Yesterday
Tomorrow
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought."
Basho
(?/1644 – 11/28/1694)
Japanese poet
"If we have not quiet in our minds, outward comfort will do no more for us than a golden slipper on a gouty foot."
John Bunyan
(11/28/1628 – 08/31/1688)
English writer, minister
"He who desires but acts not, breeds pestilence."
William Blake
(11/28/1757 – 08/12/1827)
English writer
"Some laws of state aimed at curbing crime are even more criminal."
Friedrich Engels
(11/28/1820 – 08/05/1895)
German philosopher
"There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse; as I have found in travelling in a stage-coach, that it is often a comfort to shift one's position and be bruised in a new place."
Washington Irving
(04/03/1783 – 11/28/1859)
US writer
"As matters stand, their only common interest is that of cutting each other's throat."
Brooks Atkinson
(11/28/1894 – 01/14/1984)
US journalist, critic
, on capital and labor
"Education is the process of casting false pearls before real swine."
Irwin Edman
(11/28/1896 – 09/04/1954)
US philosopher, professor
"I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away."
Nancy Mitford
(11/28/1904 – 06/30/1973)
English writer
(sister of Jessica)
"The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions."
Claude Levi-Strauss
(11/28/1908 – 11/01/2009)
French philosopher
"Baseball is like church. Many attend but few understand."
Wes Westrum
(11/28/1922 – 05/28/2002)
US baseball player, coach
"It wasn't the way I looked at a man, it was the thought behind it."
Gloria Grahame
(11/28/1923 – 10/05/1981)
US actor
"We're labeling it 'soul bubblegum.'"
Berry Gordy
(11/28/1929 – )
US Motown Records founder
, on the Jackson 5
"If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets."
Gary Hart
(11/28/1936 – )
US Senator (CO) and presidential candidate
"If the world were a logical place, men would ride side-saddle."
Rita Mae Brown
(11/28/1944 – )
US writer
"I can't believe it's not air."
Paul Schaffer
(11/28/1949 – )
US bandleader
, on Los Angeles
"Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread."
Richard Wright
(09/04/1908 – 11/28/1960)
US writer
"They said to get back to work. There were no jobs available for a man in the fetal position under his desk crying, which I would have gladly taken."
Jon Stewart
(11/28/1962 – )
US comic actor
, on the first "Daily Show With Jon Stewart" in New York after 09/11/2001
"It's very expensive to be me. It's terrible the things I have to do to be me."
Anna Nicole Smith
(11/28/1967 – 02/08/2007)
US stripper, playmate, golddigger
"Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly."
Rosalind Russell
(06/04/1908 – 11/28/1976)
US actor
Yesterday
Tomorrow
"It wasn't the way I looked at a man, it was the thought behind it."
Gloria Grahame
"They said to get back to work. There were no jobs available for a man in the fetal position under his desk crying, which I would have gladly taken."
Jon Stewart
"Acting is standing up naked and turning around very slowly."
Rosalind Russell