“I can teach you to be a lawyer, because there are certain rules. There are certain rules in being a doctor or in building houses. But, in making a picture, there are no rules. It's just your particular instinctual feeling for what it is.”

George Sidney (October 4, 1916 - May 5, 2002)

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"Be regular and orderly in your life, that you may be violent and original in your work.”

Clive Barker (born 5 October 1952)

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"You're only as good as the people you hire."

"We take the hamburger business more seriously than anyone else."

"The two most important requirements for major success are: first, being in the right place at the right time, and second, doing something about it."


Ray Kroc (Oct. 5 1902 - Jan. 14, 1984)

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Bill Dana - October 5, 1924

“Studies have shown that regulatory burden and compliance is one of the most significant costs to a small bank, substantially more than anything other than your payroll.”

Flann O'Brien, nom de plume of Brian O'Nolan, writer (5 October 1911 – 1 April 1966)

The gross and net result of it is that people who spent most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who are nearly half people and half bicycles...when a man lets things go so far that he is more than half a bicycle, you will not see him so much because he spends a lot of his time leaning with one elbow on walls or standing propped by one foot at kerbstones. - from The Third Policeman

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Since my gentle penalty flag had no effect, can you please send a reminder to thirdsun that the intent of the Daily Quote thread is to post a quote by a famous person on their actual birthday, and not the day before? Thanks.

done...

phil

Sorry. They are all date-time stamped on the right day. Isn't that what matters? I've kept +6 hours time (London) since I signed up for TFP. :)

sheesh...what are there now, two people contributing to this thread? :lol:

"A house is a machine for living in."

Le Corbusier (October 6, 1887 - 1965)

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Alfred Tennyson - October 6, 1809

“Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die.”

"Life is a sexually transmitted disease."

R. D. Laing (October 7, 1927 - 1989)

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Andy Devine - October 7, 1905

When asked if he had strange nodes on his vocal cords, Devine replied, "I've got the same nodes as Bing Crosby, but his are in tune."

"If you come back from the dead, you don't have the same value system, I think."

Sigourney Weaver (October 8, 1949)

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Paul Hogan - October 8, 1939

“The secret to my success is that I bit off more than I could chew and chewed as fast as I could.”

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.

All we are saying is give peace a chance.

All you need is love.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground.

Everything is clearer when you're in love.

God is a concept by which we measure our pain.

Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something.

Happiness is a warm gun.

If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace.

If someone thinks that love and peace is a cliche that must have been left behind in the Sixties, that's his problem. Love and peace are eternal.

Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; Love is a flower, you've got to let it grow.

Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it.

Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty.

Possession isn't nine-tenths of the law. It's nine-tenths of the problem.

Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.

The more I see the less I know for sure.

The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility.

There's nothing you can know that isn't known.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

We've got this gift of love, but love is like a precious plant. You can't just accept it and leave it in the cupboard or just think it's going to get on by itself. You've got to keep watering it. You've got to really look after it and nurture it.

When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream.

Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.

You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It's all down to you, mate.

John Lennon (October 9, 1940 - 1980)

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Rube Marquard - October 9, 1889

"Any hitter can hit a fast one," he said, "but not many can hit slow ones."

John Prine - October 10, 1946

“Have you ever noticed / When you're feeling really good / There's always a pigeon / That'll come shit on your hood / Or you're feeling your freedom / And the world's off your back / Some cowboy from Texas / Starts his own war in Iraq.”

"I don't know what other people are doing - I just know about me."

Thelonious Monk (October 10, 1917 - 1982)

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Harold Pinter

"God looked into his secret heart
to find a word
To bless the living throng below.

But look and look as he might do
And begging ghosts to live again
But hearing no song in that room
He found with harshly burning pain
He had no blessing to bestow."

One of my favorite playwrights. Good one, SF.

Elmore Leonard - October 11, 1925

“I leave out the parts that people skip.”

Hah. That really fits today, Uncle Phil.

"Women are like teabags. We don't know our true strength until we are in hot water."

Eleanor Roosevelt (October 11, 1884 - 1962)

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"I never learned hate or shame at home. I had to go to school for that."

