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April 16 is the 106th day of the year (107th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 259 days remaining until the end of the year.

Events

• 1178 BC; The calculated date of the Greek king Odysseus' return home from the Trojan War.
• 73 – Masada, a Jewish fortress, falls to the Romans after several months of siege, ending the Jewish Revolt.
• 1071 – Bari falls to Robert Guiscard, ending Byzantine rule in Italy.
• 1346 – The Serbian Empire is proclaimed in Skopje by Dusan Silni, occupying much of the Balkans.
• 1521 – Martin Luther's first appearance before the Diet of Worms to be examined by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and the other estates of the empire.
• 1582 – Spanish conquistador Hernando de Lerma founds the settlement of Salta, Argentina.
• 1746 – The Battle of Culloden is fought between the French-supported Jacobites and the Hanoverian British Government.
• 1780 – The University of Münster in Münster, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany is founded.
• 1799 – Napoleonic Wars: The Battle of Mount Tabor – Napoleon drives Ottoman Turks across the River Jordan near Acre.
• 1853 – The first passenger rail opens in India, from Bori Bunder, Bombay to Thane.
• 1858 – The Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is wound up.
• 1862 – American Civil War: The Battle at Lee's Mills in Virginia.
• 1862 – American Civil War: A bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia becomes law.
• 1863 – American Civil War: The Siege of Vicksburg – ships led by Union Admiral David Dixon Porter move through heavy Confederate artillery fire on approach to Vicksburg, Mississippi.
• 1881 – In Dodge City, Kansas, Bat Masterson fights his last gun battle.
• 1910 – The University of Queensland is founded, with the names of the members of the first Senate published in the Queensland Government Gazette.
• 1912 – Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
• 1917 – Lenin returns to Petrograd from exile in Switzerland.
• 1919 – Gandhi organizes a day of "prayer and fasting" in response to the killing of Indian protesters in the Amritsar Massacre by the British.
• 1922 – The Treaty of Rapallo, pursuant to which Germany and the Soviet Union re-establish diplomatic relations, is signed.
• 1925 – During the Communist St Nedelya Church assault in Sofia, 150 are killed and 500 are wounded.
• 1941 – World War II: The Italian convoy Duisburg, directed to Tunisia, is attacked and destroyed by British ships.
• 1941 – Bob Feller of the Cleveland Indians throws the only Opening Day no-hitter in the history of Major League Baseball, beating the Chicago White Sox 1-0.
• 1943 – Dr. Albert Hofmann discovers the psychedelic effects of LSD.
• 1945 – The Red Army begins the final assault on German forces around Berlin.
• 1945 – The United States Army liberates Nazi Sonderlager (high security) Prisoner of War camp Oflag IV-C (better known as Colditz).
• 1945 – More than 7,000 die when the German refugee ship Goya is sunk by a Soviet submarine torpedo.
• 1946 – Syria gains independence.
• 1947 – Texas City Disaster: An explosion on board a freighter in port causes the city of Texas City, Texas, to catch fire, killing almost 600.
• 1947 – Bernard Baruch coins the term "Cold War" to describe the relationship between the United States and the Soviet Union.
• 1953 – Queen Elizabeth II launches the Royal Yacht HMY Britannia.
• 1963 – Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. pens his famous Letter from Birmingham Jail while incarcerated in Birmingham, Alabama for protesting against segregation.
• 1972 – Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
• 1987 – British Conservative MP Harvey Proctor appears at Bow Street Magistrates' Court in London charged with gross indecency.
• 1990 – The "Doctor of Death", Jack Kevorkian, goes through with his first assisted suicide.
• 1992 – The Katina P. runs aground off of Maputo, Mozambique. 60,000 tons of crude oil spill into the ocean.
• 2003 – The Treaty of Accession is signed in Athens admitting 10 new member states to the European Union.
• 2004 – The super liner Queen Mary 2 embarks on her first trans-Atlantic crossing, linking the golden age of ocean travel to the modern age of ocean travel.
• 2007 – Virginia Tech massacre: The deadliest mass shooting in modern American history. Seung-Hui Cho, kills 32 and injures 23 before committing suicide.
• 2008 – Democratic senators Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama participate in the final Democratic primary debate of 2008 in Philadelphia.

