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"Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish." Anne Bradstreet
(?/1612 – 09/16/1672)
English-US writer

"There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom." Andrew Bonar Law
(09/16/1858 – 10/30/1923)
British Prime Minister (37) (see other British PMs)

"I like the pleasant things most women enjoy, even if I do wear breeches and boots on an expedition, even sleep in them at times.... but I powder my nose before going on deck, no matter how rough the sea is." Louise Arner Boyd
(09/16/1887 – 09/14/1972)
US explorer (died near her birthday)

"Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb." Jean Arp
(09/16/1887 – 06/07/1966)
French artist

"A vitamin is a substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it." Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
(09/16/1893 – 10/22/1986)
Hungarian biochemist (discovered vitamin C)

"I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction." Georges Bataille
(09/16/1897 – 07/09/1962)
French writer

"Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder." Dr. Lawrence J. Peter
(09/16/1919 – 01/12/1990)
US pop psychologist, writer

"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly." Lauren Bacall
(09/16/1924 – )
US actor (was married to Humphrey Bogart, Jason Robards)

"I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow." B. B. King
(09/16/1925 – )
US blues guitarist, singer

"Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost." Dr. Robert H. Schuller
(09/16/1926 – )
US televangelist

"The universe begins to look more like a great thought than a great machine." James Jeans
(09/11/1877 – 09/16/1946)
English physicist (died near his birthday)

"Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to LA. And I thought—I want to sell out!" Jennifer Tilly
(09/16/1958 – )
US actor (sister of Meg Tilly)

"I used to get painful crushes on really unavailable guys." Molly Shannon
(09/16/1964 – )
US comic actor (SNL)

"In a recent Valentine's Day posting on her fan website, Britney Spears says that—oh, who cares?" Amy Poehler
(09/16/1971 – )
US comic, writer (SNL; married to Will Arnett)

"I would like to be Maria, but there is Las Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity." Maria Callas
(12/03/1923 – 09/16/1977)
US diva

"I was a mod prince. It was the very beginnings of sequin rock and I had lots of clothes because my mother made them." Marc "T Rex" Bolan
(09/30/1947 – 09/16/1977)
English singer

"The curious fascination in this job is the illusion that either you are being useful or you could be—and that's so tempting." Millicent Fenwick
(02/15/1910 – 09/16/1992)
US fashion editor, representative (NJ), diplomat

"The space age was upon us. Everyone was thinking about rockets and wondering if maybe we would find people up there. I still wonder if we will. People (heard the song) and imagined some kind of beings." Sheb Wooley
(04/10/1921 – 09/16/2003)
US actor, singer, songwriter , on his song, "Flying Purple People Eater"

"I have never understood. I will never understand." Virginia Hamilton Adair
(02/28/1913 – 09/16/2004)
US writer , on her husband's suicide