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"It seldom happens, I think, that a man has the civility to die when all the world wishes it."
Marie de Sevigne
(02/05/1626
04/17/1696)
French writer
"The proverb answers where the sermon fails, as a well-charged pistol will do more execution than a whole barrel of gunpowder idly exploded in the air."
William Gilmore Simms
(04/17/1806
06/11/1870)
US writer
"A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one."
J. Pierpont Morgan
(04/17/1837
03/31/1913)
US gazillionaire
"The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes ah, that is where the art resides."
Artur Schnabel
(04/17/1882
08/15/1951)
Austrian pianist, composer
"What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning, with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?"
Isak Dinesen
(04/17/1885
09/07/1962)
Danish writer
"Ninety-nine percent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion."
Thornton Wilder
(04/17/1897
12/07/1975)
US writer
"Madonna is the speedboat, and the rest of us are just the Go-Gos on water skis."
Liz Phair
(04/17/1967
)
US singer, songwriter
"My Spanish is improving and I can now ask, 'Dónde Gucci?' ('Where is Gucci?'). I also can say, 'Tienes un Bentley?' ('Do you have a Bentley?')."
Victoria Beckham
(04/17/1974
)
English dancer
"To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity."
Basil Bunting
(03/01/1900
04/17/1985)
English writer
"I have made my world and it is a much better world than I ever saw outside."
Louise Nevelson
(09/23/1899
04/17/1988)
Russian artist
"I'm sick and tired of black and white people of good intent giving aspirin to a society that is dying of a cancerous disease."
Ralph Abernathy
(03/11/1926
04/17/1990)
US clergyman, activist
"The universe may
be as great as they say.
But it wouldn't be missed
if it didn't exist."
Piet Hein
(12/16/1905
04/17/1996)
Danish inventor
"I like to write a lot of satire."
Earl King
(02/07/1934
04/17/2003)
US singer, songwriter (Come On)
"The weakness of most men
they do not know how to become a stone or tree."
Aime Cesaire
(06/26/1913
04/17/2008)
Martinique writer
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