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* '''Support''' - [How much?] [[User:Benzband|<span style="color: green">benzband</span>]] ([[User talk:Benzband#Top|<span style="color: black">talk</span>]]) 17:41, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
* '''Support''' - [How much?] [[User:Benzband|<span style="color: green">benzband</span>]] ([[User talk:Benzband#Top|<span style="color: black">talk</span>]]) 17:41, 27 March 2012 (UTC)
**100k or more ~ hahahaha –[[User:Pjoef|p<span style="color: #802400">joe</span>f]] <small>(''[[User talk:Pjoef|talk]]'' • [[Special:Contributions/Pjoef|contribs]])</small> 07:17, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
**100k or more ~ hahahaha –[[User:Pjoef|p<span style="color: #802400">joe</span>f]] <small>(''[[User talk:Pjoef|talk]]'' • [[Special:Contributions/Pjoef|contribs]])</small> 07:17, 17 April 2012 (UTC)
***Thank goodness you didn't specify what currency ~ i can just pay you [[Zimbabwean dollar]]s (300 000 000 000 000 ZW$ to 1 US$ in 2009) :P [[User:Benzband|<span style="color: green">benzband</span>]] ([[User talk:Benzband#Top|<span style="color: black">talk</span>]]) 10:53, 1 May 2012 (UTC)


{{reopened}} - no consensus. [[User:Simply south|Simply]][[User talk:Simply south| south]]....[[User:Simply south/Poem|..]] ''going on editing sprees for just 6 years'' (as of 28/03/2006) 22:20, 9 April 2012 (UTC)
{{reopened}} - no consensus. [[User:Simply south|Simply]][[User talk:Simply south| south]]....[[User:Simply south/Poem|..]] ''going on editing sprees for just 6 years'' (as of 28/03/2006) 22:20, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

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When placing mottos, please include them in the top of the In Review section instead of the bottom. Thank you.


In review

Note: If you are adding nominations for specific dates, holidays or other special reasons please add to the Specials section and NOT HERE. Also, please check the archives in case the motto has been submitted and subsequently approved before. If this is the case try to think up another motto instead. Please check Wikipedia:Motto of the day/Nominations. Otherwise feel free to add your suggestion below.

→ Causa latet, vis est notissima
("The cause is hidden, but the result is well known.")

Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) (43 BC – AD 17/18), Metamorphoses (AD 8), IV, 287 –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:56, 1 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ Strange! that a harp of thousand strings
Should keep in tune so long.

Isaac Watts (1674–1748), Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Book II, "Hymn 19". –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:56, 1 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ We find the defendants incredibly guilty.

The Producers (1968) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:16, 1 May 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ Know when to speake; for many times it brings
Danger to give the best advice to kings.

"Caution in Councell", Hesperides (1648) by Robert Herrick (1591–1674). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:10, 24 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ "Did you hear what I said, Miss Kubelik? I absolutely adore you." – "Shut up and deal!"

The Apartment (1960). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:57, 24 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ What if they do not believe me or listen to me and say, 'The Lord did not appear to you'?

Moses. benzband (talk) 15:47, 20 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.

Neil Young. benzband (talk) 15:47, 20 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record.

Edit 1, per above concerns. benzband (talk) 16:40, 30 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ A person often meets his destiny on the road he took to avoid it.

Jean de La Fontaine. benzband (talk) 15:47, 20 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ This world of ours… must avoid becoming a community of dreadful fear and hate, and be, instead, a proud confederation of mutual trust and respect.

Dwight D. Eisenhower. benzband (talk) 15:47, 20 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ If youth knew, if age could.

Henri Estienne (1528 or 1531-1598). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:19, 4 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

recycle Reopened - no consensus. Simply south...... going on editing sprees for just 6 years (as of 28/03/2006) 20:35, 18 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ Our virtues are most frequently but vices in disguise.

"Nos vertus ne sont, le plus souvent, que de vices déguisés." Réflexions ou sentences et maximes morales ("Reflections; or Sentences and Moral Maxims") or Maximes (1665–1678), Epigraph, François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:09, 4 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

recycle Reopened - no consensus. Simply south...... going on editing sprees for just 6 years (as of 28/03/2006) 20:35, 18 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ Caelum non animum mutant
("They change their sky, not their soul")

Horace (65 BC – 8 BC), Epistulae I–11:27. It's for those who seek variety in travel. WP:PROJ and Wikipedia:How to contribute to Wikipedia guidance are two good alternatives.
The following is the full hexameter:

Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt   Those who hurry cross the sea change the sky [upon them], not their souls or state of mind

Seneca (4 BC – 65 AD) shortened it to Animum debes mutare, non caelum ("You must change [your] disposition [soul or state of mind], not [your] sky") in his Letter to Lucilium XXVIII, 1. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:28, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ When people are divided, the only solution is agreement.

