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"To have great poets, there must be great audiences too."
Walt Whitman
(05/31/1819 – 03/26/1892)
US poet 

"Come again when you can't stay so long."
Walter Richard Sickert
(05/31/1860 – 01/22/1942)
German-English painter 

"Only of one thing I am sure:
when I dream
I am always ageless."
Elizabeth Coatsworth
(05/31/1893 – 08/31/1986)
US writer 

"A gentleman never strikes a lady with his hat on."
Fred Allen
(05/31/1894 – 03/17/1956)
US comic 

"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism."
Norman Vincent Peale
(05/31/1898 – 12/24/1993)
US theologian 

"It is not easy to be a pioneer—but oh, it is fascinating! I would not trade one moment, even the worst moment, for all the riches in the world."
Elizabeth Blackwell
(02/03/1821 – 05/31/1910)
English-US physician (first female MD) 

"I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice."
Clint Eastwood
(05/31/1930 – )
US actor, director, mayor 

"When you win, nothing hurts."
Joe Namath
(05/31/1943 – )
US football quarterback 

"I was the class clown, but I was a reluctant class clown because I was always and still am somewhat embarrassed by performing. I have terrible stage fright and I don't like being in front of people."
Chris Elliot
(05/31/1960 – )
US comic, actor (SNL) 

"I only grow hair in places that men like."
Lea Thompson
(05/31/1961 – )
US actor 

"Now that I look back, I realize that a life predicated on being obedient and taking orders is a very comfortable life indeed. Living in such a way reduces to a minimum one's own need to think."
Adolph Eichmann
(03/19/1906 – 05/31/1962)
German war criminal 

"Great art is the expression of a solution of the conflict between the demands of the world without and that within."
Edith Hamilton
(08/12/1867 – 05/31/1963)
US educator 

"I'm so naive about finances.  Once when my mother mentioned an amount and I realized I didn't understand, she had to explain: 'That's like three Mercedes.'  Then I understood."
Brooke Shields
(05/31/1965 – )
US actor 

"Nutrition has been kicked around like a puppy that cannot take care of itself. Food faddists and crackpots have kicked it pretty cruelly."
Adelle Davis
(02/25/1904 – 05/31/1974)
US nutritionist 

"Being Irish is very much a part of who I am. I take it everywhere with me."
Colin Farrell
(05/31/1976 – )
Irish actor 

"Tell him he can have my title, but I want it back in the morning."
Jack Dempsey
(06/24/1895 – 05/31/1983)
US boxer , when a drunk challenged him 

"Everyone should rise up and say, 'Thank you, Mr. President, for bombing Haiphong.'"
Martha Mitchell
(09/02/1918 – 05/31/1996)
Watergate Holstein (was married to John Mitchell) 

"Women who seek to be equal with men lack ambition."
Dr. Timothy Leary
(10/22/1920 – 05/31/1996)
US LSD guru 

"The fact that I went from rags to bitches was just one of those quirks of fate written in the stars"
Charles Pierce
(07/14/1926 – 05/31/1999)
US comic 

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