"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us worthy evidence of the fact." George Eliot
(11/22/1819 – 12/22/1880)
US writer 
"The vice-presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm piss." John Nance Garner
(11/22/1868 – 11/07/1967)
US Vice President (32) (see other US VPs) "Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." Andre Gide
(11/22/1869 – 02/19/1951)
French writer 
"How can one conceive of a one-party system in a country that has over 200 varieties of cheese?" Charles de Gaulle
(11/22/1890 – 11/09/1970)
French president "It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness and of pain: of strength and freedom." Benjamin Britten
(11/22/1913 – 12/04/1976)
English composer 
"The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class." Jack London
(01/12/1876 – 11/22/1916)
US writer 
"I take showers, I don't like baths. The last time I took a bath, I lost three of my ships." Rodney Dangerfield
(11/22/1921 – 10/05/2004)
US comic "The critical element in selling a service comes in providing support after the sale, because, unlike other types of marketing, the customer can't really try the product until he's already bought it." Kay Knight Clarke
(11/22/1938 – )
US? marketing expert? 
"There's a side of me that always fell for manic things, frenzied, cartoony performances. I always liked sideshows, freakshows. Jerry Lewis was a freakshow... Absolutely grotesque, awful, tasteless. I like things to be tasteless." Terry Gilliam
(11/22/1940 – )
US animator, actor, director (Monty Python's Flying Circus) 
"No one changes the world who isn't obsessed." Billie Jean King
(11/22/1943 – )
US tennis player 
"Human life is proverbially uncertain; few things are more certain than the solvency of a life-insurance company." Sir Arthur Eddington
(12/28/1882 – 11/22/1944)
English physicist 
"Sometimes you don't want to be a slapstick clown in order to convey a funny perception of the world." Tina Weymouth
(11/22/1950 – )
US bassist (Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club) 
"I enjoy making things that are different. It makes for a better career. I don't want to do the same thing twice. I love the different roles I've played. I don't ever want to be pigeonholed! That's the great thing about acting—all these different people I can play, as long as audiences are willing to see them. The more different roles I do, the more different roles I will get." Mariel Hemingway
(11/22/1961 – )
US actor (granddaughter of Ernest Hemingway; sister of Margaux Hemingway) 
"No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife." Aldous Huxley
(07/26/1894 – 11/22/1963)
English writer (brother of Sir Julian, grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley) 
Hedda Hopper: "How do you know so much about men?"
Mae West:
"Baby, I went to night school."
(08/17/1892 – 11/22/1980)
US actor 
"Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all." Luis Barragan
(03/09/1902 – 11/22/1988)
Mexican architect 
"Aerodynamically, the bumblebee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumblebee doesn't know that so it goes on flying anyway." Mary Kay Ash
(05/12/1915 – 11/22/2001)
US entrepreneur
"There is no necessary connection between the desire to lead and the ability to lead, and even less the ability to lead somewhere that will be to the advantage of the led." Bergen Evans
(09/19/1904 – 02/04/1978)
US educator
"Sleep is when all the unsorted stuff comes flying out as from a dustbin upset in a high wind." William Golding
(09/19/1911 – 06/19/1993)
English writer
"Never console yourself into believing that the terror has passed, for it looms as large and evil today as it did in the despicable era of Bedlam." Frances Farmer
(09/19/1913 – 08/01/1970)
US actor
"It was inescapable. I'd just about land something substantial, something I like or a good career move. Then some dinosaur would rear up and say, 'But the audience will think of him as Batman.' It was formidable. It was there like a brick wall." Adam West
(09/19/1928 – )
US actor , on being typecast as "Batman"
"(George Bush) has the look about him of someone who might sit up and yip for a Dog Yummie." Mike Royko
(09/19/1932 – 04/29/1997)
US journalist
"I could find the cure for cancer, but what people will always remember me for is writing the theme for The Love Boat." Paul Williams
(09/19/1940 – )
US songwriter
"Probably the biggest bringdown in my life was being in a pop group and finding out just how much it was like everything we were supposed to be against." "Mama" Cass Elliot
(09/19/1943 – 07/29/1974)
US singer (Mamas and Papas)
"Paris Hilton, that's very interesting what she did. I've never done that. I haven't really sort of ever got into that. As time passes, maybe I should record it and put it in a vault so that when I get a little old and don't have the energy I can remember how life used to be." Jeremy Irons
(09/19/1948 – )
English actor
"It's not what you'd call a figure, is it?" Twiggy
(09/19/1949 – )
English supermodel, actor
"Aristotle was famous for knowing everything. He taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons." Will Cuppy
(08/23/1884 – 09/19/1949)
US writer
"I have learned from experience that, in the bluff and counterbluff of world politics, to draw a hostile war lord as a horrible monster is to play his game. What he doesn't like is being shown as a silly ass." Sir David Low
(04/07/1891 – 09/19/1963)
English cartoonist
"Sometimes I wish I had a terrible childhood, so that at least I´d have an excuse." Jimmy Fallon
(09/19/1974 – )
US comic, actor (SNL)
"In love, as in gluttony, pleasure is a matter of the utmost precision." Italo Calvino