John Hume (1937—), politician (Nobel Peace Prize along with Trimble). benzband (talk) 10:26, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ We now know a thousand ways not to build a lightbulb

Thomas Edison (1847-1931), inventor and businessman. benzband (talk) 10:26, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn.

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790). benzband (talk) 09:33, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ Friendship, mysterious cement of the soul!

Robert Burns' (1759–1796) "Epistle to James Smith" (1786), opening line/verse. I must admit that I would liked to use another (and well known) part of the epigraph:

O Life! how pleasant, in thy morning,
Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning!
Cold-pausing Caution's lesson scorning,
We frisk away,
Like school-boys, at th' expected warning,
To joy an' play.

... But I have not yet found a full good version (set of links) for it (it's too complicated, but I have some ideas about... if you want to...). The opening line, never dull, conveys a very simple concept, but because of its "simplicity", it is suitable to many different interpretations (sets of links). (Additional [and very boring] note: if you would like to read the full text of this epigraph then the "Epistle to James Smith" is here at WikiSource). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:20, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

O Life! how pleasant, in thy morning,
Young Fancy's rays the hills adorning!
Cold-pausing Caution's lesson scorning,
We frisk away,
Like school-boys, at th' expected warning,
To joy an' play.

They create a stub, which gets CSDed but after receiving the warning they improve it and save the article. benzband (talk) 09:42, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ That is one nutty hospital.

Tootsie (1982). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:15, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.

Martin Luther King, Jr. (1929-1968) Bulldog73 talk da contribs go rando 06:10, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ Broad paths are open to every endeavor, and a sympathetic recognition is assured to every one who consecrates his art to the divine services of a conviction of a consciousness.

Franz Liszt (1811-1886), Hungarian composer, pianist, conductor and teacher. benzband (talk) 20:52, 16 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ Ce qu'il faut éviter, c'est moins l'erreur que la contradiction avec soi-même ; c'est surtout par cette seconde faute que l'autorité perd de sa force.

"The thing to avoid is not so much error as self-contradiction. It is especially by the latter that authority loses its force." —NAPOLEON In His Own Words. FROM THE FRENCH OF JULES BERTAUT. Translated by Herbert Edward Law and Charles Lincoln Rhodes. CHICAGO: A. C. McCLURG & CO. (1916).
  • Support - For once it's a french sentence that could be proposed as the motto of the day. It comes from someone whose authority has quite never been questioned. It's intended for already educated people. Knowledge of french is usually not a must in the WikiPedia contributors community. Dommage ! A translation could be proposed the next day. Make your propositions. British guys won't be amused.

Der letzte Konsul (talk) 17:25, 16 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  • Hi Konsul! i've changed the arrow link so it points to Napoleon (the arrow is there for attribution, and i get it he is the author of this sentence). But i don't understand why you linked to WP:NSOFT, or why you did so repeatedly. *puzzled* :) benzband (talk) 17:37, 16 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ Beauty is in the eye of the beer-holder.

99 Bottles of Beer… ♬ benzband (talk) 10:18, 14 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ Who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?

Chico Marx (1887–1961) Bulldog73 talk da contribs go rando 03:42, 14 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Mrs. Teasdale: Your Excellency, I thought you'd left!
Chicolini: Oh no, I no leave.
Mrs. Teasdale: But I saw you with my own eyes!
Chicolini: Well, who you gonna believe, me or your own eyes?
—Duck Soup featuring The Marx Brothers and directed by Leo McCarey (quote from IMDB)

→ A truly great man will neither trample on a worm nor sneak to an emperor.

Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) in Poor Richard's Almanack. Bulldog73 talk da contribs go rando 02:33, 13 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ He was an artist and a writer and a poet and a friend.

Rancid in Daly City Train. benzband (talk) 15:39, 12 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ He was an artist and a writer and a poet and a friend.

Edit 1. benzband (talk) 15:39, 12 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ I'm a little intellectual, someone who knows it all.

The Undertones in I'm smarter than U. benzband (talk) 15:39, 12 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ Oh, no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was Beauty killed the Beast.

Robert Armstrong as Carl Denham in King Kong (1933). Bulldog73 talk da contribs go rando 08:04, 12 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ Of course you have to support the troops.

