"The finest collection of frames I ever saw."

Sir Humphrey Davy
(12/17/1778 – 05/29/1829)
English chemist (discovered laughing gas, bless him...), on the museums of France

"Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive."

Thomas C. Haliburton
(12/17/1796 – 08/27/1865)
Canadian writer

"He never seemed to be doing anything, and yet he did not like to be disturbed at it."

John Greenleaf Whittier
(12/17/1807 – 09/07/1892)
US writer, on Nathaniel Hawthorne

"What I love best about music is the women who listen to it."

Jules-Alfred Hout de Goncourt
(12/17/1830 – 06/20/1870)
French writer, brother of Edmond Hout de Goncourt

"Therefore keep in the midst of life. Do not isolate yourself. Be among men and things, and among troubles, and difficulties, and obstacles."

Henry Drummond
(12/17/1851 – 03/11/1897)
Scottish evangelist, writer

"Ladies, just a little more virginity, if you don't mind."

Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree
(12/17/1853 – 07/02/1917)
English actor, writer, to actresses brought to play ladies-in-waiting

"I may really say that for a quarter of a century I have kept before me one unflinching aim - to register my own times in terms of my own time, and still more to urge those who are better poets and better prose-writers than myself to have the same aim."

Ford Madox Ford
(12/17/1873 – 06/26/1939)
English writer

"It's not hard to tell we was poor—when you saw the toilet paper dryin' on the clothesline."

George Lindsey
(12/17/1929 – )
US comic, actor

"Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care."

William Safire
(12/17/1929 – )
US writer, grammarian

"If I were asked for a one-line answer to the question 'What makes a woman good in bed?' I would say, 'A man who is good in bed.'"

Bob Guccionne
(12/17/1930 – )
US magazine editor

"Oh, great. This is going to be like shooting baskets with Magic Johnson watching."

Bill Pullman
(12/17/1953 – )
US actor, on the prospect of watching "Independence Day" (in which he plays the US President) with US President Bill Clinton

"If it's a man's world, then I'm glad I'm a girl."

Penelope Houston
(12/17/? – )
US singer, songwriter

Jay Leno: "How did you like the birds?"

Milla Jovovich: "Very nice, I felt like wringing their necks."
(12/17/1975 – )
Russian model, actor

"The thing which makes people famous is not their talents, it's the need of admiration of the non-famous people."

Serdar Acun
(12/17/1984– )
Turkish friend of the quotekeeper