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"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."
Euripedes
(09/23/0480
?/0406 BC)
Greek playwright
"A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading."
Jeremy Collier
(09/23/1650
04/26/1726)
English bishop
"The chasm between the principles upon which this Government was founded, in which it still professes to believe, and those which are daily practiced under the protection of the flag, yawns wide and deep."
Mary Eliza Church Terrell
(09/23/1863
07/24/1954)
US writer, social reformer
"Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other."
Walter Lippmann
(09/23/1889
12/14/1974)
US writer
"I've never been lifted. But I do like a bit of glamour in the morning."
Louise Nevelson
(09/23/1899
04/17/1988)
Russian artist
"I was friendly with most of my ex-wives. My God, there's a Mickey Rooney's Former Wives Marching Band!"
Mickey Rooney
(09/23/1920
04/06/2014)
US actor
(eight wives, among them Ava Gardner)
"You can play a shoestring if you're sincere."
John Coltrane
(09/23/1926
07/17/1967)
US jazz composer, musician
"Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory."
Ray Charles
(09/23/1930
06/10/2004)
US R'n'B and jazz singer, songwriter, and pianist
"I never thought that much about my playing. I was adequate." *
Roy Buchanan
(09/23/1939
08/14/1988)
US guitarist
"What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult."
Sigmund Freud
(05/06/1856
09/23/1939)
Moravian Father of Psychoanalysis
(and of Anna)
"Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze."
Elinor Glyn
(10/17/1864
09/23/1943)
English writer
"When it comes to luck, you make your own."
Bruce Springsteen
(09/23/1949
)
US singer, songwriter
"Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right."
Ani DiFranco
(09/23/1970
)
US singer, songwriter
Peter Marshall: "Which of your five senses tends to diminish as you get older?"
Charlie Weaver: "My sense of decency."
(12/27/1905
09/23/1974)
US comedian, actor, pianist, composer
(grandfather of Rosanna,
Patricia, and
David Arquette)
"I would never discriminate against someone's talent because they showed the poor taste to like me."
Bob Fosse
(06/23/1927
09/23/1987)
US choreographer, director
(was married to Gwen Verdon)
"There aren't any embarrassing questionsonly embarrassing answers."
Carl Rowan
(08/11/1925
09/23/2000)
US journalist
"The storyteller makes no choice, soon you will not hear his voice, his job is to shed light, and not to master."
Robert Hunter
(06/23/1941
09/23/2019)
US lyricist (Grateful Dead)
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