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"No man is born an Artist nor an Angler."
Izaak Walton
(08/09/1593
12/15/1683)
English writer (Compleat Angler)
"The human face is the organic seat of beauty... It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul."
Eliza Wood Burhans Farnham
(11/17/1815
12/15/1864)
US social reformer
"Each man is good in His sight. It is not necessary for eagles to be crows."
Sitting Bull
(??/??/1831
12/15/1890)
US native chief
"If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars."
J. Paul Getty
(12/15/1892
06/06/1976)
US zillionaire
"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time. Then your time on earth will be filled with glory."
Betty Smith
(12/15/1896
01/17/1972)
US writer
(A Tree Grows in Brooklyn")
"By and by
God caught his eye."
David McCord
(12/15/1897
04/13/1997)
US writer
, epitaph for a waiter
"It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment."
Freeman Dyson
(12/15/1923
02/28/2020)
English physicist
"The vote, I thought, means nothing to women. We should be armed."
Edna O'Brien
(12/15/1930
)
Irish writer
"I have a lot of awards in my house that I have absolutely no idea what they're for."
Tim Conway
(12/15/1933
05/14/2019)
US comic, actor
"One never knows, do one?"
Fats Waller
(05/21/1904
12/15/1943)
US pianist, singer
"People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization."
Agnes Repplier
(04/01/1855
12/15/1950)
US writer
"The best that most of us can hope to achieve in physics is simply to misunderstand at a deeper level."
Wolfgang Pauli
(04/25/1900
12/15/1958)
US physicist
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible."
Walt Disney
(12/05/1901
12/15/1966)
US filmmaker
"The poor taxpayer may wipe his shoes on a $3 doormat when he goes home, but not the Navy. It is, damn the cost, full feet ahead on a doormat you would be ashamed to get muddy."
William Proxmire
(11/11/1915
12/15/2005)
US Senator (WI)
, on excessive military spending on ordinary itemsthe doormat in question cost $792
"God is a good God, and the Devil is a bad Devil."
Oral Roberts
(01/24/1918
12/15/2009)
US televangelist
"He couldn't hit a curve ball with an ironing board."
Bob Feller
(11/03/1918
12/15/2010)
US baseball pitcher
, on Michael Jordan's bid to play baseball for White Sox
"Actually, working with Julie on a film is a whole lot easier than working with many people that I'm not married to!"
Blake Edwards
(07/26/1922
12/15/2010)
US screenwriter, director
(was married to Julie Andrews)
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