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"Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it, and that a very severe one."
Hannah More
(02/02/1745
09/07/1833)
English writer
"The truffle is not exactly an aphrodisiac, but it tends to make women more tender and men more likeable."
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin
(04/01/1755
02/02/1826)
French gastronome
"The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum."
Havelock Ellis
(02/02/1859
07/08/1939)
English writer
Fritz Kreisler: "My fee is eighteen thousand dollars."
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt: "That's agreeable, but I hope you understand that you should not mingle with my guests."
Kreisler: "Oh! Well, in that case, my fee is only five hundred dollars."
(02/02/1875
01/29/1962)
Austrian composer
(died near his birthday)
"Write on my gravestone: 'Infidel, Traitor'; infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people."
Wendell Phillips
(11/29/1811
02/02/1884)
US abolitionist
"Find out what the other team wants to do. Then take it away from them."
George Halas
(02/02/1895
10/31/1983)
US football coach
"No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other."
Jascha Heifetz
(02/02/1901
12/10/1987)
Russia-born US violinist
"The upper classes are merely a nation's past; the middle class is its future."
Ayn Rand
(02/02/1905
03/06/1982)
Russia-born US writer
"No degree of dullness can safeguard a work against the determination of critics to find it fascinating."
Harold Rosenberg
(02/02/1906
07/11/1978)
US writer
"History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives."
Abba Eban
(02/02/1915
11/17/2002)
S. Africa-born Israeli diplomat
"Do not join encounter groups. If you enjoy being made to feel inadequate, call your mother."
Liz Smith
(02/02/1923
11/12/2017)
US journalist
"A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning."
James Dickey
(02/02/1923
01/19/1997)
US writer
("Deliverance")
"Musically, I love to talk just off the top of my head and that's what jazz is all about."
Stan Getz
(02/02/1927
06/06/1991)
US saxophonist
"Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket, or a holding pattern over Philadelphia."
Judith Viorst
(02/02/1931
)
US writer
"I can always tell when the mother in law's coming to stay; the mice throw themselves on the traps."
Les Dawson
(02/02/1931
06/10/1993)
English comic
"We got new advice as to what motivated man to walk upright: to free his hands for masturbation."
Jane Wagner
(02/02/1935
)
US writer
(Lily Tomlin's partner)
"We were foolish and young and out of our minds. That's one of the things that is different nowwe are older and out of our minds."
Graham Nash
(02/02/1942
)
English singer
(Hollies, CSNY;
relationship with Joni Mitchell)
, on CSNY reuniting
"The American public tunes in every night hoping to see two people screwing. Obviously, we can't give them that but let's always keep it in mind."
Barry Diller
(02/02/1942
)
US television executive
"The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think."
Farrah Fawcett
(02/02/1947
06/25/2009)
US actor
(was married to Lee Majors,
partner with Ryan O'Neal)
"Just because people can express themselves through their art doesn't mean they are great communicators in person."
Christie Brinkley
(02/02/1954
)
US model
(was married to Billy Joel)
"I really like to create the sound of a choir the most. If you could see what the sound of it looks like when I shut my eyes and listen, you'd see the sound as angels spanning across the universe." *
Eva Cassidy
(02/02/1963
11/02/1996)
US singer
"My wife has good taste. She has seen very few of my movies."
Boris Karloff
(11/23/1887
02/02/1969)
English actor
(married seven times)
"When she lowers her eyes she seems to hold all the beauty in the world between her eyelids; when she raises them I see only myself in her gaze."
Natalie Clifford Barney
(10/31/1876
02/02/1972)
US writer
"There was no model for what I tried to do with dance... And the thing Fred (Astaire) and I used to bitch about was that critics didn't know how to categorize us. They called us tap dancers because that was considered the American style. But neither of us were basically tap dancers."
Gene Kelly
(08/23/1912
02/02/1996)
US dancer, actor, director, singer...
"Sometimes my quotes may be too colorful."
Earl Butz
(07/03/1909
02/02/2008)
US secretary of agriculture
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