Born/Died Today with Quotes- BornToday.com

"He told me never to sell the bear's skin before one has killed the beast."
Jean de la Fontaine
(07/08/1621 – 04/13/1695)
French writer

"When a man has cast his longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct." Thomas Jefferson
(04/13/1743 – 07/04/1826)
US President (3), VP (2) (see all US Presidents, VPs)

"There are girls who manage to sell themselves, whom no one would take as gifts." Sebastien-Roch Nicolas de Chamfort
(04/06/1741 – 04/13/1794
French writer (died near his birthday)

"We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?" Samuel Beckett
(04/13/1906 – 12/22/1989)
Irish writer

"It had been startling and disappointing to me to find out that story books had been written by people, that books were not natural wonders, coming of themselves like grass." Eudora Welty
(04/13/1909 – 07/23/2001)
US writer

"Religion is induced insanity." Dr. Madalyn Murray O'Hair
(04/13/1919 – 09/29/1995)
US atheist

"The only way to enjoy golf is to be a masochist. Go out and beat yourself to death." Howard Keel
(04/13/1919 – 11/07/2004)
US actor

"I don't want to change the thinking of the world. My purpose is to make people laugh." Don Adams
(04/13/1923 – 09/25/2005)
US actor

"I don't really trust a sane person." Lyle Alzado
(04/13/1949 – 05/14/1992)
US football player

"I'll walk through fire to do what I do because the movie business, when it's right, is the coolest art form ever invented." Ron Perlman
(04/13/1950 – )
US actor

"I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it responsible for such an absurd world." Georges Duhamel
(06/30/1884 – 04/13/1966)
French artist

"A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter." Wallace Stegner
(02/18/1909 – 04/13/1993)
US writer, teacher

"The decent docent doesn't doze;
He teaches standing on his toes.
His student dassn't doze and does,
And that's what teaching is and was." David McCord
(12/15/1897 – 04/13/1997)
US writer

"It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles." Dame Muriel Spark
(02/01/1918 – 04/13/2006)
Scottish writer