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"God bless the King, I mean the Faith's Defender;
God blessno harm in blessingthe Pretender;
But who Pretender is, or who is King,
God bless us allthat's quite another thing."
John Byrom
(02/29/1692
09/26/1763)
English writer
"All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife."
Daniel Boone
(11/02/1734
09/26/1820)
US explorer
"Perfect as the wing of a bird may be, it will never enable the bird to fly if unsupported by the air. Facts are the air of science. Without them a man of science can never rise."
Ivan Pavlov
(09/26/1849
02/27/1936)
Russian scientist
"The average Ph.D. thesis is nothing but the transference of bones from one graveyard to another."
J. Frank Dobie
(09/26/1888
09/18/1964)
US writer
"Man acts as though he were the shaper and master of language, while in fact language remains the master of man."
Martin Heidegger
(09/26/1889
05/26/1976)
German philosopher
(LTR with Hannah Arendt)
"One of the greatest joys known to man is to take a flight into ignorance in search of knowledge."
Robert Staughton Lynd
(09/26/1892
11/01/1970)
US writer
"Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy."
Pope Paul VI
(09/26/1897
08/06/1978)
Italian religious leader
"Why should I limit myself to only one woman when I can have as many women as I want?"
George Gershwin
(09/26/1898
07/11/1937)
US composer
(brother of Ira)
"Would you get your dog up in the morning and give him a cup of coffee, a cigarette and a doughnut?"
Jack LaLanne
(09/26/1914
01/23/2011)
US exercise maven
"I didn't choose a word or anything. I just wrote the song until it stopped."
Marty Robbins
(09/26/1925
12/08/1982)
US singer, songwriter
"Surely the vogue of those twisted and contorted human figures must be as short as it is artificial."
Harriet Monroe
(12/23/1860
09/26/1936)
US poet
, on the work of Henri Matisse
"I ain't good-lookin', but I'm somebody's angel child."
Bessie Smith
(04/15/1894
09/26/1937)
US singer
"Boredom is the dream bird that hatches the egg of experience. A rustling in the leaves drives him away."
Walter Benjamin
(07/15/1892
09/26/1940)
German-born writer
"I've never been cast as a mistress. I'm the girl men marry, not the girl they have affairs with."
Mary Beth Hurt
(09/26/1946
)
US actor
(was married to William Hurt)
"The only weights I lift are my dogs."
Olivia Newton-John
(09/26/1948
)
Australian singer, actor
"Your sons weren't made to like you. That's what grandchildren are for."
Jane Smiley
(09/26/1949
)
US writer
"They found me basically dead, not breathing, with the gearshift through my chest, and of all the people I'd known and played with, David [Bowie] was the only one who came to the hospital during all that time."
Tony Sales
(09/26/1951
)
US bassist (Utopia, Stooges, Tin Machine)
(son of Soupy Sales)
"To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood."
George Santayana
(12/16/1863
09/26/1952)
Spanish philosopher, writer
"What is good for the country is good for General Motors, and what's good for General Motors is good for the country."
Charles E. Wilson
(07/18/1890
09/26/1961)
US corporate president (General Motors)
(largest maker of armaments during WWII)
"If you're sitting in that audience ready to fight me from the very beginning, I'm going to have a hard time getting to you. But if you've got a heart at all, I'm going to get it."
Betty Carter
(05/16/1929
09/26/1998)
US singer
"I picture my epitaph: 'Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown.'"
Paul Newman
(01/26/1925
09/26/2008)
US actor
(was married to Joanne Woodward)
"One does not export democracy in an armored vehicle."
Jacques Chirac
(11/29/1932
09/26/2019)
French President (22)
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