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Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace "Man learns more readily and remembers more willingly what excites his ridicule than what deserves esteem and respect."

Horace
(12/08/0065 – 11/27/0008 BC)
Italian writer
Mary, Queen of Scots "I could follow him around the world in my shift."

Mary, Queen of Scots
(12/08/1542 – 02/08/1587)
British royalty , on James Hepburn, Earl of Bothwell
Queen Christina of Sweden "There is a star above us which unites souls of the first order, though worlds and ages separate them."

Queen Christina
(12/08/1626 – 04/19/1689)
Swedish royalty
"The hardest stones, by degrees, give way to the touch of air."

Paul Heinrich Dietrich von Holbach
(12/08/1723 – 01/21/1789)
German philosopher
Benjamin Henri Constant de Rebecque "Art for art's sake, with no purpose, for any purpose perverts art. But art achieves a purpose which is not its own."

Benjamin Constant
(10/23/1767 – 12/08/1830)
French writer
Thomas de Quincey "If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination."

Thomas de Quincey
(08/15/1785 – 12/08/1859)
English writer ("Confessions of an English Opium Eater")
Jean Sibelius "Pay no attention to what the critics say. Remember, a statue has never been set up in honour of a critic."

Jean Sibelius
(12/08/1865 – 09/20/1957)
Finnish composer
"It seldom pays to be rude. It never pays to be only half-rude."

Norman Douglas
(12/08/1868 – 02/09/1952)
Austrian writer
Diego Rivera "I did not know it then, but Frida had already become the most important fact in my life. And would continue to be, up to the moment she died, 27 years later."

Diego Rivera
(12/08/1886 – 11/25/1957)
Mexican artist , on meeting Frida Kahlo
"Religions change; beer and wine remain."

Hervey Allen
(12/08/1889 – 12/28/1949)
US writer
James Thurber "American students are like American colleges—each has half-dulled faculties."

James Thurber
(12/08/1894 – 11/02/1961)
US writer
"It was remarked to me by the late Mr. Charles Roupell, that to play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth."

Herbert Spencer
(04/27/1820 – 12/08/1903)
English philosopher
Leo Jacoby "We all want to play romantic figures. But because I lost my hair I was stuck playing butchers and crooks."

Lee J. Cobb
(12/08/1911 – 02/11/1976)
US actor
"Time is the school in which we learn,
Time is the fire in which we burn."

Delmore Schwartz
(12/08/1913 – 07/11/1966)
US writer
Sammy Davis, Jr. "You want to see the boy next door?...(then) don't go see Michael Jackson, because he ain't the boy next door."

Sammy Davis, Jr.
(12/08/1925 – 05/16/1990)
US entertainer (yes, but the boy next door might be found in Michael's house -qk)
Clerow Wilson "Get well cards have become so humorous that if you don't get sick you're missing half the fun."

Flip Wilson
(12/08/1933 – 11/24/1998)
US comedian
John Arthur Carradine "If you cannot be a poet, be the poem."

David Carradine
(12/08/1936 – 06/03/2009)
US actor (son of John Carradine; brother of Keith Carradine)
Jim Morrison "I am interested in anything about revolt, disorder, chaos, especially activity that seems to have no meaning."

Jim Morrison
(12/08/1943 – 07/03/1971)
US singer (the Doors)
Gregg Allman "I play every show like it's my last. Fortunately that's never turned out to be the case."

Gregg Allman
(12/08/1947 – )
US singer (brother of Duane Allman; was married to Cher)
Kim Basinger "I don't have time to be classified as difficult, and I don't have time to care."

Kim Basinger
(12/08/1953 – )
US actor (was married to Alec Baldwin)
Ann Coulter "Swing voters are more appropriately known as the 'idiot voters' because they have no set of philosophical principles. By the age of fourteen, you're either a Conservative or a Liberal if you have an IQ above a toaster."

Ann Coulter
(12/08/1961 – )
US lawyer, writer, twit
Teri Hatcher "Let me just say that every cover of every magazine I've done has been airbrushed to death. No woman should walk around thinking that's what they should be. You shouldn't be beating yourself up."

Teri Hatcher
(12/08/1964 – )
US actor
Sinéad O'Connor "What pisses me off is when I've got seven or eight record company fat pig men sitting there telling me what to wear."

Sinéad O’Connor
(12/08/1966 – )
Irish singer
Golda Meir "Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you are aboard there is nothing you can do about it."

Golda Meir
(05/03/1898 – 12/08/1978)
Russian Israeli leader
John Lennon "Life is what happens when you are making other plans."

John Lennon
(10/09/1940 – 12/08/1980)
English singer, songwriter (Beatles; was married to Yoko Ono, father of Julian Lennon and Sean Ono Lennon)
Martin David Robinson "I have so much fun on stage that I should have to pay to get in."

Marty Robbins
(09/26/1925 – 12/08/1982)
US singer, songwriter
Louis Bert Lindley, Jr. "After 'Dr. Strangelove,' the roles, the dressing rooms, and the checks all started gettin' bigger."

Slim Pickens
(06/29/1919 – 12/08/1983)
US actor
"And this you can see is the bolt. The purpose of this
Is to open the breech, as you see. We can slide it
Rapidly backwards and forwards: we call this
Easing the spring. And rapidly backwards and forwards
The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers:
They call it easing the Spring."

Henry Reed
(02/22/1914 – 12/08/1986)
English writer ("Naming of Parts")
Sydney J. Harris "Knowledge fills a large brain; it merely inflates a small one."

Sydney J. Harris
(09/14/1917 – 12/08/1986)
English-born writer

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