"Never murder a man who is committing suicide."

Woodrow Wilson
(12/28/1856 – 02/03/1924)
US President (28) (see all US Presidents)

"We used to think that if we knew one, we knew two, because one and one are two. We are finding that we must learn a great deal more about 'and'."

Sir Arthur Eddington
(12/28/1882 – 11/22/1944)
English physicist

"In the case of good books, the point is not how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you."

Mortimer Adler
(12/28/1902 – 06/28/2001)
US educator, philosopher

"In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them."

John von Neumann
(12/28/1903 – 02/08/1957)
Hungarian mathematician

Peter Marshall: "If you're going to make a parachute jump, you should be at least how high?"

Charlie Weaver: "Three days of steady drinking should do it."
(12/28/1905 – 09/23/1974)
US comedian, actor, pianist, composer, grandfather of Rosanna, Patricia, and David Arquette

"Somewhere on this globe, every ten seconds, there is a woman giving birth to a child. She must be found and stopped."

Sam Levenson
(12/28/1911 – 08/27/1980)
US writer

"Hollywood must have been terrific once."

Peter Finch
(12/28/1916 – 01/14/1977)
English actor

"Success and failure are both greatly overrated. But failure gives you a whole lot more to talk about."

Hildegard Knef
(12/28/1925 – 02/01/2002)
German actor, singer

"Quotations are useful in periods of ignorance or obscurantist beliefs."

Guy deBord
(12/28/1931 – 11/30/1994)
French writer

"One went to school, one wanted to act, one started to act, and one's still acting."

Dame Maggie Smith
(12/28/1934 – )
English actor

"Our pain isn't as bad as you might think. Dead people don't suffer."

Bill Lee
(12/28/1946 – )
US pitcher (Boston Red Sox), on losing six games against the Yankees late in the 1978 season

"It's been like a bad dream I never woke from."

Alex Chilton
(12/28/1950 – )
US singer (Box Tops, Big Star), on fame

"A film is just like a muffin. You make it. You put it on the table. One person might say, 'Oh, I don't like it.' One might say it's the best muffin ever made. One might say it's an awful muffin. It's hard for me to say. It's for me to make the muffin."

Denzel Washington
(12/28/1954 – )
US actor

"Microsoft isn't evil, they just make really crappy operating systems."

Linus Torvalds
(12/28/1969 – )
US computer engineer