"The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest,
savors too much of private interest."

Edmund Waller
(03/03/1606 – 10/21/1687)
English writer

"Honest men
are the soft easy cushions on which knaves
Repose and fatten."

Thomas Otway
(03/03/1652 – 04/14/1685)
English writer

"He that loves reading has everything within his reach."

William Godwin
(03/03/1756 – 04/07/1836)
English writer

"Give the people not hell, but hope and courage."

Sir John Murray
(03/03/1841 – 03/16/1914)
Canadian scientist

"When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us."

Alexander Graham Bell
(03/03/1847 – 08/02/1922)
Scottish inventor

"Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have."

Emile-Auguste Chartier
(03/03/1868 – 06/02/1951)
French writer

"Although he is a very poor fielder, he is a very poor hitter."

Ring Lardner, Sr.
(03/03/1885 – 09/25/1933)
US writer

"One day when he was eating a cookie he offered me a bite. Don't underestimate that. The poor guy's so frightened of germs, it could darn near have been a proposal."

Jean Harlow
(03/03/1911 – 06/07/1937)
US actor , on Howard Hughes

"To get where you want to go you can't only do what you like."

Peter Abrahams
(03/03/1919 – )
S. African writer

"I'm not really a good singer. But most people aren't, either."

Robyn Hitchcock
(03/03/1953 – )
English singer, songwriter