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"I live a very dull life here... indeed I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else."
Martha Washington
(06/21/1732 – 05/22/1802 or 06/02/1802)
US First Lady (1) (was married to George; see other US First Ladies)

"I think that if you shake the tree, you ought to be around when the fruit falls to pick it up." Mary Cassatt
(05/22/1844 – 06/14/1926)
US artist

"After Rossini dies, who will there be to promote his music?" Richard Wagner
(05/22/1813 – 02/13/1883)
German composer

"An orator is the worse person to tell a plain fact." Maria Edgeworth
(01/01/1767 – 05/22/1849)
Irish writer

Holmes: "I followed you."
Man: "I saw no one."
Holmes: "That is what you may expect to see when I follow you." Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
(05/22/1859 – 07/07/1930)
Scottish writer

"To err is human; to loaf, Parisian." Victor Hugo
(02/26/1802 – 05/22/1885)
French writer

"I said to Marilyn, 'Why can't you get here on time, for f890's sake?' And she replied, 'Oh, do you have that word in England, too?'" Sir Laurence Olivier
(05/22/1907 – 07/11/1989)
English actor

"I finally know what distinguishes man from other beasts: financial worries." Jules Renard
(02/22/1864 – 05/22/1910)
French writer

"You can't tell a millionaire's son from a billionaire's." Vance Packard
(05/22/1914 – 12/12/1996)
US writer

"A dumb blonde who falls for a huge plastic finger." Judith Crist
(05/22/1922 – )
US critic , on Jessica Lange in "King Kong"

"Chief executives, who themselves own few shares of their companies, have no more feeling for the average stockholder than they do for baboons in Africa." T. Boone Pickens
(05/22/1928 – )
US businessman

"One reason people get divorced is that they run out of gift ideas." Robert Byrne
(05/22/1930 – )
US writer, billiards maven, quote collector

"Always suspect any job men willingly vacate for women." Jill Tweedie
(05/22/1936 – 11/12/1993)
British writer

"Humor is laughing at what you haven't got when you ought to have it." Langston Hughes
(02/01/1902 – 05/22/1967)
US writer

"Cats are rather delicate creatures and they are subject to a good many ailments, but I never heard of one who suffered from insomnia." Joseph Wood Krutch
(11/25/1893 – 05/22/1970)
US naturalist, writer

"There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry." Martin Gardner
(10/21/1914 – 05/22/2010)
US scientist, mathematician, calligrapher