Daily Birthday/Deathday Quote

"It sometimes happens, even in the best of families, that a baby is born. This is not necessarily cause for alarm. The important thing is to keep your wits about you and borrow some money."

Elinor Smith (August 17, 1911 - 2010)



"What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork."

Pearl Bailey (1918 - August 17, 1990)

 

"We live in a country where John Lennon takes eight bullets, Yoko Ono is walking right beside him and not one hits her. Explain that to me!"

Denis Leary (August 18, 1957)



"Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten."

B. F. Skinner (1904 - August 18, 1990)

 

"People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it."

Ogden Nash (August 19, 1902 - 1971)



"There were three things that Chico was always on—a phone, a horse, or a broad."

Groucho Marx (1890 - August 19, 1977)

 

"The way I see it, rock'n'roll is folk music."

Robert Plant (August 20, 1948)



"There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for."

Sir Fred Hoyle (1915 - August 20, 2001)

 

"Well, if you find a note tonight that sounds good, play the same damn note every night!"

Count Basie (August 21, 1904 - 1984)



"I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise."

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689 - August 21, 1762)

 

"Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down."

Ray Bradbury (August 22, 1920 - 2012)



"All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad, or peculiar."

Grace Paley (192 - August 22, 2007)

 

"All modern men are descended from a worm-like creature, but it shows more on some people."

Will Cuppy (August 23, 1884 - 1949)



"If you really believe in the brotherhood of man, and you want to come into its fold, you've got to let everyone else in, too."

Oscar Hammerstein (1895 - August 23, 1960)

 

"Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but more important, it finds homes for us everywhere."

Jean Rhys (August 24, 1894 - 1979)



"Learn to get in touch with silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose."

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross (1926 - August 24, 2004)

 

"To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time."

Leonard Bernstein (August 25, 1918 - 1990)



"Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum."

Alfred C. Kinsey (1894 - August 25, 1956)

 

"Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique and not too much imagination."

Christopher Isherwood (August 26, 1904 - 1986)



"My whole career has been devoted to keeping people from knowing me."

Lon Chaney (1883 - August 26, 1930)

 

"They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?"

Jeanette Winterson (August 27, 1959)



"What I am trying to get across to you is: please take of yourselves and those that you love; because that is what we are here for, that's all we got, and that is all we can take with us. Are you with me?"

Stevie Ray Vaughan (1954 - August 27, 1990)

 

"Fanaticism is overcompensation for doubt."

Robertson Davies (August 28, 1913 - 1995)



"A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life. Reach out. Take a chance. Get hurt even. But play as well as you can. Go team, go! Give me an L. Give me an I. Give me a V. Give me an E. L-I-V-E. LIVE! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room. "

Ruth Gordon (1896 - August 28, 1985)

 

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous."

Ingrid Bergman (August 29, 1915 - August 29, 1982)

 

"If you don't think too good, don't think too much."

Ted Williams (August 30, 1918 - 2002)



"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."

Naguib Mahfouz (1911 - August 30, 2006)

 

"I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing."

Buddy Hackett (August 31, 1924 - 2003)



"They say it is better to be poor and happy than rich and miserable, but how about a compromise like moderately rich and just moody?"

Princess Diana (1961 - August 31, 1997)

 

"The only time some fellows are seen with their wives is after they're indicted."

Frank Hubbard (September 1, 1868 - 1930)



"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in their struggle for independence."

Charles Beard (1874 - September 1, 1948)

 

"It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary man."

Loren Eiseley (September 3, 1907 - 1977)



"Most people can't understand how others can blow their noses differently than they do."

Ivan Turgenev (1818 - September 3, 1883)

 

"You don't demand anybody's respect - you earn it.'"

Warrrreagl's Mother (September 4, 1933)



"If something ever happens to me, people are gonna be like 'we knew a croc would get him!'"

Steve Irwin (1962 - September 4, 2006)