (1962), last line. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:42, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

• Support - benzband (talk) 16:37, 22 November 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 11, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:29, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

The shining stars

")

Horace (65 BC – 8 BC), Odes (23 BC), book 1, chapter 3, line 2. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:52, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

• Support - benzband (talk) 13:25, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 10, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:27, 9 December 2014 (UTC)

The devotion to something afar
→  From the sphere of our sorrow

?

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), To --- Love: One Word is Too Often Profaned (1822; 1st published in 1824). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:34, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

• Support - benzband (talk) 13:25, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 9, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:49, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

one-eyed fat man

.

True Grit (1969). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:07, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

• Support - benzband (talk) 13:25, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 8, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:46, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

I tried to find out where the term came from, but the one explanation I got was really idiotic.

The Forever War (Joe Haldeman, 1974). benzband (talk) 12:43, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

• Comment: sorry
  WP:MTAU instead? Thank you for your help anyway. –pjoef (talk • contribs
  ) 08:42, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
• Yeah, either of those would probably make more sense. Or
  WP:GIBBERISH? I support any of the links. benzband (talk
  ) 13:24, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

 Declined (in favour of Edit 1) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:45, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

I tried to find out where the term came from, but the one explanation I got was really idiotic.

Edit 1 with

• Support –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:25, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 7, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:45, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

I tried to find out where the term came from, but the one explanation I got was really idiotic.

Edit 2 with

 Declined (in favour of Edit 1) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:45, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

I tried to find out where the term came from, but the one explanation I got was really idiotic.

Edit 3 with

 Declined (in favour of Edit 1) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:45, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

And on so many subjects!

His Majesty's Dragon (Naomi Novik, 2005). benzband (talk) 12:43, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

• Support –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:43, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 5, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:42, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

Walking uphill and into the wind.

Assassin's Apprentice (Robin Hobb, 1995). benzband (talk) 12:43, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

• Support –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:44, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 4, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:40, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

The most important person is the one you are with in this moment.

Path of Life (Leo Tolstoy, 1909). benzband (talk) 12:43, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

• Support –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:45, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 3, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:39, 2 December 2014 (UTC)

You enjoyin' that sandwich, are you?

Pete (Peter Cook), Not Only... But Also. benzband (talk) 12:43, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

• Support –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:45, 11 November 2014 (UTC)
• Support -  ΤheQ Editor  ^Talk?

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 2, 2014 (per bland consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:00, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

I do not blame you

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Me and Earl and the Dying Girl (Jesse Andrews, 2013). benzband (talk) 12:43, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

• Support –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:46, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 1, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:58, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

Even the longest day soon ends

")

Pliny the Younger (61 – c. 113), Epistulae 9/36:4. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:08, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

• Support - benzband (talk) 12:43, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 30, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:57, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

A shining Jacob's ladder of the mind

!

Paul Hamilton Hayne (1830–1886), Poems of Paul Hamilton Hayne, Sonnet IX. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:56, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

• Support - benzband (talk) 12:43, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 29, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:55, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

Men like my father cannot die. They are with me still - real in memory as they were in flesh, loving and beloved forever.

How Green Was My Valley (1941); based on Richard Llewellyn's novel (1939). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:36, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

• Support - benzband (talk) 12:43, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 28, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:53, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

bass

.

Lou Reed (1942–2013) in the liner notes of his fifteenth solo album, New York (1989). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:13, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

• Support - benzband (talk) 12:43, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 27, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:52, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

→ Littera scripta manet
("The written word endures")

Probably by Horace (65 BC – 8 BC). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:02, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

• Support - benzband (talk) 12:43, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 26, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:50, 25 November 2014 (UTC)

To join blest spirits in celestial lands!

Petrarch (1304–1374), Sonnet XLV: "To Laura in Death". –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:54, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

• Support - benzband (talk) 12:43, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 25, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:19, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

— "You know what they call a - a - a Quarter Pounder with cheese in Paris?"
— "They don't call it a Quarter Pounder with cheese?"
— "No man, they got the metric system. They wouldn't know what the f--k a Quarter Pounder is."
— "Then what do they call it?"
— "They call it a 'Royale' with cheese."
— "A 'Royale' with cheese!...What do they call a Big Mac?"
— "A Big Mac's a Big Mac, but they call it 'Le Big Mac.'"
— "'Le Big Mac!' What do they call a 'Whopper'?"
— "I dunno, I didn't go into Burger King."

