Joseph Addison
(05/01/1672 – 06/17/1719)
English writer
Who think too little and who talk too much." John Dryden
(08/09/1631 – 05/01/1700)
English writer
"To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion." Arthur Wellesley
(05/01/1769 – 09/14/1852)
Duke of Wellington, English army commander, PM (21) (see other British PMs; image courtesy of the Bridgeman Art Library)
(05/01/1855 – 04/21/1924)
English writer
"If you have men who will only come if they know
there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if
there is no road at all."
Dr. David Livingstone
(03/19/1813 – 05/01/1873)
Scottish missionary, explorer
(03/19/1813 – 05/01/1873)
Scottish missionary, explorer
"A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts."
Morris Kline
(05/01/1908 – 06/10/1992)
US mathematician
(05/01/1908 – 06/10/1992)
US mathematician
(05/01/1918 – 01/27/2004)
US comic, TV host (Tonight Show) (also see Allen, Carson, and Leno)
(05/01/1923 – 12/12/1999)
US writer (Catch-22)
(05/01/1939 – )
US singer
(10/29/1897 – 05/01/1945)
German propagandist
(05/01/1946 – )
English model, actor, writer
(05/01/1968 – )
US bassist, singer (Smashing Pumpkins) (also see Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlain, Melissa auf der Maur, and Courtney Love)
"Yes, we have two sons."
Harold Nicolson
(11/21/1886 – 05/01/1968)
Iran-born English writer (husband of Vita Sackville-West, father of Nigel Nicolson), on whether he and his wife had ever collaborated on anything
(11/21/1886 – 05/01/1968)
Iran-born English writer (husband of Vita Sackville-West, father of Nigel Nicolson), on whether he and his wife had ever collaborated on anything
"I see the mind of a 5-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness."
Sylvia Townsend Ashton-Warner
(12/06/1893 – 05/01/1978)
English writer
(12/06/1893 – 05/01/1978)
English writer
(08/31/1935 – 05/01/1998)
US activist
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