Births

• 778 – King Louis the Pious (d. 840)
• 1319 – King John II of France (d. 1364)
• 1495 – Petrus Apianus, German mathematician (d. 1557)
• 1646 – Jules Hardouin Mansart, French architect (d. 1708)
• 1660 – Hans Sloane, British collector and physician (d. 1753)
• 1661 – Charles Montagu, 1st Earl of Halifax, British poet and statesman (d. 1715)
• 1682 – John Hadley, British inventor (d. 1744)
• 1693 – Anne Sophie Reventlow, queen of Denmark and Norway (d. 1743)
• 1728 – Joseph Black, Scottish chemist (d. 1799)
• 1738 – Henry Clinton, British general (d. 1795)
• 1755 – Élisabeth-Louise Vigée Le Brun, French painter (d. 1842)
• 1800 – George Bingham, 3rd Earl of Lucan, British soldier (d. 1888)
• 1821 – Ford Madox Brown, English painter (d. 1893)
• 1823 – Ferdinand Eisenstein, German mathematician (d. 1852)
• 1827 – Octave Crémazie, French Canadian poet (d. 1879)
• 1844 – Anatole France, French writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1924)
• 1847 – Hans Auer, Swiss architect, (d. 1906)
• 1848 – Kandukuri Veeresalingam, Social Reformer of Andhra Pradesh, India (d. 1919)
• 1859 – Winifred Cochrane, Countess of Dundonald, philanthropist (d. 1924)
• 1865 – Henry George Chauvel, Australian general (d. 1945)
• 1866 – José de Diego, Puerto Rico statesman and journalist (d. 1918)
• 1867 – Wilbur Wright, American aviation pioneer (d. 1912)
• 1871 – John Millington Synge, Irish writer (d. 1909)
• 1878 – Tip Foster, English cricketer (d. 1914)
• 1886 – Ernst Thälmann, German politician (d. 1944)
• 1889 – Charlie Chaplin, English actor, writer, songwriter, composer, and film producer (d. 1977)
• 1895 – Robert Dean Frisbie, American writer (d. 1948)
• 1896 – Tristan Tzara, Romanian poet and essayist (d. 1963)
• 1896 – Pat Clayton, British surveyor and explorer (d. 1962)
• 1899 – Osman Achmatowicz, Polish chemist (d. 1988)
• 1904 – Fifi D'Orsay, Canadian actress (d. 1983)
• 1905 – Frits Philips, Dutch businessman (d. 2005)
• 1907 – August Eigruber, Austrian war criminal (d. 1947)
• 1907 – Joseph-Armand Bombardier, French-Canadian inventor and businessman (Bombardier Inc.) (d. 1964)
• 1910 – Berton Roueché, American medical writer (d. 1994)
• 1912 – Garth Williams, American illustrator (d. 1996)
• 1912 – Catherine Scorsese, Italian-American actress (d. 1997)
• 1915 – Gerard McLarnon, Irish playwright (d. 1997)
• 1917 – Barry Nelson, American actor (d. 2007)
• 1918 – Spike Milligan, Irish comedian (d. 2002)
• 1918 – Joan Alexander, American actress
• 1918 – Dick Gibson, British racing driver
• 1919 – Merce Cunningham, American dancer and choreographer
• 1919 – Tom Willmore, English geometer (d. 2005)
• 1921 – Peter Ustinov, English actor (d. 2004)
• 1922 – Kingsley Amis, English author (d. 1995)
• 1924 – John Harvey-Jones, Industrialist (d. 2008)
• 1924 – Henry Mancini, American composer (d. 1994)
• 1924 – Rudy Pompilli, American musician (Bill Haley & His Comets) (d. 1976)
• 1927 – Edie Adams, American actress (d. 2008)
• 1927 – Pope Benedict XVI, born Joseph Alois Ratzinger.
• 1927 – Peter Mark Richman, American actor
• 1928 – "Night Train" Lane, American football player (d. 2002)
• 1929 – Roy Hamilton, American singer (d. 1969)
• 1929 – Ed Townsend, American singer and songwriter (d. 2003)
• 1930 – Herbie Mann, American jazz flute player (d. 2003)
• 1933 – Joan Bakewell, British broadcaster
• 1935 – Sarah Kirsch, German poet
• 1935 – Bobby Vinton, American singer
• 1938 – Gordon Wilson, Scottish politician
• 1938 – Rich Rollins, American baseballer
• 1939 – Dusty Springfield, English singer (d. 1999)
• 1939 – Boris Dvornik, Croatian actor (d. 2008.)
• 1940 – Margrethe II of Denmark, queen regnant
• 1940 – Benoît Bouchard, French-Canadian politician
• 1942 – Sir Frank Williams, English F1 constructor and team principal (WilliamsF1)
• 1942 – Jim Lonborg, American baseball player
• 1943 – Ruth Madoc, British actress
• 1943 – Dave Peverett, English musician (Foghat, Savoy Brown) (d. 2000)
• 1944 – Richard Bradshaw British opera conductor
• 1945 – Tom Allen, American politician
• 1946 – Margot Adler, American journalist
