"Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave."

Henry Peter Brougham
(12/19/1778 – 05/07/1868)
English politician

"One would suppose in reading them that women possess but one class of physical organs, and that these are always diseased."

Mary Ashton Livermore
(12/19/1820 – 05/23/1905)
US social reformer, on the works of male physicians

"In the long run, there is not much discrimination against superior talent."

Carter G. Woodson
(12/19/1875 – 04/03/1950)
US historian

"Acting is merely the art of keeping a large number of people from coughing."

Sir Ralph Richardson
(12/19/1902 – 10/10/1983)
English actor

"Put it back in the horse!"

H. Allen Smith
(12/19/1906 – 02/24/1976)
US writer, on tasting his first American beer

"One sits the whole day at the desk and appetite is standing next to me. 'Away with you,' I say. But Comrade Appetite does not budge from the spot."

Leonid Brezhnev
(12/19/1906 – 11/10/1982)
Russian statesman

"To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance."

Jean Genet
(12/19/1910 – 04/15/1986)
French writer

"You never know a guy till you've tried him in bed. You know more about a guy in one night in bed than you do in months of conversation. In the sack, they can't cheat!"

Edith Piaf
(12/19/1915 – 10/11/1963)
French singer

"One lady told me that before she saw 'Sounder,' she didn't believe black people could love each other, have deep relationships in the same way as white people."

Cicely Tyson
(12/19/1933 – )
US actor (was married to Miles Davis)

"It's a tough ho' to row."

Patty Steinberg
(12/19/1965 – )
US friend of the quotekeeper, on canoeing

"I used to sleep nude—until the earthquake."

Alyssa Milano
(12/19/1972 – )
US actor

"First, it's 'Who is Jake Gyllenhaal?,' then it's 'Get me Jake Gyllenhaal,' then 'Get me someone who looks like Jake Gyllenhaal,' and then 'Who is Jake Gyllenhaal?'...Right now, I'm between 'Who is Jake Gyllenhaal?' and 'Get me Jake Gyllenhaal.'"

Jake Gyllenhaal
(12/19/1980 – )
US actor (brother of Maggie Gyllenhaal)