January 06

"But if the young are never tired of erring in conduct, neither are the older in erring of judgment."

Fanny Burney
(06/13/1752 – 01/06/1840)
English writer ("Evelina")

"I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth."

Carl Sandburg
(01/06/1878 – 07/22/1967)
US writer ("Chicago Poems")
(uncle of Mary Steichen Calderone)

"Half the work that is done in this world is to make things appear what they are not." *

Elias Root Beadle
(10/13/1812 – 01/06/1879)
US minister

"A damn independent boy; independent as a hog on ice."

Sam Rayburn
(01/06/1882 – 11/16/1961)
US Rep (TX) , on Lyndon Baines Johnson
(same dates as Alan Watts)

"I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."

Kahlil Gibran
(01/06/1883 – 04/10/1931)
Lebanese philosopher poet ("The Prophet")

"A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing."

Joey Adams
(01/06/1911 – 12/02/1999)
US comic, actor

"Wearing the correct dress for any occasion is a matter of good manners."

Loretta Young
(01/06/1913 – 08/12/2000)
US actor

"Success has nothing to do with what you gain in life or accomplish for yourself. It's what you do for others."

Danny Thomas
(01/06/1912 – 02/06/1991)
US actor
(father of Marlo Thomas)

"Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth."

Alan Watts
(01/06/1915 – 11/16/1973)
English writer ("The Way of Zen")
(same dates as Sam Rayburn)

"McKinley shows all the backbone of a chocolate eclair."

Theodore Roosevelt
(10/27/1858 – 01/06/1919)
US President (26), Vice President (25)
(father of Alice Roosevelt Longworth, uncle of Eleanor Roosevelt, fifth cousin of Franklin Roosevelt)

"I like drums, really, if they're under control."

Earl Scruggs
(01/06/1924 – 03/28/2012)
US bluegrass great ("Foggy Mountain Breakdown")

"Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia."

E. L. Doctorow
(01/06/1931 – 07/21/2015)
US writer ("Ragtime")

"The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood."

Lou Holtz
(01/06/1937 – )
US football coach

"There's a Harvard man on the wrong side of every question."

Dr. Abbott Lawrence Lowell
(12/13/1856 – 01/06/1943)
US educator, lawyer ("What a University President has Learned")
(grandfather of Amy Lowell)

"We have held that a death toll was a necessary part of every human achievement, whether sport, war, or industry. A moment's rage over the horror of it, and we have sunk into indifference."

Ida Tarbell
(11/05/1857 – 01/06/1944)
US journalist ("The History of the Standard Oil Company")

"Quite a nasty piece of work. Not the sort of person you'd want to have dinner with."

Rowan Atkinson
(01/06/1955 – )
English actor , on his character "Mr. Bean"

"I am a babe for a living."

Gabrielle Reece
(01/06/1970 – )
US professional volleyball player and supermodel

"I always gravitate towards things that are not beautiful, but broken and weird and fascinating."

Kate McKinnon
(01/06/1984 – )
US comic actor (SNL)

"My leg, make it more beautiful."

Rudolf Nureyev
(03/17/1938 – 01/06/1993)
Russian dancer, choreographer

"Ideas, ideas, backward and forward. His influence is layers and layers of spirit."

Dizzy Gillespie
(10/21/1917 – 01/06/1993)
US trumpeter , on Charlie Parker

"Chinks in America's egalitarian armor are not hard to find. Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism."

Florence King
(01/05/1936 – 01/06/2016)
US writer ("Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady")
(died near her birthday)