"We cannot put the face on a stamp unless said person is deceased. My suggestion, therefore, is that you drop dead."

John Jay
(12/12/1745 – 05/17/1829)
US Postmaster, replying to a petitioner who wanted his picture on a postage stamp (I suspect this is apocryphal. -qk)

"I feel very old sometimes... I carry on and would not like to die before having emptied a few more buckets of sh*t on the heads of my fellow men."

Gustave Flaubert
(12/12/1821 – 05/08/1880)
French writer

"The fence around a cemetery is foolish, for those inside can't get out and those outside don't want to get in."

Arthur Brisbane
(12/12/1864 – 12/25/1936)
US editor, writer

"Who the hell wants to hear actors talk?"

Harry M. Warner
(12/12/1881 – 07/25/1958)
Polish film producer (brother of Jack L. Warner)

"I have not collected art. Art collected me. I never found paintings. They found me. I have never even owned a work of art. They owned me."

Edward G. Robinson
(12/12/1893 – 01/26/1973)
Romanian actor

"Education is a private matter between the person and the world of knowledge and experience, and has little to do with school or college."

Lillian Smith
(12/12/1897 – 09/28/1966)
US writer

"Nobody could imagine just how terrible McCarthyism would be. So many careers went down the toilet."

Karen Morley
(12/12/1909 – 03/08/2003)
US actor

"I get tired of hearing my ballplayers bellyache all the time. They should sit in the press box sometime and watch themselves play."

Buzzie Bavasi
(12/12/1914 – )
US baseball manager

"Hands off the threads, creep." Frank Sinatra
(12/12/1915 – 05/15/1998)
US singer (was married to Ava Gardner, Mia Farrow), to presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey, at a Democratic convention

"Life is indeed precious, and I believe the death penalty helps to affirm this fact."

Edward Koch
(12/12/1924 – )
US mayor (NYC), People's Court judge

"Asking a working writer what he feels about critics is like asking a lamppost what he feels about dogs."

John Osbourne
(12/12/1929 – 12/24/1994)
Welsh writer (was married to Jill Bennett)

"I didn't know anything about speed or diet pills, but they gave me these little red pills, like Benzadrine, that you can only buy in Mexico now."

Connie Francis
(12/12/1938 – )
US singer

"I'm not trying to sell sex. I just don't like wearing a lot of clothes onstage."

Sheila E
(12/12/1959 – )
US entertainer

"You don't want to get rid of your experiences, because they're your experiences—good or bad—and you need them, but it would be great if they weren't on the video shelf!"

Jennifer Connelly
(12/12/1970 – )
US actor

"I don't remember ever having finished a book." Bridget Hall
(12/12/1977 – )
US model