"To divide a cube into two other cubes, a fourth power or in general any power whatever into two powers of the same denomination above the second is impossible, and I have assuredly found an admirable proof of this, but the margin is too narrow to contain it."

Pierre de Fermat
(08/16/1601 – 01/12/1665)
French mathematician, notes in the margin of his copy of Diophantus' Arithmetica

"It is the glory and merit of some men to write well, and of others, not to write at all."

Jean de la Bruyere
(08/16/1645 – 05/10 or 05/11/1696)
French scholar

"Anybody who has any doubt about the ingenuity or the resourcefulness of a plumber never got a bill from one."

George Meany
(08/16/1894 – 01/10/1980)
US labor organizer

"Eagles come in all shapes and sizes, but you will recognize them chiefly by their attitudes."

E. F. Schumacher
(08/16/1911 – 09/04/1977)
German-born economist

"Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink."

Charles Bukowski
(08/16/1920 – 03/09/1994)
US writer

"Television has made dictatorship impossible, but democracy unbearable."

Shimon Peres
(08/16/1923 – )
Polish Prime Minister of Israel, Nobel Laureate

"Looking for enlightenment is like looking for a flashlight when all you need the flashlight for is to find the flashlight."

Lew Welch
(08/16/1926 – 05/23/1971)
US writer

"When you play music you discover a part of yourself that you never knew existed."

Bill Evans
(08/16/1929 – 09/15/1980)
US pianist

"Oh how sweet it is to hear one's own convictions from another's lips."

Frank Gifford
(08/16/1930 – )
US football player, announcer (married to Kathie Lee Gifford)

"It was so wonderful being on 'Batman,' because you could be nasty and mean, and in the fifties women could never (unless you were some 'B' picture actress) be mean, bad, and nasty. It was so satisfying; I can't tell you how satisfying it was."

Julie Newmar
(08/16/1933 – )
US actor

"I change my hairstyle every day for the show, I'm fastidious and vain about my nails and teeth and grooming and makeup, but a perfect body, forget it. Dust to dust, wuggies to wuggies."

Kathie Lee Gifford
(08/16/1953 – )
French-born US TV person (married to Frank Gifford)

"I don't look at scripts. I just write them."

James Cameron
(08/16/1954 – )
Canadian director (was married to Linda Hamilton)

"Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion." Madonna Ciccone
(08/16/1958 – )
US singer (was married to Sean Penn; now married to Guy Ritchie)