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"All we know is still infinitely less than all that remains unknown."
William Harvey
(04/01/1578
06/03/1657)
English physician
"There are three sexesmen, women, and clergymen."
Sydney Smith
(06/03/1771
02/22/1845)
English clergyman
"For every credibility gap there is a gullibility gap."
Richard Cobden
(06/03/1804
04/02/1865)
English politician
"Every man must be for the United States or against it. There can be no neutrals in this war; only patriots and traitors."
Stephen A. Douglas
(04/23/1813
06/03/1861)
US Senator (IL)
"His Majesty does not know what the band has just played, but it is never to be played again."
King George V
(06/03/1865
01/20/1936)
British monarch
, on Richard Strauss' "Elektra"
"The subject itself is of no account; what matters is the way it is presented."
Raoul Dufy
(06/03/1877
03/23/1953)
French artist
"I wasn't really naked. I simply didn't have any clothes on."
Josephine Baker
(06/03/1906
04/12/1975)
US entertainer
"Sex is currency. What's the use of being beautiful if you can't profit from it?" *
Lili St. Cyr
(06/03/1918
01/29/1999)
US actor and clothing line
"In the fight between you and the world, back the world."
Franz Kafka
(07/03/1883
06/03/1924)
Czech writer
"Nobody saves America by sniffing cocaine,
Jiggling yr knees blankeyed in the rain,
When it snows in yr nose you catch cold in yr brain."
Allen Ginsberg
(06/03/1926
04/05/1997)
US writer
"A Druid in training must be a bard before he is a priest, for music is one of the keys to the laws of the universe."
Marion Zimmer Bradley
(06/03/1930
09/25/1999)
US writer
"No illusion is more crucial than the illusion that great success and huge money buy you immunity from the common ills of mankind, such as cars that won't start."
Larry McMurtry
(06/03/1936
)
US writer
"When I heard him, I thought, if he can do that and get away with it, I can do it too."
Ian Hunter
(06/03/1939
)
English singer/songwriter (Mott the Hoople)
, on Sonny Bono
"We should try to bring to any power what we have as women. We will destroy it all if we try to imitate that absolutely unfeeling, driving ambition that we have seen coming at us across the desk."
Colleen Dewhurst
(06/03/1924
08/22/1991)
Canadian actor
(was married to George C. Scott;
mother with Scott of Campbell Scott)
"Maybe the words that I say
is just another way to pray."
Curtis Mayfield
(06/03/1942
12/26/1999)
US singer
"Guitar is for the head, drums are for the chest, but bass gets you in the groin."
Suzi Quatro
(06/03/1950
)
US singer, bassist
"There's nothing that's more unfair or unjust than people using their power to try to make other people feel small, to tell them who they are or what they are capable of, to say their identity doesn't belong."
Suzi Quatro
(06/03/1951
)
US teacher, first lady (53)
(wife of Joe Biden)
"We have only one person to blame, and that's each other."
Barry Beck
(06/03/1957
)
Canadian hockey player (NY Rangers)
, on who started a brawl during Stanley Cup playoffs
"It often happens that I wake at night and begin to think about a serious problem and decide I must tell the pope about it. Then I wake up completely and remember that I am the pope!"
Pope John XXIII
(11/25/1881
06/03/1963)
Italian Pope
"The erogenous zone is always shifting, and it is the business of fashion to pursue it, without ever catching it up."
James Laver
(03/14/1899
06/03/1975)
English fashion designer, critic
"If one permits an infidel to continue in his role as a corrupter of the earth, his moral suffering will be all the worse. If one kills the infidel, and this stops him from perpetrating his misdeeds, his death will be a blessing to him."
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
(09/24/1902
06/03/1989)
Irani religious leader
"For those who missed it the first time, this is your golden opportunity; you can miss it again." *
Michael Billington
(12/24/1941
06/03/2005)
English actor
"Russia scares methe people on the buses are so serious they look like they're going to the electric chair."
Muhammad Ali
(01/17/1942
06/03/2016)
US boxer
"Probably the best thing that ever happened to me was going nuts. Who ever heard of Jimmy Piersall until that happened?"
Jimmy Piersall
(11/14/1929
06/03/2017)
US baseball player
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