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"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."
Cardinal Richelieu
(09/09/1585
12/04/1642)
French minister, clergy
"A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction."
Leo Tolstoy
(09/09/1828
11/20/1910)
Russian writer
"People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker."
Mary Austin
(09/09/1868
08/13/1934)
US writer
"Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act."
James Agate
(09/09/1877
06/06/1947)
English writer
"There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there."
Colonel Harland Sanders
(09/09/1890
12/16/1980)
US chef
"If you forgive people enough you belong to them, and they to you, whether either person likes it or notsquatter's rights of the heart."
James Hilton
(09/09/1900
12/20/1954)
English writer
"Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world."
Cesare Pavese
(09/09/1908
08/27/1950)
Italian writer
"Much good work is lost for the lack of a little more."
Edward H. Harriman
(02/20/1848
09/09/1909)
US railroad executive
"Few great men could pass Personnel."
Paul Goodman
(09/09/1911
08/02/1972)
US critic
"Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait... The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count."
Robert Anthony
(09/09/1916
12/01/2006)
US professor
"Only the untalented can afford to be humble."
Sylvia Miles
(09/09/1924
06/12/2019)
US actor
"Claudia's the sort of person who goes through life holding onto the sides."
Alice Thomas Ellis
(09/09/1932
03/08/2005)
Welsh writer
("The Sin Eater")
"If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too."
Otis Redding
(09/09/1941
12/10/1967)
US singer, songwriter
"The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."
Joe Theismann
(09/09/1949
)
US ex-NFL quarterback
; he later claimed that there actually was a "smart guy" named Norman Einstein at his schoolat any rate the quote rather reinforces his case
"A duck walks into the pharmacy and says, 'gimme some chapstickand put it on my bill.'"
The Amazing Johnathan
(09/09/1958
)
US comic
"Now I realize how ugly I am."
Adam Sandler
(09/09/1966
)
US comic actor (SNL)
, after laser eye surgery
"A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex."
S. N. Behrman
(06/09/1893
09/09/1973)
US writer
"The people are like water and the army is like fish."
Mao Tse-Tung
(12/26/1893
09/09/1976)
Chinese political leader
"Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic." *
Nicola Abbagnano
(07/15/1901
09/09/1990)
Italian existential philosopher
"To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better."
Richie Ashburn
(03/19/1927
09/09/1997)
US baseball player
"No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect."
Edward Teller
(01/15/1908
09/09/2003)
US scientist
"All too many men still seem to believe, in a rather naïve and egocentric way, that what feels good to them is automatically what feels good to women."
Shere Hite
(11/02/1942
09/09/2020)
US researcher, writer (The Hite Report)
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