Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Schedule/Archive 2012
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2012
January
- 01-01 → I just want to tell you both, good luck. We're all counting on you.
- miseryare grown.
- more dangerous the abuse.
- I'm not going to take this anymore!
- Warning: A cheat is running the hospital! Hospital administrator is cheating!
- Today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the Earth
- property.
- each other.
- Where ever we are well, that is our country")
- a joy forever.
- bullshit detector.
- the best.
- The Life")
- death.
- With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.
- If by Godot I had meant God I would have said God, and not Godot.
- brothers?
- Congress shall make no law […] abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.
- Congress shall make no law […] abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.
- 01-20 → Mein Fuhrer, I can walk!
- You won't even get a chance to talk.
- Hi. I'm Marcus.
- Act Courageously")
- Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.
- 01-25 → Programmer - an organism that turns coffee into software.
- Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.
- human labour.
- Ah, thank you, Buzz off to you too.
- arms")
- barefoot servants too."
- I am, I shall be!
February
- .
- 02-02 → Free at last! Free at last!
- From Sea to Sea")
- A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything.
- 02-05 → Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive
- rewarded from the heaven
- War!
- From the beginning")
- )
- Poo-Tee-Weet?"
- and the law won.
- far.
- Nobody puts Baby in a corner.
- A song is anything that can walk by itself.
- Rise above principle and do what's right.
- Miss Casswell is an actress, a graduate of the Copacabana School of Dramatic Art.
- The only thing that's important is random acts of kindness
- You don't wanna listen
You don't wanna understand. - 02-19 → Follow the leaders
- Computers never go on strike
- Must it take a life for hateful eyes
To glisten once again? - freedom and necessity.
- Correct customs by laughing at them)
- rated me
- To quarrel with a drunk is to wrong a man who is not even there")
- That's why I drink!
- This space for rent)
- .
- Badges? We ain't got no badges! We don't need no badges! I don't have to show you any stinking badges!
March
- Laugh your life 'cuz there ain't much to cry for.
- That murderous, fascist bitch.
- Mass hysteria!
- 03-04 → We'll leave the light on for you!
- This space for rent)
- This space for rent)
- This space for rent)
- cover.
- You're in suspension
- The kind of garage band who should be returned to the garage immediately.
- 03-11 → We'll always have Paris.
- You only see me for the clothes I wear
- Help, help, I'm being repressed!
- flower.
- Do what you are doing")
- true friend.
- 03-17 → I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
- I said that.
- .
- hateit")
- We cannot conceive of any end or limit to the world, but always as of necessity it occurs to us that there is something beyond…
- it is a prince's part to pardon.
- The world's a bubble, and the life of man less than a span.
- and his wife.
- prisons.
- state.
- So honor cross it from the north to south.
- 03-28 → I just lost all m' picnic spirit.
- So now I'm home investigatin' myself!
Hope I don't find out too much . . . Good God! - 03-30 → Time and change can do no more.
- March-windsin full blow.
April
- his folly.
- You never listen to a word i said
- are starving to death!
- worse.
- The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people.
- and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.
- look for your mistake.
- Time and Patience.
- Wears yet a precious jewel in his head
- virtue, yours is the Earth and everything that's in it.
- when things happen
- peacebegan")
- I am the barbarian here")
- Look both ways, before you cross the street.
- 04-15 → Trying is just the first step toward failure.
- better than the artist himself.
- the wheel. [...]
- where I'm going to. [...]
- With impatience?
- happiness.
- The bad affright, afflict the best!
- any of my folks!
- 04-23 → Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?
- lose your friend.
- love.
- progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
- story to tell
- All your base are belong to us
- It is hard to improve without admitting error.
- you'll ever wear.
May
- I could've been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am.
- 05-02 → Let the darkness be gone and let there be light.
- Muses")
- then it probably is a duck
- keep moving forward.
- You're responsible for your actions, so you don't blame other people.
- The war of all against all")
- It's his.
