"There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom."

Andrew Bonar Law
(09/16/1858 – 10/30/1923)
British Prime Minister (37) (see other British PMs)

"I like the pleasant things most women enjoy, even if I do wear breeches and boots on an expedition, even sleep in them at times.... but I powder my nose before going on deck, no matter how rough the sea is."

Louise Arner Boyd
(09/16/1887 – 09/14/1972)
US explorer

"Art is a fruit that grows in man, like a fruit on a plant, or a child in its mother's womb."

Jean Arp
(09/16/1887 – 06/07/1966)
French artist

"A vitamin is a substance that makes you ill if you don't eat it."

Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
(09/16/1893 – 10/22/1986)
Hungarian biochemist (discovered vitamin C)

"I believe that truth has only one face: that of a violent contradiction."

Georges Bataille
(09/16/1897 – 07/09/1962)
French writer

"Competence, like truth, beauty and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder."

Dr. Lawrence J. Peter
(09/16/1919 – 01/12/1990)
US pop psychologist, writer

"Imagination is the highest kite one can fly." Lauren Bacall
(09/16/1924 – )
US actor (was married to Humphrey Bogart, Jason Robards)

"I don't think anybody steals anything; all of us borrow."

B. B. King
(09/16/1925 – )
US blues guitarist, singer

"Always look at what you have left. Never look at what you have lost."

Dr. Robert H. Schuller
(09/16/1926 – )
US televangelist

"Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to LA. And I thought—I want to sell out!"

Jennifer Tilly
(09/16/1958 – )
US actor (sister of Meg Tilly)

"I used to get painful crushes on really unavailable guys."

Molly Shannon
(09/16/1964 – )
US comic actor (SNL)