Quotes from authors that died on Aug 4th
Not having children is one less worry. Children are a worry!
Jeanne Calment
The mass of the people commence life with no other capital than the union of head, hearts and hands. To the benefit of this best of capital the wife has no right.
Ernestine Rose
I've only got one wrinkle, and I'm sitting on it.
Jeanne Calment
Once I even took the train to Utrecht, forty miles from Amsterdam, with my yellow star, this star which I still have. Why did I go? I just wanted to visit some friends. I was a little bit crazy, a little bit insane.
Abraham Pais
People think I'm crazy because I travel too much, but I haven't been doing any of that lately because I got a little sick this year and I've tried to take care of it.
Lee Hazlewood
Amitabh Bachchan 
Edmondo De Amicis 
Graham Norton 
Brenda Blethyn 
Cardinal Richelieu 
Ben Shneiderman 
Kate Clinton 
Abbe Pierre