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"Those who knowingly allow the King to err deserve the same punishment as traitors."
Alfonso X the Wise
(11/23/1221
04/04/1284)
Spanish royalty
"He makes a very handsome corpse and becomes his coffin prodigiously."
Oliver Goldsmith
(11/10/1728
04/04/1774)
Irish writer
"A politician thinks of the next electiona statesman, of the next generation."
James Freeman Clarke
(04/04/1810
06/08/1888)
US theologian
"Oh, never mind the fashion. When one has a style of one's own, it is always twenty times better."
Margaret Oliphant Oliphant
(04/04/1828
06/25/1897)
Scottish writer
"Up with your damned nonsense will I put twice, or perhaps once, but sometimes always, by God, never."
Hans Richter
(04/04/1843
12/05/1916)
Hungarian conductor
"Of all the sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity."
Remy de Gourmont
(04/04/1858
09/27/1915)
French writer
"It is disappointing to report that George Bernard Shaw appearing as George Bernard Shaw is sadly miscast in the part. Satirists should be heard and not seen."
Robert E. Sherwood
(04/04/1896
11/14/1955)
US playwright
"Before they're plumbers or writers or taxi drivers or unemployed or journalists, men are men. Whether heterosexual or homosexual. The only difference is that some of them remind you of it as soon as you meet them, and others wait for a little while."
Marguerite Duras
(04/04/1914
03/03/1996)
French writer
"Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told, 'I am with you kid. Let's go!'"
Maya Angelou
(04/04/1928
05/28/2014)
US writer
"I have learned more about love, selflessness and human understanding from the people I have met in this great adventure in the world of AIDS than I ever did in the cutthroat, competitive world in which I spent my life."
Anthony Perkins
(04/04/1932
09/12/1992)
US actor
"It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table."
A. Bartlett Giamatti
(04/04/1938
09/01/1989)
US President of Yale, commissioner of Major League Baseball
"The golf links lie so near the mill
that almost every day
the laboring children can look out
and watch the men at play."
Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn
(02/04/1876
04/04/1959)
US writer
"Television news is like a lightning flash. It makes a loud noise, lights up everything around it, leaves everything else in darkness and then is suddenly gone."
Hodding Carter II
(02/03/1907
04/04/1972)
US journalist
"This is the most dangerous thing I will probably ever do in my life, except for having a kid."
David Blaine
(04/04/1973
)
US magician
, on sitting in a glass box 44 days above the Thames
"Pakistan was once called the most allied ally of the United States. We are now the most nonallied."
Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
(01/05/1928
04/04/1979)
Pakistani statesman
"I never studied acting in Australia. I never had an empty stage and black pajamas to run around and express myself."
Heath Ledger
(04/04/1979
01/22/2008)
Australian actor
(was partner with Naomi Watts)
"I've given my memoirs far more thought than any of my marriages. You can't divorce a book."
Gloria Swanson
(03/27/1899
04/04/1983)
US actor
"The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language."
Max Frisch
(05/15/1911
04/04/1991)
Swiss writer, architect
"Is it possible to sell anything at the concession stand that doesn't kill?"
Roger Ebert
(06/18/1942
04/04/2013)
US writer, critic
, on modern movie theaters
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