Daily Birthday/Deathday Quote

"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul."

George Bernard Shaw (July 26, 1856 - 1950)



"A losing trade, I assure you, sir: literature is a drug."

George Borrow (1803 - July 26, 1881)

 

"I prefer rogues to imbeciles because they sometimes take a rest."

Alexandre Dumas Fils (July 27, 1824 - 1895)



"You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake."

Bob Hope (1903 - July 27, 2003)

 

"There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army."

John Ashbery (July 28, 1927)




"If I am going to be an idiot, then I will be an idiot of my own accord."

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 - July 28, 1750)

 

"I'm not an ambulance chaser. I'm usually there before the ambulance."

Melvin Belli (July 29, 1907 - 1996)



"People compose for many reasons: to become immortal; because the pianoforte happens to be open; because they want to become a millionaire; because of the praise of friends; because they have looked into a pair of beautiful eyes; for no reason whatsoever."

Robert Schumann (1810 - July 29, 1856)

 

"The tyrant grinds down his slaves and they don't turn against him, they crush those beneath them."

Emily Bronte (July 30, 1818 - 1848)



"I don't need bodyguards."

Jimmy Hoffa (1913 - July 30, 1975)

 

"The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity."

Jean Debuffet (July 31, 1901 - 1985)



"If there is a technological advance without a social advance, there is, almost automatically, an increase in human misery."

Michael Harrington (1928 - July 31, 1989)

 

"It is a common delusion that you make things better by talking about them."

Dame Rose Macaulay (August 1, 1881 - 1958)



"Television is democracy at its ugliest."

Paddy Chayefsky (1923 - August 1, 1981)

 

"Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor."

James Baldwin (August 2, 1924 - 1987)



"I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends—they're the ones that keep me walking the floor nights!"

Warren G. Harding (1865 - August 2, 1923)

 

"We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends."

P. D. James (August 3, 1920)



"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power—he's free again."

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1918 - August 3, 2008)

 

"Eccentricity, to be socially acceptable, had still to have at least four or five generations of inbreeding behind it."

Sir Osbert Lancaster (August 4, 1908 - 1980)



"If you're so concerned about fucking privacy, don't become a fucking actor!"

Victor Mature (1916 - August 4, 1999)

 

"I prefer to think that God is not dead, just drunk."
John Huston (August 5, 1906 - 1987)



"I've been on a calendar, but never on time."

Marilyn Monroe (1926 - August 5, 1962)

 

"Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese."

Billie Burke (August 7, 1885 - 1970)



"I don't know much, but I know a little about a lot of things."

Oliver Hardy (1882 - August 7, 1957)

 

"Love thy neighbor as yourself, but choose your neighborhood."

Louise Lester Beal (August 8, 1867 - 1952)



"No living organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality; even larks and katydids are supposed, by some, to dream. Hill House, not sane, stood by itself against its hills holding darkness within; it had stood so for eighty years and might stand for eighty more. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House; and whatever walked there, walked alone."

Shirley Jackson (1919 - August 8, 1965)

 

"No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing; but most of the time, we aren't either."

Marvin Minsky (August 9, 1927)



"My whole life has been decided by fate."

Sharon Tate (1943 - August 9, 1969)

 

"Nothing wilts faster than laurels that have been rested on."

Carl Rowan (August 11, 1925 - 2000)



"In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from."

Alfred A. Knopf (1892 - August 11, 1984)

 

"If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams—the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn."

Robert Southey (August 12, 1774 - 1843)



"You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough."

William Blake (1757 - August 12, 1827)

 

"Love lasteth as long as the money endureth."

William Caxton (August 13, 1422 - 1491)



"It's not technique—it's what you have to say."

Les Paul (1915 - August 13, 2009)

 

"My advice is, don't spend money on therapy. Spend it in a record store."

Wim Wenders (August 14, 1945)



"Grub first, then ethics."

Bertolt Brecht (1898 - August 14, 1956)

 

"I don't believe that a lot of the things I hear on the air today are going to be played for as long a time as Coleman Hawkins records or Brahms concertos."

Oscar Peterson (August 15, 1925 - 2007)



"Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for."

Will Rogers (1879 - August 15, 1935)

 

"Looking for enlightenment is like looking for a flashlight when all you need the flashlight for is to find the flashlight."

Lew Welch (August 16, 1926 - 1971)



"I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to."

Elvis Presley (1935 - August 16, 1977)