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→ Few sons attain the praise of their great sires, and most
their sires disgrace.

Homer (c. 8th century BC), Odyssey (c. 8th century BC; 1725–1726 [translated by Alexander Pope (1688–1744)]), Book II. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:21, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/September 30, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:05, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

→ Klaatu barada nikto

→ The organs of state must practice democratic centralism, they must rely on the masses and their personnel must serve the people.

Mao (1893–1976), On the Correct Handling of Contradictions Among the People, (27 February 1957). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:18, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/September 28, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:02, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

→ Strike me pink!

A Double Life (1947). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:48, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

Approved (original version) for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/September 27, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:01, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

→ Strike me pink!

Edit 1, with Help:Color. benzband (talk) 07:24, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

no Declined (in favour of the original) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:01, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

→ Strike me pink!

Edit 2, with Wikipedia:Protection policy#Template protection (template-protected pages have a pink lock). benzband (talk) 07:28, 4 September 2014 (UTC)

no Declined (in favour of the original) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:01, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

→ All the time you spend trying to get back what's been took from you, more is going out the back door.

Ellis (Barry Corbin) in No Country for Old Men (Coen brothers, 2007). Possible alternatives I considered include using WP:REVENGE for the first link, or using WP:OUCH for the second. benzband (talk) 12:32, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

recycle Reopened (not enough discussion) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:25, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/September 26, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:58, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

→ Integer vitae scelerisque purus
("Unimpaired by life and clean of wickedness")

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace; 8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), Carmina 1/22:1. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 12:15, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

no Declined (in favour of Edit 2) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:55, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

→ Integer vitae scelerisque purus
("Unimpaired by life and clean of wickedness")

Edit 1, using WP:NEWBIE and WP:FAITH. benzband (talk) 12:32, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

no Declined (in favour of Edit 2) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:55, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

→ Integer vitae scelerisque purus
("Unimpaired by life and clean of wickedness")

Edit 2, using WP:SOW/REAP. My favorite edit because of the uncommon link. benzband (talk) 12:32, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

recycle Reopened (all versions; not enough discussion) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:24, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

Approved (Edit 2) for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/September 25, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:55, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

→ Wait a minute! Wait a minute! You ain't heard nothin' yet. Wait a minute, I tell ya, you ain't heard nothin'! Do you wanna hear "Toot, Toot, Tootsie!"?

{{listen|filename=Jolson-WaitAMinute.ogg|title="Wait a minute, wait a minute..."| description= The spoken words that made movie history (over considerable crowd noise) and the opening of "Toot, Toot, Tootsie (Goo' Bye)" |format=[[Ogg]]}} (non-free content removed per WP:NFCC#9) The Jazz Singer (1927). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:02, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

recycle Reopened (no consensus) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:15, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

no Declined (no consensus) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:52, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

→ America prays for god to destroy their enemies, our enemies pray for god to destroy us. Somebody's gonna be disappointed!

→ In se magna ruunt
("Great things collapse of their own weight")

Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan; 3 November 39 – 30 April 65), Pharsalia 1:81. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:53, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

no Declined (in favour of Edit 1) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:49, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

→ In se magna ruunt
("Great things collapse of their own weight")

Edit 1 with WP:GAR, as per Chris. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:10, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

Approved (Edit 1) for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/September 24, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:49, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

→ In se magna ruunt
("Great things collapse of their own weight")

Edit 2, using Wikipedia:Splitting resolution. benzband (talk) 12:32, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

recycle Reopened (all versions; no consensus) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:04, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

no Declined (Edit 2 in favour of Edit 1) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:49, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

→ In pace ut sapiens aptarit idonea bello
("In peace, like the wise man, make preparations for war")

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace; 8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), Satires (35 BC – 30 BC) 2/2:111. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:34, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

→ In pace ut sapiens aptarit idonea bello
("In peace, like the wise man, make preparations for war")

Edit 1 with WP:ATAEW. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:23, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

recycle Reopened (both versions; no consensus) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:01, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

no Declined (both versions; no consensus) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:45, 23 September 2014 (UTC)

→ I'm the king of the world!

Quick! Someone Call The Fire Brigade! There's A Fire!

Was bored and had the idea for this motto! :) TF { Contribs } 08:27, 6 September 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/September 23, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:46, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

→ I don't want to be a hero! All I want is the money! The money!

→ Molten steel, razor-sharp blades, lots of time to himself - what could possibly go wrong?