• 1947 – Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, American basketball player
• 1947 – Gerry Rafferty, British musician and songwriter
• 1948 – Lynne Franks, British public relations consultant
• 1949 – Melody Patterson, American actress
• 1950 – David Graf, American actor (d. 2001)
• 1951 – Ioan Mihai Cochinescu, Romanian writer and photographer
• 1951 – Björgvin Halldórsson, Icelandic singer
• 1951 – Mordechai Ben David, Jewish singer
• 1952 – Bill Belichick, American football coach
• 1952 – Michel Blanc, French actor
• 1952 – Billy West, American voice actor
• 1953 – Peter Garrett, Australian singer (Midnight Oil) and politician
• 1953 – J. Neil Schulman, American writer
• 1954 – Ellen Barkin, American actress
• 1954 – John Bowe, Australian racing driver
• 1955 – Bruce Bochy, American baseball player and manager
• 1955 – Henri, Grand Duke of Luxembourg, Grand Duke of Luxembourg
• 1956 – David McDowell Brown, American astronaut (d. 2003)
• 1956 – Lise-Marie Morerod, Swiss skier
• 1959 – Scott McKinsey, American television director
• 1959 – Alison Ramsay, Scottish field hockey player
• 1960 – Rafael Benítez, Spanish football manager
• 1960 – Pierre Littbarski, German footballer
• 1960 – Wahab Akbar, Filipino politician (d. 2007)
• 1961 – Doris Dragović, Croatian singer
• 1962 – Ian MacKaye, American musician, (Fugazi and Minor Threat)
• 1963 – Jimmy Osmond, American pop singer (The Osmonds)
• 1963 – Saleem Malik, Pakistani cricketer
• 1964 – Dave Pirner, American rock singer (Soul Asylum)
• 1964 – David Kohan, American television producer
• 1965 – Jon Cryer, American actor
• 1965 – Martin Lawrence, American actor
• 1965 – Michael Wong Man Tak, Hong Kong actor and director
• 1968 – Vickie Guerrero, WWE professional wrestling personality
• 1969 – Fernando Viña, American baseball player
• 1969 – Patrik Järbyn, Swedish alpine ski racer.
• 1970 – Walt Williams, American basketball player
• 1971 – Peter Billingsley, American actor
• 1971 – Selena Quintanilla, Mexican American singer (d. 1995)
• 1971 – Moses Chan, Hong Kong actor
• 1971 – Seigo Yamamoto, Japanese racing driver
• 1972 – Conchita Martinez, Spanish tennis player
• 1973 – Bonnie Pink, Japanese singer
• 1973 – Aliaune Thiam Akon, American singer and song writer
• 1974 – Mat Devine, American singer (Kill Hannah)
• 1974 – Xu Jinglei, Chinese actress, singer and director
• 1974 – Valarie Rae Miller, American actress
• 1975 – Sean Maher, American actor
• 1975 – Kelli O'Hara, American singer/actress
• 1975 – Nick Pickard, British actor
• 1976 – Lukas Haas, American actor
• 1976 – Dan Kellner, American fencer
• 1976 – Shu Qi, Taiwanese actress
• 1977 – Akon, American singer.
• 1977 – Alek Wek, Sudanese supermodel
• 1977 – Fredrik Ljungberg, Swedish footballer
• 1978 – Matthew Lloyd, Australian rules footballer
• 1978 – Lara Dutta, Indian actress
• 1979 – Christijan Albers, Dutch Formula One driver
• 1979 – Sixto Peralta, Argentine footballer
• 1979 – Sean Costello, American Blues musician
• 1980 – Paul London, American professional wrestler
• 1981 – Anestis Agritis, Greek footballer
• 1982 – Boris Diaw, French basketball player
• 1982 – Barry Jones, Scottish magician
• 1982 – Jonathan Vilma, American football player
• 1982 – Gina Carano, American Mixed Martial Arts fighter.
• 1983 – Cat Osterman, American softball pitcher
• 1983 – George Patis, Greek badminton player
• 1983 – Marié Digby, American Singer
• 1984 – Amelia Atwater-Rhodes, American author
• 1984 – Noah Fleiss, American actor
• 1984 – Tucker Fredricks, American speed skater
• 1985 – Mark Baker, Welsh author and historian
• 1985 – Luol Deng, British-Sudanese basketball player
• 1985 – Benjamín Rojas, Argentine actor and singer
• 1986 – Paul di Resta, British racing driver
• 1987 – Aaron Lennon, English footballer
• 1990 – Lorraine Nicholson, American actress
• 1992 – Prince Sébastien of Luxembourg, Prince of Luxembourg
• 1993 – Mirai Nagasu, American Figure Skater
• 1994 – Liliana Mumy, American actress
• 2003 – Alina Foley, Child actress
• 2008 – Princess Eléonore of Belgium, Belgian princess

