"What experience and history teach is this—that nations and governments have never learned anything from history, or acted upon any lessons they might have drawn from it."

Georg William Friedrich Hegel
(08/27/1770 – 11/14/1831)
German philosopher

"In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance."

Theodore Dreiser
(08/27/1871 – 12/28/1945)
US writer

"Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words."

Samuel Goldwyn
(08/27/1882 – 01/31/1974)
US film producer

"Don't worry me—I am an eight ulcer man on four ulcer pay."

Stephen T. Early
(08/27/1889 – 08/11/1951)
US writer

"All critics should be assassinated."

Man Ray
(08/27/1890 – 11/18/1976)
US artist, photographer

"They couldn't pour piss out of a shoe if the instructions were written on the heel."

Lyndon Baines Johnson
(08/27/1908 – 01/22/1973)
US President (36), Vice President (37) (was married to "Lady Bird" Johnson; see all US Presidents, VPs), on the Association of American States

"Egotism is the anesthetic that dulls the pain of stupidity."

Frank Leahy
(08/27/1908 – 06/21/1973)
US football coach (Notre Dame)

"Loneliness is the most terrible poverty."

Mother Teresa
(08/27/1910 – 09/05/1997)
Macedonian religious leader

"I didn't have to work till I was three. But after that, I never stopped."

Martha Raye
(08/27/1916 – 10/19/1994)
US actor

"Here stands before you a Negro woman, raised in Harlem, who went on to become a tennis player . . . and finally wind up being a world champion, in fact, the first black woman champion of this world."

Althea Gibson
(08/27/1927 – 09/28/2003)
US tennis player

"It seems the brighter you are, the deeper the hole you get into."

Tuesday Weld
(08/27/1943 – )
US actor

"They say that every snowflake is different. If that were true, how could the world go on? How could we ever get up off our knees? How could we ever recover from the wonder of it?"

Jeanette Winterson
(08/27/1959 – )
English writer