December 01

"Nothing is more admirable than the fortitude with which millionaires tolerate the disadvantages of their wealth."

Rex Stout
(12/01/1886 – 10/27/1975)
US writer
("Nero Wolfe" books)

"Miss Merman is a great broad... that is, she's a great Broadway star."

Mary Martin
(12/01/1913 – 11/03/1990)
US actor
(mother of Larry Hagman)

"I have an intense desire to return to the womb. Anybody's."

Woody Allen
(12/01/1935 – )
US comic, actor, director, pedophile
(LTRs with Mia Farrow, Diane Keaton, and his adopted daughter)

"When I'm on a golf course and it starts to rain and lightning, I hold up my one iron, 'cause I know even God can't hit a one iron."

Lee Trevino
(12/01/1939 – )
US golfer

"I believe in the institution of marriage, and I intend to keep trying till I get it right."

Richard Pryor
(12/01/1940 – 12/10/2005)
US comic, actor

"They arrested Helen Reddy for loitering in front of an orchestra."

Bette Midler
(12/01/1945 – )
US singer, actor

"It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that."

Godfrey Harold Hardy
(02/07/1877 – 12/01/1947)
English mathematician ("A Mathematician's Apology")

"Women and rhythm section first!"

Jaco Pastorius
(12/01/1951 – 09/21/1987)
US bassist

"I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul."

John B. S. Haldane
(11/05/1892 – 12/01/1964)
English scientist
(brother of Naomi Mitchison)

"If you are truly offended by an 80-year-old man saying you're not funny, then you're probably not funny."

Sarah Silverman
(12/01/1970 – )
US comic, actor (SNL)

"In Israel, in order to be realist, you must believe in miracles."

David Ben-Gurion
(10/16/1886 – 12/01/1973)
Israeli Prime Minister

"The price we pay when pursuing any art or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side."

James Baldwin
(08/02/1924 – 12/01/1987)
US writer ("If Beale Street Could Talk")

"I knew most of the gay people in junior high school and high school."

Alvin Ailey
(01/05/1931 – 12/01/1989)
US writer

"The opposite of bravery is not cowardice but conformity."

Robert Anthony
(09/09/1916 – 12/01/2006)
US professor