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2010
January
- 01-01 If you're not getting dirty, you're not having fun.
- 01-02 → If all the swords in England were pointed against my head, your threats would not move me.
- 01-03 A place of special meaning and thought,
Be glad of what you've learnt and taught - 01-04 → The mark of a moderate man is freedom from his own ideas.
- 01-05 Things don't change by themselves, you have to be active to mould the environment in which you are going to practice.
- 01-06 → Try and be nice to people, avoid eating fat, read a good book every now and then, get some walking in, and try and live together in peace and harmony with people of all creeds and nations.
- 01-07 → We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
- 01-08 → Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong.
- 01-09 → Humour, it cannot be too often said, must be kind.
- 01-10 Live, inspire others, and make a difference.
- 01-11 Open the manual.
- 01-12 → No problem can be solved at the same level of thinking at which it was created.
- 01-13 We do not inherit the Earth from our parents, we borrow it from our children.
- 01-14 The most important things in life are often not realised until they're taken away.
- 01-15 → It's time to try defying gravity
- 01-16 → Only a fool thinks his enemies stand still when he isn't looking.
- 01-17 → If you need instructions on how to get through the hotels, check out the enclosed instruction book.
- 01-18 → Man must not check reason by tradition...but tradition by reason.
- 01-19 Some say that the glass is half empty,
But it's important to realize that the glass won’t be like this forever. - 01-20 → Hey Bobby, what's the French for Va-Va-Voom?
- 01-21 → I'd like to say that people people can change anything they want to; and that means everything in the world. ... Without people you're nothing.
- 01-22 → I laid a foundation as an expert builder, and someone else is building on it. But each one should be careful how he builds.
- 01-23 No shirt, no shoes, no service.
- 01-24 → Do you ne'er think what wondrous beings these?
Do you ne'er think who made them, and who taught
The dialect they speak, where melodies
Alone are the interpreters of thought?
Whose household words are songs in many keys,
Sweeter than instrument of man e'er caught! - 01-25 → From each according to his ability; to each according to his need!
- 01-26 → If the name is not correct, the words will not ring true.
- 01-27 → Don't you want somebody to love?
Don't you need somebody to love?
Wouldn't you love somebody to love?
You better find somebody to love. - 01-28 → Catch it. Bin it. Kill it.
- 01-29 → My name is Inigo Montoya.
You killed my father.
Prepare to die. - 01-30 → Cura Personalis
("Care for the entire person") - 01-31 → The wise man builds his house on the rock.
February
- 02-01 Rome wasn't built in a day.
- 02-02 → Napoleon is always right.
- 02-03 → Docendo discimus
("by teaching, we learn") - 02-04 → Adversus solem ne loquitor
("Don't speak against the sun") - 02-05 Know thyself.
- 02-06 → Shaken, not stirred
- 02-07 → The cook, that is the trumpet to the morn.
Doth with his lofty and shrill-sounding throat
A wake the god of day. - 02-08 → Where, the hawk,
High in the beetling cliff, his aery builds. - 02-09 → I destroy my enemy when I make him my friend.
- 02-10 If triangles had a god, it would have three sides.
- 02-11 → Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion. It looks like a mirac... It's in the hole! It's in the hole! It's in the hole!
- 02-12 → With Glowing Hearts, we can be Swifter, Higher, and Stronger.
- 02-13 → If a tree falls in a forest when there is no-one around to hear it, does it make a sound?
- 02-14 → Then from the neighboring thicket the mocking-bird, wildest of singers,
Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water,
Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music,
That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen. - 02-15 There's more than one way to skin a cat.
- 02-16 → Cravendale tastes so good, the cows want it back
- 02-17 → Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
- 02-18 → Much ado about nothing
- 02-19 Wikipedia is like a box of chocolates,
You never know which one you are going to get - 02-20
- 02-21 → Audi alteram partem
(hear the other side) - 02-22 → You've hissed all my mystery lectures. You've tasted a whole worm. Get out of Oxford on the next town drain.