Pulp Fiction (1994). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:43, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

• Support - benzband (talk) 12:43, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 24, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:17, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Greetings reader

")

Often abbreviated to L.S., used as opening words for a letter. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:54, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

• Support - benzband (talk) 12:43, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 23, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:14, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

The shorter reading is the better

")

A wrong maxim in text criticism. Codified, but simultaneously refuted, by Johann Jakob Griesbach (1745–1812). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:52, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

• Support - benzband (talk) 12:43, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 22, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:12, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

one song you can teach to everybody — and that's what I'm telling everybody

.

Paul Raven (1961–2007), "Interview: Paul Raven of Ministry" by Ryan Cooper, September 2007. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:41, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

• Support - benzband (talk) 12:43, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 21, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:11, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

I can share

")

Giuseppe Verdi (1813–1901), Violetta, "Libiamo ne' lieti calici" ("Let's Drink from the Joyful Chalices"). La traviata (1853), First Act. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:28, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

• Support - benzband (talk) 12:43, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 20, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:09, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Those miracles of power whose fame
Is wide as human thought

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John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892), "Raphael". –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:14, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

• Support - benzband (talk) 12:43, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 19, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:04, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

→ I love it. … God help me, I do love it so. I love it more than my life.

Patton (1970); upon viewing the aftermath of an intense and bloody battle. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:46, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

• Support - benzband (talk) 12:43, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 18, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:58, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

Good, Better, Best, Never let it rest. Until your good is better, and your better is best.

My Computer Teacher

• Comment: it seems to be a quote by Saint Jerome that, most likely, he has heard from an old Latin or Greek saying. Also, it needs internal links. Please, see my attempt (Edit 1) below. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:43, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

 Declined (in favour of Edit 1) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:56, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

best

.

Edit 1 with internal links and attribution to

• Support (edit 1) - benzband (talk) 12:43, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 17, 2014 (emergency; 2.5 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:56, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

→ Laudator temporis acti
("Praiser of time past")

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace; 65 BC – 8 BC) Ars Poetica (19 BC), line 173. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:12, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

• Support - benzband (talk) 12:43, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 16, 2014 (emergency; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:54, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

→ You say you want a Revolution; you better get it on right away.

John Lennon (1940–1980), "Power to the People" (1971). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:02, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

• Support - benzband (talk) 12:43, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 15, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:52, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

Far more important than a good remuneration is the pride of serving one's neighbor.

Ernesto "Che" Guevara (1928–1967), "On Revolutionary Medicine" (19 August 1960). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:56, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

• Support - benzband (talk) 12:43, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 14, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:51, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

His pencil our faces, his manners our heart.

Oliver Goldsmith (1730–1774), "Retaliation (Sir Joshua Reynolds)". –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:47, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

• Support - benzband (talk) 12:43, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 13, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:49, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.

Patton (1970). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:35, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

• Support - benzband (talk) 12:43, 8 November 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 12, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:47, 11 November 2014 (UTC)

obscene glop

.

The Forever War (1974) written by Joe Haldeman. benzband (talk) 13:12, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

On second thoughts this motto is a bit weak. benzband (talk) 13:13, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

• Weak support then –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:59, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

 Reopened (no consensus) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:37, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 6, 2014 (emergency; 1.5 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:27, 4 November 2014 (UTC)

it is still a beautiful world

.

Max Ehrmann, "Desiderata" (1927). benzband (talk) 13:12, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

• support--Quiet Wanderer (talk) 03:01, 11 October 2014 (UTC)
• Support –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:55, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 5, 2014 (per bland consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:35, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

it will be forever

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Damiel (Bruno Ganz) in Wings of Desire (1987) directed by Wim Wenders. benzband (talk) 13:12, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

• Support –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:56, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 4, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:33, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

You're in a pretty bad fix.

Gen. Curtis LeMay (Kevin Conway) in Thirteen Days (2000) directed by Roger Donaldson. benzband (talk) 13:12, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

• Support –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:57, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 3, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:32, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

I am a meat popsicle!

Korben Dallas (Bruce Willis) in The Fifth Element (1997) directed by Luc Besson. benzband (talk) 13:12, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

• Support –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:59, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 2, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:30, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

learn how to swim

?

