March 19

"Some folk are wise, and some are otherwise."

Tobias Smollett
(03/19/1721 – 09/17/1771)
Scottish writer

"I will go anywhere, as long as it be forward."

Dr. David Livingstone
(03/19/1813 – 05/01/1873)
Scottish missionary, explorer (I presume)

"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."

Sir Richard Francis Burton
(03/19/1821 – 10/20/1890)
English writer (was married to Isabel—the actor was born Nov 10)

"Writing is learning to say nothing, more cleverly every day."

William Allingham
(03/19/1824 – 11/18/1889)
Irish writer

"Fast is fine, but accuracy is everything."

Wyatt Earp
(03/19/1848 – 01/13/1929)
US lawman

"Do not compute the totality of your poultry population until all the manifestations of incubation have been entirely completed."

William Jennings Bryan
(03/19/1860 – 07/26/1925)
US Secretary of State

"I am sitting in the smallest room of my house. I have your review before me. In a moment, it will be behind me."

Max Reger
(03/19/1873 – 05/11/1916)
German composer , in a letter to critic Rudolph Louis

"The higher a monkey climbs, the more you see of its behind."

General Joseph W. Stilwell
(03/19/1883 – 10/12/1946)
US military

"Everything that I did in life that was worthwhile, I caught hell for."

Earl Warren
(03/19/1891 – 07/09/1974)
US Supreme Court (see other Supreme Court justices)

"Honey, that Totie Fields is one well-fed white woman. When that gal sits around the house, she sits around the house!"

Moms Mabley
(03/19/1894 – 05/23/1975)
US comedienne

"Remorse is for little children."

Adolph Eichmann
(03/19/1906 – 05/31/1962)
German war criminal

"We vivisect the nightingale
To probe the secret of his note."

Thomas Bailey Aldrich
(11/11/1836 – 03/19/1907)
US writer

"Last night I dreamed I ate a ten-pound marshmallow, and when I woke up the pillow was gone."

Tommy Cooper
(03/19/1921 – 04/15/1984)
Welsh comic

"The kid doesn't chew tobacco, smoke, drink, curse, or chase broads. I don't see how he can possibly make it."

Richie Ashburn
(03/19/1927 – 09/09/1997)
US baseball player

"Nothing matters very much, and very few things matter at all."

Sir Arthur James Balfour
(07/25/1848 – 03/19/1930)
British Prime Minister (33) (see other British PMs)

"The road to hell is paved with works-in-progress."

Phillip Roth
(03/19/1933 – )
US writer

"If the role demands it, then naturally I will remove my clothes."

Ursula Andress
(03/19/1936 – )
Swiss actor

"I really think that effective acting has to do literally with the movement of molecules."

Glenn Close
(03/19/1947 – )
US actor

"I write to escape ... to escape poverty."

Edgar Rice Burroughs
(09/01/1875 – 03/19/1950)
US writer

"On the one hand, we'll never experience childbirth. On the other hand, we can open all our own jars."

Bruce Willis
(03/19/1955 – )
German-born US actor (was married to Demi Moore) , distilling the pros and cons of being male

"If you pick up some paint with your brush and make somebody's nose with it, this is rather ridiculous when you think of it, theoretically or philosophically. It's really absurd to make an image, like a human image, with paint, today."

Willem de Kooning
(04/24/1924 – 03/19/1997)
Dutch-US artist

"There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum."

Arthur C. Clarke
(12/16/1917 – 03/19/2008)
English scientist, writer