"When I've painted a woman's bottom so that I want to touch it, then [the painting] is finished."

Pierre Auguste Renoir
(02/25/1841 – 12/17/1919)
French artist (father of Jean Renoir) (Image courtesy of the wonderful Bridgeman Art Library)

"It is never safe to look into the future with eyes of fear."

Edward H. Harriman
(02/25/1848 – 09/09/1909)
US railroad executive

"I'll take Vesuvius!"

Enrico Caruso
(02/25/1873 – 08/02/1921)
Italian singer (had affair with Alma Schindler) , after the 1906 San Francisco quake (he never returned to SF)

"The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it's the same problem you had last year."

John Foster Dulles
(02/25/1888 – 05/24/1959)
US Secretary of State

"One has to look out for engineers—they begin with sewing machines and end up with the atomic bomb."

Marcel Pagnol
(02/25/1895 – 04/18/1974)
French playwright

"Thousands upon thousands of persons have studied disease. Almost no one has studied health."

Adelle Davis
(02/25/1904 – 05/31/1974)
US nutritionist

"Cesar Romero would attend the opening of a napkin."

Jim Backus
(02/25/1913 – 07/03/1989)
US actor (Mr. Magoo, Thurston Howell)

"He said it was artificial respiration, but now I find I am to have his child."

Anthony Burgess
(02/25/1917 – 11/25/1993)
English writer

"If I can't play for big money, I play for a little money. And if I can't play for a little money, I stay in bed that day."

Bobby Riggs
(02/25/1918 – 10/25/1995)
US tennis freak

"To take my work seriously would be the height of folly."

Edward Gorey
(02/25/1925 – 04/15/2000)
US artist

"A gossip is someone who talks to you about others, a bore is someone who talks to you about himself, and a brilliant conversationalist is one who talks to you about yourself."

Lisa Kirk
(02/25/1925 – 11/10/1990)
US actor

"One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you."

Larry Gelbart
(02/25/1928 – )
US writer

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"If you're a horse, and someone gets on you, and falls off, and then gets right back on you, I think you should buck him off right away."

Jack Handey
(02/25/1949 – )
US comic, writer (SNL)

"You can't be a politician with a guitar."

John Doe
(02/25/1954 – )
US musician (X), actor (was married to and bandmates with Exene Cervenka)

"We were called The Toilets originally—we were flushed with success."

Mike Peters
(02/25/1958 – )
English musician , on his band "The Alarm"

"I don't do T&A very well because I haven't got much of either."

Téa Leoni
(02/25/1966 – )
US actor (married to David Duchovny)

"I was told I had to gain a lot of weight because Hobbits are very portly. Peter [Jackson] is forever suggesting I have more food. 'A little more food for Mr. Astin.'"

Sean Astin
(02/25/1971 – )
US actor