Dr. Dave (Nick Frost) in The Boat That Rocked (2009) directed by Richard Curtis. benzband (talk) 13:12, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

• Support –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:59, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/November 1, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:29, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

you're an idiot

!

• Support –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:00, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/October 31, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:27, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

It is better to let the crime of the guilty go unpunished [than to condemn the innocent]

")

Gnaeus Domitius Annius Ulpianus (c. 170 – 223), Digesta seu Pandectae, 5:6. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:58, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

• Support - benzband (talk) 13:12, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/October 30, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:26, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

'Tis more by art, than force of numerous strokes

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Homer (c. 8th century BC), Iliad, Book XXIII, Alexander Pope's 1715 translation. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:39, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

• Support - benzband (talk) 13:12, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/October 29, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:24, 28 October 2014 (UTC)

→ Is it safe?

Marathon Man (1976; based on William Goldman's novel of the same name). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:21, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

• Support - benzband (talk) 13:12, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/October 28, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:40, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Each shall find what he desires

")

Inveniet quod quisque velit; non omnibus unum est, quod placet; hic spinas colligit, ille rosas.

("Each shall find what he desires; no one thing pleases all; one gathers thorns, another roses.")

Prudently attributed to Prudentius (348–c. 413), probably by Petronius (27–66), 74 Poet. Lat. Min. IV, ed. Baehrens. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:32, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Each shall find what he desires

")

Edit 1 with

 Reopened (both versions; no discussion) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:13, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

• Support (either version). benzband (talk) 13:12, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Approved (original version) for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/October 27, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:38, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

The clock is running, make the most of today. Time waits for no man. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present.

(Alice Morse Earle) I take it that this is from her book 'Sun Dials and Roses of Yesterday: Garden Delights'? I'm not sure if this has been used or nominated (then rejected) before, or already on the list to go up at a future date, but it's a wonderfully uplifting little gem. AyrtonProst ^Pitwall 00:30, 1 October 2014 (UTC)

• Support (it hasn't been used before; I've also took the liberty of removing the double quote characters because they are included in some of our templates. Thank you for this gem/nomination). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:11, 7 October 2014 (UTC)
• Support - benzband (talk) 13:12, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Approved (original version) for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/October 26, 2014 (per bland consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:34, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

today is a gift. That is why it is called the present

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Edit 1 with more links. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:11, 7 October 2014 (UTC)

• Support - benzband (talk) 13:12, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

 Declined (in favour of the original) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:34, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

The poignancy of things

")

Publius Vergilius Maro (70 BC – 19 BC), Aeneid (29–19 BC), 1:462. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:15, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

• Support - benzband (talk) 13:12, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/October 25, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:31, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

The pleasure is in the work itself

")

Motto of Leopold von Ranke (1795–1886). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:06, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

• Support - benzband (talk) 13:12, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/October 24, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:29, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

For me, music and life are all about style.

Miles Dewey Davis III (1926–1991). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:59, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

• Support - benzband (talk) 13:12, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/October 23, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:27, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Food fight!

Animal House (1978). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:24, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

• Oppose Chris Troutman (talk) 01:34, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

 Declined (in favour of Edit ) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:21, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

Food fight!

Edit 1 with Wikipedia:Lamest edit wars. benzband (talk) 13:12, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

• Support –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:03, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Approved (Edit 1) for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/October 22, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:21, 21 October 2014 (UTC)

the longest I've ever done was under thirty

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John Henry Bonham (1948–1980) on "Moby Dick" (drum solo) in John Bonham: The Powerhouse Behind Led Zeppelin (2005) by Mick Bonham. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:55, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

• Support - benzband (talk) 13:12, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/October 21, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:13, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

For the gods see everywhere

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), "The Builders". –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:44, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

• Support - benzband (talk) 13:12, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/October 20, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:11, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

God

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Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton (1831–1891) as Owen Meredith, "The Artist". –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:37, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

• Support - benzband (talk) 13:12, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/October 19, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:09, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

I suppose it'd been better if I'd never been born at all.

It's a Wonderful Life (1946). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:23, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

• Support - benzband (talk) 13:12, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/October 18, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:08, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Toga! Toga!

