Born/Died Today with Pithy Quotes- Borntoday.com

"It is easier to square the circle than to get round a mathematician."
Augustus de Morgan
(06/27/1806 – 03/18/1871)
English mathematician 

"Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think."
Emma Goldman
(06/27/1869 – 05/14/1940)
Russian anarchist 

"It's 'nough to titter w'en de/stew is smokin' hot,
But it's mighty he'd to giggle we'n/dey's nuffin' in de pot."
Paul Laurence Dunbar
(06/27/1872 – 02/09/1906)
US writer 

"Readers are plentiful: thinkers are rare."
Harriet Martineau
(06/12/1802 – 06/27/1876)
English journalist 

"The heresy of one age becomes the orthodoxy of the next."
Helen Keller
(06/27/1880 – 06/01/1968)
US writer 

"So, like a forgotten fire, a childhood can always flare up again within us."
Gaston Bachelard
(06/27/1884 – 10/16/1962)
French philosopher, writer 

"Play is the work of children. It's very serious stuff."
Captain Kangaroo
(06/27/1927 – 01/23/2004)
US entertainer 

"Life is like a cobweb, not an organization chart."
H. Ross Perot
(06/27/1930 – )
US gazillionaire, presidential contender 

"You fought the good fight. You were in it right up to the beginning."
Bruce Babbitt
(06/27/1938 – )
US Secretary of Interior 

"I wonder sometimes if manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things."
Alan Coren
(06/27/1938 – 10/18/2007)
British writer 

"The Method is Judeo-Christian: if you go through pain, you can't miss. Rubbish. I'm more interested in the box itself than what's in it. How vs. why."
Isabelle Adjani
(06/27/1955 – )
French actor 

"No meal served with wine is ever spoiled—you can always dispense with the food."
Simon Michalak
(06/27/1964 – )
English lighting manager and chum of the quotekeeper 

"What is hard today is to censor one's own thoughts—
to sit by and see the blind man
on the sightless horse, riding into the bottomless abyss."
Arthur Waley
(08/19/1889 – 06/27/1966)
English sinologist 

"I have no illusions at all about being a sex symbol. None of my former girlfriends ever thought of me that way, and I don't have any packs of women chasing me down the street like a Brad Pitt or someone like that."
Tobey Maguire
(06/27/1975 – )
US actor 

"A lot of people would rather tour sewers than visit their cousins."
Jane Howard
(05/04/1935 – 06/27/1996)
US writer 

"Stay humble. Always answer the phone—no matter who else is in the car."
Jack Lemmon
(02/08/1925 – 06/27/2001)
US actor 

"For 15 years, we always thought we would last as long as our last record contract."
John Entwistle
(10/09/1944 – 06/27/2002)
English bassist, singer, songwriter (The Who) 

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