Daily Birthday/Deathday Quote

"In Egypt, archaeologists discovered the burial site for the 50 children of Ramses II...Fifty children! What I want to know is, who decided to name a condom after this guy?"

Conan O'Brien (April 18, 1963)



"The significant problems we face cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them."

Albert Einstein (1879 - April 18, 1955)

 

"The greater the lie, the greater the chance that it will be believed."

Adolph Hitler (April 20, 1889 - 1945)



"'Art' is an invention of aesthetics, which in turn is an invention of philosophers. What we call art is a game."

Octavio Paz (1914 - April 20, 1998)

 

"Grief is the price we pay for love."

Queen Elizabeth II (April 21, 1926)




"Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough."

Mark Twain (1835 - April 21, 1910)

 

"Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."

William Shakespeare (April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616)

 

"Life is so unlike theory."

Anthony Trollope (April 24, 1815 - 1882)



"I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do."

Willa Cather (1873 - April 24, 1947)

 

"The only thing better than singing is more singing."

Ella Fitzgerald (April 25, 1917 - 1996)



"At every step the child should be allowed to meet the real experience of life; the thorns should never be plucked from his roses."

Ellen Key (1849 - April 25, 1946)

 

"If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done."

Ludwig Wittgenstein (April 26, 1889 - 1951)



"'Good morning' is a contradiction of terms."

Jim Davis (1909 - April 26, 1981)

 

"You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older."

Anouk Aimee (April 27, 1932)



"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - April 27, 1882)

 

"Men are generally more law-abiding than women. Women have the feeling that since they didn't make the rules, the rules have nothing to do with them."

Diane Johnson (April 28, 1934)



"My father gave me the greatest gift anyone could give another person - he believed in me."

Jim Valvano (1946 - April 28, 1993)

 

"You've got to find some way of saying it without saying it."

Duke Ellington (April 29, 1899 - 1974)




"There is no terror in the bang - only in the anticipation of it."

Alfred Hitchcock (1899 - April 29, 1980)

 

“A work in progress quickly becomes feral. It reverts to a wild state overnight. It is barely domesticated, a mustang on which you one day fastened a halter, but which now you cannot catch. It is a lion you cage in your study. As the work grows, it gets harder to control; it is a lion growing in strength. You must visit it every day and reassert your mastery over it. If you skip a day, you are, quite rightly, afraid to open the door to its room.”

Annie Dillard (April 30, 1945)





"The trouble with our age is that it is all signpost and no destination."


Louis Kronenberger (1904 - April 30, 1980)

 

"What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy."

Marie Corelli (May 1, 1855 - 1924)



"The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less."

Eldridge Cleaver (1935 - May 1, 1998)

 

"Love is the final end of the world's history, the Amen of the universe. "

Novalis (May 2, 1772 - 1801)



"Any clod can have the facts, but having opinions is an art."

Charles McCabe (1915 - May 2, 1983)

 

"Sometimes, you have to let your hair do the talking!"

James Brown (May 3, 1928 - 2006)




"There is even a happiness that makes the heart afraid."

Thomas Hood (1799 - May 3, 1845)

 

"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering on a cold iron."

Horace Mann (May 4, 1796 - 1859)



"You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you."

Joseph Joubert (1754 - May 4, 1824)

 

"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid."

Soren Kierkegaard (May 5, 1813 - 1855)



"I am surrounded by priests who repeat incessantly that their kingdom is not of this world, and yet they lay their hands on everything they can get."

Napoleon Bonaparte (1769 - May 5, 1821)