"I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a window and trying to stick to the panes of glass with its claws."

Charles Baudelaire
(04/09/1821 – 08/31/1867)
French writer ("Les Fleurs du mal (The Flowers of Evil)")

"Marking dynamos for repair $10,000.00—2 hours labor $10.00; knowing where to mark $9,990.00."

Charles Steinmetz
(04/09/1865 – 10/26/1923)
Prussian scientist , invoice

"She cried, and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook."

Tommy Manville
(04/09/1894 – 10/09/1967)
US heir and socialite, married 13 times, to 11 women

"The patter of their feet as they walk through Jim Crow barriers to attend school is the thunder of the marching men of Joshua, and the world rocks beneath their tread."

Paul Robeson
(04/09/1898 – 01/23/1976)
US actor, singer, activist ("The Emperor Jones") , on the children of Little Rock

"We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every ten minutes."

J. William Fulbright
(04/09/1905 – 02/09/1995)
US Senator (Arkansas) ("The Price of Empire")

"The trouble with nude dancing is that not everything stops when the music stops."

Sir Robert Helpmann
(04/09/1909 – 09/28/1986)
Australian dancer and actor ("The Red Shoes") , on the musical "Oh! Calcutta!"

"The major civilizing force in the world is not religion, it is sex."

Hugh Hefner
(04/09/1926 – 09/27/2017)
US entrepreneur, publisher ("Playboy")

"Life is like a sewer. What you get out of it depends on what you put into it."

Tom Lehrer
(04/09/1928 – )
US math professor, singer, pianist, songwriter ("That Was the Year That Was")

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