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"Learning is the dictionary, but sense the grammar, of science."
Laurence Sterne
(11/24/1713 03/18/1768)
Irish-English writer
"There once was an old man of Lyme
who married three wives at a time
when asked, 'Why a third?'
he replied 'One's absurd!
and bigamy, sir, is a crime!'"
William Cosmo Monkhouse
(03/18/1840 07/02/1901)
English writer
"How horrible, fantastic, incredible, it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a faraway country between people of whom we know nothing."
Neville Chamberlain
(03/18/1869 11/09/1940)
British PM (40)
(see other British PMs)
"I was x years old in the year x^2."
Augustus de Morgan
(06/27/1806 03/18/1871)
English mathematician
, when asked his age
"You can never lose anything that really belongs to you, and you can't keep that which belongs to someone else."
Edgar Cayce
(03/18/1877 01/03/1945)
US psychic
"A few, a few, too few for drums and yells,
May creep back, silent, to still village wells
Up half-known roads."
Wilfred Owen
(03/18/1893 11/04/1918)
English soldier, writer
"A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world."
Manly Hall
(03/18/1901 08/29/1990)
Canadian writer
"I don't think I'd ever get anything more than a very small role. 'The Prince of the Cameos,' they might call me."
George Plimpton
(03/18/1901 09/26/2003)
English actor
"A healthy adult male bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience."
John Updike
(03/18/1932 01/27/2009)
US writer
"If God has cable, we are the 24-hour doofus network."
Will Durst
(03/18/1952 )
US comic
"You know you're drunk when you think that the cab fare is the time."
Dane Cook
(03/18/1972 )
US comic
"Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down with incredible swiftness."
Faith Baldwin
(10/01/1893 03/18/1978)
US writer
"Modern man thinks he loses somethingtimewhen he does not do things quickly; yet he does not know what to do with the time he gainsexcept kill it."
Erich Fromm
(03/23/1900 03/18/1980)
German psychoanalyst
(died near his birthday)
"One's fantasy goes for a walk and returns with a bride."
Bernard Malamud
(04/26/1914 03/18/1986)
US writer
"If I told you the tragedy parts, we'd all sit here and cry."
John Phillips
(08/30/1935 03/18/2001)
US singer, songwriter
, on his band, the Mamas and the Papas
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