This compilation of notable quotations is a treasure of perceptive wisdom, beautiful thoughts, and sharp wit gleaned from the words of famous people born under the sign of Capricorn: Lord Acton, Matthew Arnold, Isaac Asimov, Clara Barton, Simone de Beauvoir, Anne Bronte, Edmund Burke, Cicero, Marlene Dietrich, E. M. Forster, Benjamin Franklin, David Lloyd George, Kahlil Gibran, W. E. Gladstone, Barry Goldwater, Zora Neale Hurston, Douglas Jerrold, Martin Luther King, Jr., Rudyard Kipling, Stephen Leacock, Tommaso Marinetti, Adam Mickiewicz, Henry Miller, Richard M. Nixon, Ouida (Marie Louise de la Ramee), Louis Pasteur, Edgar Allan Poe, Sam Rayburn, Laura Riding, Helena Rubinstein, Carl Sandburg, Elizabeth Smart, Alexander Smith, Alfred E. Smith, Woodrow Wilson, and Mao Zedong.