March 10

"An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog."

Friedrich von Schlegel
(03/10/1772 – 01/12/1829)
German writer, critic

"Preach in the name of God. The learned will smile; ask the learned what they have done for their country. The priests will excommunicate you."

Giuseppe Mazzini
(06/22/1805 – 03/10/1872)
Genoan revolutionary

"We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs."

Eric Berne
(03/10/1910 – 07/15/1970)
US writer

"Cats are connoisseurs of comfort."

James Herriot
(03/10/1916 – 02/23/1995)
Scottish veterinarian, writer

"Don't look now, Tallulah, but your show is slipping."

Heywood Hale Broun
(03/10/1918 – 09/05/2001)
US actor , on Bankhead's performance in "The Exciters"

"Whatever the scientists may say, if we take the supernatural out of life, we leave only the unnatural."

Amelia Barr
(03/29/1831 – 03/10/1919)
English-US writer

"Man ceased to be an ape, vanquished the ape, on the day the first book was written."

Yevgeny Zamyatin
(02/01/1874 – 03/10/1937)
Russian writer

"Violence is my last option."

Chuck Norris
(03/10/1940 – )
US actor, kickboxer

"If writers were good businessmen, they'd have too much sense to be writers."

Irvin S. Cobb
(06/23/1876 – 03/10/1944)
US writer

"I asked a ref if he could give me a technical foul for thinking bad things about him. He said, of course not. I said, well, I think you stink. And he gave me a technical. You can't trust 'em."

Jim Valvano
(03/10/1946 – 04/28/1993)
US basketball coach

"A comparison between Madonna and me is a comparison between a strapless evening gown and a gownless evening strap."

Kim Campbell
(03/10/1947 – )
Canadian PM (19)

"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."

Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald
(07/24/1900 – 03/10/1948)
US writer (was married to F. Scott Fitzgerald)

"We Barbie dolls are not supposed to behave the way I do."

Sharon Stone
(03/10/1958 – )
US actor

"I definitely have a sexual ego thing. But if I'm suggestive, it's in a nice way. Luckily, no one's ever been hurt... a few girls have passed out, that's all."

Andy Gibb
(03/05/1958 – 03/10/1988)
English singer (brother of Barry, Robin, and Maurice Gibb; died near his birthday)

"I am very flattered people recognize I had something to do with the development of interest in the underwater world."

Lloyd Bridges
(01/15/1913 – 03/10/1998)
US actor (father of Beau and Jeff Bridges) , on his role in the "Sea Hunt" TV series

"My mother never saw the irony of calling me a son of a bitch."

Richard Jeni
(04/14/1957 – 03/10/2007)
US comic