Born/Died Today with Quotes

"Some folk are wise, and some are otherwise."

Tobias Smollett
(03/19/1721 – 09/17/1771)
Scottish writer 

"I will go anywhere, as long as it be forward."

Dr. David Livingstone
(03/19/1813 – 05/01/1873)
Scottish missionary, explorer (I presume) 

"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."

Sir Richard Francis Burton
(03/19/1821 – 10/20/1890)
English writer (was married to Isabel—the actor was born Nov 10) 

"Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly every day."

William Allingham
(03/19/1824 – 11/18/1889)
Irish writer 

"Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything."

Wyatt Earp
(03/19/1848 – 01/13/1929)
US lawman 

"Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed."

William Jennings Bryan
(03/19/1860 – 07/26/1925)
US Secretary of State 

"I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment, it will be behind me."

Max Reger
(03/19/1873 – 05/11/1916)
German composer , in a letter to critic Rudolph Louis 

"The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind."

General Joseph W. Stilwell
(03/19/1883 – 10/12/1946)
US military 

"Everything that I did in life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for."

Earl Warren
(03/19/1891 – 07/09/1974)
US Supreme Court (see other Supreme Court justices) 

"Honey, that Totie Fields is one well-fed white woman. When that gal sits around the house, she sits around the house!"

Moms Mabley
(03/19/1894 – 05/23/1975)
US comedienne 

"Remorse is for little children."

Adolph Eichmann
(03/19/1906 – 05/31/1962)
German war criminal 

"We vivisect the nightingale
To probe the secret of his note."

Thomas Bailey Aldrich
(11/11/1836 – 03/19/1907)
US writer 

"Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone."

Tommy Cooper
(03/19/1921 – 04/15/1984)
Welsh comic 

"The kid doesn't chew tobacco, smoke, drink, curse, or chase broads. I don't see how he can possibly make it."

Richie Ashburn
(03/19/1927 – 09/09/1997)
US baseball player 

"Nothing matters very much, and very few things matter at all."

Sir Arthur James Balfour
(07/25/1848 – 03/19/1930)
British Prime Minister (33) (see other British PMs) 

"The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress."

Phillip Roth
(03/19/1933 – )
US writer 

"If the role demands it, then naturally I will remove my clothes."

Ursula Andress
(03/19/1936 – )
Swiss actor 

"I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules."

Glenn Close
(03/19/1947 – )
US actor