October 14

"Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast."

William Penn
(10/14/1644 – 07/30/1718)
English-US Quaker leader, colonist

"Flattery is like kolone water, tew be smelt of, but not swallowed."

Josh Billings
(04/21/1818 – 10/14/1885)
US writer

"How idiotic civilization is! Why be given a body if you have to keep it shut up in a case like a rare, rare fiddle?"

Katherine Mansfield
(10/14/1888 – 01/09/1923)
New Zealander writer

"An atheist is a guy who watches a Notre Dame-SMU football game and doesn't care who wins."

Dwight David Eisenhower
(10/14/1890 – 03/28/1969)
US President (34) (see all US Presidents)

"Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go."

e. e. cummings
(10/14/1894 – 09/03/1962)
u. s. poet

"Never get caught acting."

Lillian Gish
(10/14/1896 – 02/27/1993)
US actor (sister of Dorothy)

"Learning is not compulsory, but neither is survival."

W. Edwards Deming
(10/14/1900 – 12/20/1993)
US educator

"The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution."

Hannah Arendt
(10/14/1906 – 12/04/1975)
German-US political scientist (LTR with Martin Heidegger)

"It's what you learn after you know it all that counts."

John Wooden
(10/14/1910 – 06/04/2010)
US basketball hall-of-famer

"I enjoy being a highly overpaid actor."

Roger Moore
(10/14/1927 – )
English actor

"You really have to experience the feeling of being with the president in the oval office... It's a disease I came to call Ovalitis."

John Dean
(10/14/1938 – )
US lawyer (for Nixon's White House)

"If I'm in the middle of hitting a most fantastic cross court back hand top spin and someone says 'Can you stop now and have sex' I'll say: 'No thanks!'"

Sir Cliff Richard
(10/14/1940 – )
English singer

"They've great respect for the dead in Hollywood, but none for the living."

Errol Flynn
(06/20/1909 – 10/14/1959)
Australia-born actor

"It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life."

Randall Jarrell
(05/06/1914 – 10/14/1965)
US writer

"I know that if I’d had to go and take an exam for acting, I wouldn’t have got anywhere. You don’t take exams for acting, you take your courage."

Dame Edith Evans
(02/08/1888 – 10/14/1976)
English actor

"That was a great game of golf, fellers."

Bing Crosby
(05/03/1903 – 10/14/1977)
US singer, actor , alleged last words

"The only reason some people get lost in thought is because it's unfamiliar territory."

Paul Fix
(03/13/1901 – 10/14/1983)
US actor

"My billing has always been; 'and', or 'with', or 'including.' That's all right; let the stars take the blame."

Keenan Wynn
(07/27/1916 – 10/14/1986)
US actor

"Music can name the unnameable and communicate the unknowable."

Leonard Bernstein
(08/25/1918 – 10/14/1990)
US composer (not related to Elmer Bernstein)