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"A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted."
Francis Quarles
(05/08/1592 –
09/08/1644)
English writer
"The various modes of worship which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful."
Edward Gibbon
(05/08/1737 –
01/16/1794)
English historian
"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong." *
Charles Wadsworth
(05/08/1814 –
04/01/1882)
US clergy
"That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next."
John Stuart Mill
(05/20/1806 –
05/08/1873)
English philosopher, economist
"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."
Gustave Flaubert
(12/12/1821 –
05/08/1880)
French writer
"All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely."
Edmund Wilson
(05/08/1895 –
06/12/1972)
US critic
"Art is either plagiarism or revolution."
Paul Gauguin
(06/07/1848 –
05/08/1903)
French painter
"When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don't mind, but he has it in his back pocket."
Don Rickles
(05/08/1926 –
04/06/2017)
US comic
, on Frank Sinatra
"A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people pay for—to see the bad guys get beat."
Sonny Liston
(05/08/1932 –
12/30/1970)
US boxer
"If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace."
Oswald Spengler
(05/29/1880 –
05/08/1936)
German philosopher
"Certainly we have bad paintings. We have only the greatest bad paintings." *
Françoise Cachin
(05/08/1936 –
02/05/2011)
French writer and museum director (Musée d'Orsay)
"No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film."
Robert Adams
(05/08/1937 –
)
US photographer
"A career is a series of comebacks."
Rick Nelson
(05/08/1940 –
12/31/1985)
US actor, singer
"Jazz is one of the least learnable art forms."
Keith Jarrett
(05/08/1945 –
)
US pianist, composer
"And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it themselves."
Beth Henley
(05/08/1952 –
)
US writer
"The idiot lived in a black and gray world, punctuated by the white lightning of hunger and the flickering of fear. His clothes were old and many-windowed. Here peeped a shinbone, sharp as a cold chisel, and there in the torn coat were ribs like the fingers of a fist. He was tall and flat. His eyes were calm and his face was dead."
Theodore Sturgeon
(02/26/1918 –
05/08/1985)
US writer
"Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss."
Robert A. Heinlein
(07/07/1907 –
05/08/1988)
US writer
"Live your life. Live your life. Live your life."
Maurice Sendak
(06/10/1928 –
05/08/2012)
US writer, illustrator (Where the Wild Things Are)
"Children are natural Zen masters; their world is brand new in each and every moment."
John Bradshaw
(06/29/1933 –
05/08/2016)
US philosopher
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"Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day."
Harry S Truman
"Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered."
Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
"An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support."
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
"Don't get married to an actress, because they're also actresses in bed."
Roberto Rossellini
"Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders."
Sloan Wilson
"I just wish the world was twice as big and half of it was still unexplored."
Sir David Attenborough