Walter Raleigh "All men are evil and will declare themselves to be so when occasion is offered."

Sir Walter Raleigh
(??/??/1552? – 10/29/1618)
English explorer
"[Edward] Gibbon is an ugly, affected, disgusting fellow and poisons our literary club for me. I class him among infidel wasps and venomous insects."

James Boswell
(10/29/1740 – 05/19/1795)
Scottish biographer
Marie of Romania "Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding."

Queen Marie of Romania
(10/29/1875 – 07/10/1938)
Romanian royalty
"The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that, you've got it made."

Jean Giraudoux
(10/29/1882 – 01/31/1944)
French writer
Fania Borach "Wet she’s a star. Dry she ain’t."

Fanny Brice
(10/29/1891 – 05/29/1951)
US actor , on Esther Williams
Paul Joseph Goebbels "If the day should ever come when we [the Nazis] must go, if some day we are compelled to leave the scene of history, we will slam the door so hard that the universe will shake and mankind will stand back in stupefaction."

Paul Joseph Goebbels
(10/29/1897 – 05/01/1945)
German propagandist
Henry George "There is danger in reckless change, but greater danger in blind conservatism."

Henry George
(09/02/1839 – 10/29/1897)
US economist
Joseph Pulitzer "There is room in this great and growing city for a journal that is not only cheap but bright, not only bright but large, not only large but truly democratic... that will expose all fraud and sham; fight all public evils and abuses; that will serve and battle for the people with earnest sincerity."

Joseph Pulitzer
(04/10/1847 – 10/29/1911)
Hungarian journalist and prize , on assuming proprietorship of the New York World
William Henry Mauldin "I feel like a fugitive from the law of averages."

William H. Mauldin
(10/29/1921 – 01/22/2003)
US cartoonist
Richard Dreyfuss "People who commit adultery must die. Everyone knows that. Any movie tells you that!"

Richard Dreyfuss
(10/29/1947 – )
US actor
Adolphe Menjou "It was my mustache that landed jobs for me. In those silent-film days it was the mark of a villain. When I realized they had me pegged as a foreign nobleman type I began to live the part too. I bought a pair of white spats, an ascot tie and a walking stick."

Adolphe Menjou
(02/18/1890 – 10/29/1963)
US actor
Winona Laura Horowitz "I feel my best when I'm happy."

Winona Ryder
(10/29/1971 – )
US actor (from Petaluma, CA)
Duane Allman "Just rock on, and have you a good time."

Duane Allman
(11/20/1946 – 10/29/1971)
US musician (brother of Gregg Allman), advice