"I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect men."

Alexander Hamilton
(01/11/1755 – 07/11/1804)
US founding father (Image from Bridgeman Art Library)

"How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young—or slender."

William James
(01/11/1842 – 08/26/1910)
US writer, psychologist

"Dear me, I never knew that the lower classes had such white skins."

Lord Curzon
(01/11/1859 – 03/20/1925)
English statesman

"Any party which takes credit for the rain must not be surprised if its opponents blame it for the drought."

Dwight Morrow
(01/11/1873 – 10/05/1931)
US statesman

"Each of us puts in one little stone, and then you get a great mosaic at the end."

Alice Paul
(01/11/1885 – 07/09/1977)
US lawyer, suffragist

"One swallow does not make a summer,
but one skein of geese,
cleaving the murk of March thaw,
is the Spring."

Aldo Leopold
(01/11/1887 – 04/21/1948)
US conservationist

"I have one great fear in my heart, that one day when they (the whites of South Africa) have turned to loving, they will find we (the blacks) are turned to hating."

Alan Paton
(01/11/1903 – 04/12/1988)
S. African writer

"The two women exchanged the kind of glance women use when no knife is handy."

Manfred Lee
(01/11/1905 – 04/03/1971)
US mystery writer (as "Ellery Queen," with Frederick Dannay)

"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."

C. A. R. Hoare
(01/11/1934 – )
Sri Lankan computer scientist

"A proof is a proof. What kind of a proof? It's a proof. A proof is a proof. And when you have a good proof, it's because it's proven."

Jean Chrétien
(01/11/1934 – )
Canadian PM

"Reagan promised everyone a seven-course dinner.Ours turned out to be a possum and a six-pack."

Jim Hightower
(01/11/1943 – )
US agriculture commissioner

"A dead end street is a good place to turn around."

Naomi Judd
(01/11/1946 – )
US singer (mother of Wynonna and Ashley Judd)