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"I find the medicine worse than the malady."
John Fletcher
(12/20/1579
08/29/1625)
English writer
"Ah! What is man? Wherefore does he why? Whence did he whence? Whither is he withering?"
Dan Leno
(12/20/1860
10/31/1904)
English entertainer
"Though man a thinking being is defined,
Few use the grand prerogative of mind.
How few think justly of the thinking few!
How many never think, who think they do!"
Ann Taylor
(06/30/1782
12/20/1866)
English writer
"Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising."
Sir Robert Menzies
(12/20/1894
05/15/1978)
Australian PM
, on his "superiority complex" and the Australian Parliament
"When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil."
Max Lerner
(12/20/1902
06/05/1992)
US political columnist
"A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose."
Hortense Calisher
(12/20/1911
01/13/2009)
US writer
("In the Absence of Angels")
"No, I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity, but I know my husband, and I know he can be trusted." *
Elsa Einstein
(01/18/1876
12/20/1936)
German physicist's spouse and cousin
(married to Albert Einstein)
"I dislike organized games, swimming pools, fashionable resorts, night clubs, music in restaurants, and political manifestoes; I enjoy driving from coast to coast, good food and drink, a few friends, dogs, the theatre, long walks, music, and free conversation."
James Hilton
(09/09/1900
12/20/1954)
English writer
"Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had."
Billy Bragg
(12/20/1957
)
English musician
"God heard the embattled nations sing and shout
'Gott strafe England' and 'God save the King!'
God this, God that, and God the other thing
'Good God!' said God, 'I've got my work cut out!'"
Sir John Collings Squire
(04/02/1884
12/20/1958)
English journalist
("If It Had Happened Otherwise")
"She always accuses me of just listening to depressing music all day."
Chris Robinson
(12/20/1966
)
US singer (Black Crowes)
, on Kate Hudson
(was married to Kate Hudson)
"I've seen a look in dogs' eyes, a quickly vanishing look of amazed contempt, and I am convinced that basically dogs think humans are nuts."
John Steinbeck
(02/27/1902
12/20/1968)
US writer
("The Grapes of Wrath")
"It isn't true that you live only once. You only die once. You live lots of times, if you know how."
Bobby Darin
(05/14/1936
12/20/1973)
US singer
("Beyond the Sea")
"Sometimes when I sit down to practice and there is no one else in the room, I have to stifle an impulse to ring for the elevator man and offer him money to come in and hear me."
Arthur Rubenstein
(01/28/1887
12/20/1982)
Polish-Israeli-US pianist
"Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions."
Mignon McLaughlin
(06/06/1913
12/20/1983)
US writer
"If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing."
W. Edwards Deming
(10/14/1900
12/20/1993)
US educator
"We're eyeball to eyeball, and I think the other fellow just blinked."
Dean Rusk
(02/09/1909
12/20/1994)
US secretary of state
, on Castro and the Cuban missile crisis
"A loving person lives in a loving world. A hostile person lives in a hostile world. Everyone you meet is your mirror."
Ken S. Keyes, Jr.
(01/19/1921
12/20/1995)
US writer
"In city, in suburb, in forest, no way to stretch out the armsso if you would grow, go straight up or deep down."
Denise Levertov
(10/24/1923
12/20/1997)
US writer
(same birth and death dates as Moss Hart and
Adrian Mitchell)
"I think they should take everyone who works for The National Enquirer and the Star, and everyone who works for Us Weekly, and put them all to work looking for terrorists. I think they would find the terrorists. All of them. It would be genius!"
Brittany Murphy
(11/10/1977
12/20/2009)
US actor
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