Quote

When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
-Arthur Conan Doyle, The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes was allegedly born on this day in 1854, according to the calculations of the literary society, the Baker Street Irregulars. 

 

And another quote -- this one anti-violence: 

"To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time."
-Susan Sontag

"She refused to be bored chiefly because she wasn't boring." -Zelda Fitzgerald