Sunday, July 11, 2021

Best quotes from people born July 12

 

In the end, it is impossible not to become what others believe you are.—Emperor Julius Caesar (100 B.C.E.-44 B.C.E.)

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.—philosopher Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

Look wise say nothing and grunt, speech was given to conceal thought. —physician Sir William Osler (1849-1919)

You push the button, we do the rest.—George Eastman, founder of Eastman Kodak Company (1854-1932)

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.—agricultural chemist George Washington Carver (1864-1943)

Happiness is an angel with a serious face.—painter Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920)

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly. —engineer, philosopher, and futurist Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983)

Walk on, walk on with hope in your heart, and you'll never walk alone, you'll never walk alone.—lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II (1895-1960)

Tonight I can write the saddest lines/I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.—Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda (1904-1973)

If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.—comedian Milton Berle (1908-2002)

Bonus quote from Berle:

A good wife always forgives her husband when she's wrong.

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