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Thursday, June 19, 2014

Born Today- with Quotes- BornToday.com

"The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir."
Thomas Fuller
(06/19/1608 – 08/16/1661)
English writer


Blaise Pascal "Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed." Blaise Pascal
(06/19/1623 – 08/19/1662)
French mathematician

Charles Haddon Spurgeon "The anvil is not afraid of the hammer." Charles H. Spurgeon
(06/19/1834 – 01/31/1892)
English clergy

Elbert Hubbard "If you can't answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names." Elbert Hubbard
(06/19/1856 – 05/07/1915)
US writer

"The richer your friends, the more they will cost you." Elisabeth Marbury
(06/19/1856 – 01/22/1933)
US literary and theatrical agent

Earl Douglas Haig "[The 17th Earl of Derby] is a very weak-minded fellow I am afraid, and, like the feather pillow, bears the marks of the last person who has sat on him." Earl Douglas Haig
(06/19/1861 – 01/29/1928)
Scottish military

Moses Horvitz "You knuckleheads!" Moe Howard
(06/19/1897 – 05/04/1975)
US stooge (Also see Larry Fine, Curly Howard)

John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, 1st Baron (of Aldenham) "There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men." John Dalberg Acton
(01/10/1834 – 06/19/1902)
English historian

"If you have integrity—nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity—nothing else matters." Evelle J. Younger
(06/19/1918 – 05/04/1989)
US attorney general (CA)

Pauline Kael "Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.'" Pauline Kael
(06/19/1919 – 09/03/2001)
US (Petaluma, CA-born) film critic

Jerome Klapka Jerome "We shall never be content until man makes his own weather and keeps it to himself." Jerome K. Jerome
(05/02/1859 – 06/19/1927)
English writer

James M. Barrie "I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life." Sir James M. Barrie
(05/09/1860 – 06/19/1937)
Scottish writer (Peter Pan)

Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi "[The Libyan Army] is capable of destroying America and breaking its nose." Muammar al-Gaddafi
(06/19/1942 – )
Libyan military, political leader

Salman Rushdie "If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now." Salman Rushdie
(06/19/1947 – )
Indian-English writer

"Things can always be worse; for instance, you could be ugly and work in the Post Office." Adrienne Gusoff
(06/19/1953 – )
US telegram

Mary Kathleen Turner "I know there are nights when I have power, when I could put on something and walk in somewhere, and if there is a man who doesn't look at me, it's because he's gay." Kathleen Turner
(06/19/1954 – )
US actor

"The way to succeed is to double your failure rate." Thomas John Watson, Jr.
(02/17/1874 – 06/19/1956)
US businessman (IBM president)

Ed Wynn "Every radish I ever pulled up seemed to have a mortgage attached to it." Ed Wynn
(11/09/1886 – 06/19/1966)
US actor

William Golding "Philosophy and Religion—what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?" William Golding
(09/19/1911 – 06/19/1993)
English writer

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