January 01

"Next to the pleasure of finding a new mistress is that of being rid of an old one."

William Wycherley
(??/??/1640 – 01/01/1716)
English writer

"Our Irish blunders are never blunders of the heart."

Maria Edgeworth
(01/01/1767 – 05/22/1849)
Irish writer

"Thou shalt have one God only; who
would be at the expense of two?"

Arthur Hugh Clough
(01/01/1819 – 11/13/1861)
English writer

"Could we see when and where we would meet again, we would be more tender when we bid our friends goodbye."

Ouida
(01/01/1839 – 01/25/1908)
English writer

"The awe and dread with which the untutored savage contemplates his mother-in-law are amongst the most familiar facts of anthropology."

Sir James George Frazer
(01/01/1854 – 05/07/1941)
Scottish writer

"All men are equal—that is to say, who possess umbrellas."

E. M. Forster
(01/01/1879 – 06/07/1970)
English writer

"The cure for crime is not the electric chair, but the high chair."

J. Edgar Hoover
(01/01/1895 – 05/02/1972)
US FBI head

"There is a marvelous turn and trick to British arrogance; its apparent unconsciousness makes it twice as effectual."

Catherine Drinker Bowen
(01/01/1897 – 11/01/1973)
US writer

"Reading isn't an occupation we encourage among police officers. We try to keep the paperwork down to a minimum."

Joe Orton
(01/01/1903 – 08/09/1967)
British playwright

"He talks so fast that listening to him is like trying to read 'Playboy' magazine with your wife turning the pages."

Barry Goldwater
(01/01/1909 – 05/29/1998)
US Senator (AZ) , on Hubert Humphrey

"I am a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy."

J. D. Salinger
(01/01/1919 – )
US writer

"Everybody likes to go to Geneva. I used to do it for the Law of the Sea conferences and you'd find those potentates from down in Africa, you know, rather than eating each other, they'd just come up and get a good square meal in Geneva."

Ernest F. Hollings
(01/01/1922 – )
US Senator (SC)

"You cannot run faster than a bullet."

Idi Amin Dada
(01/01/1926 – 08/16/2003);
African dictator

"He probably scared the sh*t out of his mother, too."

Gail Zappa
(01/01/1945 – )
US wife (was married to Frank Zappa)

"I was a pretty good imitator of Roy Acuff, but then I found out they already had a Roy Acuff, so I started singin' like myself."

Hank Williams, Sr.
(09/17/1923 – 01/01/1953)
US singer, songwriter

"You hear about constitutional rights, free speech and the free press. Every time I hear these words I say to myself, 'That man is a Red, that man is a Communist!' You never hear a real American talk like that."

Frank Hague
(01/17/1876 – 01/01/1956)
US mayor (Jersey city, NJ)

"If there's another f890ing show or movie about New York and everyone's white I'm gonna f890ing die. That is so unacceptable."

Sandra Oh
(01/01/1971 – )
Korean-Canadian actor (was married to Alexander Payne)

"An artist carries on throughout his life a mysterious, uninterrupted conversation with his public."

Maurice Chevalier
(09/12/1888 – 01/01/1972)
French singer, actor

"Television is very tiring."

Sonali Bendre
(01/01/1975 – )
Indian actor

"I admire the relationship she had with John Lennon and hope I can be a similar influence to Tiger."

Elin Nordegren
(01/01/1980 – )
Swedish model, nanny (married to Tiger Woods) , on Yoko Ono

"I've heard or read about actors being asked the immortal question 'Why have you never married?' They answer with the immortal excuse 'I just haven't found the right girl.' Because I'm on the hefty side, no one's asked me yet. If they do, that's the answer I'll give. After all, if it was good enough for Monty Clift or Sal Mineo...."

Victor Buono
(02/03/1938 – 01/01/1982)
US actor

"Some day, on the corporate balance sheet, there will be an entry which reads, 'Information'; for in most cases, the information is more valuable than the hardware which processes it."

Grace Murray Hopper
(12/09/1906 – 01/01/1992)
US programmer, inventor of COBOL

"It takes so long to train a physicist to the place where he understands the nature of physical problems that he is already too old to solve them."

Eugene Wigner
(11/17/1902 – 01/01/1995)
Hungarian-US physicist

"I have 30 seconds to tell you I have been waiting 60 years to get on this stage."

Ray Walston
(12/02/1914 – 01/01/2001)
US actor , accepting Emmy Award in 1995

"Of my two 'handicaps,' being female put many more obstacles in my path than being black."

Shirley Chisholm
(11/30/1924 – 01/01/2005)
US Rep (NY)

"Time granted does not necessarily coincide with time that can be most fully used."

Tillie Olsen
(01/14/1912 – 01/01/2007)
US writer