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Sunday, January 25, 2015

Born Today- Notable People with Interesting Quotes- Born.Today.com

"Our wrangling lawyers are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter, some of them in hell."
Robert Burton
(02/08/1577 – 01/25/1640)
English writer 
Robbie Burns, aye"There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing."
Robert Burns
(01/25/1759 – 07/21/1796)
Scottish poet 
W. Somerset Maugham"She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious."
W. Somerset Maugham
(01/25/1874 – 12/16/1965)
English writer 
Virginia Woolf"On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points."
Virginia Woolf
(01/25/1882 – 03/28/1941)
English writer 
Marie Louise de la Ramée"Petty laws breed great crimes."
Ouida
(01/01/1839 – 01/25/1908)
English writer 
"I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel."
Gloria Naylor
(01/25/1950 – )
US writer 
Alicia Augello Cook"A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes."
Alicia Keys
(01/25/1981 – )
US singer 
"Good advice is one of those injuries which a good man ought, if possible, to forgive, but at all events to forget at once."
Horace Smith
(01/08/1913 – 01/25/1986)
US writer 
Ava Gardner"Ha! I always knew Frank would end up in bed with a boy!"
Ava Gardner
(12/24/1922 – 01/25/1990)
US actor (was married to Frank SinatraArtie ShawMickey Rooney) , on Sinatra's marriage to Mia Farrow 
Isaac Francis Terrell"When the adults lose their patience, the children lose their choices."
Isaac Francis Terrell
(01/25/2003 – )
US friend of the quotemaster (son of Paul Terrell, and youngest person on this site) 
Philip Johnson"I'm about four skyscrapers behind."
Philip Johnson
(07/08/1906 – 01/25/2005)
US architect 

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