the best day ever

Deaths

• 69 – Otho, Roman Emperor (b. 32)
• 665 – Fructuosus of Braga
• 744 – al-Walid II, Umayyad caliph
• 924 – Berengar of Friuli, King of Italy
• 1113 – Sviatopolk II of Kiev, Russian prince (b. 1050)
• 1118 – Adelaide del Vasto, wife of Roger II of Sicily
• 1198 – Duke Frederick I of Austria
• 1645 – Tobias Hume, English composer
• 1687 – George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English statesman (b. 1628)
• 1689 – Aphra Behn, English dramatist (b. 1640)
• 1783 – Christian Mayer, Czech astronomer (b. 1719)
• 1788 – Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon, French naturalist (b. 1707)
• 1828 – Francisco de Goya, Spanish painter (b. 1746)
• 1846 – Domenico Dragonetti, Italian composer (b. 1763)
• 1850 – Marie Tussaud, founder of the Madame Tussauds wax museum (b. 1761)
• 1859 – Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian (b. 1805)
• 1879 – Bernadette Soubirous, Saint of the Roman Catholic Church and visionary of Lourdes, France during 1858 (b. January 7, 1844)
• 1888 – Zygmunt Florenty Wróblewski, Polish physicist (b. 1845)
• 1899 – Emilio Jacinto, Filipino poet and revolutionary (b. 1875)
• 1904 – Maximilian Kronberger, German poet (b. 1888)
• 1904 – Samuel Smiles, Scottish writer and reformer (b. 1812)
• 1914 – George William Hill, American astronomer (b. 1838)
• 1915 – Nelson W. Aldrich, American politician (b. 1841)
• 1928 – Henry Birks, Canadian businessman, founder of Henri Birks and Sons (b. 1840)
• 1930 – José Carlos Mariátegui, Peruvian journalist, political philosopher and activist (b. 1894)
• 1938 – Steve Bloomer, English footballer (b. 1874)
• 1946 – Arthur Chevrolet, Swiss-born race car driver and automobile designer (b. 1884)
• 1947 – Rudolf Höß, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp (b. 1900)
• 1955 – David Kirkwood, Scottish labor leader (b. 1872)
• 1958 – Rosalind Franklin, British chemist (b. 1920)
• 1968 – Fay Bainter, American actress (b. 1893)
• 1968 – Edna Ferber, American author (b. 1885)
• 1970 – Richard Neutra, American architect (b. 1892)
• 1972 – Kawabata Yasunari, Japanese writer, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1899)
• 1973 – Nino Bravo, Spanish singer (b. 1944)
• 1978 – Lucius Clay, American general (b. 1897)
• 1985 – Scott Brady, American actor (b. 1924)
• 1989 – Miles Lawrence, English cricketer (b. 1940)
• 1991 – Sir David Lean, British film director (b. 1908)
• 1992 – Neville Brand, American actor (b. 1920)
• 1992 – Andy Russell, American singer (b. 1919)
• 1994 – Ralph Ellison, American writer (b. 1913)
• 1995 – Arthur English, English actor and comedian (b. 1919)
• 1995 – Iqbal Masih, Pakistani child slave labourer, activist (b. 1982)
• 1996 – Stavros Niarchos, Greek shipping tycoon (b. 1909)
• 1997 – Doris Angleton, American socialite (b. 1951)
• 1997 – Roland Topor, French illustrator (b. 1938)
• 1998 – Fred Davis, English snooker player (b. 1913)
• 1998 – Alberto Calderón, Argentine mathematician (b. 1920)
• 1999 – Skip Spence, Canadian-born guitarist, singer and songwriter (Jefferson Airplane) (b. 1946)
• 2001 – Alec Stock, English football manager (b. 1917)
• 2002 – Ruth Fertel, American restaurateur (b. 1927)
• 2002 – Robert Urich, American actor (b. 1946)
• 2002 – Billy Ayre, English footballer and manager (b. 1952)
• 2003 – Graham Jarvis, Canadian actor (b. 1930)
• 2003 – Graham Stuart Thomas, English author and garden designer (b. 1909)
• 2005 – Kay Walsh, British actress (b. 1911)
• 2005 – Kim Mu-saeng, South Korean actor (b. 1943)
• 2005 – Marla Ruzicka, American humanitarian worker and peace activist (b. 1976)
• 2006 – Francisco Adam, Portuguese actor and model (b. 1983)
• 2007 – Gaetan Duchesne, Canadian hockey player (b. 1962)
• 2007 – Maria Lenk, Brazilian swimmer and first Brazilian woman to compete in the Olympic Games (b. 1915)
• 2007 – Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, American instructor of French (b. 1958)
• 2007 – Kevin Granata, American professor of Engineering (b. 1961)
• 2007 – Liviu Librescu, American Jewish-Romanian professor of Engineering Science and Mechanics and Holocaust survivor (b. 1930)
• 2007 – G. V. Loganathan, Indian American professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering (b. 1954)
• 2007 – Frank Bateson, New Zealand astronomer (b. 1909)
• 2008 – Edward Lorenz, American mathematician and meteorologist (b. 1917)
• 2008 – Joseph Solman, American painter (b. 1909)

