June 19

"The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir."

Thomas Fuller
(06/19/1608 – 08/16/1661)
English writer ("Worthies of England")

"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed."

Blaise Pascal
(06/19/1623 – 08/19/1662)
French mathematician ("Pensées (Thoughts)")

"The anvil is not afraid of the hammer."

Charles H. Spurgeon
(06/19/1834 – 01/31/1892)
English clergy ("Wordless Book")

"If you can't answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names."

Elbert Hubbard
(06/19/1856 – 05/07/1915)
US writer ("A Message to Garcia")

"The richer your friends, the more they will cost you."

Elisabeth Marbury
(06/19/1856 – 01/22/1933)
US literary and theatrical agent ("Manners: A handbook of social customs")

"[The 17th Earl of Derby] is a very weak-minded fellow I am afraid, and, like the feather pillow, bears the marks of the last person who has sat on him."

Douglas Haig
(06/19/1861 – 01/29/1928)
Scottish military

"You knuckleheads!"

Moe Howard
(06/19/1897 – 05/04/1975—same dates as Evelle Younger)
US comic actor (The Three Stooges)

John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton, 1st Baron (of Aldenham)

"There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men."

John Dalberg Acton
(01/10/1834 – 06/19/1902)
English historian ("The History of Freedom")

"If you have integrity—nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity—nothing else matters."

Evelle Younger
(06/19/1918 – 05/04/1989—same dates as Moe Howard)
US attorney general (CA)

"Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.'"

Pauline Kael
(06/19/1919 – 09/03/2001)
US (Petaluma, CA-born) film critic

"But you base everything on people you know."

Gena Rowlands
(06/19/1930 – )
US actor ("A Woman Under the Influence")
(was married to John Cassavetes)

"I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life."

Sir James M. Barrie
(05/09/1860 – 06/19/1937)
Scottish writer ("Peter Pan; or, the Boy Who Wouldn't Grow Up")

"If Woody Allen were a Muslim, he'd be dead by now."

Salman Rushdie
(06/19/1947 – )
Indian-English writer ("The Satanic Verses")

"Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies."

Adrienne Gusoff
(06/19/1953 – )
US telegram

"I find the idea of today's icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring."

Kathleen Turner
(06/19/1954 – )
US actor ("Peggy Sue Got Married")

"For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help."

Paula Abdul
(06/19/1962 – )
US dancer, singer ("Forever Your Girl")
(was married to Emilio Estevez)

"My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters."

Boris Johnson
(06/19/1964 – )
English Prime Minister (55)

"Every radish I ever pulled up seemed to have a mortgage attached to it."

Ed Wynn
(11/09/1886 – 06/19/1966)
US actor ("Mary Poppins")
(father of Keenan Wynn)

"Philosophy and Religion—what are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?"

William Golding
(09/19/1911 – 06/19/1993)
English writer ("Lord of the Flies")

"You know my feelings: every day is a gift. It's just, does it have to be socks?"

James Gandolfini
(09/18/1961 – 06/19/2013)
US actor ("The Sopranos")