August 03

"They are a lot of hard-faced men who look as if they had done very well out of the war."

Stanley Baldwin
(08/03/1867 – 12/14/1947)
British PM (38) , on Parliament

"A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early."

Rupert Brooke
(08/03/1887 – 04/23/1915)
English writer ("The Soldier")

"Learning and sex until rigor mortis."

Maggie Kuhn
(08/03/1905 – 04/22/1995)
US Gray Panther ("No Stone Unturned")

"We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends."

P. D. James
(08/03/1920 – 11/27/2014)
English writer ("Cover Her Face")

"All television is children's television." *

Richard P. Adler
(08/03/1921 – 06/21/2012)
US? composer, producer?

"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."

Joseph Conrad
(12/03/1857 – 08/03/1924)
Polish-Ukrainian writer ("Heart of Darkness")

"In point of substantial merit, the law school belongs in the modern university no more than a school of fencing and dancing."

Thorstein Veblen
(07/30/1857 – 08/03/1929)
Norwegian economist ("The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions")
(died near his birthday)

"I'm one of those cliff-hanging Catholics. I don't believe in God, but I do believe that Mary was his mother."

Martin Sheen
(08/03/1940 – )
US actor ("Apocalypse Now")
(father of Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen)

"Basement smells bad. Look for cat poops, change litter. Happy Valentines Day."

Martha Stewart
(08/03/1941 – )
US craft maven , note to her gardener

"If I can't have too many truffles I'll do without."

Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette
(01/28/1873 – 08/03/1954)
French writer ("Gigi")

"When in Rome, do as you done in Milledgeville."

Flannery O'Connor
(03/25/1925 – 08/03/1964)
US writer ("Wise Blood")

"If Jesus had been killed 20 years ago, Catholic school children would be wearing little electric chairs around their necks instead of crosses."

Lenny Bruce
(10/13/1925 – 08/03/1966)
US comic

"Ubi non accusator, ibi non judex. (Where there is no police, there is no speed limit.)"

Petr Beckmann
(11/13/1924 – 08/03/1993)
Czech scholar ("A History of Π")

"During the work, you have to be sure that you haven't left any holes, that you've captured everything, because afterwards it will be too late."

Henri Cartier-Bresson
(08/22/1908 – 08/03/2004)
French photographer ("Rue Mouffetard, Paris")

"You only have power over people so long as you don't take everything away from them. But when you've robbed a man of everything, he's no longer in your power—he's free again."

Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn
(12/11/1918 – 08/03/2008)
Russian writer ("The Gulag Archipelago: An Experiment in Literary Investigation")

"I am not an Economist. I am an honest man!" *

Paul McCracken
(12/29/1915 – 08/03/2012)
US economist

"And isn't it funny, she thought, that it takes two generations to kill off a man? First him, and then his memory..."

Shirley Ann Grau
(07/08/1929 – 08/03/2020)
US writer ("The Keepers of the House")