Born/Died Today with Quotes- Born Today.com

"It was Thy day, sweet! and did rise
Not from the East, but from Thine eyes." Richard Crashaw
(??/??/1613 – 08/25/1649)
English writer

"Touch not the flute when drums are sounding around; when fools have the word, the wise will be silent." Johann Gottfried von Herder
(08/25/1744 – 12/18/1803)
German philosopher

"The richest genius, like the most fertile soil, when uncultivated, shoots up into the rankest weeds." David Hume
(05/07/1711 – 08/25/1776)
Scottish philosopher

"One big vice in a man is apt to keep out a great many smaller ones." Bret Harte
(08/25/1836 – 05/06/1902)
US writer

"I have been told that Wagner's music is better than it sounds." Bill Nye
(08/25/1850 – 02/22/1896)
US humorist (also see Bill Nye the science guy)

"The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly." Michael Faraday
(09/22/1791 – 08/25/1867)
English scientist

"Flattery must be pretty thick before anybody objects to it." William Feather
(08/25/1889 – 01/07/1981)
US writer

"In heaven all the interesting people are missing." Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
(10/15/1844 – 08/25/1900)
German writer, philosopher

"Women aren't as mere as they used to be." Walt Kelly
(08/25/1913 – 10/18/1973)
US cartoonist

"To achieve great things, two things are needed; a plan, and not quite enough time." Leonard Bernstein
(08/25/1918 – 10/14/1990)
US composer (not related to Elmer Bernstein)

"Sure, I look like a white man. But my heart is as black as anyone's here." George Wallace
(08/25/1919 – 09/13/1998)
US Governor (AL)

"You can learn more by watching 'Let's Make a Deal' than you can by watching Walter Cronkite for a month." Monty Hall
(08/25/1923 – )
US TV person

"More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso." Sean Connery
(08/25/1930 – )
Scottish actor

"We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic." David Russell
(08/25/1942 – )
Scottish guitarist

"Walk amongst the natives by day, but in your heart be Superman." Gene Simmons
(08/25/1949 – )
Israeli singer, bassist (Kiss)

"There's two kinds of music—heavy metal and all the crap they play on radio and show on MTV." Rob Halford
(08/25/1951 – )
English singer (Judas Priest)

"With these vulgar fractions of the treble clef,
I wish you luck with a capital F." Elvis Costello
(08/25/1954 – )
English singer-songwriter

"Only the human mind invents categories and tries to force facts into separated pigeon-holes. The living world is a continuum." Alfred C. Kinsey
(06/23/1894 – 08/25/1956)
US researcher

"I wouldn't know a good script if it bit me in the face" Tim Burton
(08/25/1958 – )
US filmmaker (LTR with Helena Bonham Carter)

"Man, I love that song. I think about it at least once a day." Billy Ray Cyrus
(08/25/1961– )
US singer , on his hit "Achy Breaky Heart"

"I don't want to be a star. If you have to label me anything, I'm an actor—I guess. A journeyman actor. I think 'star' is what you call actors who can't act." Paul Muni
(09/22/1895 – 08/25/1967)
Austro-Hungarian actor , same birth and death dates as Faraday

"I've looked in the mirror every day for 20 years. It's the same face." Claudia Schiffer
(08/25/1970 – )
German supermodel

"Life is difficult enough without Meryl Streep movies." Truman Capote
(09/30/1924 – 08/25/1984)
US writer

"Frankly, I don't mind not being president. I just mind that someone else is." Edward M. Kennedy
(02/22/1932 – 08/25/2009)
US Senator (MA) (son of Rose and Joseph P., brother of John and Robert) , on George W. Bush