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On This Day, September 6 …
1899 - Carnation processed its first can of evaporated milk.
Quotes
"He
that thinks he is the happiest man really is so. But he that
thinks he is the wisest is generally the greatest fool."
~ Charles Caleb Colton, 1780-1832, British author,
cleric, eccentric
"If a
cat spoke, it would say things like, 'Hey, I don't see the problem
here'."
~ Roy Alton Blount, Jr., 1941- , American
humorist & author ("Long Time Leaving")
"Newfoundland dogs are good to save children from drowning, but
you must have a pond of water handy and a child, or else there
will be no profit in boarding a Newfoundland."
~ Josh Billings [pen name of Henry Wheeler Shaw],
1818-1885, American humorist & lecturer ("Choice Bits of American
Wit")
"Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman
giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped."
~ Sam Levenson, 1911-1980, American humorist,
writer & TV host ("Two for the Money")
"Life
does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases
to be serious when people laugh."
~ George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Nobel
Prize-winning Irish playwright ("Pygmalion")
"Writers are a little below clowns and a little above trained
seals."
~ John Ernst Steinbeck III, 1902-1968, Nobel &
Pulitzer Prize-winning American author ("The Grapes of Wrath") |
