Daily Birthday/Deathday Quote

"All I was doing was trying to get home from work."

Rosa Parks (February 4, 1906 - 2005)



"College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back."

Ossie Davis (1917 - February 4, 2005)

 

"Failure is a part of success."

Hank Aaron (February 5, 1934)




"Victory goes to the player who makes the next-to-last mistake."

Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887 - February 5, 1956)

 

"If you get down and you quarrel everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say."

Bob Marley (February 6, 1945 - 1981)




"Success is a journey, not a destination."

Arthur Ashe (1943 - February 6, 1993)

 

"Men may not get all they pay for in this world, but they must certainly pay for all they get."

Frederick Douglass (February 7, 1817 - 1895)



"The most exhausting thing in life, I have discovered, is being insincere."

Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1906 - February 7, 2001)

 

"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today."

James Dean (February 8, 1931 - 1955)



"I think being a woman is like being Irish. Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the same."

Iris Murdoch (1919 - February 8, 1999)

 

"If you haven't got anything nice to say about anybody, come sit next to me."

Alice Roosevelt Longworth (February 12, 1884 - 1980)



"Be grateful for luck. Pay the thunder no mind—listen to the birds. And don't hate nobody."

Eubie Blake (1883 - February 12, 1983)

 

"Rules are made for people who aren't willing to make up their own."

Chuck Yeager (February 13, 1923)



"There's always one more way to do something: Your way."

Waylon Jennings (1937 - February 13, 2002)

 

"I've got a phone, answer machine, TV set, computer, hand grenade—everything you need to run a business in Los Angeles."

Ice T (February 14, 1960)



"Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive."

Wallace Irwin (1875 - February 14, 1959)

 

"English humor resembles the Loch Ness Monster in that both are famous but there is a strong suspicion that neither exists."

George Mikes (February 15, 1912 - 1987)



"The people who know nothing about music are the ones always talking about it."

Nat "King" Cole (1919 - February 15, 1965)

 

"The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation."

Aharon Appelfeld (February 16, 1932)



"Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do."

James Harvey Robinson (1863 - February 16, 1936)

 

"A good sermon should be like a woman's skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials."

Ronald Knox (February 17, 1888 - 1957)



"I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death."

Heinrich Heine (1797 - February 17, 1856)

 

"Words make love with one another."

Andre Breton (February 18, 1896 - 1966)



"The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true."

J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904 - February 18 1967)

 

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"There's nothing that makes you so aware of the improvisation of human existence as a song unfinished. Or an old address book."

Carson McCullers (February 19, 1917 - 1967)



"Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers."

Leo Rosten (1908 - February 19, 1997)

 

"We don't need refs, but I guess white guys need something to do."

Charles Barkley (February 20, 1963)



"I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me."

Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - February 20, 2005)

 

"No good opera plot can be sensible."

W.H. Auden (February 21, 1907 - 1973)




"Early in life I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise."

Malcolm X (1925 - February 21, 1965)

 

"With every mistake we must surely be learning."

George Harrison (February 25, 1943 - 2001)




"Silence is so accurate."

Mark Rothko (1903 - February 25, 1970)

 

"Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world except money."

Johnny Cash (February 26, 1932 - 2003)



"We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form."

William Ralph Inge (1860 - February 26, 1954)

 

"It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 - 1882)



"Barking dogs may occasionally bite, but laughing men hardly ever shoot."

Konrad Lorenz (1903 - February 27, 1989)