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Sunday, April 20, 2014

Born/Died Today with Quotes- Born Today.com

"How much more grievous are the consequences of anger than the causes of it."
Marcus Aurelius Antonius
(04/20/0121 – ?/0180)
Roman philosopher


"If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them." Pietro Aretino
(04/20/1492 – 10/21/1556)
Italian writer

"Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are, chaff and grain together." Dinah Mulock Craik
(04/20/1826 – 10/12/1887)
English writer

Adolph Hitler "The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed." Adolph Hitler
(04/20/1889 – 04/30/1945)
German dictator

Gregory Ratoff "You're a parasite for sore eyes." Gregory Ratoff
(04/20/1897 – 12/14/1960)
Russian actor

"I have reiterated over again what I have said before." Robert F. Wagner, Jr.
(04/20/1910 – 02/12/1991)
US mayor (NYC)

Jessica Lange "To my mind the election was stolen by George Bush and we have been suffering ever since under this man's leadership." Jessica Lange
(04/20/1949 – )
US actor

Don Mattingly "His reputation preceded him before he got here." Don Mattingly
(04/20/1961 – )
US baseball player , on Dwight Gooden

Crispin Glover "Eccentric doesn't bother me. 'Eccentric' being a poetic interpretation of a mathematical term meaning something that doesn't follow the lines—that's okay." Crispin Glover
(04/20/1964 – )
US actor

Tara Leigh Patrick "I worry about him. I feel kinda like a mom." Carmen Electra
(04/20/1972 – )
US model, actor , on ex-hubby Dennis Rodman

Archibald MacLeish "Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words." Archibald MacLeish
(05/07/1892 – 04/20/1982)
US writer

Alfred Hawthorn Hill "The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb." Benny Hill
(01/21/1925 – 04/20/1992)
English comic actor

Octavio Paz "'Art' is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game." Octavio Paz
(03/31/1914 – 04/20/1998)
Mexican writer

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