Born /Died Today with Pithy Quotes- BornToday.com

"It is in pardoning that we are pardoned."
Francis of Assisi
(09/26/1181 – 10/03/1226)
Umbrian saint (died near his birthday) 

"All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife."
Daniel Boone
(ca 11/02/1734 – ca 09/26/1820)
US explorer 

"Henry James had a mind so fine that no idea could violate it."
T. S. Eliot
(09/26/1888 – 01/04/1965)
US writer 

"The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another."
J. Frank Dobie
(09/26/1888 – 09/18/1964)
US writer 

"One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge."
Robert Staughton Lynd
(09/26/1892 – 11/01/1970)
US writer 

"Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy."
Pope Paul VI
(09/26/1897 – 08/06/1978)
Italian religious leader 

"Why should I limit myself to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want?"
George Gershwin
(09/26/1898 – 07/11/1937)
US composer (brother of Ira) 

"Would you get your dog up in the morning and give him a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a doughnut?"
Jack LaLanne
(09/26/1914 – 01/23/2011)
US exercise maven 

"Everyone has talent at twenty-five. The difficulty is to have it at fifty."
Edgar Degas
(07/19/1834 – 09/26/1917)
French painter 

"I didn't choose a word or anything. I just wrote the song until it stopped."
Marty Robbins
(09/26/1925 – 12/08/1982)
US singer, songwriter 

"Surely the vogue of those twisted and contorted human figures must be as short as it is artificial."
Harriet Monroe
(12/23/1860 – 09/26/1936)
US poet , on the work of Henri Matisse 

"I ain't good-lookin', but I'm somebody's angel child."
Bessie Smith
(04/15/1894 – 09/26/1937)
US singer 

"Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away."
Walter Benjamin
(07/15/1892 – 09/26/1940)
German-born writer 

"Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks."
Gloria Evangelina Anzaldua
(09/26/1942 – 05/16/2004)
US-Chicana writer 

"The only weights I lift are my dogs."
Olivia Newton-John
(09/26/1948 – )
Australian singer, actor 

"Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for."
Jane Smiley
(09/26/1949 – )
US writer 

"They found me basically dead, not breathing, with the gearshift through my chest, and of all the people I'd known and played with, David [Bowie] was the only one who came to the hospital during all that time."
Tony Sales
(09/26/1951 – )
US bassist (Utopia, Stooges, Tin Machine) (son of Soupy Sales) 

"To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood."
George Santayana
(12/16/1863 – 09/26/1952)
Spanish philosopher, writer 

"My husband is the sexiest man in the world."
Linda Hamilton
(09/26/1956 – )
US actor 

"What is good for the country is good for General Motors, and what's good for General Motors is good for the country."
Charles E. Wilson
(07/18/1890 – 09/26/1961)
US corporate president (General Motors) (largest maker of armaments during WWII) 

"If you're sitting in that audience ready to fight me from the very beginning, I'm going to have a hard time getting to you. But if you've got a heart at all, I'm going to get it."
Betty Carter
(05/16/1929 – 09/26/1998)
US singer 

"The worst thing that can happen to your career is to be shot out in an open field. You've got to be in the right position to die dramatically, against a wall, near something to hang onto. Never close your eyes. Glaze them. You can't go wrong bringing something down with you when you fall. A tablecloth is excellent. Preferably with a meal on it."
George Plimpton
(03/18/1901 – 09/26/2003)
English actor , on dying 

"I picture my epitaph: 'Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown.'"
Paul Newman
(01/26/1925 – 09/26/2008)
US actor (was married to Joanne Woodward) 

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