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"Medicine makes people ill, mathematics make them sad, and theology makes them sinful."
Martin Luther
(11/10/1483
02/18/1546)
German religious reformer
"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
, on Samuel Johnson
"Jazz: Music invented by demons for the torture of imbeciles."
Henry van Dyke
(11/10/1852
04/10/1933)
US writer, Presbyterian
"Genius is the recovery of childhood at will."
Arthur Rimbaud
(10/20/1854
11/10/1891)
French writer
"Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction."
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
(05/19/1881
11/10/1938)
Turkish military and political leader
"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)
"Whatever else may divide us, Europe is our common home; a common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today."
Leonid Brezhnev
(12/19/1906
11/10/1982)
Russian statesman
"A graceful taunt is worth a thousand insults."
Louis Nizer
(02/06/1902
11/10/1994)
English-US lawyer
"You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things."
Ken Kesey
(09/17/1935
11/10/2001)
US writer
"An optimist is a person who starts a new diet on Thanksgiving Day."
Irv Kupcinet
(07/31/1912
11/10/2003)
US writer
"I'm amazed people read this crap about usabout me most of all."
Jack Palance
(02/18/1919
11/10/2006)
US actor
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