- 02-23 → The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return.
- 02-24 → O honey-throated warbler of the grove!
That in the glooming woodland art so proud
Of answering thy sweet mates in soft or loud,
Thou dost not own a note we do not love. - 02-25 → The majority have no right to do wrong
- 02-26 → He's dead, Jim
- 02-27 → The score never interested me, only the game.
- 02-28 → WELCOME TO MOTHER3 WORLD.
March
- 03-01 → Dominus illuminatio mea
("The Lord is my light") - 03-02 → Rise with the lark, and with the lark to bed.
- 03-03 → Wanna Be Starting Something
- 03-04 → You don't use science to show that you're right, you use science to become right.
- 03-05 → It doesn't matter who you are or what you look like as long as somebody loves you.
- 03-06 → You're gonna need a bigger boat.
- 03-07 → Freedom lies in being bold.
- 03-08 Mary? Mary who? Queen of Scots? Bloody Mary? Marie Antoinette? Mary Shelly? Mary had a little lamb?
- 03-09 → 'Tis better to have loved and lost
than never to have loved at all. - 03-10 How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck would chuck wood?
- 03-11 → Khan!!!
- 03-12 → I before E except after C, but we live in a weird society.
- 03-13 → It is considered [who?] a dark and stormy night. [citation needed]
- 03-14 → The question is not can they reason? Nor can they talk? But can they suffer?
- 03-15 → Michael... we're bigger than U.S. Steel.
- 03-16 → Insufficient facts always invite danger.
- 03-17 → Colourless green ideas sleep furiously.
- 03-18 → Anything that builds a spirit of friendliness and co-operation
and helps people get to know each other as human beings seems to me a good thing. - 03-19 → Don't lean on one side, don't have a biased opinion, don't do too much, and don't do too little.
- 03-20 → Devil's Advocate
- 03-21 → And it keeps gettin' better
- 03-22 → If you take their power now, they'll rebel soon, and bring little trouble; if you don't, they'll rebel later, and bring bucketloads of trouble.
- 03-23 You can't make a silk purse out of a pig's ear.
- 03-24 → E pluribus unum
("Out of many, one") - 03-25 → There was an old lady who swallowed a horse... She's dead of course!
- 03-26 → And look for adoration to th' abuse
Of those imperial titles which assert
Our being ordained to govern, not to serve? - 03-27 → Hello, is it me you're looking for?
- 03-28 → A gift of a feather from a thousand miles away
bears little weight, though much meaning - 03-29 → Lend me your song, ye Nightingales! O, pour
The mazy-running soul of melody
Into my varied verse. - 03-30 Happy 5th birthday MOTD
(This space for rent.) - 03-31 → Play it, Sam. Play ‘As Time Goes By.’
April
- 04-01 → Go ahead, make my day.
- 04-02 → Bosh!
- 04-03 → I never liked him very much.
- 04-04 → With a bronze mirror, one can see whether he is properly attired; with history as a mirror, one can understand the rise and fall of a nation; with men as a mirror, one can see whether he is right or wrong.
- 04-05 → He that will have his son have a respect for him and his orders, must himself have a great reverence for his son.
- 04-06 Failure is the mother of success.
- 04-07 → Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.
- 04-08 → What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.
- 04-09 → How could this be?
- 04-10 → Get your stinking paws off me, you damned dirty ape!
- 04-11 → "Rules can be bent!" "Not by me!"
- 04-12 → Why don't you come up sometime and see me?
- 04-13 → Oh! My throat! Time for a nice cup of tea with a little honey.
- 04-14 → “To look at you, anyone would think there was a famine in England.”
→ “To look at you, anyone would think you caused it!” - 04-15 → Alterum non laedere
("To not wound another") - 04-16 → A soft answer turneth away wrath, but grievous words stir up anger.
- 04-17 → I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.
- 04-18 → Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
- 04-19 → The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog
- 04-20 → As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.
- 04-21 Constant dripping wears away the stone.
