June 17

"We may lay down a maxim, that when a nation abounds in physicians it grows thin of people."

Joseph Addison
(05/01/1672 – 06/17/1719)
English writer

"People may doubt what you say, but they will believe what you do."

Lewis Cass
(10/09/1782 – 06/17/1866)
US Senator (MI)

"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end."

Igor Stravinski
(06/17/1882 – 04/06/1971)
Russian composer, conductor

"I don't use drugs; my dreams are frightening enough."

M. C. Escher
(06/17/1898 – 03/27/1972)
Dutch artist

"Education is a danger. . . . At best an education which produces useful coolies for us is admissible. Every educated person is a future enemy."

Martin Bormann
(06/17/1900 – 05/??/1945)
German Nazi leader

"He certainly doesn't publicize it now, but in the 1950s, John Wayne was one of the biggest Hollywood supporters, financially, of the Ku Klux Klan."

Ralph Bellamy
(06/17/1904 – 11/29/1991)
US actor

"There is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly."

Kingman Brewster, Jr.
(06/17/1919 – 11/08/1988)
US diplomat, educator

"I expect that all of us get pretty much what we deserve of appreciation."

A. C. Benson
(04/24/1862 – 06/17/1925)
English writer (brother of E. F. Benson)

"You can't trust anybody with power."

Newt Gingrich
(06/17/1943 – )
US Rep (GA), House Speaker (104 and 105)

"The trouble is that many MPs never see the London that exists beyond the wine bars and brothels of Westminster."

Ken Livingstone
(06/17/1945 – )
English mayor (London)

"Well, they look so much alike I get them confused."

Barry Manilow
(06/17/1946 – )
US singer/songwriter , on the marriage between Lyle Lovett and Julia "Child"

"If there was a trick, there must be a trickster."

Dorothy Miller Richardson
(05/17/1873 – 06/17/1957)
English writer ("Pilgrimage")

"I enjoy getting people angry and getting underneath their skin, especially people who don't think."

Jello Biafra
(06/17/1958 – )
US singer (Dead Kennedys), spoken-word performer