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

"God always helps madmen, lovers, and drunkards"

"Man is wise ... when he recognizes no greater enemy than himself"

"The more hidden the venom, the more dangerous it is"

"Spite will make a woman do more than love"

"People pretend not to like grapes when the vines are too high for them to reach"

"It is the same in love as in war; A fortress that parleys is half taken"

"The first symptoms perceived are, a slight sense of weakness, with a proneness to trembling in some particular part"

"So slight and nearly imperceptible are the first inroads of this malady, and so extremely slow its progress, that it rarely happens, that the patient can form any recollection of the precise period of its commencement"

"If the population exceeded the means of support, the fault lay not in nature, but in the ability of politicians to discover some latent defect in the laws respecting the division and appropriation of property"

"The tremulous motion of the limbs occur during sleep, and augment until they awaken the patient, and frequently with much agitation and alarm"

"As to yourself, good sir, there are those who contend you resemble the venomous asp, whose poison is placed beneath its tongue"

"As the malady proceeds, even this temporary mitigation of suffering from the agitation of the limbs is denied"

"A mere literary education without the inculcation of moral and religious principles would prove highly injurious"

"The term palpitation may be employed to mark those morbid motions which chiefly characterise this disease"

"I have seen one, who was able to run, but not to walk"

"As the disease proceeds the hand fails to answer with exactness to the dictates of the will"

"Anomalous cases of convulsive affections have been designated by the term Shaking Palsy"

"Leeches, stimulating fomentations, and a blister, which was made for sometime to yield a purulent discharge, were applied over the cervical vertebræ"

"I ordered him a grain of Opium a day in the gum pill; and in three or four days the shaking had nearly left him"

"I can prove anything by statistics except the truth."

"Indecision and delays are the parents of failure"

"There is nothing I know of so sublime as a fact"

"Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army"

"I am only one but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something"

"Agriculture seems to be the first pursuit of civilized man. It enables him to escape from the life of the savage, and wandering shepherd"

"There is no sanctuary of virtue like a home"

"When we lose the right to be different, we lose the privilege to be free"

"A man has to live with himself, and he should see to it that he always has good company"

"Each man begins with his own world to conquer, and his education is the measure of his conquest"

"These are difficult days, but there is always hope"

"If we deny full expression to a race, if we restrict its education, stifle its intellectual and aesthetic impulses, we make it impossible to fairly gauge its ability"

"The coloured people, more than the white people in Greenpoint, took me for exactly what I was... I was among big hearted, friendly, hard working human beings"

"In all the months I lived, a white woman alone in a block with five thousand Negroes, I never had a disagreeable experience"

"Southern legislatures were at that time passing laws to make a person with a drop of negro blood a member of the negro race"

"In the minds of the white critics was the fear of negro domination, and the old slavery arguments were continually used"

"John Quincy Adams, more than a hundred years ago, said of them that they were the only well bred people in America"

"We at The Cosmopolitan Club were pioneers. We suffered the notoriety of pioneers. But we did a good piece of work"

"There are Mussolini's enough of the negro's making without the white man's manufacturing more"

"Do not have all the talk about conditions in the south. Have conditions in the north discussed"

"They should know the power the race has gained"

"Judas is not at the bottom of my inferno"

"The history of the progressive is one of dodging the race issue whenever possible"

"I should like to hammer that side of things into some of the aristocrats who are in the membership"

"Danger is never absent, but I did not taste it"

"No other protein that we've known comes so nearly to the basic protein of animals and humans as soybean protein"

"The Negro scientist now need neither to starve nor be condemned to a frustrating intellectual ghetto if he chooses pure science as a career"

"Short on glamour and long on tragedy"

"The scientists split the atom, now the atom is splitting us"

"I'd rather see if i can help a child than settle an argument between adults over money"

"It is easy to imagine how a young, protected child who sees portrayals of brutality is forever scarred and becomes determined to contribute in her own small way to social justice"

"Poughkeepsie is fascist to the extent of deluding itself that there is superiority among human beings by reasons solely of color, race or religion"

"I am saddened and maddened even nearly half a century later to recall many of my Wellesley experiences, but my college days for the most part evoke sad and lonely personal memories"

"As time went by, I was embarrassed by it because it was years after I went on the bench before another African American woman went on the bench"

"I was horrified and transfixed by pictures and news stories of lynchings and other atrocities against blacks solely because of their race"

"When I came in, the one or two black probation officers handled only black families. I had that changed"

"Those gains we have made were never graciously and generously granted. We have had to fight every inch of the way"

"Families and children are so important to our society, and to dedicate your life to trying to improve their lives is completely satisfying"

"We have to fight every inch of the way and in the face of sometimes insufferable humiliations"

"I wasn't concerned about first, second or last. My work was my primary concern"

"Prejudice against women is many, many times intensified against older women. You are viewed not as an intellect but as a body"

"They say that women shouldn't be sex objects, but you damned well better be a sex object if you want to get ahead in television"

"I see something that has to be done and I organize it"

"What is more important, the reality or the perception?"

"Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind"

"In our society, everyone wants to be a celebrity overnight"

"Grace Kelly was a glacially cool, like a wonderful sherbet in the middle of the desert .... She was a genetic miracle, a superior woman"

"I'm the Michelangelo of the dress business"

"A woman who laughs is a woman conquered"

"We're going to change the world. One day they'll write about us. You'll see"

"You're only on this earth once. You must give it all you've got"

"I don't like labels, but if you have to put a label on it, I'm a gay man"

"All the people close to me have known for years who I am. Yet it took time to embrace that other part of who I always was"

"Assassin? Sounds so exotic, I was just a murderer"

"There's more than one way to skin something"

"I'd do something that someone wanted done and would pay a price"

"I wanted to watch them leave. I wanted to say goodbye"

"What I liked most was the hunt, the challenge of what the thing was. The killing for me was secondary"

"In space everything is different, you sleep on the ceiling"

"Madness and genius are two sides to the same coin"

“The physical language of the body is so much more powerful than words.”

"This play is truly a great invention, and we're having a great time doing it eight times a week"

"Freedom only exists when it doesn't belong to anybody"

"It's like, 'You're not allowed to change. That's not fair. We like you like this.' But I don't. So let me expand and express myself"

"It's ok to be sassy, but I'll never be trashy"

"The only country that hasn't liked my music is my own"

"If I could be a doctor and save lives I would, but I can't so I sing songs"

"I only watch TV when I go to hotels"

"Who says soul has only one colour?"