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"I am going to seek a grand perhaps; draw the curtain, the farce is played."
Francois Rabelais
(02/04/1494
04/09/1553)
French writer
, last words?
"Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is."
Francis Bacon
(01/22/1561
04/09/1626)
English writer
("Novum Organum")
"I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws."
Charles Baudelaire
(04/09/1821
08/31/1867)
French writer
"Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.002 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00."
Charles Steinmetz
(04/09/1865
10/26/1923)
Prussian scientist
, invoice
"Was it a friend or foe that spread these lies?
Nay, who but infants question in such wise,
'twas one of my most intimate enemies."
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
(05/12/1828
04/09/1882)
English artist, poet
(brother of Christina)
"She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook."
Tommy Manville
(04/09/1894
10/09/1967)
US heir and socialite, married 13 times, to 11 women
"The patter of their feet as they walk through Jim Crow barriers to attend school is the thunder of the marching men of Joshua, and the world rocks beneath their tread."
Paul Robeson
(04/09/1898
01/23/1976)
US actor, singer, activist
, on the children of Little Rock
"We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes. "
J. William Fulbright
(04/09/1905
02/09/1995)
US Senator (Arkansas)
"The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex."
Hugh Hefner
(04/09/1926
09/27/2017)
US entrepreneur, publisher
"Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it."
Tom Lehrer
(04/09/1928
)
US math professor, singer, pianist, songwriter
"There is indeed a business like show business. It's the news."
Paul Krassner
(04/09/1932
07/21/2019)
US writer, comedian, editor
"It is the nature, and the advantage, of strong people that they can bring out the crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them. The weak always have to decide between alternatives that are not their own."
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
(02/04/1906
04/09/1945)
German theologian
"Everybody just wants to be famous first, and then maybe learn how to act."
Dennis Quaid
(04/09/1954
)
US actor
(was married to Meg Ryan)
"Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely."
Hesketh Pearson
(02/20/1887
04/09/1964)
English actor
"My boyfriend thinks I lost my true calling to be a librarian."
Paulina Porizkova
(04/09/1965
)
Czech supermodel
(was married to Ric Ocasek)
"When a man is intoxicated by alcohol, he can recover, but when intoxicated by power, he seldom recovers."
James F. Byrnes
(05/02/1882
04/09/1972)
US Governor (SC)
"They were torn between two fires." *
John H. Dent
(03/10/1908
04/09/1988)
US Representative (PA)
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