Daily Birthday/Deathday Quote

"The tragedy of life is not that man loses, but that he almost wins."

Heywood C. Broun (December 7, 1888 - 1939)





"A statesman is a successful politician who is dead."

Thomas B. Reed (1839 - December 7, 1902)

 

"I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning."

Jim Morrison (December 8, 1943 - 1971)



"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."

John Lennon (1940 - December 8, 1980)

 

"A beast does not know that he is a beast, and the nearer a man gets to being a beast, the less he knows it."

George MacDonald (December 10, 1824 - 1905)



"We ride through life on the beast within us. Beat the animal, but you can't make it think."

Luigi Pirandello (1867 - December 10, 1936)

 

"Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils."

Hector Berlioz (December 11, 1803 - 1869)



"We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman—scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang."

Colley Cibber (1671 - December 11, 1757)

 

Damn! Why didn't anybody tell me I was a whole day off?

Dumbfuck...

 

"Be a man. Stop whining and be a man. And be a gentleman."

my father, Gerald Lee Daniel (December 12, 1932)




"He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt."

Joseph Heller (1923 - December 12, 1999)

 

"Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid."

Heinrich Heine (December 13, 1797 - 1856)



"Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know,' and thou shalt progress."

Moses ben Maimon (1135 - December 13, 1204)

 

"It has long been my belief that in times of great stress, such as a 4-day vacation, the thin veneer of family wears off almost at once, and we are revealed in our true personalities."

Shirley Jackson (December 14, 1919 - 1965)



"My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty . . . it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein."

George Washington (1732 - December 14, 1799)

 

"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory."

Betty Smith (December 15, 1896 - 1972)



"Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows."

Sitting Bull (1831 - December 15, 1890)

 

What you, you are by accident of birth; what I am, I am by myself. There are and will be a thousand princes; there is and will only be one Beethoven."

Ludwig van Beethoven (December 16, 1770 - 1827)



"Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it."

Somerset Maugham (1874 - December 16, 1965)

 

"What I love best about music is the women who listen to it."

Jules-Alfred Hout de Goncourt (December 17, 1830 - 1870)



"Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I will meet you there."

Jalal ud-Din Rumi (1207 - December 17, 1273)

 

"His socks compelled one's attention without losing one's respect."

Saki (December 18, 1870 - 1916)



"Without inspiration the best powers of the mind remain dormant; there is a fuel in us which needs to be ignited with sparks."

Johann Gottfried von Herder (1744 - December 18, 1803)

 

"Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."

Henry Peter Brougham (December 19, 1778 - 1868)



"Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home."

Emily Bronte (1818 - December 19, 1848)

 

"The so-called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations of the victors. History is written by the survivors."

Max Lerner (December 20, 1902 - 1992)



"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

Carl Sagan (1934 - December 20, 1996)

 

"The birds are moulting. If only man could moult also—his mind once a year its errors, his heart once a year its useless passions."

James Allen (December 21, 1849 - 1925)



"There are very few jobs which require a penis or a vagina."

Florynce Kennedy (1916 - December 21, 2000)

 

"My death, taking the light from my eyes, gives back to the day the purity which they soiled."

Jean Racine (December 22, 1639 - 1699)




"Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good, behave yourself and never mind the rest."

Beatrix Potter (1886 - December 22, 1943)

 

"The people must grant a hearing to the best poets they have; else they will never have better."

Harriet Monroe (December 23, 1860 - 1936)



"Next to excellence is the appreciation of it."

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811 - December 23, 1863)


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"Where it is a duty to worship the sun, it is pretty sure to be a crime to examine the laws of heat."

Lord Viscount John Morley (December 24, 1838 - 1923)



"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe."

John Muir (1838 - December 24, 1914)

 

"I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people."

Sir Isaac Newton (December 25, 1642 - 1727)



"Disco is James Brown, hip-hop is James Brown, rap is James Brown; you know what I'm saying? You hear all the rappers, 90 percent of their music is me. I taught them everything they know, but not everything I know."

James Brown (1928 - December 25, 2006)

 

"The one thing we can never get enough of is love. And the one thing we never give enough is love."

Henry Miller (December 26, 1891 - 1980)




"Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it."

James Stephens (1882 - December 26, 1950)

 

"Never answer a hypothetical question."

Moshe Arens (December 27, 1925)



"Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air."

Jack Benny (1894 - December 27, 1974)