People Born/Died Today with Quotes- Born Today.com

"To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike."
Diane de Poitiers
(09/03/1499 – 04/22/1566)
French mistress (of George II)

"A newspaper consists of just the same number of words, whether there be any news in it or not." Henry Fielding
(04/22/1707 – 10/08/1754)
English writer

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." Immanuel Kant
(04/22/1724 – 02/12/1804)
German philosopher

"The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man." Germaine de Stael
(04/22/1766 – 07/17/1817)
French writer

"The worst men often give the best advice." Philip James Bailey
(04/22/1816 – 09/06/1902)
English writer

"I'm saddest when I sing." T. H. Bayly
(10/13/1797 – 04/22/1839)
English writer

"Any cook should be able to run the country." Vladimir Ilich Lenin
(04/22/1870 – 01/21/1924)
Russian political leader

"To teach one's self is to be forced to learn twice." Ellen Glasgow
(04/22/1874 – 11/21/1945)
US writer

"You can always count on a murderer for a fancy prose style." Vladimir Nabokov
(04/22/1899 – 07/02/1977)
Russian writer

"Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man." J. Robert Oppenheimer
(04/22/1904 – 02/18/1967)
US physicist , on Albert Einstein

"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity." Charles Mingus
(04/22/1922 – 01/05/1979)
US bassist, composer

"Wrong verb." Jack Nicholson
(04/22/1937 – )
US actor , on being asked if he'd like to dance

"To this day I do not know whether the power which has inspired my works is something related to religion, or is indeed religion itself." Kathe Kollwitz
(07/08/1867 – 04/22/1945)
German artist

"I wish something on T.V. would trouble me. Then maybe I would watch it." John Waters
(04/22/1946 – )
US director

"There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer." Ansel Adams
(02/20/1902 – 04/22/1984)
US photographer

"Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too." Richard M. Nixon
(01/09/1913 – 04/22/1994)
US President (37), VP (36) , (was married to Pat Nixon; see all US Presidents, VPs)

"The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name." Maggie Kuhn
(08/03/1905 – 04/22/1995)
US Gray Panther

"It is fast approaching the point where I don't want to elect anyone stupid enough to want the job." Erma Bombeck
(02/21/1927 – 04/22/1996)
US humorist , on the US presidency

"When I was with David (Winters), I had an awesome time. I met a lot of people and had a lot of fun at that point. I went to see my first play. I saw Richard Chamberlain in 'Cyrano De Bergerac,' I saw 'Grease' in Manhattan. I saw the Alvin Ailey Dancers. I became cultured, I guess. I'd never been cultured." Linda Lovelace
(01/10/1939 – 04/22/2002)
US porn star ("Deep Throat") turned antiporn crusader

"My grandmother wanted to live long enough to vote for a woman president. I'll be satisfied if I live to see a woman go before the Supreme Court and hear the justices acknowledge, 'Gentlemen, she's human. She deserves the protection of our laws.'" Martha Wright Griffiths
(01/29/1912 – 04/22/2003)
US congress (MI)