Born/Died Today with Quotes- Born Today.com

"The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least amount of hissing."
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
(08/29/1619 – 09/06/1683)
French statesman

"Drink to-day, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do 't to-morrow." John Fletcher
(12/20/1579 – 08/29/1625)
English writer

"Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip." John Locke
(08/29/1632 – 10/28/1704)
English philosopher

"You may have genius. The contrary is, of course, probable." Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
(08/29/1809 – 10/07/1894)
US writer, scientist, scholar (father of Holmes Jr.) , to an aspiring author

"We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us." Maurice Maeterlinck
(08/29/1862 – 05/06/1949)
Belgian writer

"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there." Charles F. Kettering
(08/29/1876 – 11/25/1958)
US inventor

"If I had the choice of educating a boy or a girl, I would educate the girl. If you educate a boy, you educate one, but if you educate a girl, you educate a generation." Brigham Young
(06/01/1801 – 08/29/1877)
US religious leader

"A pretty girl is better than a plain one
A leg is better than an arm
A bedroom is better than a living room
An arrival is better that a departure
A birth is better than a death
A chase is better than a chat
A dog is better than a landscape
A kitten is better than a dog
A baby is better than a kitten
A kiss is better than a baby
A pratfall is better than anything." Preston Sturges
(08/29/1898 – 08/06/1959)
US writer , golden rules for successful comedy

"A kiss is a lovely trick designed by nature to stop speech when words become superfluous." Ingrid Bergman
(08/29/1915 – 08/29/1982)
US actor (mother of Isabella Rossellini; died on birthday)

"Perfectionists are their own devils." Jack Kirby
(08/29/1917 – 02/06/1994)
US cartoonist

"Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you." Charlie Parker
(08/29/1920 – 03/12/1955)
US jazz great

"Elizabeth Taylor looks like two small boys fighting underneath a mink blanket." Mr. Blackwell
(08/29/1922 – 10/19/2008)
US critic

"The National Museum of Photography, Film and Television is tremendously important, both in photography, television, and film." Sir Richard Attenborough
(08/29/1923 – )
English director

"Work is the curse of the drinking classes." Rev. William A. Spooner
(07/22/1844 – 08/29/1930)
English religious dyslexic

"By the time a film of mine makes it into the theatres, I have a love-hate relationship with it. There is always something I could have done to make it better." William Friedkin
(08/29/1935 – )

US film director (married to Sherry Lansing)

"Why am I running for president? Well, my wife, Cindy, says it is because I sustained several severe blows to the head in prison camp." John McCain
(08/29/1936 – )
US Senator (AZ), 2000 presidential candidate, flip-flopper, and corporate toady

"I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and changed the bulb. When I got off the bed he said: 'That's the best acting you've ever done.'" Elliott Gould
(08/29/1938 – )
US actor (was married to Barbra Streisand)

"I don't know if prison is good for everybody, but it did me a lot of good." Hugh Cornwell
(08/29/1949 – )
English guitarist (Stranglers)

"If I wasn't a musician, I would be a serial killer." GG Allin
(08/29/1956 – 06/28/1993)
US performer

"I was a veteran before I was a teenager." Michael Jackson
(08/29/1958 – 06/25/2009)
US singer, dancer, songwriter, baby-dangler...

"You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you." Vicki Baum
(01/24/1888 – 08/29/1960)
Austrian-US writer

"There was a professor named Sprie
Who lectured each Tuesday at three
If nobody came
He talked just the same
And observed his own feedback with glee" Wendell Johnson
(04/16/1906 – 08/29/1965)
US speech therapist

"The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves." Ralph W. Sockman
(10/01/1889 – 08/29/1970)
US religious person

"He had a genius for backing into the limelight." Lowell Thomas
(04/06/1892 – 08/29/1981)
US writer, explorer , on T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia)

"Happiness is good health and a bad memory." Ingrid Bergman
(08/29/1915 – 08/29/1982)
US actor (mother of Isabella Rossellini; died on birthday)

"I think half of this belongs to a horse somewhere out in the valley." Lee Marvin
(02/19/1924 – 08/29/1987)
US actor , on his Oscar for "Cat Ballou"

"Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad." Manly Hall
(03/18/1901 – 08/29/1990)
Canadian writer