- John Milton
(12/09/1608 – 11/08/1674)
English writer
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"It is not miserable to be blind; it is miserable to be incapable of enduring blindness."
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"The law is an adroit mixture of customs that are beneficial to society, and could be followed even if no law existed, and others that are of advantage to a ruling minority, but harmful to the masses of men, and can be enforced on them only by terror."
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"I am a poor man, but I would gladly give ten shillings to find out who sent me the insulting Christmas card I received this morning."
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"Watch out w'en you'er gittin all you want. Fattenin' hogs ain't in luck."
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"It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees."
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| "Anything that's white is sweet. Anything that's brown is meat. Anything that's grey don't eat."
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| "She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide." |
"I fought fire with oil."
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"It is easier to get forgiveness than permission."
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| "I was only saying to the Queen the other day how I hate name-dropping." |  |
| "My trademarks are a hoarse, grating voice and the face of a retired pugilist: small narrowed eyes set in puffy features which look as though they might, years ago, have lost on points." |  |
"There are instances where it is in the best interests of the nation not to vote the will of the people."
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"Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive."
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"Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing."
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"Ricardo Montalban is to improvisational acting what Mount Rushmore is to animation."
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"We need a president who's fluent in at least one language."
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"A pitiful, rancorous, attacking moron."
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"The one we keep pitching and there are no takers is The Fabulous Baker Boys Go To Hawaii. There don't seem to be any takers on that one!"
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"Ladies and gentlemen, I've suffered for my music ... now it's your turn."
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"In America, you watch TV and think that's totally unreal, then you step outside and it's just the same."
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"She has this Jayne Mansfield body and a horrifyingly great brain."
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"I don't want my album coming out with a 'G' rating. Nobody would buy it."
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"I know as actors our job is usually to shed our skins, but I think as people our job is to become who we really are and so I would like to salute the men and women who brave ostracism, alienation and a life lived on the margins to become who they really are."
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| Born 12/08 | Born 12/09 | Born 12/10 | Birth Dates | |
| Died 12/08 | Died 12/09 | Died 12/10 | Death Dates |