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 ("Über die Sprache und Weisheit der Indier (On the Language and Wisdom of India)")

"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 ("Warfare Against")

"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 ("The Women") , on Eleanor Roosevelt (paraphrasing Finley Peter Dunne)
(was married to Henry R. Luce)

"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 ("Games People Play")

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

Heywood Hale Broun
(03/10/1918 – 09/05/2001)
US actor ("A Studied Madness") , on Tallulah Bankhead's performance in "The Exciters"
(son of Heywood C. Broun)

"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 ("Romance and Reality")

"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 ("The Way of the Dragon")

"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 ("Save Me the Waltz")
(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 ("Basic Instinct")

"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 ("What I Am")
(married to Paul Simon)

"In human years I am 29. In actress years I'm the ripe, promising age of 18 to 35. That's how it works here in Hollyweird."

Olivia Wilde
(03/10/1984 – )
US actor ("House")
(LTR with Jason Sudeikis)

"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 ("Airplane!") , on his role in the "Sea Hunt" TV series
(father of Beau and Jeff Bridges)

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

Richard Jeni
(04/14/1957 – 03/10/2007)
US comic ("Just for Laughs")

"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 ("Hotel du Lac")