"A chip on the shoulder is too heavy a piece of baggage to carry through life."
John Hancock
(01/23/1737 – 10/08/1793)
US founding father
John Hancock
(01/23/1737 – 10/08/1793)
US founding father
"Men first feel necessity, then look for utility, next attend to comfort, still later amuse themselves with pleasure, thence grow dissolute in luxury, and finally go mad and waste their substance."
Giambattista Vico
(06/23/1668 – 01/23/1744)
Italian philosopher
Giambattista Vico
(06/23/1668 – 01/23/1744)
Italian philosopher
Edouard Manet
(01/23/1831 – 04/30/1883)
French artist (Monet is here) , on his portrait of George Moore
but the valley sheep are fatter;
we therefore deem it meeter
to carry off the latter."
Thomas Love Peacock
(10/18/1785 – 01/23/1866)
English writer
Charles Kingsley
(06/12/1819 – 01/23/1875)
English clergy
Phillips Brooks
(12/13/1835 – 01/23/1893)
US clergyman
Humphrey Bogart
(01/23/1899 – 01/14/1957)
US actor (was married to Lauren Bacall)
Ernie Kovacs
(01/23/1919 – 01/13/1962)
US TV pioneer
Jeanne Moreau
(01/23/1928 – )
French actor
Alexander Woollcott
(01/19/1887 – 01/23/1943)
US writer (died near his birthday)
Pierre Bonnard
(10/03/1867 – 01/23/1947)
French artist
Salvador Dali
(05/11/1904 – 01/23/1989)
Spanish surrealist , on being presented with an inflatable statue of Bugs Bunny
"Between religion's 'this is' and poetry's 'but suppose this is,' there must always be some kind of tension, until the possible and the actual meet at infinity."
Northrop Frye
(07/14/1912 – 01/23/1991)
Canadian writer
Northrop Frye
(07/14/1912 – 01/23/1991)
Canadian writer
Captain Kangaroo
(06/27/1927 – 01/23/2004)
US entertainer
Helmut Newton
(10/31/1920 – 01/23/2004
German-Australian photographer
Johnny Carson
(10/23/1925 – 01/23/2005)
US TV host , Tonight Show (also see Steve Allen, Jack Paar, and Jay Leno)
"To provoke dreams of terror in the slumber of prosperity has become the moral duty of literature."
Ernst Fischer
(11/10/1918 – 01/23/2007)
German chemist, educator
Ernst Fischer
(11/10/1918 – 01/23/2007)
German chemist, educator
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