Todays Dead List 08/19/2008

The Dead List August 19th, 2008

“I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.”

• Blaise Pascal
  (06/19/1623 – 08/19/1662)
  French mathematician

“Remember the Viper:—’twas close at your feet,
How you started and threw yourself into my arms;
Not a strawberry there was so ripe nor so sweet
As the lips which I kiss’d to subdue your alarms.”

• Robert Bloomfield
  (12/03/1766 – 08/19/1823)
  English writer

“In Spain, the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.”

• Federico Garcia Lorca
  (06/05/1898 – 08/19/1936)
  Spanish writer, artist, pianist, composer

“There were three things that Chico was always on—a phone, a horse, or a broad.”

• Groucho Marx
  (10/02/1890 – 08/19/1977)
  US comic, actor (Marx Brothers: Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Zeppo, Gummo)

“My mother died and left me reckless, my daddy died and left me wild, wild, wild.”

• Blind Willie McTell
  (05/025/1898 – 08/19/1959)
  US Blues Singer Composer

“Satisfaction of one’s curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.”

• Linus Pauling
  (02/28/1901 – 08/19/1994)
  US chemist