Born/Died Today with Pithy Quotes- BornToday.com

"I go to seek the great Perhaps."
Francois Rabelais
(?/1490 – 04/09/1553)
French writer 

"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."
Francis Bacon
(01/22/1561 – 04/09/1626)
English writer 

"I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws."
Charles Baudelaire
(04/09/1821 – 08/31/1867)
French writer 

"Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.00—2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00."
Charles Steinmetz
(04/09/1865 – 10/26/1923)
Prussian scientist , invoice 

"Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies?
Nay, who but infants question in such wise,
'twas one of my most intimate enemies."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
(05/12/1828 – 04/09/1882)
English artist, poet , brother of Christina 

"She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook."
Tommy Manville
(04/09/1894 – 10/09/1967)
English heir, married 13 times, to 11 women 

"The patter of their feet as they walk through Jim Crow barriers to attend school is the thunder of the marching men of Joshua, and the world rocks beneath their tread." 
Paul Robeson
(04/09/1898 – 01/26/1976)
US actor, singer, activist , on the children of Little Rock 

"Honesty is the cruelest game of all, because not only can you hurt someone—and hurt them to the bone—you can feel self-righteous about it at the same time."
Dave van Ronk
(04/09/1905 – 02/10/2002)
US singer, songwriter 

"We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes. "
J. William Fullbright
(04/09/1905 – 02/09/1995)
US Rep (Arkansas) 

"The trouble with nude dancing is that not everything stops when the music stops."
Sir Robert Helpmann
(04/09/1909 – 09/28/1986)
Australian dancer and actor , on the musical "Oh! Calcutta!" 

"The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex."
Hugh Hefner
(04/09/1926 – )
US entrepreneur/publisher 

"Forty years ago, he was Slightly in Peter Pan, and you might say that he has been wholly in Peter Pan ever since."
Kenneth Tynan
(04/09/1927 – 07/26/1980)
English critic , on Noel Coward 

"Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it."
Tom Lehrer
(04/09/1928 – )
US math professor, singer, pianist, songwriter 

"It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(02/04/1906 – 04/09/1945)
German theologian 

"Back then, people were throwing their underwear onstage. I remember taking eight pairs of my own underwear to the cleaners and getting only four back."
Dennis Quaid
(04/09/1954 – )
US actor (was married to Meg Ryan) 

"If the paintings are too large, cut them in half!"
Frank Lloyd Wright
(06/08/1867 – 04/09/1959)
US architect , on the low ceilings in the Guggenheim museum 

"Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely."
Hesketh Pearson
(02/20/1887 – 04/09/1964)
English actor 

"My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian."
Paulina Porizkova
(04/09/1965 – )
Czech supermodel (married to Ric Ocasek) 

"When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers."
James F. Byrnes
(05/02/1879 – 04/09/1972)
US Governor (SC) 

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