January 25

"Our wrangling lawyers are so litigious and busy here on earth, that I think they will plead their clients' causes hereafter, some of them in hell."

Robert Burton
(02/08/1577 – 01/25/1640)
English writer ("The Anatomy of Melancholy")

"There is no such uncertainty as a sure thing."

Robert Burns
(01/25/1759 – 07/21/1796)
Scottish poet ("To a Louse")

"Nature formed me fierce."

Lady Caroline Lamb
(11/13/1785 – 01/25/1828)
English writer ("Glenarvon")
(was married to William Lamb Melbourne; had a bit of a fling with Lord Byron)

"She plunged into a sea of platitudes, and with the powerful breast stroke of a channel swimmer made her confident way towards the white cliffs of the obvious."

W. Somerset Maugham
(01/25/1874 – 12/16/1965)
English writer ("Of Human Bondage")

"On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points."

Virginia Woolf
(01/25/1882 – 03/28/1941)
English writer ("To the Lighthouse")

"Petty laws breed great crimes."

Ouida
(01/01/1839 – 01/25/1908)
English writer ("A Dog of Flanders")

"Errol Flynn died on a 70-foot boat with a 17-year-old girl. Walter has always wanted to go that way, but he's going to settle for a 17-footer with a 70-year-old." *

Betsy Cronkite
(01/25/1916 – 03/15/2005)
US wife
(of Walter)

"You need an R rating because without one, you can't advertise and the film won't get shown."

Tobe Hooper
(01/25/1943 – 08/26/2017)
US director ("The Texas Chainsaw Massacre")

"I've taught him not to tackle every day like it's a title fight."

Jill Townsend
(01/25/1945 – )
US actor ("Alfie Darling") , on then-husband Nicol Williamson

"Don't get the idea that I'm knocking the American system."

Al Capone
(01/17/1899 – 01/25/1947)
US entrepreneur

"I don't believe that life is supposed to make you feel good, or make you feel miserable either. Life is just supposed to make you feel."

Gloria Naylor
(01/25/1950 – 09/28/2016)
US writer ("The Women of Brewster Place")

"A Minor is one of my all-time favorite keys to play in. It's a very moody key, and also 'A' is the first letter of my name. It just represents the songs through my eyes."

Alicia Keys
(01/25/1981 – )
US singer ("Fallin'")

"Ha! I always knew Frank would end up in bed with a boy!"

Ava Gardner
(12/24/1922 – 01/25/1990)
US actor ("The Night of the Iguana") , on Sinatra's marriage to Mia Farrow
(was married to Frank Sinatra, Artie Shaw, Mickey Rooney)

"When the adults lose their patience, the children lose their choices."

Isaac Francis Terrell
(01/25/2003 – )
US friend of the quotemaster
(son of Paul Terrell, and youngest person on this site)

"I'm about four skyscrapers behind."

Philip Johnson
(07/08/1906 – 01/25/2005)
US architect (550 Madison Avenue)

"I'm not an actress who can create a character. I play me."

Mary Tyler Moore
(12/29/1936 – 01/25/2017)
US actor (Dick Van Dyke Show)

"As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well."

Sir John Hurt
(01/22/1940 – 01/25/2017)
English actor ("The Elephant Man")
(died near his birthday)