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"The art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest amount of feathers with the least amount of hissing."
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
(08/29/1619
09/06/1683)
French statesman
"Drink to-day, and drown all sorrow;
You shall perhaps not do 't to-morrow."
John Fletcher
(12/20/1579
08/29/1625)
English writer
"Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip."
John Locke
(08/29/1632
10/28/1704)
English philosopher
"We are alone, absolutely alone on this chance planet: and, amid all the forms of life that surround us, not one, excepting the dog, has made an alliance with us."
Maurice Maeterlinck
(08/29/1862
05/06/1949)
Belgian writer
"My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there."
Charles F. Kettering
(08/29/1876
11/25/1958)
US inventor
"If I had the choice of educating a boy or a girl, I would educate the girl. If you educate a boy, you educate one, but if you educate a girl, you educate a generation."
Brigham Young
(06/01/1801
08/29/1877)
US religious leader
"A pretty girl is better than a plain one
A leg is better than an arm
A bedroom is better than a living room
An arrival is better that a departure
A birth is better than a death
A chase is better than a chat
A dog is better than a landscape
A kitten is better than a dog
A baby is better than a kitten
A kiss is better than a baby
A pratfall is better than anything."
Preston Sturges
(08/29/1898
08/06/1959)
US writer
, golden rules for successful comedy
"Don't play the saxophone. Let it play you."
Charlie Parker
(08/29/1920
03/12/1955)
US saxophonist, composer
"By the time a film of mine makes it into the theatres, I have a love-hate relationship with it. There is always something I could have done to make it better."
William Friedkin
(08/29/1935
)
US film director
(married to Sherry Lansing;
was married to Jeanne Moreau)
"Why am I running for president? Well, my wife, Cindy, says it is because I sustained several severe blows to the head in prison camp."
John McCain
(08/29/1936
08/25/2018)
US Senator, Representative (AZ), presidential nominee (2008), and Navy pilot
(died near his birthday)
"I was changing a light bulb over Groucho Marx's bed, so I took my shoes off, got on his bed and changed the bulb. When I got off the bed he said: 'That's the best acting you've ever done.'"
Elliott Gould
(08/29/1938 )
US actor
(was married to Barbra Streisand)
"If I wasn't a musician, I would be a serial killer."
GG Allin
(08/29/1956
06/28/1993)
US performer
"You don't get ulcers from what you eat. You get them from what's eating you."
Vicki Baum
(01/24/1888
08/29/1960)
Austrian-US writer
("Grand Hotel")
"There was a professor named Sprie
Who lectured each Tuesday at three
If nobody came
He talked just the same
And observed his own feedback with glee"
Wendell Johnson
(04/16/1906
08/29/1965)
US speech therapist
"The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves."
Ralph W. Sockman
(10/01/1889
08/29/1970)
US religious person
"I think half of this belongs to a horse somewhere out in the valley."
Lee Marvin
(02/19/1924
08/29/1987)
US actor
, on his Oscar for "Cat Ballou"
"Words are potent weapons for all causes, good or bad."
Manly Hall
(03/18/1901
08/29/1990)
Canadian writer
"I'm not so funny. Gilda was funny. I'm funny on camera sometimes. In life, once in a while. Once in a while. But she was funny. She spent more time worrying about being liked than anything else."
Gene Wilder
(06/11/1933
08/29/2016)
US actor
(was married to Gilda Radner)
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