Holidays and observances

• Christian Feast Day
  • Benedict Joseph Labre
  • Bernadette Soubirous
  • Drogo
  • Fructuosus of Braga
  • Martyrs of Zaragoza
  • Turibius of Astorga
• Emancipation Day (Washington, D.C.)

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

Curse on all laws but those which love has made! ~ Alexander Pope

• selected by Kalki

2005

In this world there is room for everyone. And the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men’s souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical. Our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. ~ Charlie Chaplin in The Great Dictator (born 16 April 1889)

• selected by Kalki

2006

The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you. ~ Yeshua (Jesus Christ) (Easter Sunday 2006)

• selected by Kalki

2007

The law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich as well as the poor to sleep under bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal bread. ~ Anatole France (born 16 April 1844)

• proposed by Kalki

2008

All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another. ~ Anatole France

• proposed by InvisibleSun

2009

What one man can do himself directly is but little. If however he can stir up ten others to take up the task he has accomplished much. ~ Wilbur Wright

• proposed by Zarbon

2010

Suggestions

It is possible to fly without motors, but not without knowledge and skill. This I conceive to be fortunate, for man, by reason of his greater intellect, can more reasonably hope to equal birds in knowledge than to equal nature in the perfection of her machinery... ~ Wilbur Wright (born 16 April 1867)

• 3 Kalki 14:54, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 09:39, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
• 2. Something very similar used on December 17. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 21:02, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 23:50, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones. ~ Kingsley Amis (born 16 April 1922)

• 3 Kalki 14:54, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 09:39, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
• 3. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 21:02, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
• 1 Zarbon 23:50, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. ~ Anatole France (born 16 April 1844)

