November 28

"If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot."

John Bunyan
(11/28/1628 – 08/31/1688)
English writer, minister ("The Pilgrim's Progress")

"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought."

Basho
(?/1644 – 11/28/1694)
Japanese poet ("The Narrow Road to the Deep North and Other Travel Sketches")

"He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence."

William Blake
(11/28/1757 – 08/12/1827)
English writer, painter ("Songs of Innocence and of Experience")

"Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal."

Friedrich Engels
(11/28/1820 – 08/05/1895)
German philosopher ("The Condition of the Working Class in England")

"There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in travelling in a stage-coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place."

Washington Irving
(04/03/1783 – 11/28/1859)
US writer ("The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent.")

"The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking."

Brooks Atkinson
(11/28/1894 – 01/14/1984)
US journalist, critic ("Broadway")

"Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine."

Irwin Edman
(11/28/1896 – 09/04/1954)
US philosopher, professor ("Philosopher's Holiday")

"I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away."

Nancy Mitford
(11/28/1904 – 06/30/1973)
English writer ("Love in a Cold Climate")
(sister of Jessica)

"The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions."

Claude Levi-Strauss
(11/28/1908 – 10/30/2009)
French philosopher ("Tristes Tropiques (Sad Tropics)")

"Baseball is like church. Many attend but few understand."

Wes Westrum
(11/28/1922 – 05/28/2002)
US baseball player, coach

"It wasn't the way I looked at a man, it was the thought behind it."

Gloria Grahame
(11/28/1923 – 10/05/1981)
US actor ("The Big Heat")

"We're labeling it 'soul bubblegum.'"

Berry Gordy
(11/28/1929 – )
US Motown Records founder , on the Jackson 5

"If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets."

Gary Hart
(11/28/1936 – )
US Senator (CO) and presidential candidate (1988)

"If the world were a logical place, men would ride side-saddle."

Rita Mae Brown
(11/28/1944 – )
US writer ("Rubyfruit Jungle")

"I can't believe it's not air."

Paul Shaffer
(11/28/1949 – )
US bandleader, actor (SNL) , on Los Angeles

"There are two possible outcomes: if the result confirms the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery. If the result is contrary to the hypothesis, then you've made a discovery."

Enrico Fermi
(09/29/1901 – 11/28/1954)
Italian physicist ("Elementary Particles")

"Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread."

Richard Wright
(09/04/1908 – 11/28/1960)
US writer ("Native Son")

"The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom."

Jon Stewart
(11/28/1962 – )
US comic actor

"It's very expensive to be me. It's terrible the things I have to do to be me."

Anna Nicole Smith
(11/28/1967 – 02/08/2007)
US stripper, playmate, golddigger

"Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly."

Rosalind Russell
(06/04/1907 – 11/28/1976)
US actor ("His Girl Friday")

"The reason they call it 'golf' is that all the other four-letter words were used up."

Leslie Nielsen
(02/11/1926 – 11/28/2010)
Canadian actor ("Airplane!")