Famous People Born Today with Pithy Quotes- Born Today.com

"This Daniel Boone business is about played out."
Horace Greeley
(02/03/1811 – 11/29/1872)
US writer , 30 years after saying "Go west, young man."

"If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled." Elizabeth Blackwell
(02/03/1821 – 05/31/1910)
English-US physician (first female MD)

"The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who write know anything." Walter Bagehot
(02/03/1826 – 03/24/1877)
English economist

"Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease." Robert Cecil
(02/03/1830 – 08/22/1903)
British PM (37) (see other British PMs) , on life in Edwardian England

"Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved." George Crabbe
(12/24/1754 – 02/03/1832)
English writer

"Anyone who marries three girls from St. Louis hasn't learned much." Gertrude Stein
(02/03/1874 – 07/29/1946)
US writer , on Ernest Hemingway (image from Bridgeman Art Library)

"There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our children. One of these is roots, the other, wings." Hodding Carter II
(02/03/1907 – 04/04/1972)
US journalist

"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. You are like a pebble thrown into water; you become wet on the surface, but are never part of the water." James A. Michener
(02/03/1907 – 10/16/1997)
US writer

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors." Simone Weil
(02/03/1909 – 08/24/1943)
French mystic

"My doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn't afford an operation, he touched up the X-rays." Joey Bishop
(02/03/1918 – 10/17/2007)
US comic, actor, TV host

"A conservative is a man who thinks and sits, mostly sits." Woodrow Wilson
(12/28/1856 – 02/03/1924)
US President (28) (see all US Presidents)

"Being on 'Batman' allowed me to do something we actors are taught never to do: overact." Victor Buono
(02/03/1938 – 01/01/1982)
US actor , on his role as "King Tut" in that TV series

"We love unusual names in the family." Blythe Danner
(02/03/1943 – )
US actor (was married to Bruce Paltrow; mother of Gwyneth Paltrow) , on grandson Moses

"There's nothing nicer than singing an unnecessary peace song." Melanie Safka
(02/03/1947 – )
US singer, songwriter

"They're not paying me to play a charwoman. They're paying me to show up looking glam and, damn it, I'm gonna show up looking glam!" Morgan Fairchild
(02/03/1950 – )
US actor

"The General is suffering from mental saddle sores." Harold L. Ickes
(03/15/1874 – 02/03/1952)
US social activist , on Hugh S. Johnson

"Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater—you do the math!" Nathan Lane
(02/03/1956 – )
US actor

"Without Elvis, none of us could have made it." Buddy Holly
(09/07/1936 – 02/03/1959)
US singer, songwriter (Crickets)

"I have so many insecurities they fight for prominence." Maura Tierney
(02/03/1965 – )
US actor

"We all get heavier as we get older because there's a lot more information in our heads." Vlade Divac
(02/03/1968 – )
Yugoslavian basketball player

"Who is she?" Casey Weldon
(02/03/1969 – )
US football quarterback , on being told he'd be seated next to Ringo Starr

"I'm sort of my own Mafia, you know, breaking my own knees." John Cassavetes
(12/09/1929 – 02/03/1989)
US director