- guttersnipe
- At twenty-one, so many things appear solid, permanent, untenable.
- I think it would be fun to run a newspaper.
- will not look beautiful.
- nothing.")
- to change his ways
- This is my own, my native land!
- Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence
- Sticks and Stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me.
- 05-18 → Everything goes there
- meal.
- consciencious stupidity.
- Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
- pull of the earth.
- 05-23 → So I got that going for me, which is nice.
- That's the second biggest monkey head I've ever seen!
- A towel … is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitch hiker can have.
- once is enough.
- speeding aroundunderneath the yellow lights.
- Certainly, for us who understand life, figures are a matter of indifference.
- Don't dump junk articles on Wikipedia.
- even more stupid.
- unless you have the key
June
- He gives twice who gives promptly")
- our thoughts
- we're gonna go, go, go!
- Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so.
- How appropriate. You fight like a cow."
- If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.
- You owe me money!
- We shoot, and in turn expose our legs to arrows")
- the troops.
- Beast.
- emperor.
- your own eyes?
- beer-holder.
- the whole staircase.
- involve meand I learn.
- agreement.
- youth knew, if agecould.
- to kings.
- proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.
- A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.
- What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, 'The Lord did not appear to you'?
- We find the defendants incredibly guilty.
- Should keep in tune so long.
- the result is well known.")
- 06-25 → Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop.
- terrible beautyis born.
- Haste is blind and improvident.
- How about 'Cloudcuckooland'?
- dangerous remedy.
July
- I find then, that i am but a bad anatomist.
- Another fine mess you've gotten me into.
- Eureka!
- Remember what we are doing here.
- 07-05 → We haven't got the money, so we've got to think!
- Ye'll find nae otherwhere.
- All of a sudden, she's playing Hamlet's mother!
- 07-08 → Cito enim arescit lacrima, præsertim in alienis malis
("Soon indeed is dried the tear, especially when it is shed for the misfortunes of others") - I dont want no war going down, going down tonight.
- Possessions never meant anything to me.
- personality
- 07-12 → It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.
- Argumentum ad Jimbonem
- O Guillotine!
- whom nobody owns!
- We really have everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
- warned the vandal
- gnome
- The man who can tell others what to do and how to do it, but never does it himself.
- The better part of valour is discretion.
- This is english up with which i will not put.
- 07-23 → Robert De Niro's waiting, talking Italian
- I have seen of the street
- Take chances! Make mistakes! Get messy!
- The sea! The sea!
- yield.
- Or polite meaningless words.
- A government of laws, and not of men.
- lost everything for himself.
- ravenous wolves.
August
- 08-01 Hardware, n.: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked.
- hell.
- made all the mistakes which can be made.
- If I want your opinion, I'll ask for it.
- We live in a world we ourselves create."
- sinningsuddenly.
- The internet is an elite organization.
- Remember that all is opinion.
- With my good eye on the beat
- It's cool to go places where working people are happy.
- Aw, come on gravity… You used to be cool.
- to have fought well."
- Printers have persecuted me without a cause.
- gypsy's child, it has never, never known the law"
- shamecan cure them.
- our appetites and our will to false power.
- The Internet? Is that thing still around?
- Many do.
- I kid you not.
- He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.
- Fun is good.
- Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.
- Help you I can, yes.
- One should examine oneself for a very long time before thinking of condemning others.
- you silly king?
- Brings one closer to WikiNirvana
- a time for sleep.
- 08-28 → I never apologise. I'm sorry but that's just the way I am.
- relay boys are raced by running ghosts.
- The art of quoting is the art of those who cannot think for themselves.
- He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.
September
- It's never too late to do something.
- The public will our guide, the public good our end.
- When Johnny comes marching home again…
- 09-04 → DON'T PANIC!
- 09-05 → The Future Is Unwritten
- work never begun.
- Brevity is the soul of wit.
- Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
- how we use it.
- It takes courage to make a fool of yourself.
- The time for action has past, the time for reflection has come.
- You want to step outside?
