Celebs and Others Born Today with Pithy Quotes- borntoday.com

"The histories of mankind are histories only of the higher classes."
Thomas Malthus (02/14/1766 – 12/29/1834)

English economist (image courtesy of Bridgeman Art Library)

"That the king can do no wrong, is a necessary and fundamental principle of the English constitution." Sir William Blackstone
(07/10/1723 – 02/14/1780)
English jurist

"The way Bernard Shaw believes in himself is very refreshing in these atheistic days when so many people believe in no God at all." Israel Zangwill
(02/14/1864 – 08/01/1926)
English writer

"Shaw writes his plays for the ages; the ages between five and twelve." George Jean Nathan
(02/14/1882 – 04/08/1958)
US writer

"Grant stood by me when I was crazy, and I stood by him when he was drunk, and now we stand by each other." General William Tecumseh Sherman
(02/08/1820 – 02/14/1891)
US military

"A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid." Jack Benny
(02/14/1894 – 12/27/1974)
US comic

"When a man and a woman see each other and like each other they ought to come together—wham—like a couple of taxis on Broadway, not sit around analyzing each other like two specimens in a bottle." Thelma Ritter
(02/14/1905 – 02/04/1969)
US actor

"Without winners, there wouldn't be any civilization." Woody Hayes
(02/14/1913 – 03/12/1987)
US football coach

"I may have my faults, but being wrong isn't one of them." Jimmy Hoffa
(02/14/1913 – 07/30/1975)
US union leader

"The great political tugs of the past 35 years have concerned the distribution of the golden eggs. In the 1980s and 1990s we must focus on the health of the goose." Paul Tsongas
(02/14/1941 – 01/18/1997)
US senator (MA), presidential candidate

"Pauline Kael is the Rambo of film critics . . . a demented bag lady." Alan Parker
(02/14/1942 – )
English film director

"For the first time, the weird and the stupid and the coarse are becoming our cultural norms, even our cultural ideal." Carl Bernstein
(02/14/1944 – )
US journalist (was married to Nora Ephron)

"I don't remember not dancing. When I realized I was alive and these were my parents, and I could walk and talk, I could dance." Gregory Hines
(02/14/1946 – 08/09/2003)
US dancer, actor

"I think movies about Jesus are boring no matter who he sleeps with." Teller
(02/14/1948 – )
US comic, magician (also see Penn Jillette) , on "The Last Temptation of Christ"

"'Just say no' has done as much for drugs and sex as 'have a nice day' has for depression." Dr. E. Tyson
(02/14/1948 – )
US? doctor?

"Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive." Wallace Irwin
(03/15/1875 – 02/14/1959)
US writer

"I've got a phone, answer machine, TV set, computer, hand grenade—everything you need to run a business in Los Angeles." Ice T
(02/14/1960 – )
US rapper, actor

"I have nothing intelligent to say." Meg Tilly
(02/14/1960 – )
Canadian actor (sister of Jennifer Tilly) , accosted by a reporter

"Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct." Sir Julian Huxley
(06/22/1887 – 02/14/1975)
English writer, conservationist (brother of Aldous, grandson of Thomas Henry Huxley)

"She looked as if she had been poured into her clothes and had forgotten to say 'when.'" Sir P. G. Wodehouse
(10/15/1881 – 02/14/1975)
English writer

"It won't be long before we'll be writing together again. I just hope they have a decent piano up there." Frederick Loewe
(06/10/1904 – 02/14/1988)
Austrian composer , on songwriting partner Alan Jay Lerner's death