phil niekro april 1st 1939

“If the writers want to put cheaters in the Hall of Fame, that's their prerogative"

Emile Zola - April 2, 1840

“The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.”

buddy ebsen april 2nd 1908
“Use it or lose it. I'm using what's left of my mind and I enjoy it very much and it seems to keep my mind productive.”

Marlon Brando - April 3, 1924

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John Cameron Swayze - April 4, 1906

"And the Timex keeps on ticking..."

Thomas Hobbes - April 5, 1588

“The condition of man . . . is a condition of war of everyone against everyone.”

Lowell Thomas - April 6, 1892

“The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses.”

Walter Winchell - April 7, 1897

“The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.”

Gautama Buddha - April 8, 563 BC

“Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.”

Hugh Hefner - April 9, 1926

“The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex."

hugh hefner 1926.

"Picasso had his pink period and his blue period. I am in my blonde period right now.”

Lew Wallace - April 10, 1827

“When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.”

Ellen Goodman - April 11, 1941

“The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.”

Sally Rand - April 12, 1904

“Beauty comes from within; a greedy, avaricious, gossipy woman cannot be beautiful.”

Robert LeRoy Parker - April 13, 1866

"Kid, the next time I say, "Let's go someplace like Bolivia," let's GO someplace like Bolivia."

Julie Christie - April 14, 1941

“Men don't want any responsibility, and neither do I.”

Julie Sommars - April 15, 1942

"I practiced handwriting until I wrote perfectly. That was my claim to fame. I was the girl with the prettiest handwriting."

Jose de Diego - April 16, 1866

"We wish to be citizens of the United States or citizens of Puerto Rico. In either case, with all the inherent rights of a natural sovereignty."

lol good one

Nikita Khruschev - April 17, 1894

"We will bury you!"

Clarence Darrow - April 18, 1857

“Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.”

David Ricardo - April 19, 1772

“NOTHING contributes so much to the prosperity and happiness of a country as high profits.”

Adolf Hitler - April 20, 1889

“Make the lie big, make it simple, keep saying it, and eventually they will believe it.”

Friedrich Froebel - April 21, 1782

“The child-soul is an ever-bubbling fountain in the world of humanity.”

Nicola Sacco - April 22, 1891

"To those who judge solely seeking renown,
With blaring trumpets of the fakir and clown;
To the prosecutor, persecutor, and other human hounds,
Who’d barter another’s honor, recognizing no bounds,
To the Governor, the Jury, who another’s life they’d sell—
We endow them with the fiery depths of HELL!"

Vladimir Nabokov - April 22, 1899

"I know more than I can express in words, and the little I can express would not have been expressed, had I not known more."

William Shakespeare - April 23, 1564

"Out, damned spot!"

Robert Penn Warren - April 24, 1905

“A young man's ambition is to get along in the world and make a place for himself-half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released.”

Edward R. Murrow - April 25, 1908

“Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.”

Rudolf Hess - April 26, 1895

“We were all so trained to obey orders without even thinking that the thought of disobeying an order would never have occurred to anybody.”

Walter Lantz - April 27, 1899

ha-ha-ha-HA-ha!!!

Harper Lee - April 28, 1926

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view.”

Lonnie Donegan - April 29, 1931

"Does your chewing gum lose it's flavor on the bedpost overnight?"

Willie Hugh Nelson - April 30, 1933

“I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?”

Harry Caray - May 1, 1920

“Booze, broads, and bullshit. If you got all that, what else do you need?”

Lesley Gore - May 2, 1946

"It's my party and I'll cry if I want to..."

Niccolo Machiavelli - May 3, 1469

“War is just when it is necessary; arms are permissible when there is no hope except in arms.”

Horace Mann - May 4, 1796

“Be ashamed to die until you have won some victory for mankind'”

Elizabeth Cochran Seaman - May 5, 1865

"I had never been near insane persons before in my life, and had not the faintest idea of what their actions were like."

Sigmund Freud - May 6, 1856

“Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.”

Josip Broz Tito - May 7, 1892

"We have spilt an ocean of blood for the brotherhood and unity of our peoples and we shall not allow anyone to touch or destroy it from within."

Harry S Truman - May 8, 1884

"The buck stops here!"

John Brown - May 9, 1800

"I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged [to do away with] away but with blood."

John Wilkes Booth - May 10, 1838

"Sic semper tyrannis!"

Homer J Simpson - May 10, 1955

"D'oh!" (I always thought it should be spelled "Duh.")

Foster Brooks - May 11, 1912

Edward Lear - May 12, 1812

“They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon."

Sir Arthur Seymour Sullivan - May 13, 1842

“I am terrified at the thought that so much hideous and bad music will be put on records forever."

Talking Heads frontman David Byrne - May 14, 1952

"I subscribe to the myth that an artist's creativity comes from torment. Once that's fixed, what do you draw on?"

Katherine Anne Porter - May 15, 1890

“I shall try to tell the truth, but the result will be fiction.”

William Henry Seward - May 16, 1801

“I know not how long a republican government can flourish among a great people who have not the Bible; the experiment has never been tried.”

Archibald Cox - May 17, 1912

“Watergate showed more strengths in our system than weaknesses... The whole country did take part in quite a genuine sense in passing judgment on Richard Nixon.”

Reggie Jackson - May 18, 1946

"I'm the straw that stirs the drink."

Dusty Hill - May 19, 1949

“Our hearts go out to all of our neighbors who have suffered because of Katrina. We're very happy to be part of One Country and to do whatever we can to help out.”

