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uncle phil 02-20-2010 02:30 AM

William Prescott - February 20, 1726

"Don't fire until you see the whites of their eyes."

uncle phil 02-21-2010 02:57 AM

Wystan Hugh Auden - February 21, 1907

"For poetry makes nothing happen.”

uncle phil 02-22-2010 02:49 AM

Robert Baden-Powell - February 22, 1857

“The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.”

uncle phil 02-23-2010 02:59 AM

Samuel Pepys - February 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 02-24-2010 03:05 AM

Chester Nimitz - February 24, 1885

“A ship is always referred to as she because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.”

uncle phil 02-25-2010 02:55 AM

Millicent Fenwick - February 25, 1910

“The curious fascination in this job [U.S. representative] is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be - and that's so tempting.”

uncle phil 02-26-2010 02:56 AM

Victor Hugo - February 26, 1802

“When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes."

uncle phil 02-27-2010 02:37 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 02-28-2010 03:02 AM

Sir John Tenniel - February 28, 1820

"Well, I get my subject on Wednesday night; I think it out carefully on Thursday, and make my rough sketch; on Friday morning I begin, and stick to it all day, with my nose well down on the block."

uncle phil 03-01-2010 03:00 AM

Roger Daltry - March 1, 1944

“It was a period when the record industry was growing so fast and the business couldn't keep up. Bands were leading the way; it was driven by the art and not the business. Now it's driven by the business.”

uncle phil 03-02-2010 03:06 AM

Theodor S. Geisel - March 2, 1904

“Today you are You, that is truer than true. There is no one alive who is Youer than You.”

uncle phil 03-03-2010 02:59 AM

Jean Harlow - March 3, 1911

“No one ever expects a great lay to pay all the bills.”

uncle phil 03-04-2010 03:05 AM

Knute Rockne - March 4, 1888

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

uncle phil 03-05-2010 03:07 AM

Lucy Larcom - March 5, 1824

“Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.”

uncle phil 03-06-2010 02:53 AM

Lou Costello - March 6, 1906

"A husband is what's left of a sweetheart after the nerve has been killed."

uncle phil 03-07-2010 03:01 AM

Pieter Mondrian - March 7, 1872

"All painting – the painting of the past as well as of the present – shows us that its essential plastic means we are only line and color."

uncle phil 03-08-2010 03:01 AM

Oliver Wendell Holmes - March 8, 1841

“The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.”

uncle phil 03-09-2010 03:17 AM

Leland Stanford - March 9, 1824

"All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed."

uncle phil 03-10-2010 03:24 AM

Friedrich Von Schlegel - March 10,1772

“One of two things is usually lacking in the so-called Philosophy of Art: either philosophy or art.”

uncle phil 03-11-2010 03:19 AM

Torquato Tasso - March 11, 1544

“Love is when he gives you a piece of your soul, that you never knew was missing.”

uncle phil 03-12-2010 02:51 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 03-13-2010 02:40 AM

L. Ron Hubbard - March 13, 1911

“Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.”

uncle phil 03-14-2010 02:06 AM

Albert Einstein - March 14, 1879

“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.”

uncle phil 03-15-2010 02:04 AM

Jimmy Lee Swaggart - March 15, 1935

“I've never seen a man in my life I wanted to marry. And I'm going to be blunt and plain: if one ever looks at me like that, I'm going to kill him and tell God he died.”

uncle phil 03-16-2010 02:23 AM

Henny Youngman - March 16, 1906

"Take my wife...please."

uncle phil 03-17-2010 02:49 AM

Roger Taney - March 17, 1777

“If any of its provisions (Constitution) are deemed unjust, there is a mode prescribed in the instrument itself to which it may be amended, but while it remains unaltered, it must be construed now as it was understood at the time of its adoption.”

uncle phil 03-18-2010 02:18 AM

Grover Cleveland - March 18, 1837

“No man has ever yet been hanged for breaking the spirit of a law.”

uncle phil 03-19-2010 02:14 AM

William Jennings Bryan - March 19, 1860

“The way to develop self-confidence is to do the thing you fear and get a record of successful experiences behind you.”

uncle phil 03-20-2010 02:57 AM

B.F. Skinner - March 20, 1904

“Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten.”

uncle phil 03-21-2010 02:01 AM

Benito Juarez - March 21, 1806

“Among individuals, as among nations, peace is the respect of others' rights."

uncle phil 03-22-2010 01:51 AM

Chico Marx - March 22, 1887

“I wasn't kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth.”

uncle phil 03-23-2010 02:16 AM

Akira Kurosawa - March 23, 1910

“In a mad world, only the mad are sane.”

uncle phil 03-24-2010 02:34 AM

Andrew Mellon - March 24, 1855

“Gentlemen prefer bonds.”

uncle phil 03-25-2010 02:23 AM

Howard Cosell - March 25, 1920

"The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give."

uncle phil 03-26-2010 02:28 AM

Bob Woodward - March 26, 1943

“Was there some sort of conspiracy, or organized effort, or effort by one person to out, to disclose publicly that Joe Wilson's wife was an undercover operative?”

uncle phil 03-27-2010 01:29 AM

Edward Steichen - March 27, 1879

“Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper; the photographer begins with the finished product.”

uncle phil 03-28-2010 02:02 AM

Paul Whiteman - March 28, 1890

"Jazz is the folk music of the machine age."

uncle phil 03-29-2010 02:12 AM

Cy Young - March 29, 1867

“The one thing you have to have is patience ... You just can't rush everything. I use myself as an example. The last couple of years have been great, but it took some time to get up to that point.”

uncle phil 03-30-2010 02:23 AM

Rolf Harris - March 30, 1930

"Tie me kangaroo down, sport..."

uncle phil 03-31-2010 02:15 AM

Rene Descartes - March 31, 1596

"Cogito, ergo sum."


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