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"But far more numerous was the herd of such,
Who think too little and who talk too much."
John Dryden
(08/19/1631
05/12/1700)
English writer
("The Wild Gallant")
"I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle, so all is peace."
Edward Lear
(05/12/1812
01/29/1888)
English painter, writer
("The Book of Nonsense")
"Were there none who were discontented with what they have, the world would never reach anything better."
Florence Nightingale
(05/12/1820
08/13/1910)
English nurse (born in Florence, Italy)
("Cassandra")
"Great innovators and original thinkers and artists attract the wrath of mediocrities as lightning rods draw the flashes."
Theodor Reik
(05/12/1888
12/31/1969)
US psychoanalyst
("Masochism in Modern Man")
"So many women just don't know how great they really are. They come to us all vogue outside and vague on the inside."
Mary Kay Ash
(05/12/1918
11/22/2001)
US entrepreneur
"I'm not against the blacks, and a lot of the good blacks will attest to that."
Evan Mecham
(05/12/1924
02/21/2008)
US racist Governor (AZ)
"Miss Streisand looks like a cross between an aardvark and an albino rat surmounted by a platinum-coated horse bun."
John Simon
(05/12/1925
11/24/2019)
Serbian-US critic
("Private Screenings: Views of the Cinema of the Sixties")
"I have never fallen in love with my own voice, but I've always had an attraction for it."
Tom Snyder
(05/12/1936
07/29/2007)
US TV talk show host
"I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose... it'll be much harder to detect."
George Carlin
(05/12/1937
06/22/2008)
US comic
"There's always one person on every gig who does your secret sign to you. They come up afterwards and get hold of you always here, on the elbow, where it's really secureand go, 'I know.'"
Ian Dury
(05/12/1942
03/27/2000)
English singer
("Sex & Drugs & Rock & Roll")
"O, that I were where I would be,
Then would I be where I am not;
For where I am I would not be,
And where I would be I can not."
Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
(11/21/1863
05/12/1944)
English writer
("On the Art of Reading")
"People who see a drawing in the "New Yorker" will think automatically that it's funny because it is a cartoon. If they see it in a museum, they think it is artistic; and if they find it in a fortune cookie they think it is a prediction."
Saul Steinberg
(06/15/1914
05/12/1999)
Romanian cartoonist
("View of the World from 9th Avenue")
"For the amount of talent I had (and I couldn't dance, act, or tell a joke) I enjoyed a tremendous career."
Perry Como
(05/18/1912
05/12/2001)
US singer, actor
(died near his birthday)
"There's not much to be said about the period except that most writers don't reach it soon enough."
William Zinsser
(10/07/1922
05/12/2015)
US grammarian
("On Writing Well")
"Conservative coaches have one thing in common; they are unemployed."
Chuck Knox
(04/27/1932
05/12/2018)
US football coach
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