→ Intus et in cute
("Inwardly, under the skin")

→ The highways are crowded with people who drive as if their sole purpose in getting behind the wheel is to avenge every wrong done them by man, beast or fate.

→ Whatever is worth doing at all, is worth doing well.

→ Indignor quandoque bonus dormitat Homerus
→ ("I too am annoyed whenever good Homer nods off")

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace; 8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC), Ars Poetica (19 BC) 358. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:56, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

recycle Reopened (no discussion) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:21, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/September 17, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:32, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

→ What the hell happened?

The Sand Pebbles (1966); film adaptation of the 1962 novel of the same name by Richard McKenna. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:46, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

no Declined (in favour of Edit 1) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:28, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

→ What the hell happened?

Edit 1, using WP:WMD. benzband (talk) 12:32, 9 August 2014 (UTC)

{{reopened}} (both versions) –[[User:Pjoef|p<span style="color: #802400">joe</span>f]] <small>(''[[User talk:Pjoef|talk]]'' • [[Special:Contributions/Pjoef|contribs]])</small> 08:20, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

Approved Edit 1 for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/September 16, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:28, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

→ They that on glorious ancestors enlarge,
Produce their debt, instead of their discharge.

Edward Young (1683–1765), Love of Fame: The Universal Passion (1725–1728), Satire I, line 147. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:58, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/September 15, 2014 (per consensus; 4 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:22, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

→ I am not an animal! I am a human being.

→ A thing worth having is worth cheating for.

→ I once fixed a door that wasn't even broken yet.

→ But you'll look sweet upon the seat of a bicycle — built - for - two.

→ I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near Tanhauser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain. Time to die.

Blade Runner (1982). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:14, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

recycle Reopened (no consensus) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:18, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

no Declined (in favour of Edit 1) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:09, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

→ I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.

Edit 1 first sentence only, as per Chris. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:18, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

Approved Edit 1 for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/September 10, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:09, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

→ Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!

Sons of the Desert (1933). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:53, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

recycle Reopened (no consensus) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:07, 2 September 2014 (UTC)

no Declined (in favour of Edit 1) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:05, 9 September 2014 (UTC)

→ Well, here's another nice mess you've gotten me into!

→ Winter is coming.

→ It was almost worth dying to know all the trouble he’d made.

→ I don't know nothin' 'bout birthin' babies.

→ Nobler is a limited command
Given by the love of all your native land,
Than a successive title, long and dark,
Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark.

John Dryden (19 August 1631 – 12 May May] 1700), Absalom and Achitophel, I (1861). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 12:04, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

Approved for August 11, 2014. per consensus (3 in support; 0 opposed) benzband (talk) 13:55, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

→ They're heee-re.

→ I do wish we could chat longer, but I'm having an old friend for dinner.

→ Oh! You cursed brat. Look what you've done. I'm melting! Melting! Oh, what a world! What a world! Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness.

→ — Surely you can't be serious.
→ — I am serious, and don't call me Shirley.

Airplane! (1980). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:38, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

→ Surely you can't be serious..

Eidt 1 first half of the quote only, as per Chris. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:08, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

Approved Edit 1 for August 15, 2014. per consensus (3 in support; 0 opposed) benzband (talk) 13:55, 10 August 2014 (UTC)

→ Inopiae desunt multa, avaritiae omnia
→ ("To poverty many things are lacking; to avarice, everything")

→ Iniuriae qui addideris contumeliam
→ ("You who have added insult to injury")

Gaius Julius Phaedrus (Phaedrus; Ancient Greek: Φαῖδρος; c. 15 BC – c. 50 AD), Fables 5/3:5. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:17, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/August 7, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 11:05, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

→ Boast not the titles of your ancestors, brave youth!
→ They're their possessions, none of yours.

Ben Jonson (11 June 1572 – 6 August 1637), Catiline His Conspiracy (1611). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:41, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/August 6, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:59, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

→ Fond man! though all the heroes of your line
→ Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine
→ In proud display; yet take this truth from me—
→ Virtue alone is true nobility!

Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal; from 55 to 60 – after 127), Satires (), Book III: Satire VIII – True Nobility; in The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis (1802), translated by William Gifford (April 1756 – 31 December 1826). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:33, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/August 5, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:57, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

→ Whoe'er amidst the sons
→ Of reason, valor, liberty, and virtue,
→ Displays distinguished merit, is a noble
→ Of Nature's own creating.

