January 09

"A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness."

Bernard le Bouyer de Fontenelle
(02/11/1657 – 01/09/1757)
French writer

"There is no such thing as a moral dress—it's people who are moral or immoral."

Lady Jennie Jerome Churchill
(01/09/1854 – 06/29/1921)
US-born socialite (mother of Winston)

"Nature has made women with a bosom, so nature thought it was important. Who am I to argue with nature?"

Ida Rosenthal
(01/09/1886 – 03/29/1973)
Russian dressmaker, businesswoman

"Alimony is like buying oats for a dead horse."

Arthur Baer
(01/09/1886 – 05/17/1969)
US writer

"I prefer to remember the happy things over 10 years, the things that went well. Let me see, what did go well?"

Rudolf Bing
(01/09/1902 – 09/02/1997)
Austrian manager, NY Metropolitan Opera

"This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate."

Simone de Beauvoir
(01/09/1908 – 04/14/1986)
French writer

"When the President does it, that means that it is not illegal."

Richard M. Nixon
(01/09/1913 – 04/22/1994)
US President (37), VP (36) , (was married to Pat Nixon; see all US Presidents, VPs)

"Being married to Arlene Dahl was very nice at nighttime. But in the daytime, it was like being married to Elizabeth Arden."

Fernando Lamas
(01/09/1915 – 10/08/1982)
Argentine actor (was married to Dahl, Esther Williams) (In six years of marriage to Dahl, Lamas claims he never saw her without makeup)

"E. M. Forster never gets any further than warming the teapot. He's a rare fine hand at that. Feel this teapot. Is it not beautifully warm? Yes, but there ain't going to be no tea."

Katherine Mansfield
(10/14/1888 – 01/09/1923)
New Zealander writer