Todays Dead List 08/12/2008

The Dead List August 12th, 2008

“I will not be conquered over.”

• Cleopatra
  (01/??/69BC – 08/12/30BC)
  Queen of Egypt

“You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.”

• William Blake
  (11/28/1757 – 08/12/1827)
  English writer

“Oh, write of me, not ‘Died in bitter pains,’
But ‘Emigrated to another star!’”

• Helen Hunt Jackson
  (10/15/1830 – 08/12/1885)
  US writer

“Men in earnest have no time to waste in patching fig leaves for the naked truth.”

• James Russell Lowell
  (02/22/1819 – 08/12/1891)
  US writer

“If Governor Fields is right, I am going to stand by him because he is right. If he is wrong, I am going to stand by him because he is a Democrat.”

• Augustus Owsley Stanley
  (05/21/1867 – 08/12/1958)
  US governor, senator (KY)

“If someone says ’can’t,’ that shows you what to do.”

• John Cage
  (09/05/1912 – 08/12/1992)
  US composer

“A man’s dying is more the survivors’ affair than his own.”

• Thomas Mann
  (06/06/1875 – 08/12/1955)
  German writer

“A horse is dangerous at both ends and uncomfortable in the middle.”

• Ian Fleming
  (05/28/1908 – 08/12/1964)
  Scottish writer

“Gross ignorance is 144 times worse than ordinary ignorance.”

• Bennett Cerf
  (05/25/1898 – 08/12/1971)
  US humorist

“I listen to Reagan and I want to throw up.”

• Henry Fonda
  (05/16/1905 – 08/12/1982)
  US actor

“If you want a place in the sun, you have to expect a few blisters.”

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

“To be a big league ball player, you have to love the game.”

• Enos Slaughter
  (04/027/1916 – 08/12/2002)
  US MLB HOF Player

“If the host is sitting there thinking about his next joke, he isn’t listening.”

• Merv Griffin
  (07/06/1925 – 08/12/2007)
  US TV personality