James Thomson (11 September 1700 – 27 August 1748), Coriolanus (1745), Act II, Scene III. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:06, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/August 4, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:46, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

→ You came in that thing? You're braver than I thought.

→ How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!

Walter Benjamin, Illuminations, "Unpacking my Library: A Talk About Book Collecting" (1931). benzband (talk) 12:20, 17 July 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/August 2, 2014 (per bland consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:19, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

→ Well I could call out when the going gets tough.

→ Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning die,
But leave us still our old nobility.

Lord John Manners (13 December 1818 – 4 August 1906), England's Trust and Other Poems (1841), Pt. III. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:28, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/July 31, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:02, 29 July 2014 (UTC)

→ What a dump.

→ Moment of inner freedom
when the mind is opened & the
infinite universe revealed
& the soul is left to wander
dazed & confus'd searching
here & there for teachers & friends.

James Douglas "Jim" Morrison (8 December 1943 – 3 July 1971), "The Opening of the Trunk". –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:25, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/July 29, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:40, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

→ My people are the people. They’re everywhere on the planet.

→ Impossibilium nulla obligatio est
("There is no obligation to do the impossible")

Publius Iuventius Celsus (67-130 AD), Digesta, Liber 17, Lex 185. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 13:48, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

no Declined (in favour of Edit 1) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:35, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

→ Impossibilium nulla obligatio est
("There is no obligation to do the impossible")

Edit 1 with WP:BESTNP (per benzband). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:12, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

recycle Reopened (no consensus) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 06:53, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

Approved (edit 1) for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/July 27, 2014 (per consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:35, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

→ He lives to build, not boast, a generous race;
No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.

Richard Savage (c. 1697 – 1 August 1743), The Bastard (1728), line 7. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:56, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/July 26, 2014 (per bland consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:31, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

→ I don't think I'm easy to talk about.

Roger Keith "Syd" Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006), Rolling Stone's interview, December 1971. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:42, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/July 25, 2014 (per bland consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:28, 22 July 2014 (UTC)

→ — That's Edinburgh Castle, Albert.
— Is it? What did they put it up there for?

→ A bed shouldn’t have instructions. Except for, like, "Sleep".

→ I have always imagined paradise as a kind of library.

Jorge Luis Borges, Dreamtigers (originally titled El Hacedor, 1960) benzband (talk) 11:10, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/July 22, 2014 (per bland consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:01, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

→ Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

Allen Saunders quoted in Reader’s Digest (Jan 1957). benzband (talk) 11:10, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/July 21, 2014 (per bland consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 06:59, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

→ Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.

Edit 1. benzband (talk) 11:10, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

no Declined (in favour of the original) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 06:59, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

→ A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

Francis of Assisi (1181/82 – 1226). benzband (talk) 11:10, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

no Declined (in favour of Edit 1) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 06:56, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

→ A single sunbeam is enough to drive away many shadows.

Edit 1. benzband (talk) 11:10, 2 July 2014 (UTC)

Approved (Edit 1) for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/July 20, 2014 (per bland consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 06:56, 15 July 2014 (UTC)

→ How vain are all hereditary honors,
Those poor possessions from another's deeds.

James Shirley (September 1596 – October 1666), Parricide.
I am not 100% satisfied with the link I've used (WP:FFA), beacuse a former featured article could go back to WP:FA. An alternative link could be: Special:Log/delete, but it also does not fit perfectly. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 13:19, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/July 19, 2014 (per bland consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:33, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

→ Who shall decide, when doctors disagree,
And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

Alexander Pope (1688–1744), Moral Essays, Epistle to Bathurst (1733, addressed toAllen, Lord Bathurst), "Of the Use of Riches".. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 12:54, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/July 18, 2014 (per bland consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:31, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

→ My mind is going. There is no question about it.

→ There's no crying in baseball!

→ Hoc genus omne
("All that people")

Quintus Horatius Flaccus (65 BC – 8 BC), Satires 1/2:2 (c. 35–34 BC). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:33, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

recycle Reopened (no discussion) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:58, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/July 15, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:26, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

→ Hinc illae lacrimae
("Hence those tears")

→ Alien

Alien (1979) directed by Ridley Scott. Slowlate (talk) 16:54, 28 June 2014 (UTC)

Thanks for the link. Looks like fun. Slowlate (talk) 17:47, 4 July 2014 (UTC)
WP:STRANGE sounds good. Slowlate (talk) 17:47, 4 July 2014 (UTC)

no Declined (in favour of Edit 1) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:22, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

→ Alien

Edit 1 with WP:STRANGE (per benzband). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:17, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

Approved (Edit 1) for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/July 13, 2014 (per bland consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:22, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

→ One single positive weighs more,
You know, than negatives a score.

