"Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel."
Socrates
(06/04/0470 – 05/07/0399 BC)
Greek philosopher and scholar

"I have written on all sorts of subjects . . . yet I have no enemies; except indeed all the Whigs, all the Tories, and all the Christians."
David Hume
(05/07/1711 – 08/25/1776)
Scottish philosopher

"Misery is almost always the result of thinking."
Joseph Joubert
(05/07/1754 – 05/04/1824)
French writer (died near his birthday)

"Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?"
Robert Browning
(05/07/1812 – 12/12/1889)
English writer , was married to Elizabeth Barrett Browning

"I sit down to the piano regularly at nine-o'clock in the morning and Mesdames les Muses have learned to be on time for that rendezvous."
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
(05/07/1840 – 11/06/1893)
Russian composer

"A lawyer is a learned gentleman who rescues your estate from your enemies and keeps it himself."
Henry Peter Brougham
(12/19/1778 – 05/07/1868)
English politician

"Poets are literal-minded men who will squeeze a word till it hurts."
Archibald MacLeish
(05/07/1892 – 04/20/1982)
US writer

"Looked like she was a cold dish with a man until you got her pants down, then she'd explode."
Gary Cooper
(05/07/1901 – 05/13/1961)
US actor (died near his birthday) , on Grace Kelly

"Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed."
Elbert Hubbard
(06/19/1856 – 05/07/1915)
US writer

"If I fall, look out for the crash. There won't be anyone left standing."
Eva Peron
(05/07/1919 – 07/26/1952)
Argentine royalty

"Shirley Temple had charisma as a child. But it cleared up as an adult."
Totie Fields
(05/07/1930 – 08/02/1978)
US actor

"There's a big difference between confidence and conceit."
John Unitas
(05/07/1933 – 09/11/2002)
US football quarterback

"If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink."
Angela Carter
(05/07/1940 – 02/16/1992)
English writer

"By religion, then, I understand a propitiation or conciliation of powers superior to man which are believed to direct and control the course of nature and of human life."
Sir James George Frazer
(01/01/1854 – 05/07/1941)
Scottish writer

"I am just a guy who plays drums."
Bill Kreutzmann
(05/07/1946 – )
US drummer (Grateful Dead) (also see Jerry Garcia, Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Mickey Hart)

"Thoughts, like fleas, jump from man to man. But they don't bite everybody."
Stanislaw Lec
(03/06/1906 – 05/07/1966)
Polish writer (Note: a different person from Stanislaw Lem)

"He's the kind of guy that would be really sweet to a girl and bring her flowers, but still take a pee in the alley."
Traci Lords
(05/07/1968 – )
US actor , on pal Johnny Depp

"I suppose many people don't even know if I'm still alive—well, perhaps I'm not."
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
(12/09/1911 – 05/07/2000)
US actor (was married to Mary Pickford) , in 1990

"Mike Andrews' limits are limitless."
Danny Ozark
(11/24/1923 – 05/07/2009)
US baseball coach

"If I leave the cabinet, I'll go with an arrow in my heart, not a bullet in my back."
Walter J. Hickel
(08/18/1919 – 05/07/2010)
US Governor (AK), Secretary of the Interior

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