Dick Gregory (October 12, 1932)

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Perle Mesta - October 12, 1891

"Any bitch with a million dollars and a nice dress can be a great hostess in Washington."

"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't."

Margaret Thatcher (October 13, 1925)

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Lenny Bruce - October 13, 1925

“Never tell. Not if you love your wife... In fact, if your old lady walks in on you, deny it. Yeah. Just flat out and she'll believe it: "I'm tellin' ya. This chick came downstairs with a sign around her neck 'Lay on Top of Me Or I'll Die.' I didn't know what I was gonna do..."”

Nipsey Russell - October 13, 1924

"The opposite of pro is con
That fact is clearly seen
If progress means move forward
Then what does Congress mean? "

E.E. Cummings - October 14, 1894

“To be nobody but yourself in a world that's doing its best to make you somebody else, is to fight the hardest battle you are ever going to fight. Never stop fighting.”

If I am through learning, I am through.

-John Wooden (The Wizard of Westwood)

Friedrich Nietzsche - October 15, 1844

“I'm not upset that you lied to me, I'm upset that from now on I can't believe you.”

"I'm very psychic." - Coast to Coast caller.

"How you expect to run with the wolves come night when you spend all day sparring with the puppies? "

Omar Little (do fictional characters count?) (~1973-1974)

They do if you give their quote on their birthday.

Every now and then, you run across a character that cannot be bound by just one quote. So, here are 200 quotes from today's birthday boy, Oscar Wilde..


A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her.

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

A poet can survive everything but a misprint.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

A true friend stabs you in the front.

A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament.

Ah, well, then I suppose I shall have to die beyond my means.

All art is quite useless.

All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic.

All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his.

Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much.

Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.

Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between.

An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him.

An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all.

Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular.

Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship.

Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same.

Biography lends to death a new terror.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Charity creates a multitude of sins.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Conversation about the weather is the last refuge of the unimaginative.

Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.

Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance.

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people.

Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.

Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

Everything popular is wrong.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.

Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.

Hatred is blind, as well as love.

He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends.

How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being.

How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

I am not young enough to know everything.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly.

I can resist everything except temptation.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

I have nothing to declare except my genius.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works.

I regard the theatre as the greatest of all art forms, the most immediate way in which a human being can share with another the sense of what it is to be a human being.

I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

I think that God, in creating man, somewhat overestimated his ability.

I want my food dead. Not sick, not dying, dead.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world.

If you are not too long, I will wait here for you all my life.

If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

In married life three is company and two none.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

It is always the unreadable that occurs.

It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.

Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life.

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.

Life is too important to be taken seriously.

Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.

Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.

Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance.

Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed.

Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

One can survive anything these days, except death, and live down anything except a good reputation.

One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be.

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.

Only the shallow know themselves.

Ordinary riches can be stolen; real riches cannot. In your soul are infinitely precious things that cannot be taken from you.

Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.

Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both.

Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.

Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities.

Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.

Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.

Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.

Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.

The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic.

The cynic knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.

The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.

The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.

The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us.

There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies.

There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love.

There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad.

There is no sin except stupidity.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about.

There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose.

There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.

There's nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It's a thing no married man knows anything about.

These days man knows the price of everything, but the value of nothing.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying.

When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.

Who, being loved, is poor?

Why was I born with such contemporaries?

Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the two sexes.

Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects.

Work is the curse of the drinking classes.

Oscar Wilde (October 16, 1854 - 1900)

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"Rap records don't make you feel good no more. Six months after release, it can't come back as a classic."

Wyclef Jean (October 17, 1972)

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"The apple cannot be stuck back on the Tree of Knowledge; once we begin to see, we are doomed and challenged to seek the strength to see more, not less." (Arthur Miller)

"Don't let the same dog bite you twice."

Chuck Berry (October 18, 1926)

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Divine - October 19, 1945

"Europeans are not uptight about the female attire. Men have always played women's parts in the theater. It's not questioned and no one really cares. It's just a way to give people a good laugh."

"A committee is an animal with four back legs."

John le Carre (October 19, 1931)

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Will Rogers, Jr. - October 20, 1912

“Everything is funny as long as it is happening to someone else.”

"A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus."

"Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. "

"America - a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. "

"It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow... that are the aftermath of war. "

"New discoveries in science will continue to create a thousand new frontiers for those who still would adventure. "

Herbert Hoover ~October 20, 1964

"I believe that I am in hell, therefore I am there."

Arthur Rimbaud (October 20, 1854 - 1891)

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"Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom" and "Friendship is a sheltering tree."

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge (21 October 1772 – 25 July 1834)

"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."

Napoleon Bonaparte

Alfred Nobel - October 21, 1833

“I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.”

august 15?

"The fear of knowing too little is nothing compared to the fear of knowing too much."

Landan Wright - Oct. 22, 1969

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Curly Howard - October 22, 1903

“Roses are red, and how do you do? Drink four of these, and Woo woo woo woo!”

In honor of Grancey's birthday, I give you a mere fraction of a sample...

WARRRREAGL: I'm going upstairs to change, now.
GRANCEY: That would be too much to hope for.

Sarah Bernhardt October 22 1844 - March 26 1923

Oscar Wilde "Do you mind if I smoke?" Sarah Bernhardt "I don't care if you burn."

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"People will pay more to be entertained than educated."

Johnny Carson (October 23, 1925 - 2005)

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*I still miss you every night, Johnny...

"Weird Al" Yankovic - October 23, 1959

"What kind of morons do you have working at newspapers in Austin that would base an entire review of an artist's performance on whether or not they had a good seat?"

I did a women's movie, and I'm not a woman. I did a gay movie, and I'm not gay. I learned as I went along. - Ang Lee 23 October, 1954

I just realized that we're doing it off when their birthday's are, not when they died.

Boy, did I laugh hard.

Belva Lockwood - October 24, 1830

“I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade - or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to men, but wish we had more of it everywhere.”

"So far as I know, anything worth hearing is not usually uttered at seven o'clock in the morning; and if it is, it will generally be repeated at a more reasonable hour for a larger and more wakeful audience."

Moss Hart (October 24, 1904 - 1961)

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Ya gotta love this thread! So many quotes, so little time! So here's one just cuz...

"It's my job to protect you from reality." - Fox Network censor.

"You can't ride two horses with one behind." -Allen Konigsberg

is it december 1 already?

Nope but many Sagitarii are freaks.

Sorry, lemme retry:

"Woody Allen sets are very quiet. Extraordinary sense of power from a man who doesn't do anything except just stand there."
-F. Murray Abraham (October 24, 1939)

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"I'd like to live as a poor man with lots of money."

-Pablo Picasso October 25 1881

Bobby Knight - October 25, 1940

“The key is not the 'will to win;' everybody has that. It is the will to prepare to win that is important.”

Hillary Rodham Clinton - October 26, 1947

“What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.”

"Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again."

Capt. James Cook (October 27, 1728 - 1779)

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Emily Post - October 27, 1872

“Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness, you have good manners, no matter what fork you use.”

Desiderius Erasmus - October 28, 1467

“He who allows oppression shares the crime.”

Bill Gates - 28 October, 1955

640K ought to be enough for anybody.

Bill Mauldin - October 29, 1921

“I'm convinced that the infantry is the group in the army which gives more and gets less than anybody else.”

Since I missed a couple of days, I'll make up for it with a mess of quotes from Harold and Maude on Ruth Gordon's birthday. Enjoy.

A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they are not dead, really. They're just backing away from life. *Reach* out. Take a *chance*. Get *hurt* even. But play as well as you can. Go team, go! Give me an L. Give me an I. Give me a V. Give me an E. L-I-V-E. LIVE! Otherwise, you got nothing to talk about in the locker room.

I should like to change into a sunflower most of all. They're so tall and simple.

Dreyfus once wrote from Devil's Island that he would see the most glorious birds. Many years later in Brittany he realized they had only been seagulls... For me they will always be - *glorious* birds.

Vice, Virtue. It's best not to be too moral. You cheat yourself out of too much *life*. Aim above morality. If you apply that to life, then you're bound to live life fully.

Harold, *everyone* has the right to make an ass out of themselves. You just can't let the world judge you too much.

Well, if some people get upset because they feel they have a hold on some things, I'm merely acting as a gentle reminder: here today, gone tomorrow, so don't get attached to things.

