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"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."

Cardinal Richelieu
(09/09/1585 – 12/04/1642)
French minister, clergy

"A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator the smaller the fraction."

Leo Tolstoy
(09/09/1828 – 11/20/1910)
Russian writer

"People would be surprised to know how much I learned about prayer from playing poker."

Mary Austin
(09/09/1868 – 08/13/1934)
US writer

"There's no reason to be the richest man in the cemetery. You can't do any business from there."

Colonel Harland Sanders
(09/09/1890 – 12/16/1980)
US chef

"Marriage—a book of which the first chapter is written in poetry and the remaining chapters in prose."

Beverley Nichols
(09/09/1898 – 09/15/1983)
English writer (died near his birthday)

"Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in this world."

Cesare Pavese
(09/09/1908 – 08/27/1950)
Italian writer

"Few great men could pass Personnel."

Paul Goodman
(09/09/1911 – 08/02/1972)
US critic

"This isn't exactly a stable business. It's like trying to stand up in a canoe with your pants down."

Cliff Robertson
(09/09/1923 – 09/10/2011)
US actor (died near his birthday)

"Only the untalented can afford to be humble."

Sylvia Miles
(09/09/1924 – 06/12/2019)
US actor

"Claudia's the sort of person who goes through life holding onto the sides."

Alice Thomas Ellis
(09/09/1932 – 03/08/2005)
Welsh writer

"If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too."

Otis Redding
(09/09/1941 – 12/10/1967)
US singer, songwriter

"The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein."

Joe Theismann
(09/09/1949 – )
US ex-NFL quarterback ; he later claimed that there actually was a "smart guy" named Norman Einstein at his school—at any rate the quote rather reinforces his case

"Her face was her chaperone."

Rupert Hughes
(01/31/1872 – 09/09/1956)
US writer (uncle of Howard Hughes)

"A duck walks into the pharmacy and says, 'gimme some chapstick—and put it on my bill.'"

The Amazing Johnathan
(09/09/1958 – )
US comic

"I'm not one to go around blowing my own horn."

Hugh Grant
(09/09/1960 – )
English actor (LTR with Elizabeth Hurley)

"Now I realize how ugly I am."

Adam Sandler
(09/09/1966 – )
US comic actor (SNL) , after laser eye surgery

"A wonderful discovery, psychoanalysis. Makes quite simple people feel they're complex."

S. N. Behrman
(06/09/1893 – 09/09/1973)
US writer

"The people are like water and the army is like fish."

Mao Tse-Tung
(12/26/1893 – 09/09/1976)
Chinese political leader

"No, no. Jimmy Stewart for governor. Ronald Reagan for his best friend."

Jack L. Warner
(08/02/1892 – 09/09/1978)
Canadian film producer and Warner Brother (brother of Harry Warner; shown with Alfred Hitchcock) , on Reagan being elected governor of California

"Franchot Tone is nuttier than a fruitcake, so don't let the genteel frosting fool you."

Burgess Meredith
(11/16/1907 – 09/09/1997)
US actor (was married to Paulette Goddard)

"To cure a batting slump, I took my bat to bed with me. I wanted to know my bat a little better."

Richie Ashburn
(03/19/1927 – 09/09/1997)
US baseball player

"No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect."

Edward Teller
(01/15/1908 – 09/09/2003)
US scientist

"All too many men still seem to believe, in a rather naïve and egocentric way, that what feels good to them is automatically what feels good to women."

Shere Hite
(11/02/1942 – 09/09/2020)
US researcher, writer (The Hite Report)

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