• 3 Kalki 14:54, 10 April 2007 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 09:39, 14 April 2007 (UTC)
• 3. Fys. “Ta fys aym”. 21:02, 15 April 2007 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 23:50, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

Why did my parents send me to the schools
That I with knowledge might enrich my mind?
Since the desire to know first made men fools,
And did corrupt the root of all mankind.
~ John Davies

• 3 Zarbon 00:50, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
• 1 InvisibleSun 01:34, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki 01:58, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

What can we know, or what can we discern,
When error chokes the windows of the mind,
The diverse forms of things, how can we learn,
That have been ever from our birthday blind?
~ John Davies

• 2 Zarbon 00:50, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 01:34, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 01:58, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

We that acquaint ourselves with every zone,
And pass both tropics and behold the poles,
When we come home, are to ourselves unknown,
And unacquainted still with our own souls.
~ John Davies

• 3 Zarbon 00:50, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 01:34, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 01:58, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

I know my life's a pain and but a span,
I know my sense is mocked with everything;
And to conclude, I know myself a man,
Which is a proud and yet a wretched thing.
~ John Davies

• 3 Zarbon 00:50, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 01:34, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 01:58, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them. ~ Peter Ustinov

• 3 Zarbon 00:50, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 01:34, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 01:58, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously. ~ Peter Ustinov

• 2 Zarbon 00:50, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 01:34, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 01:58, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Corruption is nature's way of restoring our faith in democracy. ~ Peter Ustinov

• 3 Zarbon 00:50, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki 01:58, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

The point of living, and of being an optimist, is to be foolish enough to believe the best is yet to come. ~ Peter Ustinov

• 3 Zarbon 00:50, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
• 1 Kalki 01:58, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Things which seemed reasonable were often found to be untrue, and things which seemed unreasonable were sometimes true. ~ Wilbur Wright

• 2 Zarbon 00:50, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 01:34, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 01:58, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Be glad you're fifty — and
That you got there while things were nice,
In a world worth looking at twice.
So here's wishing you many more years,
But not all that many. Cheers!
~ Kingsley Amis

• 3 Zarbon 00:50, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 01:34, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 01:58, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

It is human nature to think wisely and to act in an absurd fashion. ~ Anatole France

• 3 and strong lean toward 4. Zarbon 00:50, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 01:34, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 01:58, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

Suffering — how divine it is, how misunderstood! We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues. ~ Anatole France

• 3 and strong lean toward 4. Zarbon 00:50, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 01:34, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 01:58, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

If it were absolutely necessary to choose, I would rather be guilty of an immoral act than of a cruel one. ~ Anatole France

• 3 Zarbon 00:50, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 01:34, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 01:58, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

He had no knowledge and had no desire to acquire any; wherein he conformed to his genius whose engaging fragility he forbore to overload; his instinct fortunately telling him that it was better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot. ~ Anatole France

• 2 Zarbon 00:50, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 01:34, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 01:58, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

It is almost impossible systematically to constitute a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil. ~ Anatole France

• 3 Zarbon 00:50, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 01:34, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 01:58, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. ~ Anatole France

• 3 Zarbon 00:50, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 01:34, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 01:58, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything. ~ Anatole France

• 3 Zarbon 00:50, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 01:34, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 01:58, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the wisdom of indifference. ~ Anatole France

• 3 Zarbon 00:50, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 01:34, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 01:58, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

People who have no weaknesses are terrible; there is no way of taking advantage of them. ~ Anatole France

• 3 Zarbon 00:50, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 01:34, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 01:58, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

It is by acts, and not by ideas that people live. ~ Anatole France

• 3 Zarbon 00:50, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 01:34, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 01:58, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

The finest words in the world are only vain sounds, if you cannot comprehend them. ~ Anatole France

• 3 Zarbon 00:50, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 01:34, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 01:58, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

It is well for the heart to be naive and for the mind not to be. ~ Anatole France

• 3 Zarbon 00:50, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 01:34, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 01:58, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. ~ Anatole France

• 2 Zarbon 00:50, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 01:58, 15 April 2009 (UTC)

The average man, who does not know what to do with his life, wants another one which will last forever. ~ Anatole France

• 3 Zarbon 00:50, 10 April 2009 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 01:58, 15 April 2009 (UTC)