Born Today with Quotes- Born Today.com

"What reason, like the careful ant, draws laboriously together, the wind of accident sometimes collects in a moment."
Friedrich von Schiller
(11/10/1759 – 05/09/1805)
German writer

"Abuse is the weapon of the vulgar." "Peter Parley"
(08/19/1793 – 05/09/1860)
US writer

"There are few more impressive sights in the world than a Scotsman on the make." Sir James M. Barrie
(05/09/1860 – 06/19/1937)
Scottish writer (Peter Pan)

"When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt." Henry J. Kaiser
(05/09/1882 – 08/24/1967)
US industrialist

"Great men are rarely isolated mountain-peaks; they are the summits of ranges." Thomas W. Higginson
(12/22/1823 – 05/09/1911)
US writer, military, political activist

"A theory has only the alternative of being wrong. A model has a third possibility—it might be right but irrelevant." Manfred Eigen
(05/09/1927 – )
German physicist

"We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules." Alan Bennett
(05/09/1934 – )
English writer, actor (Beyond the Fringe)

"One hell of an outlay for a very small return, with most of them." Glenda Jackson
(05/09/1936 – )
English actor and parliament member , on men

"It's impossible to be more flat-chested than I am." Candice Bergen
(05/09/1946 – )
US actor (daughter of Edgar Bergen)

"A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting." Billy Joel
(05/09/1949 – )
US singer/songwriter (was married to Christie Brinkley)

"The avocation of assessing the failures of better men can be turned into a comfortable livelihood, providing you back it up with a Ph.D." Nelson Algren
(03/28/1901 – 05/09/1981)
US writer (The Man with the Golden Arm)

"It is only the amateur [gardener] like myself who becomes obsessed and rejoices with a sadistic pleasure in weeds that are big and bad enough to pull, and at last, almost forgetting the flowers altogether, turns into a Reformer." Dame Freya Madeline Stark
(01/31/1893 – 05/09/1993)
French-born English writer

"The soundtrack, bless its sour heart, meanwhile thumps out THE BLUE DANUBE, to confer a little of the courtliness of bygone years on space." Penelope Gilliatt
(03/25/1932 – 05/09/1993)
English writer , on the film 2001: A Space Odyssey

"Marriage is nature's way of keeping us from fighting with strangers." Alan King
(12/25/1927 – 05/09/2004)
US comic

"Hair is another name for sex." Vidal Sassoon
(01/17/1928 – 05/09/2012)
English hairdresser