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

"Every man who has power is impelled to abuse it"

"Solemnity is the shield of idiots"

"A nation may lose its liberties in a day and not miss them in a century"

"I like peasants - they are not sophisticated enough to reason speciously"

"Power ought to serve as a check to power"

"A really intelligent man feels what other men only know"

"The less men think, the more they talk"

"There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters"

"We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people"

"Failure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital"

"Falsehoods not only disagree with truths, but usually quarrel among themselves"

"The contest for ages has been to rescue liberty from the grasp of executive power"

"There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange"

"Any thing is possible When Its done In love And In everything You can do should be in love or it will fail"

"The treacheries of ambition never cease"

"I seek a form that my style cannot discover,a bud of thought that wants to be a rose"

"Poetry will exist as long as there is a problem of life and death"

"No, I don't understand my husband's theory of relativity, but I know my husband and I know he can be trusted"

"You cannot analyze him, otherwise you will misjudge him. Such a genius should be irreproachable in every respect"

"The things that make me different are the things that make me"

"Rivers know this; There is no hurry. We shall get there some day"

"Weeds are flowers too, once you get to know them"

"Almost anyone can be an author; The business is to collect money and fame from this state of being"

"Think it over, think it under"

"If you must make a noise, make it quietly"

"That's another fine mess you've gotten me into"

"We never see ourselves as others see us"

"I pretended to be somebody I wanted to be until finally I became that person. Or he became me"

"Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant"

"I began by acting like the person I wanted to be, and eventually I became that person"

"There's no point in being unhappy about growing older. Just think of the millions who have been denied the privilege"

"To succeed with the opposite sex, tell her you're impotent. She can't wait to disprove it"

"Sometimes angels rush in where fools fear to tread"

"I have about the same interest in jewelry as I have in politics, horse racing, modern poetry, and women who need weird excitement - none"

"Insanity runs in my family. It practically gallops"

"Beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one's own past failings"

"Divorce is a game played by lawyers"

"It takes many steppingstones, you know, for a man to rise. None can do it unaided"

"All men have eyes, Machiavelli says, but few have the gift of penetration"

"Life is a blank canvas, and you need to throw all the paint on it you can"

"To travel is to take a journey into yourself"

"All I want to be is funny. I never aspired to play Hamlet"

"An unemployed jester is nobody's fool"

"I am a wife-made man"

"All conflict is about difference; whether the difference is race religion, or nationality"

"If the word 'No' was removed from the English language, Ian Paisley would be speechless"

"Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination"

"When people are divided, the only solution is agreement"

"Difference is of the essence of humanity"

"Sometimes an artist is lost and needs to find a new direction for himself or his music"

"I knew I always wanted to sing"

"When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you"

"Sex and golf are the two things you can enjoy even if you're not good at them"

"You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted"

"Failure doesn't kill you... it increases your desire to make something happen"

"I've never had that fear of going against the grain"

"Actors never say they're poor. They're always broke. It's always just temporary. Broke is poor with hope"

"The closest we came to stunts was dancing on a table"

"I have plenty of law and order on my resume"

"I'm better looking in person"

"I was born without a sense of embarrassment or shame"

"You had everything you wanted. Your Mercedes wasn't enough, you brats"

"When you’re raped of everything, you got nothing to lose"

"Die you descendants of Satan!"