Born/Died Today with Quotes- BornToday.com

"They are a lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war."
Stanley Baldwin
(08/03/1867 – 12/14/1947)
British PM (38) (see other British PMs) , on Parliament

"A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early." Rupert Brooke
(08/03/1887 – 04/23/1915)
English writer, neo-pagan

"Learning and sex until rigor mortis." Maggie Kuhn
(08/03/1905 – 04/22/1995)
US Gray Panther

"We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends." P. D. James
(08/03/1920 – )
English writer Image from Salon

"All television is children's television." Richard P. Adler
(08/03/1921 – )
US? composer, producer?

"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness." Joseph Conrad
(12/03/1857 – 08/03/1924)
Polish-Ukrainian writer

"In point of substantial merit, the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing and dancing." Thorstein Veblen
(07/30/1857 – 08/03/1929)
Norwegian economist (died near his birthday)

"I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother." Martin Sheen
(08/03/1940 – )
US actor (father of Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen)

"Basement smells bad. Look for cat poops, change litter. Happy Valentines Day." Martha Stewart
(08/03/1941 – )
US craft maven , note to her gardener

"If I can't have too many truffles I'll do without." Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
(01/28/1873 – 08/03/1954)
French writer

"When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville." Flannery O'Connor
(03/25/1925 – 08/03/1964)
US writer

"If Jesus had been killed 20 years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses." Lenny Bruce
(10/13/1925 – 08/03/1966)
US comic

"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power—he's free again." Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
(12/11/1918 – 08/03/2008)
Russian writer