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"An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured."
Konrad Adenauer
(01/05/1876
04/19/1967)
Chancellor, German Republic
"The secret of a successful newspaper is to take one story each day and bang the hell out of it. Give the public what it wants to have and part of what it ought to have whether it wants it or not."
Herbert Bayard Swope
(01/05/1882
06/20/1958)
US journalist
"Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise."
George Washington Carver
(??/??/1864
01/05/1943)
US agricultural chemist
"Maria Montez has a dual personality: one for Hollywood and another as a mother and a wife... that woman is full of simplicity, culture and romance with an overflowing humanity."
Jean-Pierre Aumont
(01/05/1911
01/30/2001)
French actor
(was married to Maria Montez;
father with her of Tina Aumont)
"I don't want to spend the next two years in Holiday Inns."
Walter F. Mondale
(01/05/1928
)
US VP (40)
, withdrawing from 1976 presidential election
"Let's build a monument for the veto. Let's build a monument for impotence and incapacity."
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
(01/05/1928
04/04/1979)
Pakistani statesman
"I'm attracted to long-legged girls with long arms and a little head."
Alvin Ailey
(01/05/1931
12/01/1989)
US dancer, choreographer
"Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom."
Chuck Noll
(01/05/1932
06/13/2014)
US football coach
"I think the American public wants a solemn ass as a President, and I think I'll go along with them."
Calvin Coolidge
(07/04/1872
01/05/1933)
US President (30),
VP (29)
"I think that people who are famous tend to be underdeveloped in their humanity skills."
Diane Keaton
(01/05/1946
)
US actor
(LTR with Woody Allen)
"One of those Canadian proverbs."
Jim Gantner
(01/05/1953
)
US baseball player
, on where he spent his vacation
"People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring."
Rogers Hornsby
(04/27/1896
01/05/1963)
US baseball player
"I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy."
Max Born
(12/11/1882
01/05/1970)
German physicist
"Know that although in the eternal scheme of things you are small, you are also unique and irreplaceable, as are all your fellow humans everywhere in the world."
Margaret Laurence
(07/18/1926
01/05/1987)
Canadian writer
("The Stone Angel")
"You better take advantage of the good cigars. You don’t get much else in that job."
"Tip" ONeill
(12/09/1912
01/05/1994)
US house speaker
, to Vice President Walter Mondale
"Harvard was a kind of luxurious afternoon."
Lincoln Kirstein
(05/04/1907
01/05/1996)
US impresario
("Flesh Is Heir: An Historical Romance")
"It was scary when the Beatles came on the scene. It was like a fire, or an earthquake, or an accident."
Sonny Bono
(02/16/1935
01/05/1998)
US singer, congressman
(was married to Cher)
"Whenever you get an inflamed tendon, you've got a problem. Okay, here's the next pitch to Gene Tendon."
Jerry Coleman
(09/14/1924
01/05/2014)
US sportscaster
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