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"Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it."

Eugene Delacroix
(04/26/1798 – 08/13/1863)
French painter

"That that is is. Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?"

Artemus Ward
(04/26/1834 – 03/06/1867)
US writer

"If you don't like my ocean don't fish in my sea
Stay out of my valley and let my mountain be."

Ma Rainey
(04/26/1886 – 12/22/1939)
US singer

"If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done."

Ludwig Wittgenstein
(04/26/1889 – 04/29/1951)
Austrian-English philosopher (died near his birthday)

"I'm furious about the Women's Liberationists. They keep getting up on soapboxes and proclaiming that women are brighter than men. That's true, but it should be kept very quiet or it ruins the whole racket."

Anita Loos
(04/26/1893 – 08/18/1981)
US screenwriter

"Comedy is tragedy plus time."

Carol Burnett
(04/26/1933 – )
US comic, actor

"Anything worth doing well is worth doing slowly."

Gypsy Rose Lee
(02/09/1914 – 04/26/1970)
US actor and entertainer

"'Good morning' is a contradiction of terms."

Jim Davis
(08/26/1909 – 04/26/1981)
US actor (also see Jim Davis the "Garfield" cartoonist)

"I decided that I would be one of the biggest new names; and I actually had some little fancy business cards printed up to announce it, 'Count Basie. Beware, the Count is Here.'"

Count Basie
(08/21/1904 – 04/26/1984)
US bandleader

"I'm too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care."

Broderick Crawford
(12/09/1911 – 04/26/1986)
US actor

"You see much more of your children once they leave home."

Lucille Ball
(08/06/1911 – 04/26/1989)
US comic, actor

"I sleep each night a little better, a little more confidently, because Lyndon Johnson is my president."

Jack Valenti
(09/05/1921 – 04/26/2007)
US chairman (MPAA)

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