"Her feet beneath her petticoat
Like little mice stole in and out,
As if they feared the light;
But oh, she dances such a way!
No sun upon an Easter-day
Is half so fine a sight."

Sir John Suckling
(02/10/1609 – 06/01/1642)
English writer

"Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses."

Aaron Hill
(02/10/1685 – 02/08/1750)
English writer

"Brandy and water spoils two good things."

Charles Lamb
(02/10/1775 – 12/27/1834)
English writer

"Very sorry can't come. Lie follows by post."

Lord Charles Beresford
(02/10/1846 – 09/06/1919)
English admiral , refusing a dinner invitation

"Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible."

Frank Moore Colby
(02/10/1865 – 03/03/1926)
US encyclopedia editor and essayist

"My advice to the women's clubs of America is to raise more hell and fewer dahlias."

William Allen White
(02/10/1868 – 01/29/1944)
US writer

"That's metaphysics, my dear fellow. It's forbidden me by my doctor, my stomach won't take it."

Boris Pasternak
(02/10/1890 – 05/30/1960)
Russian writer (Doctor Zhivago)

"Politics is developing more comedians than radio ever did."

Jimmy Durante
(02/10/1893 – 01/29/1980)
US pianist, singer, actor

"Perhaps we could have a translation, I could not quite follow."

Harold Macmillan
(02/10/1894 – 12/29/1986)
British Prime Minister (44) (see other British PMs) , when Krushchev began banging his shoe on the desk at the UN

"Don't tell me peace has broken out, when I've just bought some new supplies."

Bertolt Brecht
(02/10/1898 – 08/14/1956)
German playwright

"Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos."

Joyce Grenfell
(02/10/1910 – 11/30/1979)
English comic, actor

"Vasectomy means never having to say you're sorry."

Larry Adler
(02/10/1914 – 08/06/2001)
US harmonica player ; buy "The Glory of Gershwin"

"We may eventually come to realize that chastity is no more a virtue than malnutrition."

Dr. Alex Comfort
(02/10/1920 – 03/26/2000)
US pop psychologist, writer ("The Joy of Sex")

"I totally and completely admit, with no qualms at all, my egomania, my selfishness, coupled with a really magnificent voice."

Leontyne Price
(02/10/1927 – )
US singer

"Charlton Heston was a bit over the top by himself, and didn't need any score to accompany him."

Jerry Goldsmith
(02/10/1929 – 07/21/2004)
US composer , on scoring the end of "Planet of the Apes"

"Often the search proves more profitable than the goal."

E. L. Konigsburg
(02/10/1930 – )
US children's writer

"Dolly Parton reminds me of two big ice cream cones and a whole lot of cotton candy. I'll bet most of her fans are either hillbillies or diabetics."

Peter Allen
(02/10/1944 – 06/18/1992)
Australian songwriter (was married to Liza Minnelli)

"I thank you for this award, though I think there may be a problem with a world in which making small, human and humorous films is 'an achievement.' It should be the norm."

Alexander Payne
(02/10/1961 – )
US director (was married to Sandra Oh) , on accepting Director of the Year award for "Sideways" at the Palm Springs film fest

"It's really fun to act like a bimbo. But it's fun to act like a bimbo only when people know that you really aren't one."

Laura Dern
(02/10/1967 – )
US actor (daughter of Bruce Dern and Diane Ladd)