BORN TODAY

"In politics nothing is contemptible." Jean-Baptiste Colbert
(08/29/1619 – 09/06/1683)
French statesman

"If the liberties of the American people are ever destroyed, they will fall by the hands of the clergy." Marquis de Lafayette
(09/06/1757 – 05/20/1834)
French soldier, statesman

"This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it." John Dalton
(09/06/1766 – 07/27/1844)
English scientist

"Action indeed is the sole medium of expression for ethics." Jane Addams
(09/06/1860 – 05/21/1935)
US social worker

"Dear Jack. Don't buy a single vote more than necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide." Joseph P. Kennedy
(09/06/1888 – 11/17/1969)
US royalty (was married to Rose, father of John, Robert, and Teddy Kennedy) , in a letter to his son during the 1960 presidential campaign

"I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill." Sir Edward Appleton
(09/06/1892 – 04/21/1965)
English physicist

"Never invest in anything that eats or needs repairing." Billy Rose
(09/06/1899 – 02/10/1966)
US composer, producer, entrepreneur

"Who never doubted, never half believed. Where doubt is, there truth is—it is her shadow." Philip James Bailey
(04/22/1816 – 09/06/1902)
English writer

"If your library is not 'unsafe,' it probably isn't doing its job." John Berry
(09/06/1917 – 11/29/1999)
US writer, director

"Very sorry can't come. Lie follows by post." Lord Charles Beresford
(02/10/1846 – 09/06/1919)
English admiral , refusing a dinner invitation

"For us the most important thing is to be visual, and for the cats watching us to have fun. This is all we want. We get very upset if people get bored when we're only half way through smashing the second set." Roger Waters
(09/06/1943 – )
English bassist (Pink Floyd)

"Change it to what—Tiffany? It's been an advantage. It's unforgettable. I'm the only one." Swoosie Kurtz
(09/06/1944 – )
US actor , on her name

"If you ever start feeling like you have the goofiest, craziest, most dysfunctional family in the world, all you have to do is go to a state fair. Because five minutes at the fair, you'll be going, 'you know, we're alright. We are dang near royalty.'" Jeff Foxworthy
(09/06/1958 – )
US comic

"They're mine; they're big." Rosie Perez
(09/06/1964 – )
US actor, choreographer

"When motherhood becomes the fruit of a deep yearning, not the result of ignorance or accident, its children will become the foundation of a new race." Margaret Sanger
(09/14/1883 – 09/06/1966)
US nurse, founder of Planned Parenthood

"The infinitely competent can be uncreative." J. E. Littlewood
(06/09/1885 – 09/06/1977)
English mathematician

"In a mad world only the mad are sane." Akira Kurosawa
(03/23/1910 – 09/06/1998)
Japanese director

"The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been." Madeleine L'Engle
(11/29/1918 – 09/06/2007)
US writer

"Am I afraid of high notes? Of course I am afraid! What sane man is not?" Luciano Pavarotti
(10/12/1935 – 09/06/2007)
Italian singer