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"As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers."
Plato
(05/21/0427
?/0348 BC)
Greek philosopher
"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality."
Dante Alighieri
(05/21/1265
09/14/1321)
Italian writer
"It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out."
Alexander Pope
(05/21/1688
05/30/1744)
English writer
"Too hard for any frog's digestion,
To have his froghood call'd in question!"
Christopher Smart
(04/11/1722
05/21/1771)
English writer
"We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in the modern style."
Henri Rousseau
(05/21/1844
09/02/1910)
French artist
, to Pablo Picasso
"If Governor Fields is right, I am going to stand by him because he is right. If he is wrong, I am going to stand by him because he is a Democrat." *
Augustus Owsley Stanley
(05/21/1867
08/12/1958)
US governor, senator (KY)
"This is so nice, it must be illegal."
Fats Waller
(05/21/1904
12/15/1943)
US pianist, singer
"We must make demands of reason and create a life worthy of ourselves and of the goals we only dimly perceive."
Andrei Sakharov
(05/21/1921
12/14/1989)
Russian physicist
"The world is so disgracefully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain."
Ronald Firbank
(01/17/1886
05/21/1926)
English writer
("Valmouth")
"You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! I am simply smothered and sickened with advantages. It is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning."
Jane Addams
(09/06/1860
05/21/1935)
US social worker
"I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system."
Mary Robinson
(05/21/1944
)
Irish president (first female)
"It was all a dream. I used to read Word up magazine."
Biggie Smalls
(05/21/1972
03/09/1997)
US rapper
"Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity."
Eric Hoffer
(07/25/1898
05/21/1983)
US philosopher
"Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course."
Sir John Gielgud
(04/14/1904
05/21/2000)
English actor
, on Cecil Beaton's decision to act in a production of Lady Windermere's Fan
"I would love to employ a man, but how can I possibly give a man dictation from the bath?"
Dame Barbara Cartland
(07/09/1901
05/21/2000)
English novelist
, on her four female secretaries
"I always believed that if you set out to be successful, then you already were."
Katherine Dunham
(06/22/1909
05/21/2006)
US dancer, choreographer, anthropologist
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