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"No sane man will dance."

Cicero
(01/03/0106 BC – 12/07/0043 BC)
Roman writer ("De Oratore")

"Where there is great love there are always miracles."

Willa Cather
(12/07/1873 – 04/24/1947)
US writer ("One of Ours")

"It is a tragedy of the world that no one knows what he doesn't know—the less a man knows, the more sure it is that he knows everything."

Joyce Cary
(12/07/1888 – 03/29/1957)
English writer ("The Horse's Mouth")

"A statesman is a successful politician who is dead."

Thomas B. Reed
(10/18/1839 – 12/07/1902)
US Rep (ME)

"Having the critics praise you is like having the hangman say you've got a pretty neck."

Eli Wallach
(12/07/1915 – 06/24/2014)
US actor ("The Magnificent Seven")

"The notion 'grammatical' cannot be identified with 'meaningful' or 'significant' in any semantic sense. Sentences (1) and (2) are equally nonsensical, but only the former is grammatical.
(1) Colourless green ideas sleep furiously.
(2) Furiously sleep ideas green colourless."

Noam Chomsky
(12/07/1928 – )
US educator ("Syntactic Structures")

"What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be."

Ellen Burstyn
(12/07/1932 – )
US actor ("Requiem for a Dream")

"I am a greedy, selfish bastard. I want the fact that I existed to mean something."

Harry Chapin
(12/07/1942 – 07/16/1981)
US singer, songwriter ("Cat's in the Cradle")

"An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less."

Nicholas Murray Butler
(04/02/1862 – 12/07/1947)
US educator ("True and False Democracy")

"I've seldom seen a horny player walk into a bar and not let out exactly what he did for a living."

Johnny Bench
(12/07/1947 – )
US baseball player

"Champagne for my real friends, and real pain for my sham friends."

Tom Waits
(12/07/1949 – )
US singer, songwriter ("Downtown Train")

"I don't know if I practiced more than anybody, but I sure practiced enough. I still wonder if somebody—somewhere—was practicing more than me."

Larry Bird
(12/07/1956 – )
US basketball player, coach

"I see my work like Picasso. He signed off on his work. I signed off on my work. I work hard during the week. I'm just trying to have fun."

Terrell Owens
(12/07/1973 – )
US football player , signed a football in the end zone after making a touchdown

"I do borrow from other writers, shamelessly! I can only say in my defense, like the woman brought before the judge on a charge of kleptomania, 'I do steal, but, your Honor, only from the very best stores.'"

Thornton Wilder
(04/17/1897 – 12/07/1975)
US writer ("The Bridge of San Luis Rey")

"I believe that every English poet should read the English classics, master the rules of grammar before he attempts to bend or break them, travel abroad, experience the horror of sordid passion and—if he is lucky enough—know the love of an honest woman."

Robert Graves
(07/24/1895 – 12/07/1985)
English writer ("I, Claudius")

"Censorship reflects a society's lack of confidence in itself. It is a hallmark of an authoritarian regime."

Potter Stewart
(01/23/1915 – 12/07/1985)
US Supreme Court justice

"I feel positively like a Beatle."

Joan Bennett
(02/27/1910 – 12/07/1990)
US actor ("The Woman in the Window") , on the success of the soap "Dark Shadows"
(sister of Constance Bennett)

"Society has never barred women from bread-winning roles, but only from economic roles that are profitable and respectable."

Jeane Kirkpatrick
(11/19/1926 – 12/07/2006)
US diplomat ("The Withering Away of the Totalitarian State...and Other Surprises")

"At the moment of truth, there are either reasons or results."

Chuck Yeager
(02/13/1923 – 12/07/2020)
US test pilot

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