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Monday, June 30, 2014

Born/Died Today with Quotes- Born Today.com

"Sure men were born to lie, and women, to believe them."
John Gay
(06/30/1685 – 12/04/1732)
English writer


"One ugly trick has often spoiled
The sweetest and the best;
Matilda, though a pleasant child,
One ugly trick possessed."
Ann Taylor
(06/30/1782 – 12/20/1866)
English writer

"It is always brave to say what everyone thinks." Georges Duhamel
(06/30/1884 – 04/13/1966)
French artist

Stanley Spencer "Painting is saying 'Ta' to God." Sir Stanley Spencer
(06/30/1891 – 12/14/1959)
English painter

"As scandal is the second breath of life my name is down for an early copy." Harold Laski
(06/30/1893 – 03/24/1950)
English politician , on Margot Asquith's autobiography

Czeslaw Milosz "I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends." Czeslaw Milosz
(06/30/1911 – 08/14/2004)
Lithuanian writer

Lena Mary Calhoun Horne "It's ill-becoming for an old broad to sing about how bad she wants it. But occasionally we do." Lena Horne
(06/30/1917 – 05/09/2010)
US singer, actor

Edythe Marrenner "I'll cry tomorrow." Susan Hayward
(06/30/1917 – 03/14/1975)
US actor

Lee deForest "You have debased my child—you have made him a laughingstock of intelligence—a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere." Dr. Lee deForest
(08/26/1873 – 06/30/1961)
US inventor , on his 1906 invention, the Audion Tube, which made commercial radio possible

Mike Tyson "Everybody's got plans...until they get hit." Mike Tyson
(06/30/1966 – )
US boxer

Margery Allingham "In common with many Christians of the classic type he felt sincerely safer and more at ease when he had given away all he had, like a man passing a ball in a game." Margery Allingham
(05/20/1904 – 06/30/1966)
English writer

Nancy Mitford "I have only read one book in my life and that is 'White Fang.' It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another." Nancy Mitford
(11/28/1904 – 06/30/1973)
English writer (sister of Jessica)

Lillian Hellman "A face unclouded by thought." Lillian Hellman
(06/20/1905 – 06/30/1984)
US writer (was married to Dashiell Hammett) , on Norma Shearer

Chet Atkins "Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore." Chet Atkins
(06/20/1924 – 06/30/2001)
US guitar great

Leonard Hacker "Golf is more fun than walking naked in a strange place, but not much." Buddy Hackett
(08/31/1924 – 06/30/2003)
US comic

Christopher Fry "Where in this small-talking world can I find a longitude with no platitude?" Christopher Fry
(12/18/1907 – 06/30/2005)
English writer

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