Born/Died Today with Quotes

"Still, I have been no one's enemy but my own. My easy nature, either in drinking or anything else, was always ready to submit to persuasions of profligate companions, who often led me into snares . . ."
John Clare
(07/13/1793 – 05/20/1864)
English writer

"Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument." Rufus Choate
(10/01/1799 – 07/13/1859)
US Senator (MA)

"No one becomes forty without incredulity and a sense of outrage." Clifford Bax
(07/13/1886 – 11/18/1962)
English writer

"Whatever it was that this actress never had, she still hasn't got it." Bosley Crowther
(07/13/1905 – 03/07/1981)
US writer , on Loretta Young

"The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail." Wole Soyinka
(07/13/1934 – )
African writer

"I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair." Patrick Stewart
(07/13/1940 – )
English actor

"I'm an assistant storyteller. It's like being a waiter or a gas-station attendant, but I'm waiting on six million people a week, if I'm lucky." Harrison Ford
(07/13/1942 – )
US actor

"Everyone who ever walked barefoot into his child's room late at night hates Legos. I think Mr. Lego should be strung up from a scaffold made of his horrid little pockmarked arch-puncturing plastic cubes." Tony Kornheiser
(07/13/1948 – )
US writer

"Ball handling and dribbling are my strongest weaknesses." David Thompson
(07/13/1954 – )
US basketball player

"I suffered two grave accidents in my life. One in which a streetcar knocked me down.....The other accident is Diego." Frida Kahlo
(07/06/1907 – 07/13/1954)
Mexican artist (was married to Diego Rivera; died near her birthday)

"I learned much more from defeat than I ever learned from winning." Grantland Rice
(11/01/1880 – 07/13/1954)
US writer

"My personal interest in ordinary people is unlimited, but I am fascinated by the challenge of portraying true greatness adequately with my camera." Yousuf Karsh
(12/23/1908 – 07/13/2002)
Armenian-Turkish-Canadian photographer

"Elizabeth Taylor has a big heart. She recently built a halfway house for girls who don't want to go all the way." Red Buttons
(02/05/1919 – 07/13/2006)
US composer, comic, actor, author