Daily Birthday/Deathday Quote

"The more you learn about the dignity of the gorilla, the more you want to avoid people."

Dian Fossey (January 16, 1932 - 1985)



"Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself."

Edward Gibbon (1737 - January 16, 1794)

 

"They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."

Benjamin Franklin (January 17, 1706 - 1790)




"Beauty is power; a smile is its sword."

John Ray (1627 - January 17, 1705)

 

"Every man's life, liberty, and property are in danger when the Legislature is in session."

Daniel Webster (January 18, 1782 - 1852)



"Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbors."

Rudyard Kipling (1865 - January 18, 1936)

 

"Do not think you will necessarily be aware of your own enlightenment."

Dogen (January 19, 1200 - 1253)



"The great are only great because we are on our knees. Let us rise!"

Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (1809 - January 19, 1865)

 

"Critics are eunuchs at a gang bang."

George Burns (January 20, 1896 - 1996)



"I always ask myself, 'Is the movie that I am watching as interesting as a documentary of the same actors having lunch together?'"

Gene Siskel (1946 - January 20, 1999)

 

"I like liquor—its taste and its effects—and that is just the reason why I never drink it."

Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson (January 21, 1824 - 1863)



"Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost."

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov "Lenin" (1870 - January 21, 1924)

 

"The secret of charm is bullshit."

Tyrone Power, Jr. (January 22, 1959)



"Why so serious?"

Heath Ledger (1979 - January 22, 2008)

 

"A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life."

John Hancock (January 23, 1737 - 1793)


"Excuse me, my leg has gone to sleep. Do you mind if I join it?"

Alexander Woollcott (1887 - January 23, 1943)

 

"It is not necesssary to understand things in order to argue about them."

Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais (January 24, 1732 - 1799)



"Sometimes history takes things into its own hands."

Thurgood Marshall (1908 - January 24, 1993)

 

"I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel."

Gloria Naylor (January 25, 1950)



"Petty laws breed great crimes."

Ouida (1839 - January 25, 1908)

 

"The hour of your redemption is here. Your patriots have demonstrated an unswerving and resolute devotion to the principles of freedom that challenges the best that is written on the pages of human history. I now call upon your supreme effort that the enemy may know from the temper of an aroused and outraged people within that he has a force there to contend with no less violent than is the force committed from without.

Rally to me. Let the indomitable spirit of Bataan and Corregidor lead on. As the lines of battle roll forward to bring you within the zone of operations, rise and strike! For future generations of your sons and daughters, strike! In the name of your sacred dead, strike! Let no heart be faint. Let every arm be steeled. The guidance of Divine God points the way. Follow in His name to the Holy Grail of righteous victory!"

Gen. Douglas MacArthur (January 26, 1880 - 1964)



"It's not up to me, but if we can't beat Auburn, I'd just as soon stay home and plow."

Bear Bryant (1913 - January 26, 1983)

 

"To talk well and eloquently is a very great art, but an equally great one is to know the right moment to stop."

Johannes Chrysostomus Wolfgangus Theophilis Amadeus Mozart (January 27, 1756 - 1791)


"Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs."

Giuseppe Verdi (1813 - January 27, 1901)

 

"The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions."

Susan Sontag (January 28, 1933 - 2004)



"I have a box of papers at home of [my own press coverage]. When I'm sixty, maybe, I'll look at my pile of papers and wonder, 'What really happened that year?'"

Christa McAuliffe (1948 - January 28, 1986)

 

"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary."

Thomas Paine (January 29, 1737 - 1809)



"A traitor is everyone who does not agree with me."

King George III (1738 - January 29, 1820)

 

"I always wanted to write a book that ended with the word 'mayonnaise.'"

Richard Brautigan (January 30, 1935 - 1984)



"Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and—here's the big curve—for your parents."

Wendy Wasserstein (1950 - January 30, 2006)

 

"The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised."

Dame Freya Madeline Stark (January 31, 1893 - 1993)



"Only the mediocre are always at their best."

Jean Giraudoux (1882 - January 31, 1944)

 

"No woman can be handsome by the force of features alone, any more than she can be witty by only the help of speech."

Langston Hughes (February 1, 1902 - 1967)



"Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated."

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797 - February 1, 1851)

 

"Love loves to love love."

James Joyce (February 2, 1882 - 1941)




"Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education."

Lord Bertrand Russell (1872 - February 2, 1970)

 

"There's nothing nicer than singing an unnecessary peace song."

Melanie Safka (February 3, 1947)



"Death is often referred to a as good career move."

Buddy Holly (1935 - February 3, 1959)