September 02

"How many men are there who fairly earn a million dollars?"

Henry George
(09/02/1839 – 10/29/1897)
US economist

"A proof that experience is of no use, is that the end of one love does not prevent us from beginning another."

Paul Bourget
(09/02/1852 – 12/25/1935)
French writer

"The first casualty of war is truth."

Hiram Johnson
(09/02/1866 – 08/06/1945)
US Governor, Senator (CA) (Note: Johnson died [of old age] the day the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima)

"The landscapist lives in silence."

Henri Rousseau
(05/21/1844 – 09/02/1910)
French artist

"A 'good' family, it seems, is one that used to be better."

Cleveland Amory
(09/02/1917 – 10/15/1998)
US writer ("The Cat Who...")

"(Nixon) bleeds people. He draws every drop of blood and then drops them from a cliff. He'll blame any person he can put his foot on."

Martha Mitchell
(09/02/1918 – 05/31/1996)
Watergate Holstein (was married to John Mitchell)

"For I respectfully decline
To dignify the Serpentine,
And make hors-d'oeuvres for fishes."

Austin Dobson
(01/18/1840 – 09/02/1921)
English writer

"Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over, owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on."

Peter Ueberroth
(09/02/1937 – )
US baseball commissioner

"One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact."

David F. Houston
(02/17/1866 – 09/02/1940)
US Secretary of Treasury , on William Jennings Bryan

"Why do you heckle me? For all you know, I'm your father."

Jack White
(09/02/1944 – )
US? comic (the White Stripes singer was born July 9, 1975) , to a heckler

"I touch the future. I teach."

Christa McAuliffe
(09/02/1948 – 01/28/1986)
US astronaut, teacher

"People don't seem to understand that it's a damn war out there."

Jimmy Connors
(09/02/1952 – )
US tennis player (was engaged to Chris Evert)

"Yes, but I don't have to eat the whole rifle."

Keanu Reeves
(09/02/1964 – )
US actor , on being told "You'll just have to bite the bullet."

"Look, I take my work seriously, but I take myself really lightly."

Salma Hayek
(09/02/1966 – )
Mexican actor

"It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him."

J. R. R. Tolkien
(01/03/1892 – 09/02/1973)
English writer

"I've just been so interested in what I was doing that I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life."

Barbara McClintock
(06/16/1902 – 09/02/1992)
US scientist

"I am perfectly happy to believe that nobody likes us but the public."

Rudolf Bing
(01/09/1902 – 09/02/1997)
Austrian manager, NY Metropolitan Opera

"Since Auschwitz we know what man is capable of. And since Hiroshima we know what is at stake."

Viktor Frankl
(03/26/1905 – 09/02/1997)
Austrian psychiatrist

"I don't believe medical discoveries are doing much to advance human life. As fast as we create ways to extend it, we are inventing ways to shorten it."

Dr. Christiaan Barnard
(11/08/1922 – 09/02/2001)
S. African surgeon

"I don't jog. If I die I want to be sick."

Abe Lemons
(11/21/1922 – 09/02/2002)
US basketball coach

"It was the mid-'70s when I realized it wasn't going off the air. I certainly didn't set out to have a series rerun forever, but it's not a bad experience at all."

Bob Denver
(01/09/1935 – 09/02/2005)
US actor , on his TV show, "Gilligan's Island"