Matthew Prior (1664–1721), Epistle to Fleetwood Shepherd. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:50, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/July 12, 2014 (per bland consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:19, 8 July 2014 (UTC)

→ Igitur qui desiderat pacem, praeparet bellum.
("Therefore whoever desires peace, let him prepare for war.")

Id quod plerumque accidit.
("That which generally happens.")

Id est (i.e.)
("That is")

→ Agreed to differ.

Robert Southey (1774–1843), Life of Wesley. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:55, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/July 8, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:51, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

→ In argument
Similes are like songs in love:
They must describe; they nothing prove.

Matthew Prior (1664–1721), Alma, Canto III. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:46, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/July 7, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:49, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

→ One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas, I don't know.

→ Mr. President, I'm not saying we wouldn't get our hair mussed, but I do say no more than ten to twenty million killed, tops, that is, depending on the breaks.

→ You had me at ‘hello’.

→ I'll get you, my pretty, and your little dog, too!

→ Homo sum; humani nil a me alienum puto
("I am a man; I regard nothing human as alien to me")

→ He'd undertake to prove, by force
Of argument, a man's no horse.
He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl,
And that a Lord may be an owl,
A calf an Alderman, a goose a Justice,
And rooks, Committee-men or Trustees.

Samuel Butler (1612–1680), Hudibras, Part I, Canto I (1663). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:46, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/July 1, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:38, 1 July 2014 (UTC)

→ Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes
Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

George Herbert (1593–1633), The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations: "The Church Porch" (1633). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:52, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/June 30, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 06:58, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

→ He-e-e-e-re's Johnnie!

The Shining, a 1980 film adaptation of Stephen King's 1977 novel directed by Stanley Kubrick and starring Jack Nicholson. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:34, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/June 29, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 06:56, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

→ Homo homini lupus est
("Man is a wolf to [his fellow] man.")

First attested in Plautus' Asinaria (195 BC) as "lupus est homo homini". –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:19, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/June 28, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 06:53, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

→ Hominem pagina nostra sapit
("It is of man that my page smells")

Marcus Valerius Martialis (between 38 and 41 AD – between 102 and 104 AD), Epigrams 10/4:10. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:10, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/June 27, 2014 (per bland consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 06:50, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

→ The architect
Built his great heart into these sculptured stones,
And with him toiled his children, and their lives
Were builded, with his own, into the walls,
As offerings unto God.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882), The Golden Legend (1851), Part III: "In the Cathedral". –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:21, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/June 26, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 06:48, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

→ Old houses mended,
Cost little less than new, before they're ended.

Colley Cibber (1671–1757), The Double Gallant (1707), Prologue. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:37, 20 May 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/June 25, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 06:46, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

→ Of all the things that drive men to sea, the most common disaster, I've come to learn, is women.

—Charles Johnson, Middle Passage (1990) --Ankit Maity «T § C»«Review Me» 12:15, 29 April 2014 (UTC)

no Declined (in favour of Edit 2) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 06:44, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

→ Of all the things that drive men to sea, the most common disaster, I've come to learn, is women.

Edit 1. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 10:58, 30 April 2014 (UTC)

  • Support - Hesitant? I'm not sure what to think per comment below. benzband (talk) 15:40, 30 April 2014 (UTC)
  • Support I had no idea what links to add. But I don't think the female editors will be too happy with your links. --Ankit Maity «T § C»«Review Me» 15:22, 2 May 2014 (UTC)
    • Indeed that might put some editors off the motto. benzband (talk) 20:22, 5 May 2014 (UTC)
      • It's not me but it's Charles R. Johnson (the author of the novel. In my attempt, the sea is Wikipedia and women are bad ideas, which doesn't mean I think women are bad ideas. How about replacing "women" with "a bad idea"? I know it is not usual nor 100% correct, but it could do the trick and no one is offended? –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:56, 6 May 2014 (UTC)
        • Easiest way to get off the issue is to unlink it and add a short (Just joking) footer or something. --Ankit Maity «T § C»«Review Me» 16:47, 7 May 2014 (UTC)
        • I know you didn't mean ill by the motto! Over time at MotD I've become used to reading a motto's meaning through the links rather than simply through the quoted text, and I'm not personally bothered by the linking. I'm not opposing it, but I was just noting per Ankit Maity's concerns that if someone understood the motto differently it would be unfortunate. Especially given that it's currently the under-representation of women on Wikipedia which is the disaster!
          Also I'm afraid I don't have any alternative solutions of my own, but between those which Ankit Maity and yourself proposed I'd rather replace "women" with "a bad idea", instead of unlinking and adding a "just joking" footer. benzband (talk) 14:16, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

no Declined (in favour of Edit 2) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 06:44, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

→ Of all the things that drive men to sea...

