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"A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted."
Francis Quarles
(05/08/1592
09/08/1644)
English writer
"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 forto 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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