(10/15/1923 – 09/19/1985)
Italian writer
"Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish." Anne Bradstreet
(?/1612 – 09/16/1672)
English-US writer
"There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom." Andrew Bonar Law
(09/16/1858 – 10/30/1923)
British Prime Minister (37) (see other British PMs)
"I like the pleasant things most women enjoy, even if I do wear breeches and boots on an expedition, even sleep in them at times.... but I powder my nose before going on deck, no matter how rough the sea is." Louise Arner Boyd
(09/16/1887 – 09/14/1972)
US explorer (died near her birthday) 
"Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb." Jean Arp
(09/16/1887 – 06/07/1966)
French artist 
"A vitamin is a substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it." Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
(09/16/1893 – 10/22/1986)
Hungarian biochemist (discovered vitamin C) 
"I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction." Georges Bataille
(09/16/1897 – 07/09/1962)
French writer "Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder." Dr. Lawrence J. Peter
(09/16/1919 – 01/12/1990)
US pop psychologist, writer
"I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow." B. B. King
(09/16/1925 – )
US blues guitarist, singer 
"Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost." Dr. Robert H. Schuller
(09/16/1926 – )
US televangelist 
"Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to LA. And I thought—I want to sell out!" Jennifer Tilly
(09/16/1958 – )
US actor (sister of Meg Tilly)
"I used to get painful crushes on really unavailable guys." Molly Shannon
(09/16/1964 – )
US comic actor (SNL)
"I would like to be Maria, but there is Las Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity." Maria Callas
(12/03/1923 – 09/16/1977)
US diva 
"I was a mod prince. It was the very beginnings of sequin rock and I had lots of clothes because my mother made them." Marc "T Rex" Bolan
(09/30/1947 – 09/16/1977)
English singer 
"The curious fascination in this job is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be—and that's so tempting." Millicent Fenwick
(02/15/1910 – 09/16/1992)
US fashion editor, representative (NJ), diplomat 
"The space age was upon us. Everyone was thinking about rockets and wondering if maybe we would find people up there. I still wonder if we will. People (heard the song) and imagined some kind of beings." Sheb Wooley
(04/10/1921 – 09/16/2003)
US actor, singer, songwriter , on his song, "Flying Purple People Eater"
William Howard Taft: "I have been talking for a quarter of an hour, but there is so much noise that I can hardly hear myself talk."
Crowd member: "That's all right, you're not missing anything."
(09/15/1857 – 03/08/1930)
US President (27) (see all US Presidents) 
Friend: "That drink is slow poison."
Robert Benchley: "So who's in a hurry?"
(09/15/1889 – 11/21/1945)
US writer 
"I don't think necessity is the mother of invention. Invention, in my opinion, arises directly from idleness, possibly also from laziness—to save oneself trouble." Agatha Christie
(09/15/1890 – 01/12/1976)
English writer 
"Don't be a blueprint. Be an original." Roy Acuff
(09/15/1903 – 11/23/1992)
US singer "That youthful sparkle in his eyes is caused by his contact lenses, which he keeps highly polished." Sheilah Graham
(09/15/1904 – 11/17/1988)
US writer , on Ronald Reagan 
"I would stand on the floor, and they would bring this arm down and cinch it around my waist, then pull me up in the air. Every time I moved, one of the fingers would loosen, so it would look like I was trying to get away. Actually, I was trying not to slip through his hand." Fay Wray
(09/15/1907 – 08/08/2004)
US actor 
"I'm proud and grateful I was Blondie, She was dumb and shrewish sometimes, but she was real and sympathetic and warm, a real woman, a human being. And that's how I tried to play her." Penny Singleton
(09/15/1909 – 11/12/2003)
US actor ("Blondie") 
"We are always acting on what has just finished happening. It happened at least 1/30th of a second ago. We think we're in the present, but we aren't. The present we know is only a movie of the past." Thomas Wolfe
(10/03/1900 – 09/15/1938)
US writer 
"You've got to take Chances in life." Nelson Minter
(09/15/1957 – 12/03/1993)
US friend and schoolmate (his son is named Chance) "Sometimes it can happen that you see everything in terms of music. It's like a fixation. You can't help it. I get that way every time I'm trying to work something out. But it's bad if you can't pull out of it. Nothing should be that dominating. If it is, it is perverted." Bill Evans
(08/16/1929 – 09/15/1980)
US pianist 
"I think the greatest curse of American society has been the idea of an easy millennialism—that some new drug, or the next election, or the latest in social engineering will solve everything." Robert Penn Warren
(04/24/1905 – 09/15/1989)
US writer 
"Have you ever thought that war is a madhouse and that everyone in the war is a patient?" Oriana Falacci
(06/29/1930 – 09/15/2006)
Italian journalist
"The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class." Jack London
"I thought, while they're up and firm, why not shoot them once or twice." Jamie Lee Curtis
"She's the sort of woman who lives for others—you can always tell the others by their hunted expression." C. S. Lewis
"Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president but they don't want them to become politicians in the process." John F. Kennedy
Hedda Hopper: "How do you know so much about men?"
"I always check in the mirror to make sure nothing is see-through." Scarlett Johansson
"Beauty is the oracle that speaks to us all." Luis Barragan
