Born today- famous people with pithy quites

"But I contend that the strongest of all governments is that which is most free."
William Henry Harrison
(02/09/1773 – 04/04/1841)
US President (9) for a month (see all US Presidents)

"My only great qualification for being put at the head of the Navy is that I am very much at sea." Lord Edward Carson
(02/09/1854 – 10/22/1935)
Irish statesman

 

 "Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls." Sir Anthony Hope-Hawkins
(02/09/1863 – 07/08/1933)
English writer

"It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses." Mrs. Patrick Campbell
(02/09/1865 – 04/10/1940)
English actor

"'Whom are you?' he asked, for he had attended business college." George Ade
(02/09/1866 – 05/16/1944)
US humorist

"Hate is ravening vulture beaks descending on a place of skulls." Amy Lowell
(02/09/1874 – 05/12/1925)
US writer (granddaughter of Abbott Lawrence Lowell)

"Realists do not fear the results of their study." Fyodor Dostoievski
(10/30/1821 – 02/09/1881)
Russian writer

"If a person desires to be a humorist it is necessary that the people around him shall be at least as wise as he is, otherwise his humor will not be comprehended." James Stephens
(02/09/1882 – 12/26/1950)
Irish writer

"People are taking it for granted that [the African-American] ought not to work with his head. And it is so easy for these people among whom we are living to believe this; it flatters and satisfies their self-complacency." Paul Laurence Dunbar
(06/27/1872 – 02/09/1906)
US writer

"Physicists and astronomers see their own implications in the world being round, but to me it means that only one-third of the world is asleep at any given time and the other two-thirds is up to something." Dean Rusk
(02/09/1909 – 12/20/1994)
US secretary of state

"Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?" Bill Veeck
(02/09/1914 – 01/02/1986)
US baseball player, owner

"She's descended from a long line her mother listened to." Gypsy Rose Lee
(02/09/1914 – 04/26/1970)
US actor and entertainer

"He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom." James Gibbons Huneker
(01/31/1860 – 02/09/1921)
US critic

"I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse." Brendan Behan
(02/09/1923 – 03/20/1964)
Irish writer

"I can't believe I'm 60 years old and I'm still writing songs and putting out records. Write from your heart, from your passions. If you think it's a difficult road, you're right, but don't give up." Carole King
(02/09/1942 – )
US songwriter (quoted in 2002)

"The quietly pacifist peaceful always die to make room for men who shout." Alice Walker
(02/09/1944 – )
US writer

"I can match bottoms with anyone in Hollywood." Mia Farrow
(02/09/1945 – )
US actor (daughter of Maureen O'Sullivan and John Farrow; was married to Frank Sinatra; LTR with Woody Allen)

"An animated adenoid." Norman Douglas
(12/08/1868 – 02/09/1952)
Austrian writer , subject unknown

"I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better." Sophie Tucker
(01/13/1884 – 02/09/1966)
Russian singer

"There are no illegitimate children—only illegitimate parents." Leon R. Yankwich
(09/25/1888 – 02/09/1975)
US judge (CA) , Decision in Zipkin v. Mozon, June 1928

"Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right." Kurt Herbert Adler
(04/02/1905 – 02/09/1988)
Austrian opera director

"In the long course of history, having people who understand your thought is much greater security than another submarine." J. William Fullbright
(04/09/1905 – 02/09/1995)
US Rep (Arkansas)

"I'm no angel, but I'm no Bo-Beep either." Princess Margaret
(08/21/1930 – 02/09/2002)
English royalty