Hooray! Happy Birthday, Puccini! Here's today's quoteS:

"Don't worry about your beard when your head is about to be taken."
--Sun Tzu from "The Art Of War"

"...And everyone was happy, except those who had to mow the lawns."
--J.R.R. Tolkien from "The Return of The King"

"...But Sir, I can only swim in lakes!"
(Said by Blaisois when forced to jump into the English Channel from a boat set to explode.)
--Alexandre Dumas from "Twenty Years After"

--Mbo