Daily Birthday/Deathday Quote

"Man is certainly stark mad. He cannot make a worm, and yet he is willing to make gods by dozens."

Michel de Montaigne (February 28, 1553 - 1592)



"She felt in italics and thought in capitals."

Henry James (1843 - February 28, 1916)

 

"There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers."

Ralph Ellison (March 1, 1914 - 1994)



"In any world menu, Canada must be considered the vichyssoise of nations—it's cold, half-French, and difficult to stir."

Stuart Keate (1913 - March 1, 1987)

 

"If you could choose one characteristic that would get you through life, choose a sense of humor."

Jennifer Jones (March 2, 1919 - 2009)



"It is not all bad, this getting old, ripening. After the fruit has got its growth it should juice up and mellow. God forbid I should live long enough to ferment and rot and fall to the ground in a squash."

Emily Carr (1871 - March 2, 1945)

 

"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."

Alexander Graham Bell (March 3, 1847 - 1922)



"Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future."

Lady Marguerite Blessington (1789 - March 3, 1849)

 

"I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home."

Robert Orben (March 4, 1927)



"If they give you lined paper, write the other way."

William Carlos Williams (1883 - March 4, 1963)

 

"Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it."

Rex Harrison (March 5, 1908 - 1990)



"I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior."

Hippolyte Taine (1828 - March 5, 1893)

 

"If I owned Texas and Hell, I would rent out Texas and live in Hell."
General Philip Sheridan (March 6, 1831 - 1888)


"I would rather be beaten and be a man than to be elected and be a little puppy dog."
Davy Crockett (1786 - March 6, 1836)
"True courage is completing the things you say, while cowardice is just saying the things you wish to complete."
William Travis (1809 - March 6, 1836)
"I don't deserve mercy. I do deserve a drink."
Jim Bowie (1796 - March 6, 1836)

 

"If you would understand your own age, read the works of fiction produced in it. People in disguise speak freely."

Sir Arthur Helps (March 7, 1813 - March 7, 1835)

 

"Writing is easy. All you do is stare at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead."

Gene Fowler (March 8, 1890 - 1960)



"The dog was created specially for children. He is the god of frolic."

Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - March 8, 1887)

 

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

Wallace Irwin (March 15, 1875 - 1959)



"There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age."

Dr. Benjamin Spock (1903 - March 15, 1998)

 

"Acting is a way of living out one's insanity."

Isabelle Huppert (March 16, 1953)



"The more one has seen of the good, the more one asks for the better."

John Mason Brown (1900 - March 16, 1969)

 

"I am just going outside, and may be some time."

Lawrence Oates (March 17, 1880 - March 17, 1912)


(Last words while leaving his tent on his birthday during an Antarctic expedition)

 

"A healthy adult male bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience."

John Updike (March 18, 1932 - 2009)

THERE ARE NO PHOTOS TODAY, SINCE PHOTOBUCKET IS BEING AN ASSCLOWN MOTHERFUCKER

"Modern man thinks he loses something—time—when he does not do things quickly; yet he does not know what to do with the time he gains—except kill it."

Erich Fromm (1900 - March 18, 1980)

THERE ARE NO PHOTOS TODAY, SINCE PHOTOBUCKET IS BEING AN ASSCLOWN MOTHERFUCKER

 

"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."

Sir Richard Francis Burton (March 19, 1821 - 1890)



"The day I need a television puppet or clown to tell my children what's right and what's wrong, I'll bow out as a mother."

Elinor Smith (1911 - March 19, 2010)

 

"The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do."

B. F. Skinner (March 20, 1904 - 1990)



"'Naked' means you don't have any clothes on. 'Nekkid' means you don't have any clothes on, and you're up to something."

Lewis Grizzard (1946 - March 20, 1994)

 

"There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself."

Johann Sebastian Bach (March 21, 1685 - 1750)



"He who knows not and knows not he knows not: he is a fool—shun him.
He who knows not and knows he knows not: he is simple—teach him.
He who knows and knows not he knows: he is asleep—wake him.
He who knows and knows he knows: he is wise—follow him."

Isabel Burton (1831 - March 21, 1896)

 

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Marcel Marceau (March 22, 1923 - 2007)



"If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses."

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - March 22, 1832)

 

"It's a sad moment, really, when parents first become a bit frightened of their children."

Christina Ama Ata Aidoo (March 23, 1942)



"The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same."

Stendhal (1783 - March 23, 1842)

 

"The greatest escape I ever made was when I left Appleton, Wisconsin."

Harry Houdini (March 24, 1874 - 1926)


"I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through."

Jules Verne (1828 - March 24, 1905)