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"When I get a little money, I buy books. And if there is any left over, I buy food."

Desiderius Erasmus
(10/26/1466 – 07/12/1536)
Dutch writer

"When I read some of the rules for speaking and writing the English language correctly, I think any fool can make a rule, and every fool will mind it."

Henry David Thoreau
(07/12/1817 – 05/06/1862)
US writer

"I would rather fight with my hands than my tongue."

Dolley Madison
(05/20/1768 – 07/12/1849)
US first lady (4) (married to James Madison; see other US First Ladies)

"My work is done, why wait?"

George Eastman
(07/12/1854 – 03/14/1932)
US inventor , suicide note

"A couple of aspirates."

F. E. Smith
(07/12/1872 – 09/30/1930)
English statesman , prescription for J. H. Thomas, complaining of 'an 'ell of an 'eadache.'

"The number of people who will not go to a show they do not want to see is unlimited."

Oscar Hammerstein II
(07/12/1895 – 08/23/1960)
US lyricist (also see Richard Rodgers)

"I just filled out my income tax forms. Who says you can't get killed by a blank?"

Milton Berle
(07/12/1908 – 03/27/2002)
US comic actor, "Mr. Television"

"A Canadian is someone who knows how to make love in a canoe."

Pierre Berton
(07/12/1920 – 11/30/2004)
Canadian writer

"The object isn't to make art, it's to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable."

Robert Henri
(06/25/1865 – 07/12/1929)
US artist

"I wasn't always black... There was this freckle, and it got bigger and bigger."

Bill Cosby
(07/12/1937 – )
US comic, actor

"Olivia Newton-John—Australia's gift to insomniacs. It's nothing but the blonde singing the bland."

Minnie Riperton
(11/08/1947 – 07/12/1979)
US singer (mother of Maya Rudolph)

"I believe that you cannot go any further than you can think. I certainly believe if you don't desire a thing, you will never get it."

"Mother" Charleszetta Waddles
(10/07/1912 – 07/12/2001)
US preacher, activist

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