- all appeals would be in vain.
- 09-14 → My usual authoritarian and bossy manner.
- A joke is a very serious thing.
- the ostrich sees in the sand.
- Oh brother, where art thou?
- 09-18 → A few words spoken quietly mean so much when said just right.
- …and that, my liege, is how we know the Earth to be banana shaped.
- Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
- An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.
- 09-22 → The buck stops here!
- To every cow her half, to every book it's copy.
- My own fellow countrymen won't kill me.
- Say, from whence you owe such strange intelligence.
- don't take life too serious.
- good, I am satisfied.
- No longer seem to exist
- All roads lead to Rome.
- 09-30 → All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.
October
- Let's not bicker and argue over who killed who.
- 10-02 → When I put my mind to it I can be a megalomaniac.
- What shall I call thee?
- a swordat you.
- I'm not a witch! I'm not a witch!
- To believe in the indestructible element.
- the end of his life.
- Yeah, it's your principles at stake.
- Be not the slave of Words.
- Don't believe everything on the internet.
- I'll be good.
- A whiff of grapeshot.
- us.
- water in a sieve.
- except my leaving him.
- 10-16 → What I did had no significance at all.
- will the law break me?
- We now know a thousand ways not to build a lightbulb
- The laughing queen that caught the world's great hands.
- All men are equal before fish.
- my vice.
- The cause of and the solution to all of life’s problems.
- The length of this document defends it well against the risk of its being read.
- floccinaucinihilipilification
- → Whatever you do, don't click here.
- Is there no treacle in Gilead?
- who counts the votes.
- Guess which has occurred.
- 10-29 → The more, the merrier!
- war-war.
- The faster you go, the shorter you are.
November
- changed.
- Boys throw stones at frogs for fun, but the frogs don't die for 'fun', but in sober earnest.
- programming must be the process of putting [bugs] in.
- Smart Talented Unique Person In Demand
- Make Today Count
- The Constitution is not a suicide pact.
- I Can Haz Pony?
- Has he not a rogue's face?
- consensus.
- neighborhood.
- Be heroes in an army of construction.
- I fear I am not in my perfect mind.
- my babyat my breast?
- The leads are weak? You're weak!
- Database, n.: the information you lose when your memory crashes.
- My God, it's full of stars.
- I blame softly.
- 11-18 → Other Voices, Other Rooms.
- You stand there beating on your little war drum.
- My dear, I don't give a damn.
- like fire and powder.
Which, as they kiss, consume - Not Hercules could have knock'd out his brains, for he had none.
- He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
- A bump in the road will not end the journey.
- My heart is harden'd, I cannot repent.
- even less about the imperfections of my garden.
- 11-27 → "You're looking very umbrella tonight!"
"Now, would that be an opened or a closed umbrella, Mr. Parker?" - who shook the world.
- The thing to avoid is not so much error as self-contradiction. It is especially by the latter that authority loses its force.)
- pantson.
December
- Your voices are needed.
- what are you gonna do?
- What's dangerous about this is we don't know its potential.
- User, n.: The word computer professionals use when they mean "idiot."
- Guess who gets to pull it?
- verbal pollution.
- I don't have a drinking problem 'Cept when I can't get a drink.
- heart")
- This is my seat and I'm not moving.
- I don't wanna hear about what the rich are doing
- similar persons.
- I did it my way.
- away.
- I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance.
- We therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.
- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Great Runes, n.
- The office had run out of space.
- 12-19 → The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.
- Stare in amusement then look away.
- we are not all the same.
- a storyto tell.
- 12-23 If you have a belly-button, you're entitled to make mistakes.
- Put my name down on that list!
- Thou wast born, sweet Babe of Bethlehem!
- Politeness, n.: The most acceptable hypocrisy.
- You know I've tried to keep it short
- I'm not dead!
- She looks like one.
- He that lieth down with dogs shall rise up with fleas.
- Good morning, and in case I don't see ya, good afternoon, good evening, and good night!