Born/Died Today with Pithy Quotes- BornToday.com

This is a great website but some of its quotes often seem a little questionable to me-- 

I do not run all of them down to make sure it is all exactly accurate

Entertaining, anyway, the quotes are pretty good even if we cannot be completely sure of the origins assigned to them

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"The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest,
savors too much of private interest."
Edmund Waller
(03/03/1606 – 10/21/1687)
English writer 

"Honest men
are the soft easy cushions on which knaves
Repose and fatten."
Thomas Otway
(03/03/1652 – 04/14/1685)
English writer 

"He that loves reading has everything within his reach."
William Godwin
(03/03/1756 – 04/07/1836)
English writer 

"Give the people not hell, but hope and courage."
Sir John Murray
(03/03/1841 – 03/16/1914)
Canadian scientist 

"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."
Alexander Graham Bell
(03/03/1847 – 08/02/1922)
Scottish inventor 

"Wit lives in the present, but genius survives the future."
Lady Marguerite Blessington
(09/01/1789 – 03/03/1849)
Irish writer 

"Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have."
Emile-Auguste Chartier
(03/03/1868 – 06/02/1951)
French writer 

"Although he is a very poor fielder, he is a very poor hitter."
Ring Lardner, Sr.
(03/03/1885 – 09/25/1933)
US writer 

"One day when he was eating a cookie he offered me a bite. Don't underestimate that. The poor guy's so frightened of germs, it could darn near have been a proposal."
Jean Harlow
(03/03/1911 – 06/07/1937)
US actor , on Howard Hughes 

"To get where you want to go you can't only do what you like."
Peter Abrahams
(03/03/1919 – )
S. African writer 

"One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal."
Frank Moore Colby
(02/10/1865 – 03/03/1926)
US encyclopedia editor, essayist 

"I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either."
Robyn Hitchcock
(03/03/1953 – )
English singer, songwriter 

"Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity."
Arthur Koestler
(09/05/1905 – 03/03/1983)
Hungarian writer 

"I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way."
Danny Kaye
(01/18/1913 – 03/03/1987)
US actor 

"No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation."
Marguerite Duras
(04/04/1914 – 03/03/1996)
French writer 

"In America television can make so much money doing its worst, it cannot afford to do its best."
Fred Friendly
(10/30/1915 – 03/03/1998)
US TV producer 

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