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"'By God,' quod he, 'for pleynly, at a word,
thy drasty rymyng is nat worth a toord!'"
Geoffrey Chaucer
(?/1343
10/25/1400)
Father of English literature
"I am sick to death of all this foolish stuff, and wish with all my heart that the Devil may take all your bishops, and the Devil take your ministers, and the Devil take your Parliament, and the Devil take the whole island, provided I can get out of it and go to Hanover."
King George II
(11/09/1683
10/25/1760)
German king of England
"Je ne suis pas la rose, mais j'ai vecu pres d'elle.
(I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.)"
Benjamin Constant
(10/25/1767
12/08/1830)
French writer
"It takes a long time to become young."
Pablo Picasso
(10/25/1881
04/08/1973)
Spanish artist
"Some people call me a hamin my day it was called acting."
Micheál Mac Liammóir
(10/25/1899
03/06/1978)
English writer, actor
"No art that is not in the end understood by the People can live or ever did live a single generation."
Frank Norris
(03/05/1870
10/25/1902)
US writer
"The fact is that censorship always defeats its own purpose, for it creates, in the end, the kind of society that is incapable of exercising real discretion."
Henry Steele Commager
(10/25/1902
03/02/1998)
US historian
"The doctor must have put my pacemaker in wrong. Every time my husband kisses me, the garage door goes up."
Minnie Pearl
(10/25/1912
03/04/1996)
US comic
"Try being my size and going into a public restroom."
Billy Barty
(10/25/1924
12/23/2000)
US actor
"I told him to take a picture of his testicles so he'd have something to remember them by if he ever took another shot like the last one."
Bobby Knight
(10/25/1940
)
US basketball coach
, on a sideline conversation with a player
"Please don't ask me any questions about the politics of 30 years ago."
Helen Reddy
(10/25/1941
09/29/2020)
Australian-US singer
"There are certain things which are not jokes, Gogarty, and one of them is my hanging."
Lord Dunsany
(07/24/1878
10/25/1957)
English writer
"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within."
Ariel Durant
(05/10/1898
10/25/1981)
Russian historian and writer
(was married to Will Durant)
"You mustn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex."
Mary McCarthy
(06/21/1912
10/25/1989)
US writer
"If I had my life to live over, I wouldn't have time."
Roger Miller
(01/02/1936
10/25/1992)
US singer, songwriter
"I don't play monsters. I play men besieged by fate and out for revenge."
Vincent Price
(05/27/1911
10/25/1993)
US actor
(was married to Coral Browne)
"If I am to be a chauvinist pig, I want to be the number one pig."
Bobby Riggs
(02/25/1918
10/25/1995)
US tennis freak
"I'm not interested in reputation or immortality or things like that... I don't care what I'm remembered for. I don't care if I'm remembered. I don't care if I'm not remembered. I don't care why I'm remembered. I genuinely don't care."
Richard Harris
(10/01/1930
10/25/2002)
Irish actor
"The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works."
Jacques Barzun
(11/30/1907
10/25/2012)
French educator
"More or Less Love Poems #11:
No babe
We'd never
Swing together but
the syncopation
would be something wild."
Diane di Prima
(08/06/1934
10/25/2020)
US poet
(child with Imamu Amiri Baraka)
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