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"Life isn't all beer and skittles, but beer and skittles, or something better of the same sort, must form a good part of every Englishman's education."
Thomas Hughes
(10/20/1822
03/22/1896)
English writer
("Tom Brown's School Days")
"La vie est la farce à mener par tous.
Life is the farce which we all must lead."
Arthur Rimbaud
(10/20/1854
11/10/1891)
French writer
"I guess I'm pretty much of a lone wolf. I don't say I don't like people at all, but to tell you the truth I only like it then if I have a chance to look deep into their hearts and their minds."
Bela Lugosi
(10/20/1882
08/16/1956)
Hungarian actor
"Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself."
James A. Froude
(04/23/1818
10/20/1894)
English historian
("The Nemesis of Faith")
"Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration."
Charles Dudley Warner
(09/12/1829
10/20/1900)
US writer
Lorelei Farnsworth: "But I don't understand why Roger killed him."
Inspector Richard Queen: "Must have been something he married."
Frederic Dannay
(10/20/1905
09/03/1982)
US writer
(as "Ellery Queen," with Manfred Lee)
"I always wanted to get into politics, but I was never light enough to make the team."
Art Buchwald
(10/20/1925
01/17/2007)
US journalist
"When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong."
Eugene Debs
(11/05/1855
10/20/1926)
US labor organizer
"If Shakespeare had had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth."
Dr. Joyce Brothers
(10/20/1927
05/13/2013)
US shrink, columnist
"If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself."
Mickey Mantle
(10/20/1931
08/13/1995)
US baseball great
"When a man does not admit that he is an animal, he is less than an animal. Not more but less."
Michael McClure
(10/20/1932
05/04/2020)
US poet
("The Beard")
"I am beginning to suspect all elaborate and special systems of education. They seem to me to be built upon the supposition that every child is a kind of idiot who must be taught to think."
Anne Sullivan
(04/14/1866
10/20/1936)
US educator
(notably of Helen Keller)
"I'd sing and shake my leg a bit, and it looked like I was doing something."
Wanda Jackson
(10/20/1937
)
US singer
"When My Love Comes Back from the Ladies' Room, Will I Be Too Old To Care?"
Lewis Grizzard
(10/20/1946
03/20/1994)
US comic
("I Haven't Understood Anything Since 1962")
, song title
"The only deadly sin I know is cynicism."
Henry Stimson
(09/21/1867
10/20/1950)
US Secretary of War
"I have turned down a lot of money for things that would have made me feel cheesy."
Tom Petty
(10/20/1950
10/02/2017)
US singer, songwriter
"It comes down to the fact that you supply the blue, and they supply the other colors and mix them with your blue, and maybe there's some blue left in the painting and maybe there isn't. Maybe there wasn't supposed to be any there in the first place. So have some fun and make a good blue and walk away."
Viggo Mortensen
(10/20/1958
)
US actor
(was married to Exene Cervenka)
"Once upon a time my political opponents honored me as possessing the fabulous intellectual and economic power by which I created a world-wide depression all by myself."
Herbert Hoover
(08/10/1874
10/20/1964)
US President (31)
"So what if I'm smokin' weed onstage and doing what I gotta do? It's not me shooting nobody, stabbing nobody, killing nobody. It's a peaceful gesture and they have to respect that and appreciate that."
Snoop Dogg
(10/20/1971
)
US rapper
"Tits and sandthat's what we used to call sex and violence in Hollywood."
Burt Lancaster
(11/02/1913
10/20/1994)
US actor
"Those magazine dieting stories always have the testimonial of a woman who wore a dress that could slip-cover New Jersey in one photo and thirty days later looked like a well-dressed thermometer."
Peg Bracken
(02/25/1918
10/20/2007)
US writer
("The I Hate to Cook Book")
"I'm not exploiting the women; I'm exploiting the men."
Bob Guccione
(12/17/1930
10/20/2010)
US magazine editor (Penthouse)
"Those who do not love me do not deserve to live."
Muammar al-Gaddafi
(06/07/1942
10/20/2011)
Libyan military, political leader
"Sir, there is a distinct difference between having an open mind and having a hole in your head from which your brain leaks out."
(The Amazing) James Randi
(08/07/1928
10/20/2020)
Canadian-US magician, skeptic
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