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"Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself."
Francis Quarles
(05/08/1592 09/08/1644)
English writer
"Our body is a well-set clock, which keeps good time, but if it be too much or indiscreetly tampered with, the alarm runs out before the hour."
Joseph Hall
(07/01/1574 09/08/1656)
English bishop
"Let us go and talk with the poets."
Joaquin Miller
(09/08/1837 02/13/1913)
US poet
, on arriving in San Francisco
"You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam; is it because we have company?"
Alfred Jarry
(09/08/1873 11/01/1907)
French "pataphysical" writer
"Not only is he ambidextrous, but he can throw with either hand."
Duffy Daugherty
(09/08/1915 09/25/1987)
US coach
"The trouble with telling a good story is that it invariably reminds the other fellow of a dull one."
Sid Caesar
(09/08/1922 )
US comic, actor
"Didn't you ever notice how it's always people who wish they had somethin' or had done somethin' that hate the hardest?"
Grace Metalious
(09/08/1924 02/25/1964)
US writer (Peyton Place)
"Jimmy Dean dropped by my session the other night and said, 'I see you're still singing your ass off,' and I said to him, 'I see you're still as big headed as you Texans always are...'"
Patsy Cline
(09/08/1932 03/05/1963)
US singer
"Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them."
Richard Strauss
(06/11/1864 09/08/1949)
German composer
"It is such a waste. It makes you logy and half-alive. It gives you nothing. It takes away."
Dorothy Dandridge
(11/09/1923 09/08/1965)
US actor
, on prejudice
"When you have PMS and are really grouchy, I think you're supposed to go off somewhere and do something creative."
Neko Case
(09/08/1970 )
US singer, songwriter
"When I was young, I wanted to do something more low-key, like become a drummer in a rock band."
Brooke Burke
(09/08/1971 )
US model
"I change my mind so much I need two boyfriends and a girlfriend."
Pink
(09/08/1979 )
US singer
"Money doesn't buy happiness. But happiness isn't everything."
Jean Seberg
(11/13/1938 09/08/1979)
US actor
"I can't tell you how many shows I've done with full-blown migraine headaches."
Jonathan Taylor Thomas
(09/08/1981 )
US actor
"The players in this drama of frustration and indignity are not commas or semicolons in a legislative thesis; they are people, human beings, citizens of the United States of America."
Roy Wilkins
(08/30/1901 09/08/1981)
US activist, statesman
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