Animal House (1978). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:08, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

• Support - benzband (talk) 13:12, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/October 17, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:06, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

his mother

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Psycho (1960). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:59, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

• Support - benzband (talk) 13:12, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/October 16, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:05, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Give me a gig!

Jaco Pastorius (1951–1987), Modern Electric Bass (1985). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:57, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

• Support - benzband (talk) 13:12, 8 October 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/October 15, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:02, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

swans

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William Butler Yeats (1865–1939), The Wild Swans at Coole (1919), "The Wild Swans at Coole", lines 5–6. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:08, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

• Support Chris Troutman (talk) 01:34, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/October 7, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:52, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

Pleasant is the memory of past troubles

")

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 BC – 43 BC), De finibus bonorum et malorum ("On the ends of good and evil"; 45 BC), 2/32:105. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:49, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

• Support Chris Troutman (talk) 01:34, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/October 6, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:50, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

→ Great families of yesterday we show,
And lords whose parents were the Lord knows who.

Daniel Defoe (c. 1660–1731), The True-Born Englishman (1701), Pt. I. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:31, 24 September 2014 (UTC)

• Support Chris Troutman (talk) 01:34, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/October 5, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:48, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

We'll always have Paris.

Casablanca (1942). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:23, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

• Support Chris Troutman (talk) 01:34, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/October 4, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and X opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:46, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

By heraldry, proved valiant or discreet!

Edward Young (1683–1765), Love of Fame, The Universal Passion (1728), Satire I, line 123. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:19, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

• Support Except I would make the former link to
  WP:N.Chris Troutman (talk
  ) 01:34, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

 Declined (in favour of Edit 1) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:37, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

By heraldry, proved valiant or discreet!

Edit 1 per Chris. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:37, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

• Support (better linking) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:37, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

Approved Edit 1 for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/October 3, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:37, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

Good. For a moment there, I thought we were in trouble.

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:52, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

• Support Chris Troutman (talk) 01:34, 25 September 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/October 2, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:21, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

You would still recognize the scattered fragments of a poet

")

Horace (65 BC – 8 BC), Satires, I, 4, 62. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:57, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

• Support Chris Troutman (talk) 16:39, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/October 1, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:20, 30 September 2014 (UTC)

Let's enjoy the wine and the singing, the beautiful night, and the laughter. Let the new day find us in this paradise

.")

For the 31st of December. "Libiamo ne' lieti calici" ("Let's drink from the joyful cups") in La traviata by Giuseppe Verdi with words written by Francesco Maria Piave. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:30, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

• Support - benzband (talk) 14:13, 23 December 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 31, 2014 (per bland consensus; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:28, 30 December 2014 (UTC)

Just One More Level...

For December 6,

• Comment: it needs links to the wikipedia namespace (see edit 1 below). Thanks. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:29, 25 February 2014 (UTC)

 Declined (in favour of Edit 2) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:40, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Just one more level...

Edit 1 for 6 December,

• Comment: I was thinking "Level" was more like Article, Not user access levels -
  TitusFox
  20:48, 12 March 2014 (UTC)

 Declined (in favour of Edit 2) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:40, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

Just one more level...

Edit 2 for 6 December,

• Support (Edit 2). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:43, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/December 6, 2014 (per very-very bland consensus; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:40, 18 November 2014 (UTC)

poems

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For September Equinox (22 or 23 September) or for 20 March.

• 1st line: Thomas Hood (1798–1845), Written in a Volume of Shakespeare (Autumn part for the northern hemisphere);
• 2nd line: Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926) (Spring part for the southern hemisphere).

I know this is not the best set of links, but there is plenty of time to make improvements (if you like this idea, of course). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:20, 29 March 2011 (UTC)

• Oppose - I love the idea, but I hate "Summer" and "Spring". However, as you said, we've got nothing but time, so I'm sure this can be made perfect. ~~ Hi878 ^{(Come shout at me!)} 01:06, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
• Oppose (for now) - I like the motto itself but the links are very weak, just link 'the sky' to Wikipedia is quite boring and I'm not sure what the Summer link is meant to be.
  WVRMad•Talk•Guestbook
  16:52, 3 May 2011 (UTC)
• Oppose - Indeed, the linking is not particularly inspired. Nutiketaiel (talk) 13:16, 11 July 2012 (UTC)

 Declined (no consensus) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:31, 18 November 2014 (UTC)