November 06

"Prithee don't screw your wit beyond the compass of good manners."

Colley Cibber
(11/06/1671 – 12/11/1757)
English actor, playwright

"A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache."

Catherine the Great
(05/02/1762 – 11/06/1796)
Russian leader

"It is not necessary to change. Survival is not mandatory."

King Charles X
(10/09/1757 – 11/06/1836)
French royalty

"I understand the hero keeps getting into bed with women, and the war wasn't fought that way."

Harold Ross
(11/06/1892 – 12/06/1951)
US writer, "New Yorker" founder , on Hemingway's "Farewell to Arms"

"Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music."

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
(05/07/1840 – 11/06/1893)
Russian composer

"Try praising your wife even if it does frighten her at first."

Billy Sunday
(11/19/1862 – 11/06/1935)
US evangelist

"Everyone should live to be 92 years old, have an orgasm and drop dead."

Jon Carroll
(11/06/1943 – )
US columnist, humorist

"My agent said, 'You aren't good enough for movies.' I said, 'You're fired.'"

Sally Field
(11/06/1946 – )
US actor

"Don't think of him as a Republican, think of him as the man I love; and if that doesn't work, think of him as the man who can crush you."

Maria Shriver
(11/06/1955 – )
US royalty , on introducing hubby Arnold to Uncle Ted

"Men are wonderful. I adore them. They always give you the benefit of the doubt."

Gene Tierney
(11/19/1920 – 11/06/1991)
US actor

"Data is what distinguishes the dilettante from the artist."