"This Daniel Boone business is about played out."

Horace Greeley
(02/03/1811 – 11/29/1872)
US writer , 30 years after saying "Go west, young man."

"If society will not admit of woman's free development, then society must be remodeled."

Elizabeth Blackwell
(02/03/1821 – 05/31/1910)
English-US physician (first female MD)

"The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who write know anything."

Walter Bagehot
(02/03/1826 – 03/24/1877)
English economist

"Virtue consisted in avoiding scandal and venereal disease."

Robert Cecil
(02/03/1830 – 08/22/1903)
British PM (37) (see other British PMs) , on life in Edwardian England

"Anyone who marries three girls from St. Louis hasn't learned much."

Gertrude Stein
(02/03/1874 – 07/29/1946)
US writer , on Ernest Hemingway (image from Bridgeman Art Library)

"If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. You are like a pebble thrown into water; you become wet on the surface, but are never part of the water."

James A. Michener
(02/03/1907 – 10/16/1997)
US writer

"Culture is an instrument wielded by professors to manufacture professors, who when their turn comes, will manufacture professors."

Simone Weil
(02/03/1909 – 08/24/1943)
French mystic

"My doctor is wonderful. Once, in 1955, when I couldn't afford an operation, he touched up the X-rays."

Joey Bishop
(02/03/1918 – 10/17/2007)
US comic, actor, TV host

"Being on 'Batman' allowed me to do something we actors are taught never to do: overact."

Victor Buono
(02/03/1938 – 01/01/1982)
US actor , on his role as "King Tut" in that TV series

"We love unusual names in the family."

Blythe Danner
(02/03/1943 – )
US actor (was married to Bruce Paltrow; mother of Gwyneth Paltrow) , on grandson Moses

"There's nothing nicer than singing an unnecessary peace song."

Melanie Safka
(02/03/1947 – )
US singer, songwriter

"They're not paying me to play a charwoman. They're paying me to show up looking glam and, damn it, I'm gonna show up looking glam!"

Morgan Fairchild
(02/03/1950 – )
US actor

"Look, I'm 40, I'm single, and I work in musical theater—you do the math!"

Nathan Lane
(02/03/1956 – )
US actor

"I have so many insecurities they fight for prominence."

Maura Tierney
(02/03/1965 – )
US actor

"We all get heavier as we get older because there's a lot more information in our heads."

Vlade Divac
(02/03/1968 – )
Yugoslavian basketball player

"Who is she?"

Casey Weldon
(02/03/1969 – )
US football quarterback , on being told he'd be seated next to Ringo Starr