July 10

"We must remember that Satan has his miracles, too."

John Calvin
(07/10/1509 – 05/27/1564)
French theologian

"Come away; poverty's catching."

Aphra Behn
(07/10/1640 – 04/16/1689)
English writer

"It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer."

Sir William Blackstone
(07/10/1723 – 02/14/1780)
English jurist

"Books are the blessed chloroform of the mind."

Robert Chambers
(07/10/1802 – 03/17/1871)
Scottish writer

"I can't tell you if genius is hereditary, because heaven has granted me no offspring."

James McNeil Whistler
(07/10/1834 – 07/17/1903)
US artist (died near his birthday)

"Most vegetarians look so much like the food they eat that they can be classified as cannibals."

Finley Peter Dunne
(07/10/1867 – 04/24/1936)
Irish writer

"A work in which there are theories is like an object which still has the ticket that shows its price."

Marcel Proust
(07/10/1871 – 11/19/1922)
French writer

"John Stuart Mill
By a mighty effort of will
Overcame his natural bonhomie
And wrote 'Principles of Political Economy'."

Edmund Clerihew Bentley
(07/10/1875 – 03/30/1956)
English writer

"The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were."

David Brinkley
(07/10/1920 – 06/11/2003)
US TV news anchor

"The three toughest fighters I've ever been up against were Sugar Ray Robinson, Sugar Ray Robinson, and Sugar Ray Robinson. I fought Sugar so many times, I'm surprized I'm not diabetic! But I did have him off the canvas once...when he stepped over my body to leave the ring."

Jake LaMotta
(07/10/1921 – )
US boxer

"Even though a number of people have tried, no one has yet found a way to drink for a living."

Jean Kerr
(07/10/1923 – 01/05/2003)
US writer, humorist "Please Don't Eat the Daisies"

"I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law."

David Dinkins
(07/10/1927 – )
US mayor (NYC) , on accusations that he failed to pay taxes

"Fashion exists for women with no taste, etiquette for people with no breeding."

Queen Marie
(10/29/1875 – 07/10/1938)
Romanian royalty

"From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life."

Arthur Ashe
(07/10/1943 – 02/06/1993)
US tennis pro

"You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in."

Arlo Guthrie
(07/10/1947 – )
US singer, songwriter (son of Woody)

"To dream of the person you would like to be is to waste the person you are."

Sholem Asch
(11/01/1880 – 07/10/1957)
Polish-Yiddish writer

"If I wasn't talking, I wouldn't know what to say."

Chico Resch
(07/10/1958 – )
US hockey player

"We look like K-Mart rock 'n rollers, you know, the discount clothes stores where all the hicks go."

Kim Deal
(07/10/1961 – )
US singer, songwriter (Pixies, Breeders, Amps)

"I want to be a diva...like people-totally-respect-my-music diva, not diva like carry-my-diet-Coke-around."

Jessica Simpson
(07/10/1980 – )
US singer (sister of Ashlee Simpson)

"That's All Folks!"

Mel Blanc
(05/30/1908 – 07/10/1989)
US voice artist , epitaph