Born/Died Today- Famous People with Pithy Quotes- BornToday.com

"Give me more love or more disdain;
The torrid or the frozen zone." Thomas Carew
(??/??/1594? – 03/22/1640)
English writer

 

"They serve God well, who serve his creatures." Caroline Sheridan Norton
(03/22/1808 – 06/15/1877)
English writer (granddaughter of Richard Brinsley Sheridan; involved in scandal with William Lamb Melbourne)

 

 "If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses." Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
(08/28/1749 – 03/22/1832)
German philosopher

 

 "My idea of an educated person is one who can converse on one subject for more than two minutes." Robert Millikan
(03/22/1868 – 12/19/1953)
US physicist

 

"I wasn't kissing her, I was whispering in her mouth." Chico Marx
(03/22/1887 – 10/11/1961)
US comic actor (Marx Brothers: Groucho, Chico, Harpo, Zeppo, Gummo)

"When a man makes up his mind to thrash another, he must also make up his mind to be a little thrashed himself." Thomas Hughes
(10/20/1823 – 03/22/1896)
English writer

"I'm like a big old hen. I can't cluck too long about the egg I've just laid because I've got five more inside me pushing to get out." Louis L'Amour
(03/22/1908 – 06/10/1988)
US writer

 

 "Never get a mime talking. He won't stop." Marcel Marceau
(03/22/1923 – 09/22/2007)
French mime

"Only cream and SOBs rise to the top." Al Neuharth
(03/22/1924 – )
US editor (USA Today)

"If you think education is expensive, try ignorance." Derek Bok
(03/22/1930 – )
US writer, educator

"Musical comedies aren't written, they are re-written." Steven Sondheim
(03/22/1930 – )
US composer

"When I said during my presidential bid that I would only bring Christians and Jews into the government, I hit a firestorm. `What do you mean?' the media challenged me. `You're not going to bring atheists into the government? How dare you maintain that those who believe in the Judeo-Christian values are better qualified to govern America than Hindus and Muslims?' My simple answer is, `Yes, they are.'" Pat Robertson
(03/22/1930 – )
US bigot, hypocrite, televangelist

"How do I stay so healthy and boyishly handsome? It's simple. I drink the blood of young runaways." William Shatner
(03/22/1931 – )
Canadian actor

"Every path serves a purpose." Gene Oliver
(03/22/1935 – )
US baseball player

"Every minute this broad spends outside of bed is a waste of time." Michael Todd
(06/22/1909 – 03/22/1958)
US producer , on his wife, Elizabeth Taylor (also was married to Joan Blondell)

 

  "I grew up in Tennessee. We didn't know what Louis Vuitton was. I had to order all my prom outfits out of catalogs." Reese Witherspoon
(03/22/1976 – )
US actor (was married to Ryan Phillippe)

 "Being on the tightrope is living; everything else is waiting." Karl Wallenda
(01/21/1905 – 03/22/1978)
Austro-Hungarian aerialist