"A full tongue and an empty brain are seldom parted."
Francis Quarles
(05/08/1592 – 09/08/1644)
English writer
(05/08/1592 – 09/08/1644)
English writer
"The various modes of worship, which prevailed in
the Roman world, were all considered by the people as equally true; by
the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally
useful."
Edward Gibbon(05/08/1737 – 01/16/1794)
English historian
"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he's wrong."
Charles Wadsworth
(05/08/1814 – 04/01/1882)
US clergy
(05/08/1814 – 04/01/1882)
US clergy
"That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next."
John Stuart Mill(05/20/1806 – 05/08/1873)
English philosopher, economist
"To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost."
Gustave Flaubert(12/12/1821 – 05/08/1880)
French writer
"Never kick a fresh turd on a hot day."
Harry S Truman(05/08/1884 – 12/26/1972)
US President (33), VP (34) (was married to Bess Truman; see all US Presidents, VPs)
"Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered."
Madame Helene Petrovna Blavatsky(08/12/1831 – 05/08/1891)
Russian writer, mystic
"An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support."
Bishop Fulton J. Sheen(05/08/1895 – 12/10/1979)
US religious guy
"All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely."
Edmund Wilson
(05/08/1895 – 06/12/1972)
US critic
(05/08/1895 – 06/12/1972)
US critic
"Success in almost any field depends more on energy
and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so
many stupid leaders."
Sloan Wilson(05/08/1920 – 05/25/2003)
US writer (Man In The Grey Flannel Suit)
"When you enter a room, you have to kiss his ring. I don't mind, but he has it in his back pocket."
Don Rickles(05/08/1926 – )
US comic , on Frank Sinatra
"A boxing match is like a cowboy movie. There's got
to be good guys and there's got to be bad guys. And that's what people
pay for—to see the bad guys get beat."
Sonny Liston(05/08/1932 – 12/30/1970)
US boxer
"Certainly we have bad paintings. We have only the greatest bad paintings."
Françoise Cachin
(05/08/1936 – )
French writer and museum director
(05/08/1936 – )
French writer and museum director
"If few can stand a long war without deterioration of soul, none can stand a long peace."
Oswald Spengler
(05/29/1880 – 05/08/1936)
German philosopher
(05/29/1880 – 05/08/1936)
German philosopher
"No place is boring, if you've had a good night's sleep and have a pocket full of unexposed film."
Robert Adams
(05/08/1937 – )
US photographer
(05/08/1937 – )
US photographer
"And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it themselves."
Beth Henley(05/08/1952 – )
US writer
"The idiot lived in a black and gray world,
punctuated by the white lightning of hunger and the flickering of fear.
His clothes were old and many-windowed. Here peeped a shinbone, sharp as
a cold chisel, and there in the torn coat were ribs like the fingers of
a fist. He was tall and flat. His eyes were calm and his face was
dead."
Theodore Sturgeon
(02/26/1918 – 05/08/1985)
US writer
(02/26/1918 – 05/08/1985)
US writer
"Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors and miss."
Robert A. Heinlein(07/07/1907 – 05/08/1988)
US writer
"Live your life. Live your life. Live your life."
Maurice Sendak(06/10/1928 – 05/08/2012)
US writer/illustrator (Where the Wild Things Are)
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