Born Today with Quotes- BornToday.com

"'We are always doing', says he, 'something for Posterity, but I would fain see Posterity do something for us.'"
Joseph Addison
(05/01/1672 – 06/17/1719)
English writer

"But far more numerous was the herd of such,
Who think too little and who talk too much." John Dryden
(08/09/1631 – 05/01/1700)
English writer

"To define it rudely but not ineptly, engineering is the art of doing that well with one dollar, which any bungler can do with two after a fashion." Arthur Wellesley
(05/01/1769 – 09/14/1852)
Duke of Wellington, English army commander, PM (21) (see other British PMs; image courtesy of the Bridgeman Art Library)

"What a fool cannot learn he laughs at, thinking that by his laughter he shows superiority instead of latent idiocy." Marie Corelli
(05/01/1855 – 04/21/1924)
English writer

"If you have men who will only come if they know there is a good road, I don't want them. I want men who will come if there is no road at all." Dr. David Livingstone
(03/19/1813 – 05/01/1873)
Scottish missionary, explorer

"A proof tells us where to concentrate our doubts." Morris Kline
(05/01/1908 – 06/10/1992)
US mathematician

"Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery." Jack Paar
(05/01/1918 – 01/27/2004)
US comic, TV host (Tonight Show) (also see Allen, Carson, and Leno)

"Good God, how much reverence can you have for a Supreme Being who finds it necessary to include such phenomena as phlegm and tooth-decay in His divine system of creation?" Joseph Heller
(05/01/1923 – 12/12/1999)
US writer (Catch-22)

"I don't know where my songs come from . . . If I knew, I'd know too much, more than we are allowed on this plane." Judy Collins
(05/01/1939 – )
US singer

"Intellectual activity is a danger to the building of character." Paul Joseph Goebbels
(10/29/1897 – 05/01/1945)
German propagandist

"To be a judge you don't have to know about books, you have to be skilled at picking shrapnel out of your head." Joanna Lumley
(05/01/1946 – )
English model, actor, writer

"[Being in the band is] like being married with four people you never even wanted to date." D'Arcy Wretzky
(05/01/1968 – )
US bassist, singer (Smashing Pumpkins) (also see Billy Corgan, James Iha, Jimmy Chamberlain, Melissa auf der Maur, and Courtney Love)

"Yes, we have two sons." Harold Nicolson
(11/21/1886 – 05/01/1968)
Iran-born English writer (husband of Vita Sackville-West, father of Nigel Nicolson), on whether he and his wife had ever collaborated on anything

"I see the mind of a 5-year-old as a volcano with two vents: destructiveness and creativeness." Sylvia Townsend Ashton-Warner
(12/06/1893 – 05/01/1978)
English writer

"The price of hating other human beings is loving oneself less." Eldridge Cleaver
(08/31/1935 – 05/01/1998)
US activist