Born/Died Today with Quotes.- BornToday.com

"If you disregard the very simplest cases, there is in all of mathematics not a single infinite series whose sum has been rigorously determined. In other words, the most important parts of mathematics stand without a foundation."
Niels H. Abel
(08/05/1802 – 04/06/1829)

Norwegian mathematician

"Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things, I am tempted to think there are no little things." Bruce Barton
(08/05/1886 – 07/05/1967)
US congressman, ad man (invented "Betty Crocker")

"God damn you, sir, I'll run you through!" Phil Sheridan
(03/06/1831 – 08/05/1888)
slightly hotheaded US civil war general , responding to an order "in the wrong tone" from a West Point cadet

"An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory." Friedrich Engels
(11/28/1820 – 08/05/1895)
German philosopher

"The trouble with Bogart is he thinks he's Bogart." John Huston
(08/05/1906 – 08/28/1987)
US movie director, producer, actor (was married to Evelyn Keyes; father of Anjelica, son of Walter Huston)

"You are what you eat, and who wants to be a lettuce?" Peter Burns
(08/05/1959 – )
US musician? , on vegetarianism

"The bitter train pulled up to Jerry's stop years ago." Lizz Winstead
(08/05/1961 – )
US comic, writer , on Jerry Lewis

"I've been on a calendar, but never on time." Marilyn Monroe
(06/01/1926 – 08/05/1962)
US actor, icon, sex symbol (was married to Joe diMaggio and Arthur Miller)

"Michael Wilding's in love with himself, but he's not sure if it's reciprocated." Richard Burton
(11/10/1925 – 08/05/1984)
English actor (was married to Elizabeth Taylor)

"A winner never whines." Paul Brown
(09/07/1908 – 08/05/1991)
US football coach

"I've always thought of myself—not my personal self, but my professional self—as a kind of blank. I try to get inside a character and project him—one of my own private rules of thumb is that I have not got a character until I have mastered exactly how he walks. . . . It's not sufficient to concentrate on his looks. You have got to know his mind—to find out what he thinks, how he feels, his background, his mannerisms." Sir Alec Guinness
(04/02/1919 – 08/05/2000)
English actor