Iconic Birthday Quotes From The Famous And Infamous Born On This Day In History

"One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words"

"This business of hatred between nations is a curious thing. You will always find it more powerful and barbarous on the lowest levels of civilization"

"Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him"

"Who is the happiest of men? He who values the merits of others, and in their pleasure takes joy, even as though 'twere his own"

"To have seen Italy without having seen Sicily is to not have seen Italy at all, for Sicily is the clue to everything"

"Only mankind can do the impossible: He can distinguish, He chooses and judges, He can give permanence to the moment"

"People have to become really bad before they care for nothing but mischief, and delight in it"

"The world is a bell that is cracked: it clatters, but does not ring out clearly"

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free"

"Which is the best government? That which teaches us to govern ourselves"

"A true German can't stand the French, Yet gladly he drinks their wines"

"He who does not speak foreign languages knows nothing about his own"

"Nothing should be treasured more highly than the value of the day"

"Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others"

"Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life the best"

"Divide and rule, a sound motto; unite and lead, a better one"

"The first and last thing demanded of genius is love of truth"

"Nothing is more damaging to a new truth than an old error"

"Love does not dominate, it cultivates. And that is more"

"Behaviour is a mirror in which everyone shows his image"

"There is nothing worse than imagination without taste"

"Instruction does much, but encouragement everything"

"Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action"

"There is strong shadow where there is much light"

"One must be something in order to do something"

"Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must"

"Investigate what is, and not what pleases"

"The deed is everything, the glory nothing"

"A world without love would be no world"

"I love those who yearn for the impossible"

"Blood is a juice of rarest quality"

"All perishable is but an allegory"

"Man errs as long as he strives"

"Nothing venture, nothing gain"

"Doubt grows with knowledge"

"Live simply, so that all may simply live"

"I was born on a storm-swept rock and hate the soft growth of sun-baked lands where there is no frost in men's bones"

"That love at first sight should happen to me, was Life's most delicious revenge on a self-opinionated fool"

"I made hazardous investigations of the principles of flight, launching myself from the tops of haystacks with a homemade glider"

"Let every man be his own methodologist, let every man be his own theorist"

"The mass production of distraction is now as much a part of the American way of life as the mass production of automobiles"

"My plans have always exceeded my capacities and energies"

"If your whole day is rotten, once they start the music, it seems to melt away"

"I'd like to thank the Academy for my lifetime achievement award that I will eventually get"

"I love awards, especially if I get them"

"I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned"

"Everybody who's anybody longs to be a tree"

"The only disability in life is a bad attitude"

"I think intelligence is totally subjective; it's like sexiness"

"My idea of professionalism is probably a lot of people's idea of obsessive"

"Music is a great natural high and a great natural escape"

"I'd rather die standing than live on my knees"

"You must never underestimate the power of the eyebrow"

"The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills"

"I love Satan. Christianity is so boring. If Star Wars didn't have that evil imprint, they wouldn't sell two tickets. Satan sells tickets. That dude, Darth Maul, he was down with Satan"

"You only have to go hardcore humiliation on the first film. On the subsequent sequels, you can coast"

"We cannot change what we are not aware of, and once we are aware, we cannot help but change"

"Done is better than perfect"

"You never appreciate your anonymity until you don't have it anymore"

"Never categorize yourself: Society does that to you, ..don't do it to yourself"

"I need somebody with staying power who will make me go weak in the knees"

"There's no way to explain, but all the pleasure is worth all the pain"

"Hands up if you’re ready to do something you’ll regret this weekend"

"I try to maintain a healthy dose of daydreaming, to remain sane"

"I like reading. I just hate school"

"Everybody loses the thing that made them"