Daily Birthday/Deathday Quote

"It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality."

Arnold Bennett (May 27, 1867 - May 27, 1931)

 

"We play in the den of the Gods and snort at death."

May Swenson (May 28, 1919 - 1989)



"I'm 49 years old and I'm cautious of the fact that very few people in comedy have careers after age 50."

Phil Hartman (1948 - May 28, 1998)

 

"If this be treason, make the most of it!"

Patrick Henry (May 29, 1736 - 1799)



"This thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."

Mary Pickford (1893 - May 29, 1979)

 

"Credit you give yourself is not worth having."

Irving Thalberg (May 30, 1899 - 1936)



"To err is human; to forgive, divine."

Alexander Pope (1688 - May 30, 1744)

 

"My husband says it is very good that I have very tiny feet, because they're easier to get in my mouth."

Colleen McCullough (June 1, 1937)




"Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it."

Hank Ketcham (1920 - June 1, 2001)

 

"Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine,
Jiggling yr knees blankeyed in the rain,
When it snows in yr nose you catch cold in yr brain."

Allen Ginsberg (June 3, 1926 - 1997)



"There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way."

David Carradine (1936 - June 3, 2009)

 

"By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher."

Socrates (June 4, 470 BC - 399 BC)



"I mean what good does it do anyone to kill themselves working, because the worms will get you in the end."

Dorothy Gish (1898 - June 4, 1968)

 

"Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something."

last words of Pancho Villa (June 5, 1878 - 1923)



"Turn up the lights, I don't want to go home in the dark."

last words of O. Henry (1862 - June 5, 1901)

 

"When I look at myself, I am so beautiful I scream with joy!"

Maria Montez (June 6, 1917 - 1951)



"Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live."

Robert Kennedy (1925 - June 6, 1968)

 

"In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of."

Robert Schumann (June 8, 1810 - 1856)



"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you was?"

Satchel Paige (1906 - June 8, 1982)

 

"You can't go to the store and buy a good ear and rhythm."

Les Paul (June 9, 1915 - 2009)



"All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name."

Ugo Betti (1892 - June 9, 1953)

 

"She was what we used to call a suicide blonde—dyed by her own hand."

Saul Bellow (June 10, 1915 - 2005)



"Men who are in earnest are not afraid of consequences."

Marcus Garvey (1887 - June 10, 1940)

 

"You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year old self."
Hugh Laurie (June 11, 1959)


"Courage is being scared to death...and saddling up anyway."

John Wayne (1907 - June 11, 1979)

 

"I'm a fart in a gale of wind, a humble violet under a cow pat."

Djuna Barnes (June 12, 1892 - 1982)



"Education is a crutch with which the foolish attack the wise to prove that they are not idiots."

Karl Krauss (1874 - June 12, 1936)

 

"I used to think drinking was the only way to be happy. Now I know there is no way to be happy."

Laura Kightlinger (June 13, 1969)



"I am dying, with the help of many doctors."

Alexander the Great (356 BC - June 13, 323 BC)

 

"For every dark night, there's a brighter day."

Tupac Shakur (June 16, 1971 - 1996)



"We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming."

Wernher von Braun (1912 - June 16, 1977)

 

"I enjoy getting people angry and getting underneath their skin, especially people who don't think."

Jello Biafra (June 17, 1958)



"People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do."

Lewis Cass (1782 - June 17, 1866)

 

"And in the end, the love you take is equal to the love you make."

Paul McCartney (June 18, 1942)



"It was a splendid summer morning and it seemed as if nothing could go wrong."

John Cheever (1912 - June 18, 1982)

 

"If you can't answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names."

Elbert Hubbard (June 19, 1856 - 1915)



"Get busy living, or get busy dying."

Stephen King (1947 - June 19, 1999)

 

"Let the music play on."

Lionel Richie (June 20, 1949)



"I wouldn't mind being dead—it would be something new."

Estelle Winwood (1883 - June 20, 1984)