- 04-22 Did you know
...that Beethoven's ninth symphony is written by Ludwig van Beethoven? - 04-23 God gave us mountains, but he also gave us each other.
- 04-24 → Alis grave nil
("Nothing is too heavy to those who have wings") - 04-25 Damned if they do, damned if they don't.
- 04-26 → Success is not final, failure is not fatal, it's the courage to continue that counts.
- 04-27 → Houston, we have a problem
- 04-28 → A wretched soul, bruised with adversity.
- 04-29 → Not for ourselves, but for the whole world
- 04-30 The world makes its impact on Wikipedia, but Wikipedia also affects the world.
May
- 05-01 → Snap out of it!
- 05-02 → While all are drunk, I am sober;
While all are contaminated, I alone am clear. - 05-03 → To heal divisions, to relieve the oppressed,
In virtue rich; in blessing others, blessed. - 05-04 → Love is a passion
Which kindles honor into noble acts. - 05-05 → A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself; indeed, he progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.
- 05-06 → (Ladies and Gentlemen), My mother thanks you. My father thanks you. My sister thanks you. And I thank you.
- 05-07 No news is good news!
- 05-08 Will wonders never cease!
- 05-09 → Esto perpetua ("Let it be perpetual")
- 05-10 → Plus est en vous
(There is more within you) - 05-11 → Alenda lux ubi orta libertas
("Let learning be cherished where liberty has arisen.") - 05-12 → When the child was a child, it didn’t know that it was a child, everything was soulful, and all souls were one.
- 05-13 One who cannot remember history is condemned to repeat it.
- 05-14 → Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our mind.
- 05-15 → Would you like fries with that?
- 05-16 → So tell me, Eddie, is that a rabbit in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?
- 05-17 → It's alive! It's alive!
- 05-18 → We can learn what we did not know.
- 05-19 Love and boldness helps our community achieve its' goals.
- 05-20 Life is like a game. It depends on how you play it.
- 05-21 → I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more is none. - 05-22 When the world gives you lemons, make apple juice, sit back, relax, and let the world wonder how you did it.
- 05-23 → Today is the day, if I say so.
- 05-24 → You might as well jump.
- 05-25 → The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong, it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
- 05-26 → Success is not final, failure is not fatal; it is the courage to continue that counts.
- 05-27 → We must learn to look at problems all-sidedly, seeing the reverse as well as the obverse side of things. In given conditions, a bad thing can lead to good results and a good thing to bad results.
- 05-28 → Experto crede
("Believe one who has had experience") - 05-29 → What thing is love?—for (well I wot) love is a thing
It is a prick, it is a sting,
It is a pretty, pretty thing;
It is a fire, it is a coal,
Whose flame creeps in at every hole! - 05-30 → True friends stab you in the front.
June
- 06-01 → Et in Arcadia ego
("Even in Arcadia I exist") - 06-02 → We can't stop here; this is bat country!
- 06-03 → The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.
- 06-04 → Gentlemen. You can't fight in here. This is the War Room!
- 06-05 Do not delete the slightly necessary if there is use out of it. One should not be separated from a group because of little necessity.
- 06-06 → Like birds, whose beauties languish half concealed,
Till, mounted on the wing, their glossy plumes
Expanded, shine with azure, green, and gold;
How blessings brighten as they take their flight! - 06-07 → Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity - and I'm not sure about the former.
- 06-08 → Anything that happens, happens.
Anything that, in happening, causes something else to happen, causes something else to happen.
Anything that, in happening, causes itself to happen again, happens again.
It doesn't necessarily do it in chronological order, though. - 06-09 → Let's think the unthinkable, let's do the undoable, let's prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.
- 06-10 → Dare to be gorgeous and unique. But don't ever be cryptic or otherwise unfathomable. Make it unforgettably great.
- 06-11 → When you draw a situation - someone is scared or angry or happy - it means the same thing in all cultures.
- 06-12 → (Hey!) I'm walking here! I'm walking here!
