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"Strange to say what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition."
Samuel Pepys
(02/23/1633 – 05/26/1703)
English writer

 

  "Few have been taught to any purpose who have not been their own teachers." Sir Joshua Reynolds
(07/16/1723 – 02/23/1792)
English artist

 

"I think we may class the lawyer in the natural history of monsters." John Keats
(10/31/1795 – 02/23/1821)
English writer

 

"Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order." John Quincy Adams
(07/11/1767 – 02/23/1848)
US President (6) (son of John Adams and Abigail Smith Adams, father of Charles Francis Adams; see all US Presidents)

 

"Mathematics is the queen of sciences and arithmetic is the queen of mathematics." Carl Friedrich Gauss
(04/30/1777 – 02/23/1855)
German mathematician

 

 "To be a poor man is hard, but to be a poor race in a land of dollars is the very bottom of hardships." W. E. B. du Bois
(02/23/1868 – 08/27/1963)
US sociologist

 

"Say anything you like, but don't say that I 'like' to work. That sounds like Mary Pickford, that prissy bitch. Just say I like to pinch babies and twist their legs. And get drunk." Mabel Normand
(11/16/1894 – 02/23/1930)
US actor

 

 "One of the drawbacks of fame is that one can never escape from it." Dame Nellie Melba
(05/19/1861 – 02/23/1931)
Australian opera singer

 

"Her heart was in the right place, but her head wasn't." Peter Fonda
(02/23/1939 – )
US actor (son of Henry, brother of Jane, father of Bridget) , on Jane's controversial trip to North Vietnam

 

  "I'm not good enough to be playin' much acoustic guitar onstage. Man, you gotta get so right; I mean, the tones, the feel, the sound. Plus, acoustic blues guitar is just that much harder on the fingers. I really appreciate when someone can blow me away with live acoustic blues." Johnny Winter
(02/23/1944 – )
US guitarist

 

"Intelligence is nothing without delight." Paul Claudel
(08/06/1868 – 02/23/1955)
French writer

 

  "When my Azzedine jacket from 1987 died, I wrapped it up in a box, attached a note saying where it came from and took it to the Salvation Army. It was a big loss." Veronica Webb
(02/23/1965 – )
US supermodel

 

"If any of you cry at my funeral, I'll never speak to you again!" Stan Laurel
(06/16/1890 – 02/23/1965)
English comic, actor (also see Oliver Hardy)

 

"Some people think they are worth a lot of money just because they have it." Fannie Hurst
(10/18/1889 – 02/23/1968)
US writer

"A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing." Jessamyn West
(07/18/1902 – 02/23/1984)
US writer (Thanks to the other Jessamyn for the photo)

 

"If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans." James Herriot
(03/10/1916 – 02/23/1995)
Scottish veterinarian, writer

"Murder is a crime. Describing murder is not. Sex is not a crime. Describing sex is." Gershon Legman
(11/02/1917 – 02/23/1999)
US sexologist