Born/Died Today with Quotes- Born Today.com

"It seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it."
Marie de Sevigne
(02/05/1626 – 04/17/1696)
French writer 

"Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason."
Benjamin Franklin
(01/17/1706 – 04/17/1790)
US writer, inventor, diplomat 

"The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air."
William Gilmore Simms
(04/17/1806 – 06/11/1870)
US writer 

"A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one."
J. Pierpont Morgan
(04/17/1837 – 03/31/1913)
US gazillionaire 

"The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes — ah, that is where the art resides."
Artur Schnabel
(04/17/1882 – 08/15/1951)
Austrian pianist, composer 

"What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?"
Isak Dinesen
(04/17/1885 – 09/07/1962)
Danish writer 

"Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river."
Nikita Krushchev
(04/17/1894 – 09/11/1971)
Soviet leader 

"Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion."
Thornton Wilder
(04/17/1897 – 12/07/1975)
US writer 

"Hell is paved with Good Samaritans."
William H. Holden
(04/17/1918 – 11/16/1981)
US actor 

"Bond smoked like Peter Lorre, drank like Humphrey Bogart, ate like Sydney Greenstreet, used up girls like Errol Flynn . . . then went to a steam bath and came out looking like Clark Gable."
Harry Reasoner
(04/17/1926 – 08/06/1991)
US telejournalist , on Ian Fleming's creation 

"Madonna is the speedboat, and the rest of us are just the Go-Gos on water skis."
Liz Phair
(04/17/1967 – )
US singer, songwriter 

"My Spanish is improving and I can now ask, 'Dónde Gucci?' ('Where is Gucci?'). I also can say, 'Tienes un Bentley?' ('Do you have a Bentley?')."
Victoria Beckham
(04/17/1974 – )
English dancer 

"To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity."
Basil Bunting
(03/01/1900 – 04/17/1985)
English writer 

"I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside."
Louise Nevelson
(09/23/1889 – 04/17/1988)
Russian artist 

"I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease."
Ralph Abernathy
(03/11/1926 – 04/17/1990)
US clergyman, activist 

"If slaughterhouses had glass walls, the whole world would be vegetarian."
Linda Eastman McCartney
(09/24/1942 – 04/17/1998)
US photographer 

"Most people say, 'Well, Earl, you sing the blues,' or however they want to categorize it. I just sing songs. I'm a writer, so whatever gymnastics jump through my head, I write about it."
Earl King
(02/07/1934 – 04/17/2003)
US singer, songwriter (Come On) 

"The weakness of most men
they do not know how to become a stone or tree."
Aime Cesaire
(06/25/1913 – 04/17/2008)
Martinique writer 

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