- 06-13 → Que Sera, Sera (Whatever Will Be, Will Be)
- 06-14 → Fiat lux
("Let there be light") - 06-15 → Give, you gods,
Give to your boy, your Caesar,
The rattle of a globe to play withal,
This gewgaw world, and put him cheaply off;
I'll not be pleased with less than Cleopatra. - 06-16 → Fluctuat nec mergitur
("It is tossed by the waves, but does not sink") - 06-17 In the nine heavens are eight Paradises;
Where is the ninth one? In the human breast.
Only the blessed dwell in the Paradises,
But blessedness dwells in the human breast. - 06-18 → They say: only the fittest of the fittest shall survive, stay alive!
- 06-19 When darkness lurks, use the right actions, not the wrong ones.
- 06-20 → The hotel shop only had two decent books, and I'd written both of them.
- 06-21 → A learning experience is one of those things that say, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that."
- 06-22 → "Some factual information for you. Have you any idea how much damage that bulldozer would suffer if I just let it roll straight over you?"
"How much?" said Arthur.
"None at all," said Mr Prosser. - 06-23 I am what I am and I do what I do
- 06-24 → In critical moments, even the very powerful have need of the weakest.
- 06-25 → Assurance is a jewel worth waiting for.
- 06-26 → If you walk the footsteps of a stranger
You'll learn things you never knew you never knew. - 06-27 "Why did they lock the room?"
"Too many people were going in and taking stuff." - 06-28 → Don't you hear my call,
though you're many years away,
Don't you hear me calling you? - 06-29 → I'm gonna take this night and make it Evergreen.
- 06-30 → In times of difficulty we must not lose sight of our achievements, must see the bright future and must pluck up our courage.
July
- 07-01 → All's well that ends well
- 07-02 → Your life is worth much more than gold.
- 07-03 → My pride fell with my fortunes.
- 07-04 → Most joyful let the Poet be;
It is through him that all men see. - 07-05 → What do you think I am, completely without any moral whatsits, what are they called, those moral things?
- 07-06 → I like to praise and reward loudly, to blame quietly.
- 07-07 → Do not betray, do not be excessive, do not kill a newborn child.
- 07-08 → Played by the gate at the foot of the garden,
My view stretches out from the fence to the wall,
No words could explain, no actions determine,
Just watching the trees and the leaves as they fall. - 07-09 → Love, then, hath every bliss in store;
'Tis friendship, and 'tis something more.
Each other every wish they give;
Not to know love is not to live. - 07-10 → In hoc signo vinces
("with this as your standard you shall have victory") - 07-11 → Aromatic plants bestow
No spicy fragrance while they grow;
But crushed or trodden to the ground,
Diffuse their balmy sweets around. - 07-12 → But where am I? Be frank with me. Hide nothing. In what place, on what spot have I fallen from the sky?
- 07-13 → Have a nice day.
- 07-14 → It's always wrong to hate, but it's never wrong to love.
- 07-15 → Glue is for paper, not for skin, and don't put it in your soup.
- 07-16 You can't make an omelette without breaking eggs
- 07-17 → Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
- 07-18 → My friends, the time for action is upon us.
- 07-19 → The fact of the matter is, you don't give up what's natural. Anything I've fantasized about, I've done.
- 07-20 → Yes. While swords are clashing, I shall fence in rhyme, and improvise a poem, a ballade.
- 07-21 → It matters not where you live, or what rank of life you hold, the evil or the blessing will reach you all.
- 07-22 → How frugal is this Chariot
That bears a Human soul! - 07-23 → Open the pod bay doors, (please) HAL.
- 07-24 → In varietate concordia
("United in Diversity") - 07-25 → Liberté, égalité, fraternité
("Liberty, equality, brotherhood") - 07-26 → Trust makes our dreams come true.
- 07-27 → If there is hope... it lies in the proles.
- 07-28 → If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because they are sacrifices for the benefit of all.
- 07-29 → Speak softly and carry a big stick.
- 07-30 An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
- 07-31 Wikipedia: Our bots are smarter than most vandals.
