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"One ought to have a good memory when he has told a lie."
Pierre Corneille
(06/06/1606 10/01/1684)
French writer
"I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past."
Patrick Henry
(05/29/1736 06/06/1799)
US patriot
"Every law is an infraction of liberty."
Jeremy Bentham
(02/15/1748 06/06/1832)
English philosopher
"Perhaps the most lasting pleasure in life is the pleasure of not going to church."
William Ralph Inge
(06/06/1860 02/26/1954)
English writer
"Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance, and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale."
Robert Falcon Scott
(06/06/1868 03/29/1912)
English explorer
, on his doomed Antarctic expedition
"A great truth is a truth whose opposite is also a truth."
Thomas Mann
(06/06/1875 08/12/1955)
German writer
"The trouble with life isn't that there is no answer, it's that there are so many answers."
Ruth Benedict
(06/06/1887 09/17/1948)
US anthropologist
"Cherish your wilderness."
Maxine Kumin
(06/06/1925 )
US writer
"I believe some people are just too damn smart to write fiction."
Harry Crews
(06/06/1935 )
US writer
"Being considerate of others will take you and your children further in life than any college or professional degree."
Marian Wright Edelman
(06/06/1939 )
US social reformer
"New Year's Resolution: To tolerate fools more gladly, provided this does not encourage them to take up more of my time."
James Agate
(09/09/1877 06/06/1947)
English writer
"I guess a drag queen's like an oil painting: you gotta stand back from it to get the full effect."
Harvey Fierstein
(06/06/1954 )
US actor, playwright
"On one side you have book burners, Congressional wives and Pat Robertson. On the other side, you have vulgar comedians, foul-mouthed rap groups and Dennis Hopperall your choices should be so easy."
Sandra Bernhard
(06/06/1955 )
US comic, actor
"The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong."
Carl Jung
(07/26/1875 06/06/1961)
German psychoanalyst
"I truly believe that God has healed me, and one day the doctors will say to me ‘You can stop the medication now because you are healed’."
Clare Marie Bowe
(06/06/1975 08/14/2007)
English daughter of friend of the quotekeeper
"The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights."
J. Paul Getty
(12/15/1892 06/06/1976)
US zillionaire
"The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it."
Anne Bancroft
(09/17/1931 06/06/2005)
US actor
(was married to Mel Brooks)
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