George Gobel - May 20, 1919

“If you build a better mousetrap, you will catch better mice”

Queen Victoria - May 24, 1819

“We are not interested in the possibilities of defeat. They do not exist.”

Igor Ivanovich Sikorsky - May 25, 1889

“The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.”

Peggy Lee - May 26, 1920

"Is that all there is?"

Amelia Jenks Bloomer - May 27, 1818

“Man represents us, legislates for us, and now holds himself accountable for us! How kind in him, and what a weight is lifted from us! We shall no longer be answerable to the laws of God or man, no longer be subject to punishment for breaking them.”

Dr. Joseph Ignace Guillotine - May 28, 1738

"My machine will take off a head in a twinkling and the victim will feel nothing but a refreshing coolness. We cannot make too much haste, gentlemen, to allow the nation to enjoy this advantage."

Patrick Henry - May 29, 1736

"Give me Liberty, or give me Death!"

Mel Blanc - May 30, 1908

“Sometimes it was hard to tell where my dad's personality left off and his characters began, ... He was a method actor and taught me that I had to 'become' the character in order to effectively do the voice.”

You can not with reason convince a person out of a position which they did not use reason to get to in the first place. (Source unknown)

Clinton Eastwood, Jr. - May 31, 1930

“The less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice.”

Cleavon Little - June 1, 1939

"Who is this mongo, anyway?"

Who Is This Mongo, Anyway? Sound Clip and Quote

Marquis de Sade - June 2, 1740

“Social order at the expense of liberty is hardly a bargain.”

Willis Marie Van Schaack - June 3, 1917

"Sex is currency. What's the use of being beautiful if you can't profit from it?"

Bruce Dern - June 4, 1936

“Who's the bigger person in the end? The man who allows his dog to do what he does or the dog, who gives everything for the man.”

Adam Smith - June 5, 1723

“The real tragedy of the poor is the poverty of their aspirations.”

Thomas Mann - June 6, 1875

“Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.”

Dino Paul Crocetti - June 7, 1917

“If you drink don't drive. Don't even putt.”

Joan Alexandra Molinsky - June 8, 1933

“I blame my mother for my poor sex life. All she told me was 'the man goes on top and the woman underneath.' For three years my husband and I slept in bunk beds.”

Lester William Polsfuss - June 9, 1915

“I wanted something very dense, something that would sustain long and more pieces of wood that would be soft, sweet, for more of a mellow sound.”

Chester Arthur Burnett - June 10, 1910

"I don't have anything to say about the guy (Muddy Waters), you know. Treat me all right. But I can this: they are jealous hearted, you know. Are jealous hearted musicians, you know. See, if you can't do like your songs, get kinda jealous of you. Like you, like they think you better than them and all that, but I don't fool with those kind of peoples, you know. I ain't got the time."

Bartolomeo Vanzetti - June 11, 1888

“There is nothing, nowhere, neither on earth nor in heavens, that can make the true untrue or the untrue true.”

James Thurston Nabors - June 12, 1930

“I really never watched myself on TV. Now I know why.”

Ralph Edwards - June 13, 1913

"This is your life!"

Burl Ivcle Ivanhoe Ives - June 14, 1909

"I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. Soon I found myself on the open highway headed east."

Harry Nilsson - June 15, 1941

"I was on acid and I looked at the trees and I realized that they all came to points, and the little branches came to points, and the houses came to point. I thought, 'Oh! Everything has a point, and if it doesn't, then there's a point to it.'"

Roberto Duran Samaniego - June 16, 1951

"No quiero pelear con el payaso."

"I don't want to fight the clown?" Is that correct?

it is correct...

John Wesley - June 17, 1703

“Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.”

Edouard Daladier - June 18, 1884

"If the blood of France and of Germany flows again, as it did twenty-five years ago, in a longer and even more murderous war, each of the two peoples will fight with confidence in its own victory, but the most certain victors will be the forces of destruction and barbarism."

Moe Howard - June 19, 1897

“We're not nearly as violent as the westerns.”

Adam Ferguson - June 20, 1723

“Man, in his animal capacity, is qualified to subsist in every climate.”

Ocie Lee Smith - June 21, 1932

"God didn't make little green apples,
and it don't rain in Indianapolis in the summertime..."

George Vancouver - June 22, 1757

"Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze."

Alfred C. Kinsey - June 23, 1894

"The only unnatural sex act is that which you cannot perform."

Ambrose Bierce - June 24, 1842

“Insurance: An ingenious modern game of chance in which the player is permitted to enjoy the comfortable conviction that he is beating the man who keeps the table.”

Anne Revere - June 25, 1903

“You have sanctioned the blacklist of 23 of your fellow members because they chose to defy an unconstitutional investigation into their thoughts and beliefs.”

William P. Lear - June 26, 1902

"What you need is an idea."

Charles Stewart Parnell - June 27, 1846

“No man shall have the right to fix the boundary to the march of a Nation.”

John Dillinger - June 28, 1902

"OK, boys; let's go make a withdrawal."

William J. Mayo - June 29, 1861

"Lord, deliver me from the man who never makes a mistake, and also from the man who makes the same mistake twice."

Lena Horne - June 30, 1917

"Don't know why
there's no sun up in the sky..."

Cecil Rhodes - July 1, 1854

“We must find new lands from which we can easily obtain raw materials and at the same time exploit the cheap slave labor that is available from the natives of the colonies. The colonies would also provide a dumping ground for the surplus goods produced in our factories.”

Dan Rowan - July 2, 1922

"Say good-night, Dick."