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"While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman."

Giovanni Boccaccio
(??/??/1313 – 12/21/1375)
Italian writer

Otto von Bismarck: "The Germans have just bought a new country in Africa where Jews and pigs will be tolerated."
Benjamin Disraeli: "Fortunately, we are both here (in England)."
(12/21/1804 – 04/19/1881)
English Prime Minister (29) (see other British PMs)

"Read not Milton, for he is dry."

C. S. Calverley
(12/21/1831 – 02/17/1884)
English writer

"It was in dealing with the early feminist that the Government acquired the tact and skillfulness with which it is now handling Ireland."

Dame Rebecca West
(12/21/1892 – 03/15/1983)
English writer

"I never wanted to be a millionaire, I just wanted to live like one."

Walter Hagen
(12/21/1892 – 10/05/1969)
US golfer

"Publicity is like poison; it doesn't hurt unless you swallow it."

Joe Paterno
(12/21/1926 – )
US football coach

"Working in Hollywood does give one a certain expertise in the field of prostitution."

Jane Fonda
(12/21/1937 – )
US actor (daughter of Henry, sister of Peter, aunt of Bridget; was married to Ted Turner)

"I think pop music has done more for oral intercourse than anything else that ever happened, and vice versa."

Frank Zappa
(12/21/1940 – 12/04/1993)
US musician, composer (was married to Gail)

"Always willing to lend a helping hand to the one above him."

F. Scott Fitzgerald
(09/24/1896 – 12/21/1940)
US writer (husband of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald) , on Ernest Hemingway

"The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his."

General George S. Patton
(11/11/1885 – 12/21/1945)
US military

"People mistake me for Laurence Fishburne all the time. And he always gets mistaken for me. (And why not? We've both starred in Spike Lee movies, haven't we?) Even when we're standing together, people have called him by my name and me by his. A woman recently ran up to him and said, 'My daughter loved you in Pulp Fiction! Could she have your autograph?' So he signed it, 'Respectfully yours, Samuel Jackson."

Samuel L. Jackson
(12/21/1948 – )
US actor

"It's high time the press finally got one thing right about me."

Chris Evert
(12/21/1954 – )
US tennis player (was engaged to Jimmy Connors) , on the Daily Mirror proclaiming she "has the best boobs in the business"

"Student teaching is the hardest job there is. Secondary school kids didn't want to be there. I skipped out one afternoon and went to the mall, and there were some of my students there. But they couldn't report me, could they?"

Jane Kaczmarek
(12/21/1955 – )
US actor

"It's a strange way to make a living, and my dentist has made me cut down on eating light bulbs, but I'm never bored."

Jim Rose
(12/21/1956 – )
US performance artist

"I feel like this is a dream—and I apologize for how I dressed some of you."

Ray Romano
(12/21/1957 – )
US actor , accepting a Golden Globe award

"A muscle is like a car. If you want it to run well early in the morning, you have to warm it up."

Florence Griffith-Joyner
(12/21/1960 – 09/21/1998)
US runner

"I have an Alka Seltzer bat. You know, plop plop fizz fizz. When the pitcher sees me walking up there they say, 'Oh what a relief it is.'"

Andy Van Slyke
(12/21/1960 – )
US baseball player

"You can't judge a band by their covers."

Terrie Schweitzer
(12/21/1963 – )
US artist, writer, citizen scientist, permaculturist, web producer (friend of the quotekeeper)

"I don't like my body, it's oddly-proportioned. I'd like to be, like, dumpy."

Andy Dick
(12/21/1965 – )
US actor

"Now I know how Charlie (Sheen) feels; I've lost all feeling in my lower half."

Kiefer Sutherland
(12/21/1966 – )
Canadian actor (son of Donald) , on winning a Golden Globe award

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