August
- 08-01 → I consider myself a citizen of the world.
- 08-02 You wouldn't vandalize a house, would you vandalize an article?
- 08-03 → De oppresso libre
("To free from oppression") - 08-04 → No more terrible disaster could befall your people than for them to fall into the hands of a Hero.
- 08-05 What if there was only one person? Yet, what if there were 12 million people?
- 08-06 → Why did you shoo that child? He may be poor, but like us, he is a human being.
- 08-07 → An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous
- 08-08 → Elementary, my dear Watson.
- 08-09 → One has to grow hard but without ever losing tenderness.
- 08-10 → You know, you haven't stopped talking since I came here? You must have been vaccinated with a phonograph needle.
- 08-11 → Faintly as tolls the evening chime,
Our voices keep tune and our oars keep time,
Soon as the woods on shore look dim,
We'll sing at Saint Ann's our parting hymn;
Row, brothers, row, the stream runs fast,
The rapids are near and the daylight's past! - 08-12 → I know not the real appearance of Mount Lu;
All I value is the yuanfen that brought me to this mountain. - 08-13 → You are not forgotten.
- 08-14 → Roma invicta
- 08-15 → Mmmmm... tastes like strawberries and cream
- 08-16 → Listen, kid, we're all in it together.
- 08-17 To 3RR is human, to unblock divine.
- 08-18 → Love truth, but pardon error.
- 08-19 → Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
- 08-20 Variety is the spice of life
- 08-21 → Not many of you should presume to be teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.
- 08-22 → Ah, Pedro, it's good that you've finally learnt to trust others.
- 08-23 → Hatred does not cease by hatred, but only by love.
- 08-24 → It's not the size of the man. It's the magic inside him.
- 08-25 → Saat kaç?
("What time is it?") - 08-26 → You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave.
- 08-27 → Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's what matters to me.
- 08-28 → I must govern the clock, not be governed by it.
- 08-29 → Do not use a hatchet to remove a fly from your friend's forehead.
- 08-30 → Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportion’d thought his act. - 08-31 → If such a man be fit to govern, speak.
I am as I have spoken.
September
- 09-01 Third time's the charm
- 09-02 → Apply here for the best job in the world.
- 09-03 Newcomer: Where am I?
Wiseman: A place where we help out. - 09-04 → Who has not seen that feeling born of flame
Crimson the cheek at mention of a name?
The rapturous touch of some divine surprise
Flash deep suffusion of celestial dyes:
When hands clasped hands, and lips to lips were pressed
And the heart's secret was at once confessed? - 09-05 → The future is just like you imagined.
- 09-06 → From a pound of iron worth a few pennies can be made many thousand watch-springs, which are worth hundreds of thousands. Put to good use the pound that God has given you.
- 09-07 → Well, nobody's perfect.
- 09-08 → May our mountains ever be
Freedom's ramparts on the sea - 09-09 → What gain I if I win the thing I seek?
A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy.
Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week?
Or sells eternity to gain a toy? - 09-10 → From every blush that kindles in thy cheeks,
Ten thousand little loves and graces spring,
To revel in the roses. - 09-11 In memoriam.
- 09-12 → Excellence and opportunity for each learner.
- 09-13 → Extreme democracy has caused the cultural revolution.
- 09-14 → Greetings and bienvenue.
- 09-15 → Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
- 09-16 → Never fight a battle of wits with someone you suspect is unarmed.
- 09-17 → I'm a doctor, not a physicist!
- 09-18 → While mantling on the maiden's cheek,
Young roses kindled into thought. - 09-19 → Not now! Can't you see I'm trying to remember something?
- 09-20 → I'm a revolutionary; money means nothing to me.
- 09-21 → Oh, swiftly glides the bonnie boat,
Just parted from the shore,
And to the fisher's chorus-note,
Soft moves the dipping oar! - 09-22 I have been an echo. You have been an echo. Wikipedia has been an echo. The world has been an echo. But your spirit never has.
- 09-23 → So much time, and so little to do! Strike that! Reverse it!
