Born/Died Today with Quotes- BornToday.com

"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."
Pierre Corneille
(06/06/1606 – 10/01/1684)
French writer

"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past." Patrick Henry
(05/29/1736 – 06/06/1799)
US patriot

"Every law is an infraction of liberty." Jeremy Bentham
(02/15/1748 – 06/06/1832)
English philosopher

"Perhaps the most lasting pleasure in life is the pleasure of not going to church." William Ralph Inge
(06/06/1860 – 02/26/1954)
English writer

"Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale." Robert Falcon Scott
(06/06/1868 – 03/29/1912)
English explorer , on his doomed Antarctic expedition

"A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth." Thomas Mann
(06/06/1875 – 08/12/1955)
German writer

"The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers." Ruth Benedict
(06/06/1887 – 09/17/1948)
US anthropologist

"‘Ow can I handcuff a bloomin’ shirt?" Robert Cedric Sherriff
(06/06/1896 – 11/13/1975)
English writer (The Invisible Man)

"Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it." Mignon McLaughlin
(06/06/1913 – 12/20/1983)
US writer

"When I look at myself, I am so beautiful I scream with joy!" Maria Montez
(06/06/1917 – 09/07/1951)
Dominican actor (was married to Jean-Pierre Aumont; mother with him of Tina Aumont)

"Cherish your wilderness." Maxine Kumin
(06/06/1925 – )
US writer

"I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction." Harry Crews
(06/06/1935 – )
US writer

"Being considerate of others will take you and your children further in life than any college or professional degree." Marian Wright Edelman
(06/06/1939 – )
US social reformer

"New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time." James Agate
(09/09/1877 – 06/06/1947)
English writer

"I guess a drag queen's like an oil painting: you gotta stand back from it to get the full effect." Harvey Fierstein
(06/06/1954 – )
US actor, playwright

"On one side you have book burners, Congressional wives and Pat Robertson. On the other side, you have vulgar comedians, foul-mouthed rap groups and Dennis Hopper—all your choices should be so easy." Sandra Bernhard
(06/06/1955 – )
US comic, actor

"The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong." Carl Jung
(07/26/1875 – 06/06/1961)
German psychoanalyst
 

"Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live." Robert F. Kennedy
(11/20/1925 – 06/06/1968)
US royalty (son of Rose and Joseph P., brother of John and Teddy Kennedy)

"I truly believe that God has healed me, and one day the doctors will say to me ‘You can stop the medication now because you are healed’." Clare Marie Bowe
(06/06/1975 – 08/14/2007)
English daughter of friend of the quotekeeper
 

"The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights." J. Paul Getty
(12/15/1892 – 06/06/1976)
US zillionaire
 

"The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it." Anne Bancroft
(09/17/1931 – 06/06/2005)
US actor (was married to Mel Brooks)