Quotes from authors born in 1896
It takes only one drink to get me drunk. The trouble is, I can't remember if it's the thirteenth or the fourteenth.
George Burns
People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.
Rogers Hornsby
When I was a boy the Dead Sea was only sick.
George Burns
I cannot solve the problem of life by losing myself in the problem of art.
Tina Modotti
Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
George Burns
Friedrich Nietzsche 
Brad Renfro 
George Halas 
Marco Rubio 
Kay Rala Xanana Gusmao 
Minnie Maddern Fiske 
David Caruso 
Robin Yount