March 10

"An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog."

Friedrich von Schlegel
(03/10/1772 – 01/12/1829)
German writer, critic

"Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests will excommunicate you."

Giuseppe Mazzini
(06/22/1805 – 03/10/1872)
Genoan revolutionary

"No woman has ever so comforted the distressed—or so distressed the comfortable."

Clare Boothe Luce
(03/10/1903 – 10/09/1987)
US writer, Rep (CT), ambassador (was married to Henry R. Luce) , on Eleanor Roosevelt

"They were torn between two fires." *

John H. Dent
(03/10/1908 – 04/09/1988)
US Representative (PA)

"We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs."

Eric Berne
(03/10/1910 – 07/15/1970)
US psychiatrist, writer

"Don't look now, Tallulah, but your show is slipping."

Heywood Hale Broun
(03/10/1918 – 09/05/2001)
US actor , on Tallulah Bankhead's performance in "The Exciters"

"Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural."

Amelia Barr
(03/29/1831 – 03/10/1919)
English-US writer

"Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written."

Yevgeny Zamyatin
(02/01/1884 – 03/10/1937)
Russian writer
("We")

"Violence is my last option."

Chuck Norris
(03/10/1940 – )
US kickboxer, actor

"I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust 'em."

Jim Valvano
(03/10/1946 – 04/28/1993)
US basketball coach

"A comparison between Madonna and me is a comparison between a strapless evening gown and a gownless evening strap."

Kim Campbell
(03/10/1947 – )
Canadian PM (19)

"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."

Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
(07/24/1900 – 03/10/1948)
US writer (was married to F. Scott Fitzgerald)

"We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do."

Sharon Stone
(03/10/1958 – )
US actor

"It's hard to believe that you're really here, so I just pretend that you're not here."

Edie Brickell
(03/10/1966 – )
US singer, songwriter (married to Paul Simon)

"I definitely have a sexual ego thing. But if I'm suggestive, it's in a nice way. Luckily, no one's ever been hurt... a few girls have passed out, that's all."

Andy Gibb
(03/05/1958 – 03/10/1988)
English singer, ugh (brother of the Bee Gees; died near his birthday)

"I am very flattered people recognize I had something to do with the development of interest in the underwater world."

Lloyd Bridges
(01/15/1913 – 03/10/1998)
US actor (father of Beau and Jeff Bridges) , on his role in the "Sea Hunt" TV series

"My mother never saw the irony of calling me a son of a bitch."

Richard Jeni
(04/14/1957 – 03/10/2007)
US comic

"In real life, it is the hare who wins. Every time. Look around you. And in any case it is my contention that Aesop was writing for the tortoise market. Hares have no time to read. They are too busy winning the game."

Anita Brookner
(07/16/1928 – 03/10/2016)
English writer