Edit 2, although it does make for a much shorter/weaker motto. benzband (talk) 14:20, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

Approved (Edit 2) for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/June 24, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 06:44, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

→ Of all the things that drive men to sea, the most common disaster, I've come to learn, is [a bad idea].

Edit 3 (per above discussion). –pjoef (talk • contribs) 06:53, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

no Declined (in favour of Edit 2) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 06:44, 24 June 2014 (UTC)

→ The spice must flow

→ ...Bond. James Bond.

→ Reproachful speech from either side
The want of argument supplied:
They rail, reviled; as often ends
The contests of disputing friends.

John Gay (1685–1732), Fables: "Sexton and Earth Worm". –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:27, 10 June 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/June 20, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:18, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

→ I'll be back

The Terminator (1984) directed by James Cameron. Slowlate (talk) 20:22, 28 May 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/June 19, 2014 (per bland consensus; 3 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:16, 17 June 2014 (UTC)

→ I've got his trunk all packed. I've had it packed for a week now.

→ You want answers?
— I want the truth!
— You can't handle the truth!

→ Yo, Adrian, I did it!

Rocky Balboa in Rocky II (1979) from Rocky series (1976–2006). Also, in Rocky Balboa (also known as Rocky VI; 2006) as "Yo, Adrian, we did it!". –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:38, 27 May 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/June 11, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:10, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

→ I make no secret of the fact that I would rather lie on a sofa than sweep beneath it.

→ Licence to kill.

Ian Flemming (1908–1964) or John Gardner (1926–2007). Slowlate (talk) 19:58, 17 May 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/June 8, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:06, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

→ Our main business is not to see what lies dimly at a distance, but to do what lies clearly at hand.

→ Haec olim meminisse iuvabit
("One day, this will be pleasing to remember")

Publius Vergilius Maro (70 BC – 19 BC), Aeneid (between 29 and 19 BC), 1:203. It is also the motto of the Jefferson Literary and Debating Society and it is quoted in "Vexations of an Author", a chapter in Reminiscences of an Octogenarian (1997) by Bruce Manning Metzger (1914–2007), in its full form: "Forsan et haec olim meminisse iuvabit", where "forsan" means "perhaps". –pjoef (talk • contribs) 09:08, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/June 6, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:02, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

→ I am, George…. I am.

George (singing): Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Martha (reply): I am, George…. I am.

Edward Albee, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962), Act Three: "The Exorcism", play's end. Also in the 1966 film adaptation directed by Mike Nichols, starring Elizabeth Taylor as Martha, Richard Burton as George, George Segal as Nick, and Sandy Dennis as Hone.
The role of George should be played by Wikipedia or by WP:USERS, but at the moment it is unlinked and probably unnecessary. WP:AFRAID is repeated twice, which is unusual and/or often deprecated at MotD, but this is due to the repetitiveness and strength of the phrase. –pjoef (talk • contribs) 08:41, 13 May 2014 (UTC)

Approved for Wikipedia:Motto of the day/June 5, 2014 (emergency; 2 in support and 0 opposed) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 07:00, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

→ CLEAN ALL THE THINGS!

From Hyperbole and a Half (with caps and underlining). As featured at the top of a CNN piece and elsewhere - a rather beloved thing, try Googling it. There are several link choices. Because Wikipedia:WikiProject Copyright Cleanup always needs more help, I'd like to see it here, but there's also Wikipedia:WikiProject Guild of Copy Editors. Novickas (talk) 22:31, 9 May 2014 (UTC)

no Declined (in favour of Edit 3) –pjoef (talk • contribs) 06:57, 3 June 2014 (UTC)

→ CLEAN ALL THE THINGS!

→ CLEAN ALL THE THINGS!

→ CLEAN ALL THE THINGS!

→ CLEAN ALL THE THINGS!

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