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"They never taste who always drink;
They always talk, who never think."

Matthew Prior
(07/21/1664 – 09/18/1721)
English writer

"Critics! Those cut-throat bandits in the paths of fame."

Robert Burns
(01/25/1759 – 07/21/1796)
Scottish poet

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."

Ernest Hemingway
(07/21/1899 – 07/02/1961)
US writer (grandfather of Margaux and Mariel Hemingway)

"A college is a place where pebbles are polished and diamonds dimmed."

Robert G. Ingersoll
(08/11/1833 – 07/21/1899)
US writer

"Those who make a distinction between education and entertainment don't know the first thing about either."

Marshall McLuhan
(07/21/1911 – 12/31/1980)
Canadian writer, social critic

"There are more bad musicians than there is bad music."

Isaac Stern
(07/21/1920 – 09/22/2001)
Russian-US musician (a good one)

"Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success upon the stage."

Ellen Terry
(02/27/1847 – 07/21/1928)
English actor

"In fact, I'm not really a Jew. Just Jew-ish. Not the whole hog, you know."

Jonathan Miller
(07/21/1934 – )
English comic (Beyond the Fringe)

"The phone rings and I curse.
Literary editor.
Seasonal verse."

Wendy Cope
(07/21/1945 – )
English writer

"Everything went downhill after Lillian [Gish] left me."

D. W. Griffith
(01/22/1875 – 07/21/1948)
US director

"You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."

Robin Williams
(07/21/1952 – )
US comic, actor

"I heard you call me immature earlier. Well, you're just a big poop-head."

Jon Lovitz
(07/21/1957 – )
US comic actor (SNL)

"If one could make alive again for other people some cobwebbed skein of old dead intrigues and breathe breath and character into dead names and stiff portraits. That is history to me!"

G. M. Trevelyan
(02/16/1876 – 07/21/1962)
English historian

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