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"Words are wise men's counters, they do but reckon by them: but they are the money of fools."

Thomas Hobbes
(04/05/1588 – 12/04/1679)
English philosopher and scholar

"Thou wilt show my head to the people: it is worth showing."

Georges Jacques Danton
(10/26/1759 – 04/05/1794)
French revolutionary , on mounting the scaffold

"I am thirty-three—the age of the good sans-culotte Jesus; an age fatal to revolutionists."

Camille Desmoulins
(03/02/1760 – 04/05/1794)
French journalist, politician

"When Oscar came to join his God,
not earth to earth, but sod to sod,
it was for sinners such as this
Hell was created bottomless."

Algernon Charles Swinburne
(04/05/1837 – 04/10/1909)
English writer (died near his birthday)

"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."

Booker T. Washington
(04/05/1856 – 11/14/1915)
US writer

"There were times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails."

Spencer Tracy
(04/05/1900 – 06/10/1967)
US actor

"Why am I so good at playing bitches? I think it's because I'm not a bitch. Maybe that's why Miss Crawford always plays ladies."

Bette Davis
(04/05/1908 – 10/06/1989)
US actor

"Bad news isn't wine. It doesn't improve with age."

Colin Powell
(04/05/1937 – )
US military, Secretary of State

"We're f890ing forty-year-old (sixty plus! -s) men, and we're behaving like children. It's silly, absolutely f890ing idiotic. Retarded."

Eric Burdon
(04/05/1941 – )
English singer (The Animals)

"In war there is no substitute for victory."

General Douglas MacArthur
(01/26/1880 – 04/05/1964)
US military

"The sky cannot have two suns."

Chiang Kai-Shek
(10/31/1886 – 04/05/1975)
Chinese statesman

"You're like a pay toilet, aren't you? You don't give a sh*t for nothing."

Howard Hughes
(12/24/1905 – 04/05/1976)
US zillionaire (nephew of Rupert Hughes) , to Robert Mitchum

"I wish I would tell our audience that we don't hate them without sounding cheesy."

Kurt Cobain
(02/20/1967 – 04/05/1994)
US singer, songwriter, guitarist (Nirvana) (was married to Courtney Love)

"Poetry is not an expression of the party line. It's that time of night, lying in bed, thinking what you really think, making the private world public, that's what the poet does."

Allen Ginsberg
(06/03/1926 – 04/05/1997)
US writer

"We try to be real nice and friendly to people, but sometimes they take advantage of that."

Layne Staley
(08/22/1967 – 04/05/2002)
US singer (Alice in Chains)

"In expressing love, we belong among the undeveloped countries."

Saul Bellow
(06/10/1915 – 04/05/2005)
Canadian writer

"In Hollywood, there are more gun owners in the closet than homosexuals."

Charlton Heston
(10/04/1924 – 04/05/2008)
US actor, NRA president

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