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Alfonso the Wise "If I had been present at creation, I would have given some useful hints."

Alfonso X the Wise
(11/23/1221 – 04/04/1284)
Spanish royalty
Franklin Pierce "In a body [like Congress] where there are more than one hundred talking lawyers, you can make no calculation upon the termination of any debate."

Franklin Pierce
(11/23/1804 – 10/08/1869)
US President (14) (see all US Presidents)
William Henry Platt "When I was nine I played the demon king in Cinderella and it launched me on a long and happy life of being a monster."

Boris Karloff
(11/23/1887 – 02/02/1969)
English actor
Arthur Marx "He looked like something that had gotten loose from Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade."

Harpo Marx
(11/23/1888 – 09/28/1964)
US comic actor (Marx Brothers: Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Zeppo, Gummo) , on Alexander Woollcott
Sathyanarayana Raju "Man's many desires are like the small metal coins he carries about in his pocket. The more he has the more they weigh him down."

Sathya Sai Baba
(11/23/1926 – )
Indian guru
"In curved Einsteinian space we are at all times, technically, looking at the back of our own head."

Guy Davenport
(11/23/1927 – 01/04/2005)
US writer, educator
Sir Arthur Wing Pinero "From forty to fifty a man is at heart either a stoic or a satyr."

Sir Arthur Wing Pinero
(05/24/1855 – 11/23/1934)
English playwright
"When Alexander the Great visited Diogenes he asked whether he could do anything for the famous teacher. And Diogenes simply said, 'Just stay out of my light.'"

Alexander Kroll
(11/23/1938 – )
US ad exec
Constance Talmadge "Well, here I am. Your Majesty may begin at once."

Constance Talmadge
(04/19/1900 – 11/23/1973)
US actor (daughter of Margaret) , to D. W. Griffith
"All art is a revolt against man's fate."

Andre Malraux
(11/03/1901 – 11/23/1976)
French writer
Roald Dahl "Some children are spoiled and it is not their fault, it is their parents'."

Roald Dahl
(09/13/1916 – 11/23/1990)
Welsh writer (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)
Claus Gunther Nakszynski "I am my own God, my own jury and my own executioner.... Heil Gunther!"

Klaus Kinski
(10/08/1926 – 11/23/1991)
German actor (father of Nastassja Kinski)
Roy Acuff "The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee."

Roy Acuff
(09/15/1903 – 11/23/1992)
US singer

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