"They are able because they think they are able."Virgil (10/15/0070 – 09/21/0019 BC) Roman writer
"Now and then one sees a face which has kept its smile pure and undefiled. Such a smile transfigures; such a smile, if the artful but know it, is the greatest weapon a face can have."Helen Hunt Jackson (10/15/1830 – 08/12/1885) US writer
"In large states, public education will always be mediocre, for the same reason that in large kitchens the cooking is bad."Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (10/15/1844 – 08/25/1900) German writer, philosopher
"I had been able to observe that there was a sprightly sportsman behind the counter mixing things out of bottles and stirring them up in long glasses that seemed to have ice in them, and the urge came upon me to see more of this man."Sir P. G. Wodehouse (10/15/1881 – 02/14/1975) English writer
"Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself at all."Archbishop William Temple (10/15/1881 – 10/26/1944) English archbishop, writer
"When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing."Enrique Jardiel Poncela (10/15/1901 – 02/12/1952) Spanish writer
"'I grant you that he's not two-faced,' I said. 'But what's the use of that when the one face he has got is so peculiarly unpleasant?'"C. P. Snow (10/15/1905 – 07/01/1980) English writer (was married to Pamela Hansford Johnson)
"The salary of the chief executive of the large corporations is not an award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm gesture by the individual to himself."John Kenneth Galbraith (10/15/1908 – 04/29/2006) Canadian-US economist
"A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say."Italo Calvino (10/15/1923 – 09/19/1985) Italian writer
"We've got to pause and ask ourselves: How much clean air do we need?"Lee Iacocca (10/15/1924 – ) US businessman
"We offer Granny the sandwiches first, before we take the whole lot on our plate. We don't take the raisins out of the scones halfway through a conversation, or flick them across the table."Duchess of York Sarah Ferguson (10/15/1959 – ) English royalty, on tea with the Queen
