Born/Died Today with Quotes- Born Today.com

"Linnea: A plant of Lapland, lowly, insignificant, disregarded, flowering but for a brief space — from Linnaeus who resembles it."
Carl Linnaeus
(05/23/1707 – 01/10/1778)
Swedish botanist, zoologist

"Holland lies so low they're only saved by being dammed." Thomas Hood
(05/23/1799 – 05/03/1845)
English writer

"If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it." Margaret Fuller
(05/23/1810 – 07/19/1850)
US writer , great-aunt of Bucky

"Bedside manners are no substitute for the right diagnosis." Alfred P. Sloan, Jr.
(05/23/1875 – 02/17/1966)
US businessman

"Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts.' probably lost." Mary Ashton Livermore
(12/19/1820 – 05/23/1905)
US social reformer (but Martina probably said it first)

"You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth." Henrik Ibsen
(03/20/1828 – 05/23/1906)
Norwegian writer

"You have no idea of the women I didn't marry." Artie Shaw
(05/23/1910 – 12/30/2004)
US bandleader (was married to Lana Turner, Ava Gardner, Evelyn Keyes, and five others)

"I think acting is the most thankless profession in the world." Rosemary Clooney
(05/23/1923 – 06/29/2002)
US singer, actor (was married to Jose Ferrer twice; aunt of George Clooney)

"It's like the Roman Empire. Wasn't everybody running around just covered with syphilis? And then it was destroyed by the volcano." Joan Collins
(05/23/1933 – )
English actor (sister of Jackie)

"Charity is injurious unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it." John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
(07/08/1839 – 05/23/1937)

US gazillionaire (father of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., grandfather of Nelson Rockefeller)

"In our judgement of homosexuality—a symptom of degeneracy which could destroy our race—we must return to the guiding Nordic principle: extermination of the degenerates." Heinrich Himmler
(10/07/1900 – 05/23/1945)
German Gestapo head

"To me, apples are fruit—to Cezanne they were mountains!" David Smith
(03/09/1906 – 05/23/1965)
US sculptor

"You can't fix it. You can't make it go away. I don't know what you're going to do about it, but I know what I'm going to do about it. I'm just going to walk away from it. Maybe a small part of it will die if I'm not around feeding it anymore." Lew Welch
(08/16/1926 – 05/23/1971)
US writer

"Stop looking at my teeth and look at my breasts." Jewel
(05/23/1974 – )
US singer , to fans at a 2004 concert

"Love is like playing checkers. You have to know which man to move." Moms Mabley
(03/19/1894 – 05/23/1975)
US comedienne

"Jolson's funeral was widely attended by those who wanted to make sure." George Jessel
(04/03/1898 – 05/23/1981)
US actor

"You've just got one problem. You stand too close to the ball after you've hit it." Sam Snead
(05/27/1912 – 05/23/2002)
US golfer (died near his birthday) , advice

"Senator, I served with Jack Kennedy, I knew Jack Kennedy. Jack Kennedy was a friend of mine. Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy." Lloyd Bentsen
(02/11/1921 – 05/23/2006)
US Representative (TX) , on Dan Quayle's comparing himself to JFK