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"As empty vessels make the loudest sound, so they that have the least wit are the greatest blabbers."
Plato
(05/21/0427 – ?/0348 BC)
Greek philosopher 

"The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality."
Dante Alighieri
(05/21/1265 – 09/14/1321)
Italian writer 

"It is with narrow-souled people as with narrow-necked bottles: the less they have in them, the more noise they make in pouring it out."
Alexander Pope
(05/21/1688 – 05/30/1744)
English writer 

"Thomas Gray walks as if he had fouled his small-clothes and looks as if he smelt it."
Christopher Smart
(04/11/1722 – 05/21/1771)
English religious poet 

"We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in the modern style."
Henri Rousseau
(05/21/1844 – 09/02/1910)
French artist , to Pablo Picasso 

"If Governor Fields is right, I am going to stand by him because he is right. If he is wrong, I am going to stand by him because he is a Democrat."
Augustus Owsley Stanley
(05/21/1867 – 08/12/1958)
US governor, senator (KY) 

"This is so nice, it must be illegal."
Fats Waller
(05/21/1904 – 12/15/1943)
US pianist, singer 

"We must make demands of reason and create a life worthy of ourselves and of the goals we only dimly perceive."
Andrei Sakharov
(05/21/1921 – 12/14/1989)
Russian physicist 

"The world is so disgracefully managed, one hardly knows to whom to complain."
Arthur Annesley Ronald Firbank
(01/17/1886 – 05/21/1926)
English writer 

"You do not know what life means when all the difficulties are removed! I am simply smothered and sickened with advantages. It is like eating a sweet dessert the first thing in the morning."
Jane Addams
(09/06/1860 – 05/21/1935)
US social worker 

"I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system."
Mary Robinson
(05/21/1944 – )
Irish president (first female) 

"It was all a dream. I used to read Word up magazine."
Biggie Smalls
(05/21/1972 – 03/09/1997)
US rapper 

"Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity."
Eric Hoffer
(07/25/1902 – 05/21/1983)
US philosopher 

"Your English style will no doubt put all the other gentlemen to bed. I speak figuratively, of course."
Sir John Gielgud
(04/14/1904 – 05/21/2000)
English actor , on Cecil Beaton’s decision to act in a production of Lady Windermere’s Fan 

"I would love to employ a man, but how can I possibly give a man dictation from the bath?"
Dame Barbara Cartland
(07/09/1901 – 05/21/2000)
English novelist , on her four female secretaries 

"I always believed that if you set out to be successful, then you already were."
Katherine Dunham
(06/22/1910 – 05/21/2006)
US dancer, choreographer, anthropologist 

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