August 31

"Some said, John, print it; others said, Not so:
Some said, It might do good; others said, no."

John Bunyan
(11/28/1628 – 08/31/1688)
English writer, minister , Apology, The Pilgrim's Progress

"Any healthy man can go without food for two days, but not without poetry."

Charles Baudelaire
(04/09/1821 – 08/31/1867)
French writer

"If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men."

Dr. Maria Montessori
(08/31/1870 – 05/06/1952)
Italian educator

"God granted me the privilege of knowing the brilliant works of our time before they left the hands of their creators. And if I was allowed to assist these knights for a while, then my existence is justified and blessed!"

Alma Schindler Mahler Kokoschka Gropius Werfel
(08/31/1879 – 12/11/1964)
Austrian writer (was married to Gustav Mahler, Walter Gropius, and Franz Werfel; had affairs with Oskar Kokoschka, Gustav Klimt, Arnold Schoenberg, Gerhart Hauptman, Alban Berg, Enrico Caruso, Alexander Zemlinksy, Johannes Hollnsteiner, among others)

"While we read history we make history."

George William Curtis
(02/24/1824 – 08/31/1892)
US writer

"Co-starring with Garbo hardly constituted an introduction."

Fredric March
(08/31/1897 – 04/14/1975)
US actor

"I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is—I could be just as proud for half the money."

Arthur Godfrey
(08/31/1903 – 03/16/1983)
US actor

"The role of art is to make a world which can be inhabited."

William Saroyan
(08/31/1908 – 05/18/1981)
US writer (was married to Carol Grace)

"The female sex has no greater fan than I, and I have the bills to prove it."

Alan Jay Lerner
(08/31/1918 – 06/14/1986)
US lyricist (songwriting partner of Frederick Loewe; was married to Nancy Olson, among others)

"I've had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you're carrying a grudge, they're out dancing."

Buddy Hackett
(08/31/1924 – 06/30/2003)
US comic

"You don't have to teach people how to be human. You have to teach them how to stop being inhuman."

Eldridge Cleaver
(08/31/1935 – 05/01/1998)
US activist

"Being famous was extremely disappointing for me. When I became famous it was a complete drag and it is still a complete drag."

Van Morrison
(08/31/1945 – )
Irish-US singer

"I don't want to be a personality."

Richard Gere
(08/31/1949 – )
US actor (was married to Cindy Crawford)

"I am driven, even though I don't drive."

Debbie Gibson
(08/31/1970 – )
US singer

"It is easier to get an actor to be a cowboy than to get a cowboy to be an actor."

John Ford
(02/01/1895 – 08/31/1973)
US filmmaker

"In my opinion, everything, every shape, every bit of natural form, animals, people, pebbles, shells, anything you like are all things that can help you to make a sculpture."

Henry Moore
(07/30/1898 – 08/31/1986)
English sculptor

"The sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper,
set the clouds
to one great roof of flame
above the earth."

Elizabeth Coatsworth
(05/31/1893 – 08/31/1986)
US writer

"There were three of us in this marriage, so it was a bit crowded."

Princess Diana
(07/01/1961 – 08/31/1997)
English royalty (was married to Prince Charles)

"Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God."

Lionel Hampton
(04/12/1908 – 08/31/2002)
US jazz great