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Tuesday, March 4, 2014

Born Today= Celebs with Pithy Quotes- BornToday

"Then trust me, there's nothing like drinking
So pleasant on this side the grave;
It keeps the unhappy from thinking,
And makes e'en the valiant more brave."

Charles Dibdin
(03/04/1745 – 07/25/1814)
English writer


Knute Rockne "Show me a good and gracious loser and I’ll show you a failure." Knute Rockne
(03/04/1888 – 03/31/1931)
US football great

"I take my children everywhere, but they always find their way back home." Robert Orben
(03/04/1927 – )
US writer
Antonin Artaud "Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others. Then we might even come to see that it is our veneration for what has already been created, however beautiful and valid it may be, that petrifies us." Antonin Artaud
(09/04/1896 – 03/04/1948)
French writer

"Abstinence makes the heart go wander." Norman Whetzel
(03/04/1953 – )
US writer
William Carlos Williams "If they give you lined paper, write the other way." William Carlos Williams
(09/17/1883 – 03/04/1963)
US poet

Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon "Kissing a fella with a beard is like a picnic. You don't mind going through a little brush to get there." Minnie Pearl
(10/25/1912 – 03/04/1996)
US comic

Catherine O'Hara "I lived in LA for a few months. It seemed like no one there had parents. Or if they did have parents, they would deny it." Catherine O'Hara
(03/04/1954 – )
Canadian actor

Eve Valois "I hate reality—I want to be wholly artificial." Lolo Ferrari
(03/04/1962 – 03/05/2000)
French porn star (died near her birthday)

"If one's in the doghouse with the Chief, he gets the crud. He gets the tax cases and some of the Indian cases, which I like, but I've had a lot of them." Harry A. Blackmun
(11/12/1908 – 03/04/1999)
US Supreme Court justice (see other Supreme Court justices) , on the Chief Justice

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