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"The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest,
savors too much of private interest."
Edmund Waller
(03/03/1606
10/21/1687)
English writer
"Honest men
are the soft easy cushions on which knaves
Repose and fatten."
Thomas Otway
(03/03/1652
04/14/1685)
English writer
"He that loves reading has everything within his reach."
William Godwin
(03/03/1756
04/07/1836)
English writer
"Give the people not hell, but hope and courage."
Sir John Murray
(03/03/1841
03/16/1914)
Canadian scientist
"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."
Alexander Graham Bell
(03/03/1847
08/02/1922)
Scottish inventor
"Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have."
Emile Chartier
(03/03/1868
06/02/1951)
French writer
"One day when he was eating a cookie he offered me a bite. Don't underestimate that. The poor guy's so frightened of germs, it could darn near have been a proposal."
Jean Harlow
(03/03/1911
06/07/1937)
US actor
, on Howard Hughes
"One learns little more about a man from his feats of literary memory than from the feats of his alimentary canal."
Frank Moore Colby
(02/10/1865
03/03/1925)
US encyclopedia editor, essayist
"I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either."
Robyn Hitchcock
(03/03/1953
)
English singer, songwriter
"I'm not squeamish at all. As a child I dragged a dead squirrel home on my skateboard and cut it open and tried to look at its brain."
Jessica Biel
(03/03/1982
)
US actor
(married to Justin Timberlake)
"I wasn't born a fool. It took work to get this way."
Danny Kaye
(01/18/1911
03/03/1987)
US actor
"No other human being, no woman, no poem or music, book or painting can replace alcohol in its power to give man the illusion of real creation."
Marguerite Duras
(04/04/1914
03/03/1996)
French writer
"In America television can make so much money doing its worst, it cannot afford to do its best."
Fred Friendly
(10/30/1915
03/03/1998)
US TV producer
"When the student is ready, the lesson appears."
Gene Oliver
(03/22/1935
03/03/2007)
US baseball player
"If a man coaches himself, then he has only himself to blame when he is beaten."
Sir Roger Bannister
(03/23/1929
03/03/2018)
English runner
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