Born/Died Today: Celebs with Pithy Quotes.- BornToday

"Follow not truth too near the heels, lest it dash out thy teeth."
George Herbert
(04/03/1593 – 03/01/1633)
English writer

"Why, Madam, do you know there are upward of thirty yards of bowels squeezed underneath that girdle of your daughter's? Go home and cut it; let Nature have fair play, and you will have no need of my advice." John Abernethy
(04/03/1764 – 04/28/1831)
English surgeon

"They who drink beer will think beer." Washington Irving
(04/03/1783 – 11/28/1859)
US writer

"Do you pray for the senators, Dr. Hale?"
"No, I look at the senators and I pray for the country."
Dr. Edward Everett Hale
(04/03/1822 – 06/10/1909)
US religious leader

"To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another." John Burroughs
(04/03/1837 – 03/29/1921)
US essayist, naturalist (died near his birthday)

"Show me a man who claims he is objective and I'll show you a man with illusions." Henry R. Luce
(04/03/1898 – 02/28/1967)
US publisher (was married to Clare Boothe Luce)

"If you haven't struck oil in the first three minutes—stop boring!" George Jessel
(04/03/1898 – 05/23/1981)
US actor

"The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around." Herb Caen
(04/03/1916 – 02/01/1997)
US columnist

"Erasers would taste good with this sauce." Jan Sterling
(04/03/1921 – 03/26/2004)
US actor , on eating escargot

"An actor's a guy who, if you ain't talking about him, he ain't listening." Marlon Brando
(04/03/1924 – 07/01/2004)
US actor

"The really frightening thing about middle age is knowing you'll grow out of it." Doris Day
(04/03/1924 – )
US actor

"If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library." Tony Benn
(04/03/1925 – )
English politician

"Simple is the only way I can write." Don Gibson
(04/03/1928 – 11/17/2003)
US songwriter ("Oh Lonesome Me")

"A fellow who is always declaring he's no fool usually has his suspicions." Wilson Mizner
(05/18/1876 – 04/03/1933)
US writer

"You can take of a man's money, but when it's all said and done, you've only taken his money. When you take of a man's time, you've taken a part of his life. I'd like to thank you for giving me a part of your life tonight." Wayne Newton
(04/03/1942 – )
US singer

"I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me." Richard Thompson
(04/03/1949 – )
English guitarist, singer, songwriter

"Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains." Carter G. Woodson
(12/19/1875 – 04/03/1950)
US historian

"I don't get acting jobs because of my looks." Alec Baldwin
(04/03/1958 – )
US actor (was married to Kim Basinger)

"I think in twenty years I'll be looked at like Bob Hope. Doing those president jokes and golf sh*t. It scares me." Eddie Murphy
(04/03/1961 – )
US comic, actor (SNL)

"The two women exchanged the kind of glance women use when no knife is handy." Manfred Lee
(01/11/1905 – 04/03/1971)
US mystery writer (as "Ellery Queen," with Frederick Dannay)

"God forbid people should read our books to find the juicy passages." Graham Greene
(10/02/1904 – 04/03/1991)
English writer

"When you start dealing with real change you are talking about interfering with those who are in possession of something." Carl B. Stokes
(06/21/1927 – 04/03/1996)
US mayor (Cleveland)

"The human narrative, as we write it in novels and poems and stories, is a tale of never getting over the shock of life." Michael Kelly
(03/17/1957 – 04/03/2003)
US journalist