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"I have no wish for a second husband. l had enough of the first. I like to have my own way to lie down mistress, and get up master."
Susanna Strickland Moodie
(12/06/1803
04/08/1885)
English-Canadian pioneer, writer
"There are worse things than a lie... I have found... that it may be well to choose one sin in order that another may be shunned."
Anthony Trollope
(04/24/1815
12/06/1882)
English writer
"It is stern work, it is perilous work to thrust your hand in the sun
And pull out a spark of immortal flame to warm the hearts of men."
Joyce Kilmer
(12/06/1886
07/30/1918)
US writer
"We can be bought, but we can't be bored."
Lynn Fontanne
(12/06/1887
07/30/1983)
English-US actor
"Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat."
Sir Osbert Sitwell
(12/06/1892
05/04/1969)
English writer
(brother of Dame Edith)
"One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them."
Ira Gershwin
(12/06/1896
08/17/1983)
US lyricist
(brother of George)
"I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough."
Alfred Eisenstaedt
(12/06/1898
08/23/1995)
German photographer
"A topologist is one who doesn't know the difference between a doughnut and a coffee cup." *
John L. Kelley
(12/06/1916
11/26/1999)
US topologist
"I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82."
Dave Brubeck
(12/06/1920
12/05/2012)
US composer, musician
(died near his birthday)
"I'm a writer, a poet, which is to say I always did that. My life was totally in my head, and I wrote about it."
David Ossman
(12/06/1936
)
US writer, comic, actor (Firesign Theatre)
"The blues is like this. You lay down some night and you turn from one side of the bed to the other: all night long. It's not too cold in that bed, and it ain't too hot. But what's the matter? The blues has got you."
Leadbelly
(01/20/1888
12/06/1949)
US singer
"For God's sake! What is that?"
Harold Ross
(11/06/1892
12/06/1951)
US writer, "New Yorker" founder
, on seeing Truman Capote for the first time
"I almost got a girl pregnant in high school. It's costing me a fortune to keep the rabbit on a life-support system."
Wil Shriner
(12/06/1953
)
US comic
"There ain’t much to being a ballplayer, if you’re a ballplayer."
Honus Wagner
(02/24/1874
12/06/1955)
US baseball player
"Last year I went fishing with Salvador Dali. He was using a dotted line. He caught every other fish."
Steven Wright
(12/06/1955
)
US comic
"It's not normal for drummers to sing. I tried it, it's awful."
Rick Buckler
(12/06/1955 )
English drummer (the Jam)
(also see Paul Weller)
"You wiggle to the left, you wiggle to the right,
you do the Ooby Dooby with all your might."
Roy Orbison
(04/23/1936
12/06/1988)
US singer, songwriter
"As society advances, the standard of poverty rises."
James Reston
(11/03/1909
12/06/1995)
Scottish journalist
"To err is human; to purr feline."
Robert Byrne
(05/22/1930
12/06/2016)
US billiards maven, quote collector
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