February 06

"Where both deliberate, the love is slight:
Who ever lov'd, that lov'd not at first sight?"

Christopher Marlowe
(02/06/1564 – 05/30/1593)
English writer ("Tamburlaine")
(image from Bridgeman Art Library)

"My words are my own, and my actions are my ministers'."

King Charles II
(05/29/1630 – 02/06/1685)
English royalty

"What I have known with respect to myself, has tended much to lessen both my admiration, and my contempt, of others."

Joseph Priestley
(03/24/1733 – 02/06/1804)
English chemist, theologian, grammarian ("An History of the Corruptions of Christianity")

"I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run."

Babe Ruth
(02/06/1895 – 08/16/1948)
US baseball player

"Some people will believe anything if you whisper it to them."

Louis Nizer
(02/06/1902 – 11/10/1994)
English-US lawyer ("My Life in Court")

"Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."

Ronald Reagan
(02/06/1911 – 06/05/2004)
US actor, President (40)
(was married to Jane Wyman, Nancy Reagan; dated Doris Lilly; father with Wyman of Maureen Reagan and Michael Reagan)

"All art is erotic"

Gustav Klimt
(07/14/1862 – 02/06/1918)
Austrian artist ("Water Serpents I")
(affair with Alma Schindler)

"You mean apart from my own?"

Zsa Zsa Gabor
(02/06/1917 – 12/18/2016)
Hungarian celebrity-because-a-celebrity ("Moulin Rouge") , when asked how many husbands she's had
(sister of Eva; was married to Conrad Hilton and eight others)

"Should not the Society of Indexers be known as Indexers, Society of, The?"

Keith Waterhouse
(02/06/1929 – 09/04/2009)
English writer ("Billy Liar")

"I've married a few people I shouldn't have, but haven't we all?"

Mamie Van Doren
(02/06/1931 – )
US actor ("Untamed Youth")

"You can never turn your back on the ocean."

Rip Torn
(02/06/1931 – 07/09/2019)
US actor ("Men in Black")

"Some day I'll make a film that critics will like. When I have money to waste."

Francois Truffaut
(02/06/1932 – 10/21/1984)
French director ("The 400 Blows")

"I'm honored that you invited me, especially when for $10,000 and a new convertible you could have had the top running-back prospect at SMU."

Tom Brokaw
(02/06/1940 – )
US telejournalist ("The Greatest Generation") , on emceeing an NCAA honors luncheon

"The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth suffering for."

Bob Marley
(02/06/1945 – 05/11/1981)
Jamaican singer, guitarist ("Get Up, Stand Up")

"Happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up."

Charles Langbridge Morgan
(01/22/1894 – 02/06/1958)
English writer ("The Burning Glass")

"Psychologically, you could consider this a reunion tour because I've managed to find enough pieces of my mind in order to be with you here tonight."

Axl Rose
(02/06/1962 – )
US singer (Guns'n'Roses) ("November Rain")
(also see Slash)

"Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill."

Barbara W. Tuchman
(01/30/1912 – 02/06/1989)
US writer, historian ("The Guns of August")

"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 ("Make Room for Daddy")
(father of Marlo Thomas)

"You learn about equality in history and civics, but you find out life is not really like that."

Arthur Ashe
(07/10/1943 – 02/06/1993)
US tennis pro

"I was handed a chocolate bar and an M-1 rifle and told to go kill Hitler."

Jack Kirby
(08/28/1917 – 02/06/1994)
US cartoonist ("Captain America")

"People will get tired of managing personal computers and will want instead terminals, maybe with windows."

Ken Olsen
(02/20/1926 – 02/06/2011)
US businessman, DEC founder

"Everything pays for growing tame."

Maxine Kumin
(06/06/1925 – 02/06/2014)
US writer ("Still to Mow: Poems")

"I don't think I'd want a revival. I'm not doing a tribute to myself."

Dan Hicks
(12/09/1941 – 02/06/2016)
US singer, songwriter, musician ("How Can I Miss You When You Won't Go Away")

"If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going."

Professor Irwin Corey
(07/29/1914 – 02/06/2017)
US comic, actor ("Chatterbox")

"Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis."

Manfred Eigen
(05/09/1927 – 02/06/2019)
German physicist ("The Laws of the Game: How The Principles of Nature Govern Chance")

"The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost."

George P. Shultz
(12/13/1920 – 02/06/2021)
US Secretary of State (60)