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"'Tis not the meat, but 'tis the appetite
Makes eating a delight."
Sir John Suckling
(02/10/1609 – 06/01/1642)
English writer 

"Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up."
Brigham Young
(06/01/1801 – 08/29/1877)
US religious leader 

"If you are as happy, my dear sir, on entering this house as I am in leaving it and returning home, you are the happiest man in this country."
James Buchanan
(04/23/1791 – 06/01/1868)
US President (15) (see all US Presidents) 

"Life is a long headache in a noisy street."
John Masefield
(06/01/1878 – 05/12/1967)
English writer 

"Yes, I've been in your living room many times."
John Randolph
(06/01/1915 – 02/24/2004)
US actor , when asked by strangers "Do I know you?" 

"Isn't there any other part of the matzo you can eat?"
Marilyn Monroe
(06/01/1926 – 08/05/1962)
US actor, icon, sex symbol (was married to Joe diMaggio and Arthur Miller) , on being served matzo ball soup three meals in a row 

"I don't know what you do but whatever it is, it's electric."
Andy Griffith
(06/01/1926 – )
US actor, singer , to Jim Nabors 

"They laughed when I said I was going to be a comedian. Well, they're not laughing now."
Bob Monkhouse
(06/01/1928 – 12/29/2003)
English comic, writer 

"It seemed that my wife Shirley was always pregnant until we found out what was causing it."
Pat Boone
(06/01/1934 – )
US singer , on why she never toured with him 

"The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more."
Colleen McCullough
(06/01/1937 – )
Australian writer 

"I knew at an early age I wanted to act. Acting was always easy for me. I don't believe in predestination, but I do believe that once you get where ever it is you are going, that is where you were going to be. Was I always going to be here? No I was not. I was going to be homeless at one time, a taxi driver, truck driver, or any kind of job that would get me a crust of bread. You never know what's going to happen."
Morgan Freeman
(06/01/1937 – )
US actor 

"Foolish writers and readers are created for each other."
Sir Hugh Walpole
(03/13/1884 – 06/01/1941)
English writer 

"We were barred from so many hotels, the entire Holiday Inn chain, that we had to check in as Fleetwood Mac lots of times."
Ron Wood
(06/01/1947 – )
English guitarist (Birds, Faces, Rolling Stones) , on touring with the Small Faces 

"As long as art is the beauty parlor of civilization, neither art nor civilization is secure."
John Dewey
(10/20/1859 – 06/01/1952)
US educator, philosopher 

"Hello from the cracks in the sidewalks of NYC and from the ants that dwell in these cracks and feed in the dried blood of the dead that has settled into the cracks."
David "Son of Sam" Berkowitz
(06/01/1953 – )
US serial killer 

"One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar."
Helen Keller
(06/27/1880 – 06/01/1968)
US writer 

"Nothing that is worth anything can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope."
Reinhold Niebuhr
(06/21/1892 – 06/01/1971)
US theologian 

"You should spend your money on some nice lingerie. Big wool cotton pants, that just doesn't work. You have to feel sexy."
Heidi Klum
(06/01/1973 – )
German model 

"What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are."
Alanis Morissette
(06/01/1974 – )
Canadian singer ; was engaged to Ryan Reynolds 

"Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it."
Hank Ketcham
(03/14/1920 – 06/01/2001)
US cartoonist (Dennis the Menace) 

"An Edwardian lady in full dress was a wonder to behold, and her preparations for viewing were awesome."
William Manchester
(04/01/1922 – 06/01/2004)
US historian 

"We must never confuse elegance with snobbery."
Yves Saint-Laurent
(08/01/1936 – 06/01/2008)
French Algerian designer 

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