- 09-24 → Don't try to teach your Grandma to suck eggs.
- 09-25 → What would you think if I sang out of tune; would you stand up and walk out on me? Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song and I'll try not to sing out of key.
- 09-26 → Thus sang they, in the English boat,
An holy and a cheerful note,
And all the way, to guide their chime,
With falling oars they kept the time. - 09-27 → Meliora
("for the pursuit of the better") - 09-28 → Know where your towel is.
- 09-29 → "Tell me, how did you find America?"
"Turn left at Greenland." - 09-30 → It's been a hard day's night, and I been working like a dog.
It's been a hard day's night, I should be sleeping like a log.
But when I get home to you I'll find the things that you do will make me feel alright.
October
- 10-01 → Wasn't it a millionaire who said "Imagine no possessions"?
- 10-02 → My name is Khan and I am not a terrorist.
- 10-03 → Labor omnia vincit
("Hard work conquers all") - 10-04 → Friends can help each other.
- 10-05 → If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles.
- 10-06 → If you do not speak English, I am at your disposal with 187 other languages along with their various dialects and sub-tongues.
- 10-07 → Carpe diem, seize the day, boys. Make your lives extraordinary.
- 10-08 → All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree.
- 10-09 → I believe the children are our future
Teach them well and let them lead the way - 10-10 → We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master.
- 10-11 → Do not be wise in your own eyes.
- 10-12 → Every Generation Has A Legend. Every Journey Has A First Step. Every Saga Has A Beginning.
- 10-13 → The mind is its own place and in itself, can make a Heaven of Hell, a Hell of Heaven.
- 10-14 → Give a little bit of your time to me
- 10-15 If looks could kill...
- 10-16 → For you, I wanna write the sickest rhyme of my life.
- 10-17 → Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- 10-18 → Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth more than the evolution to a vegetarian diet.
- 10-19 → You have saved our lives. We are eternally grateful.
- 10-20 → We are not amused.
- 10-21 → They've been sent to Coventry
- 10-22 → When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever is left, no matter how improbable, must be the truth.
- 10-23 → Standing on the shoulders of giants
- 10-24 → I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do, I should do and, with the help of God, I will do.
- 10-25 → Just ban them all.
- 10-26 → Do You Know the Way to San José
- 10-27 → Jon... I don't want a big, strong man... I want you.
- 10-28 → The first rule of fight club is you do not talk about fight club.
- 10-29 → If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?
- 10-30 → I've been looking so long for you
Now you won't get away from my grasp.
You've been living so long in hiding
In hiding behind that false mask. - 10-31 → You can safely assume that you've created God in your own image when it turns out that God hates all the same people you do.
November
- 11-01 → Never Be Rude to an Arab
- 11-02 → Brothers and sisters have I none, but that man's father is my father's son.
- 11-03 → Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,
Are a substantial world, both pure and good;
Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,
Our pastime and our happiness will grow. - 11-04 → I feel the need... ...the need for speed!
- 11-05 → Remember, remember the fifth of november,
Gunpowder treason and plot,
Was Guy Fawkes a devil, the Stuarts all saints?
Are we glad that we stopped them... or not? - 11-06 → Nec Temere, Nec Timide
("Neither rashly nor timidly") - 11-07 → Book 'em, Danno
- 11-08 → Scooby Doo, Where are you?
- 11-09 → From the deepest desires often come the deadliest hate.
- 11-10 → He who lives by the sword will surely also die.
- 11-11 When in a hole, stop digging
- 11-12 → Magis
("The more") - 11-13 → Strength through discipline, Strength through community, Strength through action.
- 11-14 → Audentes fortuna iuvat
("Fortune favors the bold") - 11-15 → Put a tiger in your tank.
- 11-16 → Having children makes you no more a parent than having a piano makes you a pianist.
- 11-17 → Yes, it's true.
- 11-18 → "You were only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!"
- 11-19 See a penny, pick it up, all day long you'll have good luck
- 11-20 → We're all one, and life flows on within you and without you.
