"Law is a bottomless pit."John Arbuthnot
(04/29/1667 – 02/27/1745)
Scottish physician, scientist, mathematician
"I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly."George Farquhar
(?/1678 – 04/29/1707)
Irish writer
"The Cardinal is at his wit's end—it is true—that he had not far to go."Lord Byron
(01/22/1788 – 04/29/1824)
English writer
"Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means."Henri Poincare
(04/29/1854 – 07/17/1912)
French mathematician
"Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting."William Randolph Hearst
(04/29/1863 – 08/14/1951)
US newspaper magnate (LTR with Marion Davies)
"Life is like eating artichokes, you have got to go through so much to get so little."
Thomas Aloysius Dorgan
(04/29/1877 – 05/02/1929)
US cartoonist (died near his birthday)
Thomas Aloysius Dorgan
(04/29/1877 – 05/02/1929)
US cartoonist (died near his birthday)
"Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands—and all you can do is scratch it."Sir Thomas Beecham
(04/29/1897 – 03/08/1961)
British composer, conductor , to a woman cellist
"Playing 'Bop' is like Scrabble with all the vowels missing."Duke Ellington
(04/29/1899 – 05/24/1974)
US composer
"The war has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage."Emperor Hirohito
(04/29/1901 – 01/06/1989)
Japanese leader
"If you want to catch more fish, use more hooks."
George Allen
(04/29/1922 – 12/31/1990)
US football coach
George Allen
(04/29/1922 – 12/31/1990)
US football coach
"I didn’t make Dale Jr. go be a racer. The kid wanted to be a racer. I’d just as soon him be a doctor, a preacher or whatever. I’m not sure I’d want him to be a lawyer."Dale Earnhardt
(04/29/1951 – 02/18/2001)
US NASCAR driver
"I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment."Ludwig Wittgenstein
(04/26/1889 – 04/29/1951)
Austrian-English philosopher (died near his birthday)
"I think that people who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to."Jerry Seinfeld
(04/29/1955 – )
US comic, actor
"Just standing around looking beautiful is so boring, really boring, so boring."Michelle Pfeiffer
(04/29/1958 – )
US actor
"We all come from dysfunctional families and these days I guess that's pretty normal."Carnie Wilson
(04/29/1968 – )
Celebrity offspring , on her band Wilson Phillips
"Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal."Uma Thurman
(04/29/1970 – )
US actor (was married to Gary Oldman, Ethan Hawke) , self-described
Actress Mary Anderson: "Mr. Hitchcock, what do you think is my best side?"
Alfred Hitchcock: "My dear, you're sitting on it."
(08/13/1899 – 04/29/1980)
English producer, director
"When he does smile, he looks as if he's just evicted a widow."Mike Royko
(09/19/1932 – 04/29/1997)
US journalist , on Bob Dole
"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."John Kenneth Galbraith
(10/15/1908 – 04/29/2006)
Canadian-US economist
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