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uncle phil 02-23-2011 03:19 AM

Samuel Pepys - Februeary 23, 1633

“Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.”

uncle phil 02-24-2011 03:23 AM

George Harrison - February 24, 1943

"I only learned recently after all these years that the date and time of my own birth have always been off by one calendar day and about a half hour on the clock."

uncle phil 02-25-2011 03:15 AM

Bobby Riggs - February 25, 1918

“Billie and I did wonders for women's tennis. They owe me a piece of their checks.”

cruisinmags 02-25-2011 02:25 PM

great quotes! Keep em coming!

uncle phil 02-25-2011 02:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by cruisinmags (Post 2876710)
great quotes! Keep em coming!

the idea is to contribute, not just "drive-by" and fire a one-liner...

uncle phil 02-26-2011 03:00 AM

Jackie Gleason - February 26, 1916

“How sweet it is!”

uncle phil 02-27-2011 03:32 AM

John Steinbeck - February 27, 1902

“It seems to me that if you or I must choose between two courses of thought or action, we should remember our dying and try so to live that our death brings no pleasure on the world.”

uncle phil 02-28-2011 02:50 AM

Linus Pauling - February 28, 1901

“Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.”

uncle phil 03-01-2011 03:30 AM

William Gaines - March 1, 1922

"Fools rush in and get the best seats."

uncle phil 03-02-2011 03:29 AM

Tom Wolfe - March 2, 1931

“If a man has talent and can't use it, he's failed. If he uses only half of it, he has partly failed. If he uses the whole of it, he has succeeded, and won a satisfaction and triumph few men ever know.”

uncle phil 03-03-2011 03:22 AM

Matthew Ridgway - March 3, 1895

"No ground gained was ever relinquished."

uncle phil 03-04-2011 03:22 AM

Knute Rockne - March 4, 1888

“It isn't necessary to see a good tackle. You can hear it.”

uncle phil 03-05-2011 02:59 AM

Rex Harrison - March 5, 1908

“Robert Morley is a legend in his own lunchtime.”

uncle phil 03-06-2011 03:22 AM

Lou Costello - March 6, 1906

“I went and looked out my door and he's got a big old brick banging and smashing my windshield in and I opened my door and yelled at him, 'hey!' but he just looked crazy so I slammed the door and locked it, called 9-1-1 and I went for my gun.”

uncle phil 03-07-2011 03:13 AM

Luther Burbank - March 7, 1849

“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food, and medicine to the soul.”

uncle phil 03-08-2011 03:29 AM

Kenneth Grahame - March 8, 1859

“The clever men at Oxford / Know all that there is to be knowed. / But they none of them know one half as much / As intelligent Mr Toad.”

uncle phil 03-09-2011 03:24 AM

Amerigo Vespucci - March 9, 1454

“Those new regions which we found and explored with the fleet... we may rightly call a New World...a continent more densely peopled and abounding in animals than our Europe or Asia or Africa; and, in addition, a climate milder than in any other region known to us.”

uncle phil 03-10-2011 03:10 AM

Sharon Stone - March 10, 1958

“Women might be able to fake orgasms. But men can fake whole relationships.”

ralphie250 03-10-2011 08:48 AM

"If I asked you to spit in a cup then swallow it, Would you?"

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uncle phil 03-10-2011 02:15 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ralphie250 (Post 2880781)
"If I asked you to spit in a cup then swallow it, Would you?"

unknown

Quote:

Originally Posted by warrrreagl (Post 2698434)
My vision for this thread is to post a quote every day from a famous person on their birthday.


uncle phil 03-11-2011 03:13 AM

Lawrence Welk - March 11, 1903

“There are good days and there are bad days, and this is one of them.”

uncle phil 03-12-2011 03:13 AM

Jack Kerouac - March 12, 1922

“My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.”

uncle phil 03-13-2011 02:24 AM

Joseph Priestley - March 13, 1733

“The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.”

Lindy 03-13-2011 09:11 PM

David Byrne - March 14, 1952

"Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was... Same as it ever was...Same as it ever was. ..."

uncle phil 03-15-2011 02:04 AM

Jimmy Lee Swaggart - March 15, 1935

“If I do not return to the pulpit this weekend, millions of people will go to hell.”

uncle phil 03-16-2011 02:27 AM

Henny Youngman - March 16, 1906

“Getting on a plane, I told the ticket lady, "Send one of my bags to New York, send one to Los Angeles, and send one to Miami." She said, "We can't do that!" I told her, "You did it last week!"”

ralphie250 03-17-2011 12:25 PM

sorry, i didnt know:confused:

Lindy 03-17-2011 07:29 PM

Singer/Pianist Nat "King" Cole March 17, 1919

"I make no claim to being a business genius. You can make so much money in this business that it loses its value."

uncle phil 03-24-2011 04:07 AM

Andrew Mellon - March 24, 1855

"Gentlemen prefer bonds.”

Wandrin 03-24-2011 11:13 AM

oops

uncle phil 03-24-2011 12:27 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Wandrin (Post 2884862)
Bertrand Russell

"Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who'll get the blame."

Quote:

Originally Posted by warrrreagl (Post 2698434)
My vision for this thread is to post a quote every day from a famous person on their birthday.


uncle phil 03-25-2011 02:13 AM

Howard Cosell - March 25, 1918

“Sports is the toy department of human life.”

uncle phil 03-26-2011 02:10 AM

A. E. Housman - March 26, 1859

“Great literature should do some good to the reader: must quicken his perception though dull, and sharpen his discrimination though blunt, and mellow the rawness of his personal opinions.”

citadel 03-27-2011 02:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by uncle phil (Post 2881489)
Joseph Priestley - March 13, 1733

“The more elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate.”

How true is that? The world at your fingertips with a cellphone, and not even a phone call.

uncle phil 03-27-2011 02:22 AM

Patty Smith Hill - March 27, 1868

"Happy birthday to you, happy birthday to you."

uncle phil 03-28-2011 02:14 AM

Paul Whiteman - March 28, 1890

“Jazz came to America three hundred years ago in chains.”

uncle phil 03-29-2011 02:28 AM

Sam Walton - March 29, 1918

“There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.”

uncle phil 03-30-2011 02:34 AM

Rolf Harris - March 30, 1930

“Tie me kangaroo down, sport.”

uncle phil 03-31-2011 02:18 AM

Rene Descartes - March 31, 1596

"Cogito, ergo sum."

uncle phil 04-01-2011 02:47 AM

Abraham Maslow - April 1, 1908

“If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.”


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