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"Nine-tenths of the people were created so you would want to be with the other tenth."
Horace Walpole
(09/24/1717 03/02/1797)
English writer
"People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any act of Parliament."
Sir Alan P. Herbert
(09/24/1890 11/11/1971)
English writer
"I benefit from the Mr. Potato Head syndrome. Put a wig and a nose and glasses on me, and I disappear."
Phil Hartman
(09/24/1948 05/28/1998)
US comic actor
(SNL)
"I laughed from the time I arrived at the studio until I left at night. I was almost ashamed to take a paycheck. In 40-odd years in show business, some years I could do no wrong, and some years I could do nothing right. Show business. I owe it everythingit owes me nothing."
Patsy Kelly
(01/12/1910 09/24/1981)
US actor
"Adults are obsolete children."
Dr. Seuss
(03/02/1904 09/24/1991)
US writer, illustrator
"A dress has no purpose unless it makes a man want to take it off."
Françoise Sagan
(06/21/1935 09/24/2004)
French writer
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