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

"It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business"

"I would rather fight with my hands than my tongue"

"You may imagine me the very shadow of my husband"

"Disaffection stalks around us"

"The more one judges, the less one loves"

"People who are in love suspect nothing or everything"

"When you doubt your power, you give power to your doubt"

"It is easy to sit up and take notice, What is difficult is getting up and taking action"

"Laws are spider webs through which the big flies pass and the little ones get caught"

"Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane"

"There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power"

"Coffee only makes boring people even more boring"

"Cruelty and fear shake hands together"

"With monuments as with men, position means everything"

"Love is the poetry of the senses"

"Modesty is the conscience of the body"

"If we could but paint with the hand what we see with the eye"

"Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating"

"Our worst misfortunes never happen, and most miseries lie in anticipation"

"The impossible is justified by the fact that it occurred"

"Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of"

"One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests"

"What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs"

"The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do"

"Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious"

"Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption"

"Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men"

"The best proof of a good character is good actions"

"In an hour, you'll be in hell or glory"

"We Arabs, especially the educated among us, look with the deepest sympathy on the Zionist movement"

"All necessary measures shall be taken to encourage and stimulate immigration of Jews into Palestine on a large scale"

"There is so little difference between husbands you might as well keep the first"

"Every woman is entitled to a middle husband she can forget"

"Joy seems to me a step beyond happiness"

"God made man, and then said I can do better than that and made woman"

"It got on at 42nd, and off at 59th, where, I assume it was going to Bloomingdales to buy a hat that will turn out to be a mistake - as almost all hats are"

"One day you'll find that you're the hero you've been looking for"

"Whiskey is a slap on the back, and champagne's a heavy mist before my eyes"

"The problem of evil is raised more often by spectators of life than the actual combatants"

"When it came to kissing, Harlow was the best"

"You will hardly ever find that the great sufferers are the great skeptics"

"Freedom is the oxygen of the soul"

"Israel must be like a mad dog, too dangerous to bother"

"The method of collective punishment so far has proved effective"

"I have traveled a long road from the battlefield to the peace table"

"I've lived so long, and went through so much, that all I want is calm and rest"

"Our American friends offer us money, arms, and advice. We take the money, we take the arms, and we decline the advice"

"I've been touring now since about '68"

"I've developed a stable of songs of which I'm known for and never get tired of singing"

"The world is a tougher place to live in than it was back then, as we come into the computer age"

"Don't go on American Idol, I think you'll spend the rest of your life living it down"

"Men aren't necessities. They're luxuries"

"Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great"

"All of us invent ourselves. Some of us just have more imagination than others"

"The only thing in the world you can change is yourself and that makes all the difference in the world"

"I've had so many rebirths, I should come with my own midwife by now"

"I think that the longer I look good, the better gay men feel"

"Women are the architects of society"

"Men should be like Kleenex, soft, strong and disposable"

"The trouble with some women is that they get all excited about nothing - and then marry him"

"The only grounds for divorce in California are marriage"

"I have had this desire my whole life to prove people wrong"

"Government should be a model of inclusion"

"I’m a shell…of the man I was before I became governor"

"I'd graduated high school younger than everyone and was legally blind, yet I figured I'd be out of college at age 20. But it all came crashing down"

"My fellow New Yorkers: let me come straight to the point - the state of our state is perilous"

"The pillars of Wall Street have crumbled. The global economy is reeling. Trillions of dollars of wealth have vanished"

"Most conspiracy theorists don't understand this. But if there really were a CIA plot, no documents would exist"

"Having a strong father, I wanted an older man"

"I'm very tenacious about keeping up with my kids"

"The only way to get around Arizona is by small private plane"

"The secret to a happy marriage is patience and honesty"

"Acting and singing are integrally locked together"

"I was irrepressible, charming, and hilarious"

"My dream is to do eight shows a week"

"Anything that takes more than 20 minutes? No can do"

"The whole world knows that I am a Madridista by heart; White until the death"

"Most kids dream of scoring the perfect goal. I've always dreamed of stopping it"

"I'm going to Russia not just to represent one community, I'm going to represent the United States and all that we stand for"

"I guess my hope is that we go to Russia and I represent my country as best I can and support all our athletes"