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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

"A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin."

Edmond de Goncourt
(05/26/1822 – 07/16/1896)
French writer , brother of Jules-Alfred Hout de Goncourt

"I can't see what Jack Warner can do with an Oscar—it can't say yes."

Al Jolson
(05/26/1886 – 10/23/1950)
US actor

"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

"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 always thought he sounded just like Yogi Bear."

Mick Ronson
(05/26/1946 – 04/30/1993)
English guitarist , on Bob Dylan

"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

"My daddy, he was somewhere between God and John Wayne."

Hank Williams, Jr.
(05/26/1949 – )
US singer, songwriter

"America's one of the finest countries anyone ever stole."

Bob Goldthwait
(05/26/1962 – )
US comic actor (was engaged to Nikki Cox)

"With the number of people I ignore, I'm lucky I work at all in this town."

Helena Bonham Carter
(05/26/1966 – )
English actor (great-granddaughter of Herbert Henry Asquith; LTR with Tim Burton)

"Every man is born as many men and dies as a single one."

Martin Heidegger
(09/29/1889 – 05/26/1976)
German philosopher (LTR with Hannah Arendt)

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