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"All universal moral principles are idle fancies."
Marquis de Sade
(06/02/1740 – 12/02/1814)
French writer 

Henry Clay, House Speaker (on a narrow sidewalk): "I, sir, do not step aside for a scoundrel."
John Randolph, stepping aside: "On the other hand, I always do."
(06/02/1773 – 05/24/1833)
US congressman (VA) 

"Some folk want their luck buttered."
Thomas Hardy
(06/02/1840 – 01/11/1928)
English writer 

"We have sat on the river bank and caught catfish with pin hooks. The time has come to harpoon a whale."
John Hope
(06/02/1868 – 02/20/1936)
US educator 

"You had to stand in line to hate him."
Hedda Hopper
(06/02/1890 – 02/01/1966)
US gossip (Hopper painting by Red Skelton) , on Harry Cohn 

"Those who wish to pet and baby wild animals 'love' them. But those who respect their natures and wish to let them live normal lives, love them more."
Edwin Way Teale
(06/02/1899 – 10/18/1980)
US writer, naturalist 

"Mental inertia is death."
T. Thomas Fortune
(10/03/1856 – 06/02/1928)
US writer 

"We won't make a sequel, but we may well make a second episode."
Jon Peters
(06/02/1945 – )
US hairdresser/director , on "Batman" 

"Our generation is the first to have grown up with TV. I'm one of the first kids that they watched grow up on television."
Jerry Mathers
(06/02/1948 – )
US actor (Leave it to Beaver) 

"There are only two kinds of scholars; those who love ideas and those who hate them."
Emile-Auguste Chartier
(03/03/1868 – 06/02/1951)
French writer 

"Let's tell young people the best books are yet to be written; the best painting, the best government, the best of everything is yet to be done by them."
John Erskine
(10/05/1879 – 06/02/1951)
US educator, writer, musician 

"Please, O ye Lord, keep Jim Bakker behind bars."
Dana Carvey
(06/02/1955 – )
US comic actor (SNL) 

"I'm not in the entertainment field, I'm in the confrontation field."
Lydia Lunch
(06/02/1959 – )
US singer, performance artist 

Press agent: "How do I get our leading lady's name in your newspaper?"
George S. Kaufman: "Shoot her."
(11/16/1889 – 06/02/1961)
US writer 

"I have come to the conclusion after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all."
Vita Sackville-West
(03/09/1892 – 06/02/1962)
English writer (wife of Harold Nicolson, mother of Nigel Nicolson) 

"I'm a McDonald's girl; several times a week. Usually the two-cheeseburger combo meal. And I'm a nail-biter. If I didn't have fake nails, my fingers would be bloody stumps."
Nikki Cox
(06/02/1978 – )
US actor , was engaged to Bob Goldthwait 

"The piano is a monster that screams when you touch its teeth."
Andres Segovia
(02/21/1893 – 06/02/1987)
Spanish guitarist 

"I'm now at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was."
Rex Harrison
(03/05/1908 – 06/02/1990)
English actor 

"Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for."
Amos Tversky
(03/16/1937 – 06/02/1996)
Israeli-US cognitive psychologist 

"Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly."
Arnold Edinborough
(08/02/1922 – 06/02/2006)
Canadian writer 

"Don't let your mouth write a check that your tail can't cash."
Bo Diddley
(12/30/1928 – 06/02/2008)
US singer, songwriter 

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