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"Law is a bottomless pit."

John Arbuthnot
(04/29/1667 – 02/27/1745)
Scottish physician, scientist, mathematician

"I believe they talked of me, for they laughed consumedly."

George Farquhar
(?/1678 – 04/29/1707)
Irish writer

"The Cardinal is at his wit's end—it is true—that he had not far to go."

Lord Byron
(01/22/1788 – 04/29/1824)
English writer

"Thus, be it understood, to demonstrate a theorem, it is neither necessary nor even advantageous to know what it means."

Henri Poincare
(04/29/1854 – 07/17/1912)
French mathematician

"Truth is not only stranger than fiction, it is more interesting."

William Randolph Hearst
(04/29/1863 – 08/14/1951)
US newspaper magnate (LTR with Marion Davies)

"Madam, you have between your legs an instrument capable of giving pleasure to thousands—and all you can do is scratch it."

Sir Thomas Beecham
(04/29/1897 – 03/08/1961)
British composer, conductor , to a woman cellist

"Playing 'Bop' is like Scrabble with all the vowels missing."

Duke Ellington
(04/29/1899 – 05/24/1974)
US composer

"The war has developed not necessarily to Japan's advantage."

Emperor Hirohito
(04/29/1901 – 01/06/1989)
Japanese leader

"I didn’t make Dale Jr. go be a racer. The kid wanted to be a racer. I’d just as soon him be a doctor, a preacher or whatever. I’m not sure I’d want him to be a lawyer."

Dale Earnhardt
(04/29/1951 – 02/18/2001)
US NASCAR driver

"I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment."

Ludwig Wittgenstein
(04/26/1889 – 04/29/1951)
Austrian-English philosopher (died near his birthday)

"I think that people who read the tabloids deserve to be lied to."

Jerry Seinfeld
(04/29/1955 – )
US comic, actor

"Just standing around looking beautiful is so boring, really boring, so boring."

Michelle Pfeiffer
(04/29/1958 – )
US actor

"Virtual reality is just air guitar writ large."

Robert J. Sawyer
(04/29/1960 – )
Canadian writer

"We all come from dysfunctional families and these days I guess that's pretty normal."

Carnie Wilson
(04/29/1968 – )
Celebrity offspring , on her band Wilson Phillips

"Tall, sandy blonde, with sort of blue eyes, skinny in places, fat in others. An average gal."

Uma Thurman
(04/29/1970 – )
US actor (was married to Gary Oldman) , self-described a>

Actress Mary Anderson: "Mr. Hitchcock, what do you think is my best side?"
Alfred Hitchcock: "My dear, you're sitting on it."
(08/13/1899 – 04/29/1980)
English producer, director

"When he does smile, he looks as if he's just evicted a widow."

Mike Royko
(09/19/1932 – 04/29/1997)
US journalist , on Bob Dole

"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error."

John Kenneth Galbraith
(10/15/1908 – 04/29/2006)
Canadian-US economist

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