Robert Burton – 1577 – Writer
“A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.”
George Dana Boardman – 1801 – Missionary
“Sow an act, and you reap a habit; sow a habit, and you reap a character; sow a character, and you reap a destiny.”
Eliphas Levi – 1810 – Author
“A good teacher must be able to put himself in the place of those who find learning hard.”
John Ruskin – 1819 – Writer
“Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces us up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.”
William Tecumseh Sherman – 1820 – General
“War is cruelty. There’s no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over.”
Jules Verne – 1828 – Author
“Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.”
Kate O’Flaherty Chopin – 1851 – Author
“There are some people who leave impressions not so lasting as the imprint of an oar upon the water.”
Martin Buber – 1878 – Philosopher
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”
Lana Turner – 1921 – Actress (Julia Jean Mildred Frances Turner)
“A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.”
Jack Lemmon – 1925 – Actor
“Stay humble. Always answer the phone – no matter who else is in the car.”
James Dean – 1931 – Actor
“Dream as if you’ll live forever, and live as if you’ll die today.”
John Williams – 1932 – Composer
“The Olympics are a wonderful metaphor for world cooperation, the kind of international competition that’s wholesome and healthy, an interplay between countries that represents the best in all of us.”
Ted Koppel – 1940 – Journalist
“The responsibility that I feel is to do as good a job as a journalist as I can possibly do.”
John Grisham – 1955 – Author
“If I wrote about honest lawyers, I wouldn’t be able to give the books away.”
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