"When the flower blooms, the bees come uninvited."

Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
(02/18/1836 – 08/16/1886)
Indian philosopher

"The theory of relativity is just as unacceptable to me as, say, the existence of the atom or other such dogmas."

Ernst Mach
(02/18/1838 – 02/19/1916)
German scientist

"No matter how bad things get, you got to go on living, even if it kills you."

Sholom Aleichem
(02/18/1859 – 05/13/1916)
Russian writer

"The Brando school are grabbers, not lovers. If it wasn't that the script says they get the girl, they wouldn't."

Adolphe Menjou
(02/18/1890 – 10/29/1963)
US actor

"The constitution does not provide for first and second class citizens."

Wendell Willkie
(02/18/1892 – 10/08/1944)
US Presidential candidate

"Words make love with one another."

Andre Breton
(02/18/1896 – 09/28/1966)
French surrealist writer

"It is something—it can be everything—to have found a fellow bird with whom you can sit among the rafters while the drinking and boasting and reciting and fighting go on below."

Wallace Stegner
(02/18/1909 – 04/13/1993)
US writer, teacher

"This paper gives wrong solutions to trivial problems. The basic error, however, is not new."

Clifford Truesdell
(02/18/1919 – 01/14/2000)
US scientist , from Mathematical Reviews 12, p. 561.

"The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed."

Jack Palance
(02/18/1919 – 11/10/2006)
US actor

"Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere."

Helen Gurley Brown
(02/18/1922 – )
US writer

"In Mexico, an air conditioner is called a 'politician,' because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well."

Len Deighton
(02/18/1929 – )
English writer

"Bryn Mawr had done what a four-year dose of liberal education was designed to do: unfit her for eighty per cent of useful work of the world."

Toni Morrison
(02/18/1931 – )
US writer

"What I like about masturbation is that you don't have to talk afterwards."

Milos Foreman
(02/18/1932 – )
Czech director

"Cosmetics is a boon to every woman, but a girl's best friend is still a nearsighted man."

Yoko Ono
(02/18/1933 – )
Japanese artist (was married to John Lennon, mother of Sean Ono Lennon)

"The learning process is something you can incite, literally incite, like a riot."

Audre Lourde
(02/18/1934 – 11/17/1992)
US writer

"I think the measure of your success to a certain extent will be the amount of things written about you that aren't true."

Cybill Shepherd
(02/18/1950 – )
US actor

"It's not the most intellectual job in the world, but I do have to know the letters."

Vanna White
(02/18/1957 – )
US model , on her "Wheel of Fortune" job

"There were certain perceptions that people had of me, you know...'He's dumb,' or 'he's just got a pretty face,' or 'he's a thug,' or 'he can only do one thing.' I'm not so concerned with that now. Longevity's what it's about."

Matt Dillon
(02/18/1964 – )
US actor

"I don't care if he's purple, as long as he can rap!"

Dr. Dre
(02/18/1965 – )
US rap mogul , on Eminem

"You can't be 16 forever."

Molly Ringwald
(02/18/1968 – )
US actor