"I find the medicine worse than the malady."

John Fletcher
(12/20/1579 – 08/29/1625)
English writer

"Ah! What is man? Wherefore does he why? Whence did he whence? Whither is he withering?"

Dan Leno
(12/20/1860 – 10/31/1904)
English entertainer

"The English may batter us to pieces, but they will never succeed in breaking our spirit."

Maud Gonne
(12/20/1865 – 04/27/1953)
Irish actor, patriot, feminist

"Considering the company I keep in this place, that is hardly surprising."

Sir Robert Menzies
(12/20/1894 – 05/16/1978)
Australian PM, on his "superiority complex" and the Australian Parliament

"When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil."

Max Lerner
(12/20/1902 – 06/05/1992)
US political columnist

"A happy childhood can't be cured. Mine'll hang around my neck like a rainbow, that's all, instead of a noose."

Hortense Calisher
(12/20/1911 – )
US writer

"Being spokesman for a generation is the worst job I ever had."

Billy Bragg
(12/20/1957 – )
English musician

"She always accuses me of just listening to depressing music all day."

Chris Robinson
(12/20/1966 – )
US singer (Black Crowes) (was married to Kate Hudson), on his wife