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"The patient is not likely to recover who makes the doctor his heir."
Thomas Fuller
(06/19/1608
08/16/1661)
English writer
"Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed."
Blaise Pascal
(06/19/1623
08/19/1662)
French mathematician
"If you can't answer a man's argument, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names."
Elbert Hubbard
(06/19/1856
05/07/1915)
US writer
"The richer your friends, the more they will cost you."
Elisabeth Marbury
(06/19/1856
01/22/1933)
US literary and theatrical agent
"[The 17th Earl of Derby] is a very weak-minded fellow I am afraid, and, like the feather pillow, bears the marks of the last person who has sat on him."
Douglas Haig
(06/19/1861
01/29/1928)
Scottish military
"There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men."
John Dalberg Acton
(01/10/1834
06/19/1902)
English historian
("The History of Freedom")
"If you have integritynothing else matters. If you don't have integritynothing else matters."
Evelle Younger
(06/19/1918
05/04/1989same dates as Moe Howard)
US attorney general (CA)
"Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.'"
Pauline Kael
(06/19/1919
09/03/2001)
US (Petaluma, CA-born) film critic
"I know not, sir, whether Bacon wrote the works of Shakespeare, but if he did not it seems to me that he missed the opportunity of his life."
Sir James M. Barrie
(05/09/1860
06/19/1937)
Scottish writer (Peter Pan)
"Not only is life a bitch, but it is always having puppies."
Adrienne Gusoff
(06/19/1953
)
US telegram
"I find the idea of today's icons being teenagers incredibly uninspiring."
Kathleen Turner
(06/19/1954
)
US actor
"For all of those willing to help me start a family, I am flattered. I will let you know when I need your help."
Paula Abdul
(06/19/1962
)
US dancer, singer
(was married to Emilio Estevez)
"My friends, as I have discovered myself, there are no disasters, only opportunities. And, indeed, opportunities for fresh disasters."
Boris Johnson
(06/19/1964
)
English Prime Minister (55)
"Every radish I ever pulled up seemed to have a mortgage attached to it."
Ed Wynn
(11/09/1886
06/19/1966)
US actor
(father of Keenan Wynn)
"Philosophy and Religionwhat are they when the wind blows and the water gets up in lumps?"
William Golding
(09/19/1911
06/19/1993)
English writer
"You know my feelings: every day is a gift. It's just, does it have to be socks?"
James Gandolfini
(09/18/1961
06/19/2013)
US actor
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