February 22

"Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder."

George Washington
(02/22/1732 – 12/14/1799)
US President (1) (see other US Presidents; was married to Martha Washington)

"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."

Arthur Schopenhauer
(02/22/1788 – 09/21/1860)
German philosopher

"You can make more friends in a month by being interested in them than in ten years by trying to get them interested in you."

Charles A. Allen
(11/17/1771 – 02/22/1810)
US businessman

"In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak."

James Russell Lowell
(02/22/1819 – 08/12/1891)
US writer

"The next best thing to being witty one's self, is to be able to quote another's wit."

Christian Nestell Bovee
(02/22/1820 – 01/18/1904)
US writer

"My idea of heaven is eating pate de foie gras to the sound of trumpets."

Sydney Smith
(06/03/1771 – 02/22/1845)
English clergyman

"A Scout smiles and whistles under all circumstances."

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

"Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties."

Jules Renard
(02/22/1864 – 05/22/1910)
French writer

"There are four things that hold back human progress; ignorance, stupidity, committees, and accountants."

Charles J. C. Lyall
(11/14/1797 – 02/22/1875)
US accountant

"The artist is not a different kind of person, but every person is a different kind of artist."

Eric Gill
(02/22/1882 – 11/17/1940)
English artist

"It is not true that life is one damn thing after another, it is the same damn thing over and over."

Edna St. Vincent Millay
(02/22/1892 – 10/19/1950)
US writer

"There are just two people entitled to refer to themselves as "we"; one is the editor and the other is the fellow with a tapeworm."

Bill Nye
(08/25/1850 – 02/22/1896)
US humorist (also see Bill Nye the science guy)

"Thank God, I am still an atheist."

Luis Bunuel
(02/22/1900 – 07/29/1983)
Mexican filmmaker

"And the sooner the tea's out of the way, the sooner we can get out the gin, eh?"

Henry Reed
(02/22/1914 – 12/08/1986)
English writer

"I hate to see a young man get ahead on the basis of a famous family name."

Edward M. Kennedy
(02/22/1932 – )
US Senator (MA) (son of Rose and Joseph P., brother of John and Robert) , on George W. Bush

"I've got my faults, but living in the past isn't one of them. There's no future in it."

Sparky Anderson
(02/22/1934 – )
US baseball manager

"We learn about one another's culture the same way we learn about sex: in the streets."

Ishmael Reed
(02/22/1938 – )
US writer

Karen Mercury
(02/22/1961 – )
US writer

"Crikey, mate. You're far safer dealing with crocodiles and western diamondback rattlesnakes than the executives and the producers and all those sharks in the big MGM building!"

Steve Irwin
(02/22/1962 – 09/04/2006)
Australian "Croc Hunter"

"Judicial judgment must take deep account of the day before yesterday in order that yesterday may not paralyze today."

Felix Frankfurter
(11/15/1882 – 02/22/1965)
US Supreme Court (see other Supreme Court justices)

"He has his law degree and a furnished office. It's just a question of getting him out of bed."

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

"Where would the Irish be without someone to be Irish at?"

Elizabeth Bowen
(06/07/1899 – 02/22/1973)
English writer

"If I die before my cat, I want a little of my ashes put in his food so I can live inside him."

Drew Barrymore
(02/22/1975 – )
US actor (grand-niece of Ethel and Lionel, granddaughter of John, daughter of John Drew)

"This is the gist of what I know:
give advice and buy a foe."

Phyllis McGinley
(03/21/1905 – 02/22/1978)
US writer

"You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet."

Hal Borland
(05/14/1900 – 02/22/1978)
US journalist

"The two of us with a very strong, peaceful expression, hand in hand, on the edge within a semicircle sea, lit by Bengal fire, water-tower, mountains, lightning and moon."

Oskar Kokoschka
(03/01/1886 – 02/22/1980)
Austrian artist (one of Alma's conquests)

"Sex is the biggest nothing of all time."

Andy Warhol
(08/06/1928 – 02/22/1987)
Polish-US artist

"The coyote is victimized by his own ineptitude. I never understood how to use tools and that's really the coyote's problem."

Chuck Jones
(09/21/1912 – 02/22/2002)
US animator