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"You had better have one King than five hundred."
King Charles II
(05/29/1630
02/06/1685)
English royalty
"If this be treason, make the most of it!"
Patrick Henry
(05/29/1736
06/06/1799)
US patriot
"The most important of my discoveries have been suggested to me by my failures."
Sir Humphry Davy
(12/17/1778
05/29/1829)
English chemist (discovered laughing gas)
"Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
G. K. Chesterton
(05/29/1874
06/14/1936)
English writer
"I maintain that today many an inventor, many a diplomat, many a financier is a sounder philosopher than all those who practice the dull craft of experimental psychology."
Oswald Spengler
(05/29/1880
05/08/1936)
German philosopher
"Noel [Coward] and I were in Paris once. Adjoining rooms, of course. One night, I felt mischievous, so I knocked on Noel's door, and he asked, 'Who is it?' I lowered my voice and said 'Hotel detective. Have you got a gentleman in your room?' He answered, 'Just a minute, I'll ask him.'"
Beatrice Lillie
(05/29/1894
01/20/1989)
Canadian actor
"I must say the Senator's victory in Wisconsin was a triumph for democracy. It proves that a millionaire has just as good a chance as anyone else."
Bob Hope
(05/29/1903
07/27/2003)
English-born comic
, on JFK's electoral victory
"I never liked the men I loved, and never loved the men I liked."
Fanny Brice
(10/29/1891
05/29/1951)
US actor
"For me, writing something in the spirit of Halloween is like Mother Teresa writing on charity and sacrifice. It's just second nature to me."
Danny Elfman
(05/29/1953
)
US musician, composer (Oingo Boingo)
(married to Bridget Fonda;
uncle-in-law of Jenna Elfman)
"I am really looking forward as I get older and older, to being less and less nice."
Annette Bening
(05/29/1958
)
US actor
(married to Warren Beatty)
"They should be shot."
Noel Gallagher
(05/29/1967
)
English musician (Oasis)
, on the Backstreet Boys
"There are no generalizations in American politics that vested selfishness cannot cut through."
John Gunther
(08/30/1901
05/29/1970)
US writer
"I like the rapid punch of solid-state for the bottom, and the rodent-gnawing distortion of the tubes on top." *
John Cipollina
(08/24/1943
05/29/1989)
US guitarist (Quicksilver Messenger Service et al)
, on his guitar rig
"I married Vincent Price very late in both our lives. It was chiefly because, even if Vincent can be a bit moody and frightening at times, loneliness is even more frightful. Without a husband, even an actress doesn't get invited out much."
Coral Browne
(07/23/1913
05/29/1991)
Australian actor
(was married to Vincent Price)
"One of the basic causes for all the trouble in the world today is that people talk too much and think too little."
Margaret Chase Smith
(12/14/1897
05/29/1995)
US Rep and Senator (ME)
"I think any man in business would be foolish to fool around with his secretary. If it's somebody else's secretary, fine."
Barry Goldwater
(01/02/1909
05/29/1998)
US Senator (AZ)
"Snowflakes, leaves, humans, plants, raindrops, stars, molecules, microscopic entities all come in communities. The singular cannot in reality exist."
Paula Gunn Allen
(10/24/1939
05/29/2008)
US native writer
"People keep asking me, 'What evil lurks in you to play such bad characters? There is no evil in me, I just wear tight underwear."
Dennis Hopper
(05/17/1936
05/29/2010)
US actor
(was married to Michelle Phillips for eight days)
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