Celebs Born/Died Today With Pithy Quotes. BornToday.com

"Before you run in double harness, look well to the other horse." Ovid
(03/20/0043 BC – ?/?/0017 AD)
Roman writer

"If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants." Sir Isaac Newton
(12/25/1642 – 03/20/1727)
English scientist

"It is inexcusable for scientists to torture animals; let them make their experiments on journalists and politicians." Henrik Ibsen
(03/20/1828 – 05/23/1906)
Norwegian writer

"I must just think aloud, so as not to keep the public waiting." Isabel Burton
(03/20/1831 – 03/21/1896)
English writer (was married to Richard Francis Burton; died near her birthday) , on writing her husband's biography

"The real problem is not whether machines think, but whether men do." B. F. Skinner
(03/20/1904 – 08/18/1990)
US behaviorist

"I'm a charming coward; I fight with words." Carl Reiner
(03/20/1922 – )
US comic, actor (father of Rob Reiner)

"Dear me, I never knew that the lower classes had such white skins." Lord Curzon
(01/11/1859 – 03/20/1925)
English statesman

"It takes fifteen thousand casualties to train a major-general." Marechal Ferdinand Foch
(10/02/1851 – 03/20/1929)
French general

"She Got the Gold Mine, I Got the Shaft." Jerry Reed
(03/20/1937 – 09/01/2008)
US singer/songwriter , song title

"I am not denying anything I did not say." Brian Mulroney
(03/20/1939 – )
Canadian PM (18)

"You have to create a track record of breaking your own mold, or at least other people's idea of that mold." William Hurt
(03/20/1950 – )
US actor

"I get onstage with Eric[Clapton] or B. B. [King], and I am terrified. You couldn't drive a nail in my ass with a sledgehammer. Don't repeat that: it won't come off very good." Jimmie Lee Vaughan
(03/20/1951 – )
US musician (Fabulous Thunderbirds) (brother of Stevie Ray Vaughan)

"When Charlie Finley had his heart operation it took eight hours. Seven just to find his heart." Steve McCatty
(03/20/1954 – )
US pitcher (Oakland As)

"Critics like to build you up, tear you down, and then, if you're lucky, build you up again." Spike Lee
(03/20/1957 – )
US filmmaker

"I have tried to be as eclectic as I possibly can with my professional life, and so far it's been pretty fun." Holly Hunter
(03/20/1958 – )
US actor

"I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence." Brendan Behan
(02/09/1923 – 03/20/1964)
Irish writer

 

"I used to believe the government was the answer to all our problems. But the . . . government, I've concluded, is now an insufferable jungle of self-serving bureaucrats." Chet Huntley
(12/10/1911 – 03/20/1974)
US telejournalist

"The public, more often than not, will forgive mistakes, but it will not forgive trying to wriggle and weasel out of one." Lewis Grizzard
(10/20/1946 – 03/20/1994)
US comic

"I shall never be as old as I was between 20 and 30." V. S. Pritchett
(12/16/1900 – 03/20/1997)
English writer

"If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims." Liz Carpenter
(09/01/1920 – 03/20/2010)
US writer, politico