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"He who has provoked the lash of wit, cannot complain that he smarts from it."
James Boswell
(10/29/1740
05/19/1795)
Scottish biographer
"Music is not written in red, white, and blue. It is written in the heart's blood of the composer."
Dame Nellie Melba
(05/19/1861
02/23/1931)
Australian opera singer
"All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests."
Nathaniel Hawthorne
(07/04/1804
05/19/1864)
US writer
"To my embarrassment, I was born in bed with a lady."
Wilson Mizner
(05/19/1876
04/03/1933)
US writer
"I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or tradeor that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere."
Belva Lockwood
(10/24/1830
05/19/1917)
US attorney
"History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals."
Malcolm X
(05/19/1925
02/21/1965)
US spiritual leader
"All human beings have an innate need to hear and tell stories and to have a story to live by... religion, whatever else it has done, has provided one of the main ways of meeting this abiding need."
Harvey Cox
(05/19/1929
)
US theologian
"A friend of mine went to the Alpine Club, and said my larger one (portrait) was a conscious effort by you to show how long contact with camels had affected my face! But I explained that it wasn't my face which had been in contact with camels."
T. E. Lawrence
(08/16/1888
05/19/1935)
Welsh writer
, to Augustus John
"But, apart from that, there was very little on underneath the suit."
Peter Mayhew
(05/19/1944
04/30/2019)
English actor (Star Wars)
"I smash guitars because I like them."
Peter Townshend
(05/19/1945
)
English singer, songwriter, guitarist (the Who)
"Mystics always hope that science will someday overtake them."
Booth Tarkington
(07/29/1869
05/19/1946)
US writer
"I once told this writer a story about how I met the guys in an elevator and found out we all had the same last name, so we decided to form a band."
Joey Ramone
(05/19/1951
04/15/2001)
US singer (Ramones)
"I did advertise for a holiday companioncapable widow, no sense of humour, some knowledge of haemorrhoids preferrednot a reply."
Victoria Wood
(05/19/1953
04/20/2016)
English comic
"I mean, in the eternal scope of things, how much does this matter?"
Eric Show
(05/19/1956
03/16/1994)
US baseball player
, on giving up Pete Rose's 4,192nd hit
"If you don’t make mistakes, you aren’t really trying."
Coleman Hawkins
(11/21/1904
05/19/1969)
US saxophonist
"Friendly attacks should begin with faint praise, but be careful not to use adjectives or phrases of which the publisher can make use in advertisements."
Sir John Betjeman
(08/28/1906
05/19/1984)
English writer
"A kleptomaniac is a person who helps himself because he can't help himself."
Henry Morgan
(03/31/1915
05/19/1994)
US humorist
"Pilgrims who are looking for a cure are soon looking for a curio."
Morley Safer
(11/08/1931
05/19/2016)
US telejournalist
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