Neil Young (1945—). (This is sarcasm, i.e. not to be taken seriously.) benzband (talk) 09:46, 10 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ Of course you have to support the troops.

Edit 1. benzband (talk) 09:44, 13 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ Which side will you be on?

If.... (1968) by Lindsay Anderson (1923-1994). (The idea is to be neutral, i.e. on the NPOV side.) benzband (talk) 09:46, 10 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ Caedimus, inque vicem praebemus crura sagittis
("We shoot, and in turn expose our legs to arrows")

Aulus Persius Flaccus (34–62), Satires 4:42. Also quoted as "We shoot, and in turn present a target for the barbs of others", depicting an enthusiastic controversialist. It is often used by writers in relation to publishing contexts as "We lash. OR We strike others, in censuring and publishing their faults." The last part, "to expose our legs to arrows", means to present ourself as a target, or, more accurately, it refers to the gladiator that while he shoots an arrow, he moves up his shield leaving his legs vulnerable. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:23, 10 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

We shoot, together, and have more chance of hitting the mark :D

→ Caedimus, inque vicem praebemus crura sagittis
("We shoot, and in turn expose our legs to arrows")

Shoot 2. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:23, 10 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ Caedimus, inque vicem praebemus crura sagittis
("We shoot, and in turn expose our legs to arrows")

Shoot 3. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:23, 10 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ Caedimus, inque vicem praebemus crura sagittis
("We shoot, and in turn expose our legs to arrows")

Shoot 4 ~ wotcher i wanna have a go too benzband (talk) 09:46, 10 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ Everything was his idea...except my leaving him.

Citizen Kane (1941) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:22, 10 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ I pray thee cease thy counsel.
Which falls into mine ears as profitless
As water in a sieve.

William Shakespeare (1564–1616), Much Ado About Nothing, Act V, Scene I (1600) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:17, 10 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ You owe me money!

The Hustler (1961) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 13:14, 27 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

recycle Reopened - no consensus. Simply south...... going on editing sprees for just 6 years (as of 28/03/2006) 22:20, 9 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ Try and join the scene but you're too obscene,
You're looking like a big, fat, pink, baked bean;
How did you figure that you'd be any use,
when all you're gonna get is my abuse?

The Sex Pistols in Satellite. benzband (talk) 16:13, 24 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

recycle Reopened - no consensus. Simply south...... going on editing sprees for just 6 years (as of 28/03/2006) 22:20, 9 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ If one is to be called a liar, one may as well make an effort to deserve the name.

Duh. benzband (talk) 20:36, 23 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

  • Comment - The danger with ironic advice is that it might be taken literally. It is not that people would put the literal interpretation into practice, but that they would think it is a bad motto. Fartherred (talk) 22:40, 29 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]
    • Hmm,, i get your point. I'll just explain why i did this though: based on the fact that the essay "liar liar pants on fire" says among other things don't go around calling other editors liars (but try to be constructive); in the quote the person accused ("one") is apparently not a liar, but may become one as a consequence of being called a liar. Thus, this is a warning that by calling editors liars you may make them so (as well as causing disrupt and bad feeling). The alternative to simply calling them a liar is provided on the linked page. :-) benzband (talk) 15:44, 30 March 2012 (UTC)[reply]

recycle Reopened -no consensus. Simply south...... going on editing sprees for just 6 years (as of 28/03/2006) 22:20, 9 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ There are only two families in the world… the the haves and the have-nots.

Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616) in Don Quixote (1605), pt2 ch20. benzband (talk) 10:31, 8 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ There are only two families in the world… the the haves and the have-nots.

Edit 1 –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:40, 10 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ We really have everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) in The Canterville Ghost (1887). benzband (talk) 08:27, 8 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ Rattle his bones over the stones;
He's only a pauper, whom nobody owns!

Thomas Noel (1799-1861) in The Pauper's Drive (1841). benzband (talk) 08:27, 8 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ A government of laws, and not of men.

John Adams in the Boston Gazette n°7 (1774). benzband (talk) 08:27, 8 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ Thomas Jefferson once said.

Ronald Reagan trying to justify himself. benzband (talk) 10:36, 7 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

→ He told me that.

Edit 1, with a different excerpt of the sentence. benzband (talk) 08:28, 8 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Argumentum ad Jimbonem

Edit 2, per pjoef from the [gramatically incorrect, :D] lead. benzband (talk) 10:44, 17 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Winston Churchill. benzband (talk) 10:36, 7 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

→ It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

Edit 1, with "consensus". benzband (talk) 10:36, 7 April 2012 (UTC)[reply]

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