Born Today with Quotes-Born Today.com
"Following the sun, we left the old world."
Christopher Columbus
(08/26/1451 – 05/20/1506)
Italian explorer
"Bureaucracy is a giant mechanism operated by pygmies."
Honore de Balzac
(05/20/1799 – 08/18/1850)
French writer
"That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of our time."
John Stuart Mill
(05/20/1806 – 05/08/1873)
English philosopher, economist
"Humanity has won its battle. Liberty now has a country."
Marquis de Lafayette
(09/06/1757 – 05/20/1834)
French soldier, statesman
, on the United States of America
"Old noted oak! I saw thee in a mood
Of vague indifference; and yet with me
Thy memory, like thy fate, hath lingering stood
For years, thou hermit, in the lonely sea
Of grass that waves around thee!"
John Clare
(07/13/1793 – 05/20/1864)
English writer
"There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first."
Adela Rogers St. Johns
(05/20/1894 – 08/10/1988)
US journalist
"When one kicks over a tea table and smashes
everything but the sugar bowl, one may as well pick that up and drop it
on the bricks, don't you think?"
Margery Allingham
(05/20/1904 – 06/30/1966)
English writer
"I've never been drunk, but often I've been overserved."
George Gobel
(05/20/1919 – 02/24/1991)
US comedian
"The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing—and then marry him."
Cher
(05/20/1946 – )
Armenian-US singer, actor
(was married to Sonny Bono, Gregg Allman)
"If people want to believe I'm a dominatrix in my
spare time, that's fine with me—I mean, I'm definitely happy to smack
people around if that's what they really want."
Jane Wiedlin
(05/20/1958 – )
US singer (Go-Gos)
"Of course he was a wonderful all-round man, but the act of walking around him has always tired me."
Sir Max Beerbohm
(08/24/1872 – 05/20/1956)
English writer and artist
, on William Morris
"Cell phones are not a sign of power, they're a sign of subservience."
Doug Pappas
(08/??/1962 – 05/20/2004)
US lawyer, baseball statistician
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