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"People wish their enemies dead, but I do not; I say give them the gout, give them the stone!"
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
(05/26/1689 08/21/1762)
English writer
"But me thought it lessened my esteem of a king, that he should not be able to command the rain."
Samuel Pepys
(02/23/1633 05/26/1703)
English writer
"So that's what hay looks like."
Queen Mary
(05/26/1867 03/24/1953)
English royalty
, on evacuation from the palace during WWII
"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera."
Dorothea Lange
(05/26/1895 10/11/1965)
US photographer
"I stick to simple themes. Love. Hate. No nuances. I stay away from psychoanalyst's couch scenes. Couches are good for one thing."
John Wayne
(05/26/1907 06/11/1979)
US actor
"No man is lonely while eating spaghetti."
Robert Morley
(05/26/1908 06/03/1992)
English actor
"Who wants to see me as 'Hamlet'? Very few. But millions want to see me as Frankenstein so that's the one I do."
Peter Cushing
(05/26/1913 08/11/1994)
English actor
"They weren't really weddings, just long costume parties."
Peggy Lee
(05/26/1920 01/21/2002)
US singer
, on three of her weddings
"Worry affects the circulation, the heart, the glands, the whole nervous system. I have never known a man who died from overwork, but many who died from doubt."
Charles Horace Mayo
(07/19/1865 05/26/1939)
US physician
(brother of William James Mayo)
"I can't talk about myself. I just can't. I know I've influenced people, and I'm proud of that. But as I see it, I really haven't done anything. I haven't saved anybody from a burning building."
Pam Grier
(05/26/1949 )
US actor
"A dying man needs to die, as a sleepy man needs to sleep, and there comes a time when it is wrong, as well as useless, to resist."
Stewart Alsop
(05/17/1914 05/26/1974)
US journalist
(brother of Joseph Alsop, Jr.)
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