"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."

Euripedes
(09/23/0480 – ?/0406 BC)
Greek playwright

"A man may as well expect to grow stronger by always eating as wiser by always reading."

Jeremy Collier
(09/23/1650 – 04/26/1726)
English bishop

"He played the King as though under the momentary apprehension that someone else was about to play the Ace."

Eugene Field
(09/23/1850 – 11/04/1895)
US writer, reviewing Creston Clarke as King Lear

"The chasm between the principles upon which this Government was founded, in which it still professes to believe, and those which are daily practiced under the protection of the flag, yawn wide and deep."

Mary Eliza Church Terrell
(09/23/1863 – 07/24/1954)
US writer, social reformer

"Love endures only when the lovers love many things together and not merely each other."

Walter Lippman
(09/23/1889 – 12/14/1974)
US writer

"I've never been lifted. But I do like a bit of glamour in the morning."

Louise Nevelson
(09/23/1889 – 04/17/1988)
Russian artist

"I was friendly with most of my ex-wives. My God, there's a Mickey Rooney's Former Wives Marching Band!"

Mickey Rooney
(09/23/1920 – )
US actor (eight wives, among them Ava Gardner)

"You can play a shoestring if you're sincere."

John Coltrane
(09/23/1926 – 07/17/1967)
US jazz composer, musician

"I never thought that much about my playing. I was adequate."

Roy Buchanan
(09/23/1939 – 08/14/1988)
US guitarist

"Learning to read music in Braille and play by ear helped me develop a damn good memory."

Ray Charles
(09/23/1930 – 06/10/2004)
US R'n'B and jazz great

"When it comes to luck, you make your own."

Bruce Springsteen
(09/23/1949 – )
US singer, songwriter

"I'd rather be able to face myself in the bathroom mirror than be rich and famous." Ani DiFranco
(09/23/1970 – )
US singer, songwriter