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"In an examination, those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell."
Sir Walter Raleigh
(01/22/1552?
10/29/1618)
English explorer
"I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves."
August Strindberg
(01/22/1849
05/14/1912)
Swedish writer
("The Red Room")
"So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere."
Beatrice Webb
(01/22/1858
04/30/1943)
English writer
"A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth."
George D. Prentice
(12/18/1802
01/22/1870)
US writer
("Prenticeana, or Wit and Humor in Paragraphs")
"I made them see, didn't I? I changed everything."
D. W. Griffith
(01/22/1875
07/23/1948)
US director
"A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone."
Francis Picabia
(01/22/1879
11/30/1953)
French artist
"If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written The Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause."
Charles Langbridge Morgan
(01/22/1894
02/06/1958)
English writer
("The Burning Glass")
"The Queen is most anxious to enlist every one who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Woman's Rights,' with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent..."
Queen Victoria
(05/24/1819
01/22/1901)
Queen of England
(mother of King Edward VII,
grandmother of Queen Marie of Romania)
"If your desk isn't cluttered, you probably aren't doing your job."
Harold S. Geneen
(01/22/1910
11/21/1997)
English businessman (ITT)
"Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows."
James Bryce
(05/10/1838
01/22/1922)
Irish writer, diplomat
"A caress is better than a career."
Elisabeth Marbury
(06/19/1856
01/22/1933)
US literary and theatrical agent
"A squid, as you know of course, has ten testicles."
Graham Kerr
(01/22/1934
)
US chef ("Galloping Gourmet")
"Fair is for games."
Nancy J. Robinson
(01/22/????
)
US computing pioneer, systems analyst, and quotekeeper's mom
"The secret of charm is bullsh*t."
Tyrone Power, Jr.
(01/22/1959
)
US actor and... charmer?
"You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: we were lazy." *
Maxwell Rosenlicht
(04/15/1924
01/22/1999)
US mathematician, professor
"The surest way to become a pacifist is to join the infantry."
William H. Mauldin
(10/29/1921
01/22/2003)
US cartoonist
"We had a good sense of humor about it, because we knew what we were holding on to and how it was going to exceed expectations and [labels]. We weren't running around naked in chaps swinging pink guns in the air. We knew that, and we found it funny that no one else did."
Heath Ledger
(04/04/1979
01/22/2008)
Australian actor
(was partner with Naomi Watts)
, on filming Brokeback Mountain
"Act like you expect to get into the end zone."
Joe Paterno
(12/21/1926
01/22/2012)
US football coach
"You can only milk a cow so long, and then you're left holding the pail."
Hank Aaron
(02/05/1934
01/22/2021)
US baseball player
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