November 25

"The first man gets the oyster, the second man gets the shell."

"I want all hellions to quit puffing that hell fume in God's clean air."

Carry Nation
(11/25/1846 – 06/09/1911)
US temperance fanatic, on smoking

"About half."

Pope John XXIII
(11/25/1881 – 06/03/1963)
Italian Pope, when asked how many people work in the Vatican

"Both the cockroach and the bird could get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most."

Joseph Wood Krutch
(11/25/1893 – 05/22/1970)
US naturalist, writer

"I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down."

Virgil Thomson
(11/25/1896 – 09/30/1989)
US composer

"Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrassment...They do everything but watch television."

Lewis Thomas
(11/25/1913 – 12/03/1993)
US physician, writer

"I can remember a reporter asking me for a quote, and I didn't know what a quote was. I thought it was some kind of soft drink."

Joe DiMaggio
(11/25/1914 – 03/08/1999)
US baseball player (was married to Marilyn Monroe)

"I'm not a dictator. It's just that I have a grumpy face."

Augusto Pinochet
(11/25/1915 – 12/10/2006)
Chilean dictator

"No one will do it for you."

"To be a good model, I'd need a lot more confidence... and more confidence to be more bare."

Jill Hennessy
(11/25/1968 – )
Canadian actor

"How do you survive Christmas? You drink a lot. And drink a lot, right. Drink a lot and drink a lot. "