Born/Died Today with Pithy Quotes- borntoday.com

"Patience is the key to contentment."
Mohammed
(01/30/0570 – 06/08/0632)
Arabian religious leader 

"The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain."
Thomas Paine
(01/29/1737 – 06/08/1809)
US author, founding father, patriot 

"In order to compose, all you need to do is remember a tune that nobody else has thought of."
Robert Schumann
(06/08/1810 – 07/29/1856)
German composer 

"The absent are like children, helpless to defend themselves."
Charles Reade
(06/08/1814 – 04/11/1884)
English writer 

"I pant for retirement and leisure, but am doomed to inexpressible and almost unsupportable hurry."
Sarah Kemble Siddons
(07/05/1755 – 06/08/1831)
English actor 

"I do not forget that I am a mechanic. I am proud to own it. Neither do I forget that the apostle Paul was a tentmaker; Socrates was a sculptor; and Archimedes was a mechanic."
Andrew Jackson
(03/15/1767 – 06/08/1845)
US President (7) (married to Rachel Donelson Jackson; see all US Presidents) 

"Dogmatism is puppyism come to its full growth."
Douglas Jerrold
(01/03/1803 – 06/08/1857)
English writer 

"Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles."
Frank Lloyd Wright
(06/08/1867 – 04/09/1959)
US architect 

"Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius."
George Sand
(07/01/1804 – 06/08/1876)
French writer 

"Never hurry. Take plenty of exercise. Always be cheerful. Take all the sleep you need. You may expect to be well."
James Freeman Clarke
(04/04/1810 – 06/08/1888)
US theologian 

"A young musician plays scales in his room and only bores his family. A beginning writer, on the other hand, sometimes has the misfortune of getting into print."
Marguerite Yourcenar
(06/08/1903 – 12/17/1987)
Belgian-US writer 

"We presuppose two things: that there is yet to be learned infinitely more than is now known, and that man can learn it."
John W. Campbell, Jr.
(06/08/1910 – 07/11/1971)
US writer 

"We're the only branch of government that explains itself in writing every time it makes a decision."
Byron R. White
(06/08/1917 – 04/15/2002)
US Supreme Court (see other Supreme Court justices) 

"As if we don't have enough violence on television."
Barbara Bush
(06/08/1925 – )
US first lady (41) (mother of dubya; see other US First Ladies) , on hubby George accidentally hitting two spectators with golf balls 

"The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man."
Bliss Carman
(04/15/1861 – 06/08/1929)
Canadian writer 

"Is she fat? Her favorite food is seconds."
Joan Rivers
(06/08/1933 – )
Abrasive US comic , on Elizabeth Taylor 

"There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot."
Scott Adams
(06/08/1957 – )
US cartoonist (Dilbert) 

"Rock'n'roll all goes back to R & B, but to me it's not very relevant. Kraftwerk is much more relevant."
Nick Rhodes
(06/08/1962 – )
English keyboardist (Duran Duran) 

"A first-rate soup is more creative than a second-rate painting."
Abraham Maslow
(04/01/1908 – 06/08/1970)
US psychologist 

"How old would you be if you didn't know how old you was?"
Satchel Paige
(07/07/1906 – 06/08/1982)
US baseball player 

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