Daily Birthday/Deathday Quote

“I will take love wherever I find it and offer it to everyone who will take it.., seek knowledge from those wiser than me and try to teach those who wish to learn from me.”

Duane Allman (November 20, 1946 - 1971)

 

"Popularity is not leadership."

Richard Marcinko (November 21, 1940)

 

"Everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction."

Mariel Hemingway (November 22, 1961)

 

"......"

Harpo Marx (November 23, 1888 - 1964)

 

"There's no such thing as good money or bad money. There's just money."

Lucky Luciano (November 24, 1897 - 1962)

 

"People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their talents."

Andrew Carnegie (November 25, 1835 - 1919)

 

"It would be as wise to set up an accomplished lawyer to saw wood as a business as to condemn an educated and sensible woman to spend all her time boiling potatoes and patching old garments."

Sarah Grimke (November 26, 1792 - 1873)

 

"Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them."

Bruce Lee (November 27, 1940 - 1973)

 

"It takes most men five years to recover from a college education, and to learn that poetry is as vital to thinking as knowledge."

Brooks Atkinson (November 28, 1894 - 1894)

 

"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."

Madeleine L'Engle (November 29, 1918 - 2007)

 

I can't choose...

"We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give."
"There is no such thing as a good tax."
"Some see private enterprise as a predatory target to be shot, others as a cow to be milked, but few are those who see it as a sturdy horse pulling the wagon."
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
"We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."
"An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile—hoping it will eat him last."
"The problems of victory are more agreeable than the problems of defeat, but they are no less difficult."
"From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I shall not put."
"A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject."
"The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is."

Winston Churchill (November 30, 1874 - 1965)

 

"I'm not addicted to cocaine. I just like the way it smells."

Richard Pryor (December 1, 1940 - 2005)

 

"I would not kill my enemies, but I will make them get down on their knees. I will, I can, I must."

Maria Callas (December 2, 1923 - 1977)

 

"I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas."

Jean-Luc Godard (December 3, 1930)

 

"The burden of poverty isn't just that you don't always have the things you need, it's the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you'd do anything to lift that burden."

Jay-Z (December 4, 1969)

 

"Wht we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning."

Werner Heisenberg (December 5, 1901 - 1976)

 

"One year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish."

Stephen Wright (December 6, 1955)




"Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule."

Jefferson Davis (June 3, 1808 - December 6, 1889)