November 10

"Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad, and theology makes them sinful."

Martin Luther
(11/10/1483 – 02/18/1546)
German religious reformer ("Ninety-five Theses")

"We should take care to lay in a stock of provisions, but not of pleasures: these should be gathered day by day."

Ninon de l'Enclos
(11/10/1620 – 10/17/1705)
French courtesan

"I have generally found that persons who had studied painting least were the best judges of it."

William Hogarth
(11/10/1697 – 10/26/1764)
English artist

"There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it."

Oliver Goldsmith
(11/10/1728 – 04/04/1774)
Irish writer ("The Vicar of Wakefield: A Tale, Supposed to be written by Himself") , on Samuel Johnson

"Dare to be wrong and to dream."

Friedrich von Schiller
(11/10/1759 – 05/09/1805)
German writer ("Die Götter Griechenlandes (The Gods of Greece)")

"Two mothers-in-law." *

Lord Russell of Killowen
(11/10/1832 – 08/10/1900)
Irish-born legislator , on the maximum punishment for bigamy

"Jazz: Music invented by demons for the torture of imbeciles."

Henry van Dyke
(11/10/1852 – 04/10/1933)
US writer, Presbyterian ("The Other Wise Man")

"Genius is the recovery of childhood at will."

Arthur Rimbaud
(10/20/1854 – 11/10/1891)
French writer

"If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it."

Richard Burton
(11/10/1925 – 08/05/1984)
English actor ("Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?")
(was married to Elizabeth Taylor; also see the REAL Richard Burton)

"Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction."

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
(05/19/1881 – 11/10/1938)
Turkish military and political leader

"Why is there only one Monopolies Commission?"

Screaming Lord Sutch
(11/10/1940 – 06/16/1999)
English entertainer , badgering the Parliament ("Lord Sutch and Heavy Friends")
(shown (l) with Keith Moon)

"I lost some time once. It's always in the last place you look for it."

Neil Gaiman
(11/10/1960 – )
English writer

"You get somebody to crack a smile, that's a beautiful thing. So I think all comedians are earning their wings into heaven. We're all going to heaven, but everybody's not going to get their wings. Some people are just going to be regular angels. Doing cleanup, janitor work. In heaven, I'm going to sit on the couch with Oprah."

Tracy Morgan
(11/10/1968 – )
US comic, actor (SNL)