Born/Died Today with Quotes

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"You had better have one King than five hundred."
King Charles II
(05/29/1630 – 02/06/1685)
English royalty 

"If this be treason, make the most of it!"
Patrick Henry
(05/29/1736 – 06/06/1799)
US patriot 

"The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures."
Sir Humphrey Davy
(12/17/1778 – 05/29/1829)
English chemist (discovered laughing gas) 

"Quite ignorant for his rank, and quite bigoted in his ignorance."
General Winfield Scott
(06/13/1786 – 05/29/1866)
US civil war general , on Zachary Taylor 

"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
G. K. Chesterton
(05/29/1874 – 06/14/1936)
English writer 

"I maintain that today many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology."
Oswald Spengler
(05/29/1880 – 05/08/1936)
German philosopher 

"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'"
Beatrice Lillie
(05/29/1898 – 01/20/1989)
Canadian actor 

"I must say the Senator's victory in Wisconsin was a triumph for democracy. It proves that a millionaire has just as good a chance as anyone else."
Bob Hope
(05/29/1903 – 07/27/2003)
English-born comic , on JFK's electoral victory 

"The Victorians had not been anxious to go away for the weekend. The Edwardians, on the contrary, were nomadic."
T. H. White
(05/29/1906 – 01/17/1964)
English writer 

"He is like a man who sits on a stove and then complains that his backside is burning."
W. S. Gilbert
(11/18/1836 – 05/29/1911)
English lyricist , on Sir Arthur Sullivan 

"I hated the bangs in the war: I always felt a silent war would be more tolerable."
Pamela Hansford Johnson
(05/29/1912 – 06/18/1981)
US writer , engaged to Dylan Thomas, married to Gordon Stewart and then C. P. Snow 

"You know nothing for sure...except the fact that you know nothing for sure."
John F. Kennedy
(05/29/1917 – 11/22/1963)
US President (35) (son of Rose and Joseph P., was married to Jackie, brother of Robert and Teddy; see all US Presidents) 

"Die? I should say not, dear fellow. No Barrymore would allow such a conventional thing to happen to him."
John Barrymore
(02/15/1882 – 05/29/1942)
US actor (brother of Ethel and Lionel, father of John Drew, grandfather of Drew) , last words? 

"I never liked the men I loved, and never loved the men I liked."
Fanny Brice
(10/29/1891 – 05/29/1951)
US actor 

"For me, writing something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice. It's just second nature to me."
Danny Elfman
(05/29/1953 – )
US musician, composer (Oingo Boingo) married to Bridget Fonda November, 2003 

"I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice."
Annette Bening
(05/29/1958 – )
US actor (married to Warren Beatty) 

"Love is never wrong."
Melissa Etheridge
(05/29/1961 – )
US singer, songwriter 

"They should be shot."
Noel Gallagher
(05/29/1967 – )
English musician (Oasis) , on the Backstreet Boys 

"There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through."
John Gunther
(08/30/1901 – 05/29/1970)
US writer 

"This thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."
Mary Pickford
(04/08/1893 – 05/29/1979)
US actor (was married to Douglas Fairbanks) 

"One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little."
Margaret Chase Smith
(12/14/1897 – 05/29/1995)
US Rep and Senator (ME) 

"I married Vincent Price very late in both our lives. It was chiefly because, even if Vincent can be a bit moody and frightening at times, loneliness is even more frightful. Without a husband, even an actress doesn't get invited out much."
Coral Browne
(07/23/1913 – 05/29/1991)
Australian actor (was married to Vincent Price) 

"I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine."
Barry Goldwater
(01/01/1909 – 05/29/1998)
US Senator (AZ) 

"Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist."
Paula Gunn Allen
(10/24/1939 – 05/29/2008)
US native writer 

"Funny is when you're serious."
Harvey Korman
(02/15/1927 – 05/29/2008)
US comic, actor 

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