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"Law is a bottomless pit."
John Arbuthnot
(04/29/1667 – 02/27/1745)
Scottish physician, scientist, mathematician

"I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly." George Farquhar
(?/1678 – 04/29/1707)
Irish writer

"The Cardinal is at his wit's end—it is true—that he had not far to go." Lord Byron
(01/22/1788 – 04/29/1824)
English writer

"Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means." Henri Poincare
(04/29/1854 – 07/17/1912)
French mathematician

"Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting." William Randolph Hearst
(04/29/1863 – 08/14/1951)
US newspaper magnate (LTR with Marion Davies)

"Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little." Thomas Aloysius Dorgan
(04/29/1877 – 05/02/1929)
US cartoonist (died near his birthday)

"Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands—and all you can do is scratch it." Sir Thomas Beecham
(04/29/1897 – 03/08/1961)
British composer, conductor , to a woman cellist

"Playing 'Bop' is like Scrabble with all the vowels missing." Duke Ellington
(04/29/1899 – 05/24/1974)
US composer

"The war has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage." Emperor Hirohito
(04/29/1901 – 01/06/1989)
Japanese leader

"If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks." George Allen
(04/29/1922 – 12/31/1990)
US football coach

"I didn’t make Dale Jr. go be a racer. The kid wanted to be a racer. I’d just as soon him be a doctor, a preacher or whatever. I’m not sure I’d want him to be a lawyer." Dale Earnhardt
(04/29/1951 – 02/18/2001)
US NASCAR driver

"I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment." Ludwig Wittgenstein
(04/26/1889 – 04/29/1951)
Austrian-English philosopher (died near his birthday)

"I think that people who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to." Jerry Seinfeld
(04/29/1955 – )
US comic, actor

"Just standing around looking beautiful is so boring, really boring, so boring." Michelle Pfeiffer
(04/29/1958 – )
US actor

"Virtual reality is just air guitar writ large." Robert J. Sawyer
(04/29/1960 – )
Canadian writer

"We all come from dysfunctional families and these days I guess that's pretty normal." Carnie Wilson
(04/29/1968 – )
Celebrity offspring , on her band Wilson Phillips

"Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal." Uma Thurman
(04/29/1970 – )
US actor (was married to Gary Oldman, Ethan Hawke) , self-described

Actress Mary Anderson: "Mr. Hitchcock, what do you think is my best side?"
Alfred Hitchcock: "My dear, you're sitting on it."
(08/13/1899 – 04/29/1980)

English producer, director

"When he does smile, he looks as if he's just evicted a widow." Mike Royko
(09/19/1932 – 04/29/1997)
US journalist , on Bob Dole

"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error." John Kenneth Galbraith
(10/15/1908 – 04/29/2006)
Canadian-US economist