- 11-21 Idle hands are the Devil's playthings.
- 11-22 → Pedro, good music is the property of the entire universe.
- 11-23 → It is difficult to produce a television documentary that is both incisive and probing when every twelve minutes one is interrupted by twelve dancing rabbits singing about toilet paper.
- 11-24 → Two mice fell into a bucket of cream. The first mouse gave up, and soon drowned. The second mouse ran so hard he eventually churned that cream into butter. I am that second mouse.
- 11-25 → A census taker once tried to test me. I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.
- 11-26 → Learn of the little nautilus to sail,
Spread the thin oar, and catch the driving gale. - 11-27 The More, The Better!
- 11-28 → Give me alchemy, give me wizardry, give me sorcery, thermatology, electricity!
Magic if you please, master all of these, bring him to his knees!
I master five magics! - 11-29 → Click. Boom. Amazing!
- 11-30 → No autograph, no comic book!
December
- 12-01 → All in all, you're just another brick in the wall.
- 12-02 → In the beginning, men are always good-hearted.
Though their natures are the same, they are educated differently.
If they are not taught well, their natures will change. - 12-03 Serenity, Jollity, Humility
- 12-04 → A country that's divided surely will not stand.
My past erased, no more disgrace.
No more foolish naive stands. - 12-05 Where do you want to edit today?
- 12-06 The king shouted, "Arise, ye warriors, and drive these fellows out of the woods!"
- 12-07 → Toto, I've (got) a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.
- 12-08 → Hey Jude, don't make it bad. Take a sad song and make it better.
- 12-09 A Camel is a Horse designed by committee.
- 12-10 → Memento mori
("Remember your mortality") - 12-11 → You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade, toward which we have striven these many months.
- 12-12 Cast the die.
- 12-13 War isn't about who's right, but about who's left
- 12-14 → All you create, all you destroy, all that you do, all that you say, all that you eat and everyone you meet.
All that you slight and everyone you fight.
All that is now, all that is gone, all that's to come and everything under the sun is in tune. - 12-15 Not trying is the same thing as failing.
- 12-16 → And on this branch there was a twig,
The prettiest twig that you ever did see,
Well the twig on the branch,
And the branch on the tree,
And the tree on the root,
And the root in the hole,
And the hole in the ground,
And the green grass grew all around and around,
And the green grass grew all around. - 12-17 → It's a perfectly cromulent word.
- 12-18 → My roots lie not in any Earthly nation's soil.
- 12-19 → I go out to work on Monday morning. Tuesday, I go off to honeymoon.
I'll be back again before it's time for sunny down. I'll be lazing on a Sunday afternoon.
Bicycling on every Wednesday evening! Thursday, I go waltzing to the zoo.
I come from a London town, I'm just an ordinary guy.
Fridays, I go painting in the louvre. I'm bound to be proposing on a Saturday night,
I'll be lazing on a Sunday afternoon! - 12-20 → How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?
- 12-21 → All you have to do is ask.
- 12-22 → Crisis = danger + opportunity
- 12-23 Vitality is the mother of inspiration.
- 12-24 → An ounce of love is worth a pound of knowledge.
- 12-25 → On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...
A Partridge in a Pear Tree - 12-26 → On the second day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...
2 Turtle Doves
A Partridge in a Pear Tree - 12-27 → On the third day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...
3 French Hens
2 Turtle Doves
A Partridge in a Pear Tree - 12-28 → On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...
4 Calling Birds
3 French Hens
2 Turtle Doves
A Partridge in a Pear Tree - 12-29 → On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me...
5 Golden Rings
4 Calling Birds
3 French Hens
2 Turtle Doves
A Partridge in a Pear Tree - 12-30 → On the sixth and seventh days of Christmas, my true love gave to me...
7 Swans-a-Swimming
6 Geese-a-Laying
5 Golden Rings
4 Calling Birds
3 French Hens
2 Turtle Doves
A Partridge in a Pear Tree - 12-31 → Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.