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James Longstreet - january 8, 1821
"Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse." |
Richard Milhous Nixon- January 9, 1913
I am not a crook..." |
Ray Bolger - January 10, 1904
"How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road.” |
Ezra Cornell - January 11, 1807
“I would found an institution where any person can find instruction in any study.” |
Edmund Burke - January 12, 1729
“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” |
Horatio Alger - January 13, 1834
"Thus the castle of each feudal chieftain became a school of chivalry, into which any noble youth, whose parents were from poverty unable to educate him to the art of war, was readily received..." |
Benedict Arnold - January 14, 1741
“We have a wretched motley crew in the fleet; the marines, the refuse of every regiment, and the seamen, few of them ever wet with salt water.” |
"An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind."
Albert Schweitzer (January 14, 1875 - 1965) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v3...agl/ages-1.jpg |
Edward Teller - January 15, 1908
“Physics is, hopefully, simple. Physicists are not.” |
Ethel Merman - January 16, 1909
“I can hold a note as long as the Chase National Bank.” |
Al Capone - January 17, 1899
“I am like any other man. All I do is supply a demand.” |
Daniel Webster - January 18, 1782
"A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures." |
Edgar Allen Poe - January 19, 1809
"I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity.” |
TFP - January 20, 2002
"I'd hit it!" |
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson - January 21, 1824
“Duty is ours; consequences are God's.” |
David (D.W.) Griffith - January 22, 1875
"It takes two years on the stage for an actor or an actress to learn how to speak correctly and to manage his voice properly, and it takes about ten years to master the subtle art of being able to hold one's audience." |
Edouard Manet - January 23, 1832
"It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more." |
Edith Wharton - January 24, 1862
“If only we'd stop trying to be happy we'd have a pretty good time.” |
I completely forgot the who to quote rule :)
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Clark Gable - February 1, 1901 “Frankly my dear I don't give a damn.” |
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“From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind.” |
Sidney Lanier - February 3, 1842
“Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.” |
Mark Hopkins - February 4, 1802
"Language is the picture and counterpart of thought." |
William S. Burroughs - February 5, 1914
“I don’t care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to do anything about it.” |
Zsa Zsa Gabor - February 6, 1917
“I am a marvelous housekeeper. Every time I leave a man I keep his house.” |
Aaron Burr - February 6th, 1756
“Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow. Delay may give clearer light as to what is best to be done.” |
Sir Thomas More - February 7, 1478
“Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities - that's training or instruction - but is rather making visible what is hidden as a seed.” |
William Tecumsen Sherman - February 8, 1820
“It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, more vengeance, more desolation. War is hell.” |
Bill Veeck - February 9, 1914
“I’m for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what can’t be done.” |
Jimmy Durante - February 10, 1893
“Good night, Mrs Calabash, wherever you are!” |
Eva Gabor - February 11, 1921
“I was the first actress in the family, and I am still the only actress in the family. I shouldn't be saying it, but it slipped out!” |
Charles Darwin February 12, 1809
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.” |
Tennessee Ernie Ford - February 13, 1919
"When you do a show five days a week and one night a week, the way I was doing, you use up so much music every day that pretty soon you find yourself hustling for material." |
Benjamin Kubelsky - February 14, 1894
“Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.” |
Galileo Galilei - February 15, 1564
“All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.” |
Van Wyck Brooks - February 16, 1886
“If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?” |
Thomas Malthus - February 17, 1766
“Population, when unchecked, increases in a geometrical ratio.” |
Andres Segovia - February 18, 1894
“The guitar is a small orchestra. It is polyphonic. Every string is a different color, a different voice.” |
Nicolas Copernicus - February 19, 1473
"Finally we shall place the Sun himself at the center of the Universe." |
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