January 08

"Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness."

Baltasar Gracian
(01/08/1601 – 12/06/1658)
Spanish philosopher

"It is surely harmful to souls to make it a heresy to believe what is proved."

Galileo Galilei
(02/15/1564 – 01/08/1642)
Italian scientist, astronomer

"For what I have received may the Lord make me truly thankful. And more truly for what I have not received."

Storm Jameson
(01/08/1891 – 09/30/1986)
English writer

"Music before all else,
and for that choose the irregular,
which is vaguer and melts better into the air..."

Paul Verlaine
(03/30/1844 – 01/08/1896)
French writer

"Tell me about yourself—your struggles, your dreams, your telephone number."

Peter Arno
(01/08/1904 – 02/22/1968)
US cartoonist

José Vicente Ferrer de Otero y Cintr&oacuten;

"I am more important than my problems."

Jose Ferrer
(01/08/1909 – 01/26/1992)
Puerto Rican actor (was married to Uta Hagen, Rosemary Clooney twice, and two others)

"Courage is the fear of being thought a coward."

Horace Smith
(01/08/1913 – 01/25/1986)
US writer

"Be true to your teeth and they won't be false to you."

Soupy Sales
(01/08/1926 – )
US actor (father of Tony Sales and Hunt Sales)

"There are no exceptions to the rule that everybody likes to be an exception to the rule."

Charles Osgood
(01/08/1933 – )
US telejournalist

"Rhythm is something you either have or don't have, but when you have it, you have it all over."

Elvis Aron Presley
(01/08/1935 – 08/16/1977)
US singer, rock'n'roll icon (father of Lisa Marie)

"No wedding bells for me anymore. I've been happily married to my profession for years."

Dame Shirley Bassey
(01/08/1937 – )
Welsh singer

"We don't deliberately set out to offend. Unless we feel it's justified. And in the case of certain well-known religions, it was justified."

Graham Chapman
(01/08/1941 – 10/04/1989)
English comic, actor (Monty Python's Flying Circus)

"The boy is not governed by don't, but is led by do."

Robert Baden-Powell
(02/22/1857 – 01/08/1941)
English military, Boy Scouts founder

"I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."

Stephen Hawking
(01/08/1942 – )
English physicist

"I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image."

David Bowie
(01/08/1947 – )
English singer, songwriter

"The question that is so clearly in many potential parents' minds: 'Why should we stunt our ambitions and impoverish our lives in order to be insulted and looked down upon in our old age?'"

Joseph A. Schumpeter
(02/08/1883 – 01/08/1950)
Moravian-US economist

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose."

Jim Elliot
(10/08/1927 – 01/08/1956)
US missionary

"They've got only one guy who comes back from the dead. We've got millions."

Sarah Polley
(01/08/1979 – )
Canadian actor , on "Dawn of the Dead" vs. "Passion of the Christ"

"A man loses contact with reality if he is not surrounded by his books."

Francois Mitterand
(10/26/1916 – 01/08/1996)
French president