"My manner of thinking, so you say, cannot be approved. Do you suppose I care? A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking for others!...This manner of thinking you find fault with is my sole consolation in life...."
--Marquis de Sade
#marquisdesade
Happy Birthday to the #MarquisdeSade!!
*The Mac Daddy
*1740-1814
"Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes."
"All universal moral principles are idle fancies."
Mary Evans, 19th Century
Happy Birthday to #RonnieWood!!!!
*Libertine Extraordinaire!
*B. 1947
"Amazing, the poisons I used to put in my body. I used to love it. "
"When I'm left on my own I'm my own worst enemy."
"What can I say, I'm an alcoholic. It's what I do."
Photo by Jonn Leffman, 1988
Happy Birthday to #CeeLoGreen!
*Singer-Songwriter
*B. 1974
#BOTD#BornOnThisDay
"I want to burn as a beacon of possibility."
"It's hard to write a song about reality because reality doesn't rhyme."
Photo by Elekes Andor, 2017
Happy Birthday to Wendy O. Williams!!!
*Punkrocker
*1949-1998
"It's not that I don't value my life. It's just that I love taking chances, testing myself, stepping over the line."
"Do I have to use my feet? Can I knock the window out with my head?"
#WendyOWilliams#WendyO
Happy Birthday to #HarlanEllison!
*Storyteller
*1935-2018
#botd#bornonthisday
"History will decide if I'm a villain or a hero."
"I go to bed angry every night, and I get up angrier every morning."
"Love ain't nothing but sex misspelled."
Photo by Pip R. Lagenta, 2001
Happy Birthday to #HelenaBonhamCarter!!
*Actress
*b. 1966
"I drink booze, I smoke, and I'm hooked on caffeine. I actually have been known to swear at times and belch... And I'm not physically repressed!"
#botd#BornOnThisDay
Mural by Zarateman, 2010
Happy Birthday to #MilesDavis!!!!
*Jazz Man
*1926-1991
#BOTD#BornOnThisDay
*Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself."
"The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas."
Mariefize009, 2017
"Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted."
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Born on this day, in 1803
thanks to @Samantharhill
Happy Birthday to Ralph Waldo Emerson!!
*Philosopher
*1803-1882
“Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
#RalphWaldoEmerson#Emerson
Happy Birthday to Tommy Chong!
*Actor, Wellness Professional
"Jail was probably the most exciting thing that's ever happened to me."
#TommyChong
Photo by Gage Skidmore, 2022
Happy Birthday to Jean-Paul Marat
*Revolutionary
*1743-1793
"...princes everywhere tend to despotism and the people to servitude."
"Man has the right to deal with his oppressors by devouring their palpitating hearts."
#Marat
by Joseph Boze, 1793