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"Silence is the virtue of fools."
Francis Bacon
(01/22/1561 – 04/09/1626)
English writer 

"He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose."
Gotthold Lessing
(01/22/1729 – 02/15/1781)
German dramatist 

"I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all."
Lord Byron
(01/22/1788 – 04/29/1824)
English writer 

"I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves."
August Strindberg
(01/22/1849 – 05/14/1912)
Swedish writer 

"A bare assertion is not necessarily the naked truth."
George D. Prentice
(12/18/1802 – 01/22/1870)
US writer 

"I made them see, didn't I? I changed everything."
D. W. Griffith
(01/22/1875 – 07/21/1948)
US director 

"A new gadget that lasts only five minutes is worth more than an immortal work that bores everyone."
Francis Picabia
(01/22/1879 – 11/30/1953)
French artist 

"If Moses had gone to Harvard Law School and spent three years working on the Hill, he would have written The Ten Commandments with three exceptions and a saving clause."
Charles Morgan
(01/22/1894 – 02/06/1958)
English writer 

"The Queen is most anxious to enlist every one who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of 'Woman's Rights,' with all its attendant horrors, on which her poor feeble sex is bent..."
Victoria
(05/24/1819 – 01/22/1901)
Queen of England 

"Petite, pretty, and deadly as an asp."
Howard Teichmann
(01/22/1916 – 07/07/1987)
US writer , on Dorothy Parker 

"Three-fourths of the mistakes a man makes are made because he does not really know what he thinks he knows."
James Bryce
(05/10/1838 – 01/22/1922)
Irish writer, diplomat 

"A caress is better than a career."
Elisabeth Marbury
(06/19/1856 – 01/22/1933)
US literary and theatrical agent 

"Fair is for games."
Nancy J. Robinson
(01/22/???? – )
US computing pioneer, systems analyst, and quotekeeper's mom 

"A squid, as you know of course, has ten testicles."
Graham Kerr
(01/22/1934 – )
US chef ("Galloping Gourmet") 

"I've done some stinkers in the cinema. You can't regret it; there are always reasons for doing something, even if it's just the location."
John Hurt
(01/22/1940 – )
English actor 

"Come again when you can't stay so long."
Walter Richard Sickert
(05/31/1860 – 01/22/1942)
German-English painter 

"The secret of charm is bullsh*t."
Tyrone Power, Jr.
(01/22/1959 – )
US actor and . .. charmer? 

"It's probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside pissing in."
Lyndon Baines Johnson
(08/27/1908 – 01/22/1973)
US President (36), Vice President (37) (was married to "Lady Bird" Johnson; see all US Presidents, VPs) , on J. Edgar Hoover 

"Life isn't a matter of milestones but of moments."
Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy
(07/22/1890 – 01/22/1995)
US royalty (was married to Joseph P., mother of John, Robert, and Teddy Kennedy) 

"You know we all became mathematicians for the same reason: we were lazy."
Max Rosenlicht
(04/15/1924 – 01/22/1999)
US mathematician, professor 

"The surest way to become a pacifist is to join the infantry."
William H. Mauldin
(10/29/1921 – 01/22/2003)
US cartoonist 

"We had a good sense of humor about it, because we knew what we were holding on to and how it was going to exceed expectations and [labels]. We weren't running around naked in chaps swinging pink guns in the air. We knew that, and we found it funny that no one else did."
Heath Ledger
(04/04/1979 – 01/22/2008)
Australian actor , on filming Brokeback Mountain 

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