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"Everyone believes very easily whatever they fear or desire."

Jean de la Fontaine
(07/08/1621 – 04/13/1695)
French writer ("La Fontaine's Fables")

"I cannot spare the luxury of believing that all things beautiful are what they seem."

Fitz-Greene Halleck
(07/08/1790 – 11/19/1867)
US writer

"Contemporary criticism only represents the amount of ignorance genius has to contend with."

Percy Bysshe Shelley
(08/04/1792 – 07/08/1822)
English writer
(was married to Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

"Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it."

John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
(07/08/1839 – 05/23/1937)
US gazillionaire
(father of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., grandfather of Nelson Rockefeller)

"No longer diverted by other emotions, I work the way a cow grazes."

Kathe Kollwitz
(07/08/1867 – 04/22/1945)
German artist

"Architecture is the art of how to waste space."

Philip Johnson
(07/08/1906 – 01/25/2005)
US architect

"I didn't say that I didn't say it, I said that I didn't say that I said it. I want to make that very clear."

George Romney
(07/08/1907 – 07/26/1995)
US governor (MI)
(father of Mitt)

"The chief problem with lower income farmers is poverty."

Nelson Rockefeller
(07/08/1908 – 01/26/1979)
US zillionaire, Governor (NY), Vice President (41)
(grandson of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.; son of John D. Rockefeller, Jr.)

"With my little band, I did everything they did with a big band. I made the blues jump."

Louis Jordan
(07/08/1908 – 02/04/1975)
US bandleader, rock'n'roller

"People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out, but when the darkness sets in, their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within."

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
(07/08/1926 – 08/24/2004)
Swiss psychiatrist

"One of my current pet theories is that the winter is a kind of evangelist, more subtle than Billy Graham, of course, but of the same stuff."

Shirley Ann Grau
(07/08/1929 – 08/03/2020)
US writer

"Economy is going without something you do want in case you should, some day, want something you probably don't want."

Sir Anthony Hope Hawkins
(02/09/1863 – 07/08/1933)
English writer ("The Prisoner of Zenda")

"The sexual embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer."

Havelock Ellis
(02/02/1859 – 07/08/1939)
English writer ("A Study of British Genius")

"Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear."

Senator Phil Gramm
(07/08/1942 – )
US Senator

"Of course drugs were fun. And that's what's so stupid about anti-drug campaigns—they don't admit that."

Anjelica Huston
(07/08/1951 – )
US actor
(daughter of John Huston, granddaughter of Walter Huston; dated Jack Nicholson)

"Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait."

A. Whitney Brown
(07/08/1952 – )
US writer, actor (SNL)

"There are two types of actors: those who say they want to be famous and those who are liars."

Kevin Bacon
(07/08/1958 – )
US actor
(married to Kyra Sedgwick)

"I was the worst actor I ever came across."

Michael Wilding
(07/23/1912 – 07/08/1979)
English actor, director
(was married to Elizabeth Taylor)

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

Admiral Hyman G. Rickover
(01/27/1900 – 07/08/1986)
Poland-born military guy

"I always wanted to be a movie star. I thought it meant being famous and having breakfast in bed. I didn't know you had to be up at 4:00 a.m."

June Allyson
(10/07/1917 – 07/08/2006)
US actor
(was married to Dick Powell)

"I had thought I would hate being First Lady. I loved it."

Betty Ford
(04/08/1918 – 07/08/2011)
US First Lady (45)
(was married to Gerald Ford)

"I just want to do more work. Every time I step in front of a camera I feel young again. I really do. It keeps your mind active and it keeps you going."

Ernest Borgnine
(01/24/1917 – 07/08/2012)
US actor

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