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Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Born/Died Today with Quotes- Born Today.com

"Guess if you can, choose if you dare."
Pierre Corneille
(06/06/1606 – 10/01/1684)
French writer


"Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love for reading." Rufus Choate
(10/01/1799 – 07/13/1859)
US Senator (MA)

Annie Besant "Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act." Annie Besant
(10/01/1847 – 09/20/1933)
English social reformer

"A home-made friend wears longer than one you buy in the market." Austin O'Malley
(10/01/1858 – ??/??/1932)
US writer

"Every poet knows the pun is Pierian, that it springs from the same soil as the Muse, a matching and shifting of vowels and consonants, an adroit assonance sometimes derided as jackassonance." Louis Untermeyer
(10/01/1885 – 12/18/1977)
US writer

"The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder." Ralph W. Sockman
(10/01/1889 – 08/29/1970)
US religious person

Faith Baldwin "Time is a dressmaker specializing in alterations." Faith Baldwin
(10/01/1893 – 03/18/1978)
US writer

Benjamin Jowett "If you don't find a God by five o'clock this afternoon you must leave the college." Benjamin Jowett
(04/15/1817 – 10/01/1893)
English educator, scholar

Vladimir Horowitz "When a piece gets difficult, make faces." Vladimir Horowitz
(10/01/1903 – 11/05/1989)
Russian pianist

"Figures won't lie, but liars can figure." Fletcher Knebel
(10/01/1911 – 02/26/1993)
US writer

Daniel J. Boorstin "The great obstacle to discovery… was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge." Dr. Daniel J. Boorstin
(10/01/1914 – 02/28/2004)
US historian

Walter Matuschanskayasky "I'm simply not on the same wavelength with her; she's not my kind of dame." Walter Matthau
(10/01/1920 – 07/01/2000)
US actor (was married to Carol Grace Matthau) , on Barbra Streisand

James Earl Carter, Jr. "We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and some people killed on Saturday nights. One of my relatives, unfortunately, was even in the newspaper business." Jimmy Carter
(10/01/1924 – )
US President (39) (son of Lillian, married to Rosalyn; father of Amy; see all US Presidents)

William Rehnquist "The Constitution does not guarantee the right to acquire information at a public library without any risk of embarrassment." William Rehnquist
(10/01/1924 – 09/03/2005)
US Supreme Court (see other Supreme Court justices)

Richard Harris "There are too many prima donnas in this business and not enough action." Richard Harris
(10/01/1930 – 10/25/2002)
Irish actor , on Hollywood

Julia Elizabeth Wells "She needs open-heart surgery, and they should go in through her feet." Julie Andrews
(10/01/1935 – )
English actor , on columnist Joyce Haber

Mark McGwire "I mean, it's unheard of for somebody to hit 70 home runs, so I'm like in awe of myself right now." Mark McGwire
(10/01/1963 – )
US baseball player

Roberto Kelly "It's permanent, for now." Roberto Kelly
(10/01/1964 – )
Panamanian baseball outfielder , on changing his name to Bobby

Elwyn Brooks White "I see nothing in space as promising as the view from a Ferris wheel." E. B. White
(07/11/1899 – 10/01/1985)
US writer, grammarian

Richard Avedon "I often feel that people come to me to be photographed as they would go to a doctor or a fortune teller—to find out how they are." Richard Avedon
(05/15/1923 – 10/01/2004)
US photographer

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