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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 ("Guernica")

"Singing is such an excellent thing, that I wish all people would sing."

Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd
(10/25/1888 – 03/11/1957)
US explorer

"Some people call me a ham—in my day it was called acting."

Micheál Mac Liammóir
(10/25/1899 – 03/06/1978)
English writer, actor ("The Importance of Being Oscar")

"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 American Mind: An Interpretation of American Thought and Character Since the 1880s")

"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

"Something has been said for sobriety but very little."

John Berryman
(10/25/1914 – 01/07/1972)
US writer ("The Dream Songs")

"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

"If you drag a hundred dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you'll find."

James Carville
(10/25/1944 – )
US political consultant , on Paula Jones' allegations that Bill Clinton sexually harassed her
(married to Mary Matalin)

"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 ("The King of Elfland's Daughter")

"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 ("The Story of Civilization")
(was married to Will Durant)

"If people want a role model, they can have Miley Cyrus!"

Katy Perry
(10/25/1984 – )
US singer, songwriter ("Roar")
(engaged and child with Orlando Bloom, was married to Russell Brand)

"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 ("The Group")
(was married to Edmund Wilson)

"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 ("The Pit and the Pendulum")
(was married to Coral Browne)

"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

"I wanted to write great tunes, play the bass, be a band leader, and smoke a big funny pipe like Charlie Mingus. So I went out and bought the pipe when I was around 18 or 19 years old."

Jack Bruce
(05/14/1943 – 10/25/2014)
Scottish bass player (Cream) ("White Room")

"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 ("This Kind of Bird Flies Backward")
(child with Imamu Amiri Baraka)

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