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"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
"He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence."
William Blake
(11/28/1757
08/12/1827)
English writer
"Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal."
Friedrich Engels
(11/28/1820
08/05/1895)
German philosopher
"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 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
"I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away."
Nancy Mitford
(11/28/1904
06/30/1973)
English writer
(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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
"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
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