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"All universal moral principles are idle fancies."
Marquis de Sade
(06/02/1740
12/02/1814)
French writer
"Time is at once the most valuable, and the most perishable, of all our possessions."
John Randolph
(06/02/1773
05/24/1833)
US congressman (VA)
"We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale."
John Hope
(06/02/1868
02/22/1936)
US educator
"Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more."
Edwin Way Teale
(06/02/1899
10/18/1980)
US writer, naturalist
"The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor."
Johnny Weissmuller
(06/02/1904
01/20/1984)
Austro-Hungarian swimmer, actor
(was married to Lupe Velez)
"Our generation is the first to have grown up with TV. I'm one of the first kids that they watched grow up on television."
Jerry Mathers
(06/02/1948
)
US actor (Leave it to Beaver)
"It is the sea herself who fashions the boats, choosing those which function and destroying the others."
Emile Chartier
(03/03/1868
06/02/1951)
French writer
"Let's tell young people the best books are yet to be written; the best painting, the best government, the best of everything is yet to be done by them."
John Erskine
(10/05/1879
06/02/1951)
US educator, writer, musician
"I'm thirty years old but I read at the thirty-four-year-old level."
Dana Carvey
(06/02/1955
)
US comic actor (SNL)
"Never moon a werewolf."
Mike Binder
(06/02/1958
)
US director
"I'm not in the entertainment field, I'm in the confrontation field."
Lydia Lunch
(06/02/1959
)
US singer, performance artist
Press agent: "How do I get our leading lady's name in your newspaper?"
George S. Kaufman: "Shoot her."
(11/16/1889
06/02/1961)
US writer
"I'm a McDonald's girl; several times a week. Usually the two-cheeseburger combo meal. And I'm a nail-biter. If I didn't have fake nails, my fingers would be bloody stumps."
Nikki Cox
(06/02/1978
)
US actor
(was married to Jay Mohr;
was engaged to Bob Goldthwait)
"The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth."
Andres Segovia
(02/21/1893
06/02/1987)
Spanish guitarist
"I'm now at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was."
Rex Harrison
(03/05/1908
06/02/1990)
English actor
"My colleagues, they study artificial intelligence; me, I study natural stupidity."
Amos Tversky
(03/16/1937
06/02/1996)
Israeli-US cognitive psychologist
"Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly."
Arnold Edinborough
(08/02/1922
06/02/2006)
Canadian writer
"Don't let your mouth write a check that your tail can't cash."
Bo Diddley
(12/30/1928
06/02/2008)
US singer, songwriter
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