*Don't* get officious. You're not yourself when you're officious - That is the curse of a government job.

The earth is my body; my head is in the stars.

You know, at one time, I used to break into pet shops to liberate the canaries. But I decided that was an idea way before its time. Zoos are full, prisons are overflowing... oh my, how the world still dearly loves a cage.

That's *wonderful*. Go and love some more.

Ruth Gordon (October 30, 1896 - 1985)

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Ezra Pound - October 30, 1885

“If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.”

John Keats - October 31, 1795

“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.”

Larry Flynt - November 1, 1942

“Majority rule only works if you're also considering individual rights. Because you can't have five wolves and one sheep voting on what to have for supper.”

"My family is my strength and my weakness."

Aishwarya Rai (November 1, 1973)

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James Knox Polk - November 2, 1795

“The passion for office among members of Congress is very great, if not absolutely disreputable, and greatly embarrasses the operations of the Government. They create offices by their own votes and then seek to fill them themselves.”

Cookie Monster - 2 November, 1969

Cookie Monster: Me not *take* cookies, me *eat* the cookies.
Robert McNeill: What's the difference?
Cookie Monster: Eat begin with an E and take... Begin with a T.

"All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife."

Daniel Boone (November 2, 1734 - 1820)

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NOTE: Boone was born after the adoption of the Gregorian calendar. His original birthdate is October 22 (which he always claimed), but the corrected date is now given as November 2.

"The quickest way to a man's heart is through his chest."

Roseanne Barr (November 3, 1952)

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William Cullen Bryant November 3, 1794

“All at once
A fresher wind sweeps by, and breaks my dream,
And I am in the wilderness alone.”

Will Rogers - November 4, 1879

“If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?"

"... and that's the way it is..." - Walter Cronkite, most trusted newsman of all time, 4 November, 1916

"I'm a Scorpio, and Scorpios eat themselves out and burn themselves up like me."

Vivien Leigh (November 5, 1913 - 1967)

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*my sister is named after her - her first name is Vivien and her middle name is Leigh. No, Bill O'Rights, not that sister. The other redheaded sister.*

Eugene Victor Debs - November 5, 1855

“I have no country to fight for; my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world.”

Records became much cruder in the last 20 years. Let's put it that way.

- Art Garfunkel, 5 November 1941

Sally Field - November 6, 1946

“I can't deny the fact that you like me! You like me!”

"I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher."

John Philip Sousa (November 6, 1854 - 1932)

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"Nuclear weapons kill Americans - they don't kill Republicans or Democrats - they kill Americans. "

"One must always keep one's government under control. "

"The government serves the people - not vice-versa. "

Joseph C. Wilson - November 6, 1949

Albert Camus - November 7, 1913

“In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist.”

"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."

Marie Curie (November 7, 1867 - 1934)

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“My actions appeared justified, ... I did this work without pleasure, without pleasure.”

Brig. Gen. Paul Aussaresses [7, November 1918] on his involvement in torturing enemies to the French state.

Bram Stoker - November 8, 1847

“How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.”

"After all, tomorrow is another day."

Margaret Mitchell (November 8, 1900 - 1949)

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Spiro T. Agnew - November 9, 1918

“I apologize for lying to you. I promise I won't deceive you except in matters of this sort.”

"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."

Carl Sagan (November 9, 1934 - 1996)

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Martin Luther - November 10, 1483

“You are not only responsible for what you say, but also for what you do not say...”

Oliver Goldsmith, born 10 November, 1728, and again on the same date in 1730.

"Every absurdity has a champion to defend it."

"Let schoolmasters puzzle their brain,
With grammar, and nonsense, and learning,
Good liquor, I stoutly maintain,
Gives genius a better discerning"

Holy freakin' wow. I've been saving up an Oliver Goldsmith quote for several weeks, and Grey Wolf was obviously on the same wavelength. Oh well, no sense wasting a perfectly good quote:

“Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain,...where crouching tigers wait their hapless prey..."

It is from this poem by Goldsmith called The Deserted Village that my home of Auburn gets its name, and my alma mater gets its mascot.

/high five to Grey Wolf

George Patton - November 11, 1885

“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”

"I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different."

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (November 11, 1922 - 2007)

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