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Sunday June 7th, 2026
William Butler Yeats
June 13, 1865 – January 28, 1939
I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.
William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British ...
Frank Lloyd Wright
June 8, 1867 – April 9, 1959
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures and ...
Vince Lombardi
June 11, 1913 – September 3, 1970
Show me a good loser, and I'll show you a loser.
Vincent Thomas "Vince" Lombardi was an American football player, coach, and executive. He is best known as the head coach of the Green Bay ...
Elizabeth Bowen
June 7, 1899 – February 22, 1973
Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
Elizabeth Dorothea Cole Bowen, CBE (7 June 1899 - 22 February 1973) was an Irish novelist and short story writer. Elizabeth Bowen was born ...
Paul Lynde
June 13, 1926 – January 10, 1982
If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.
Paul Edward Lynde was an American comedian and actor. A noted character actor with a distinctively campy and snarky persona that often ...
Judy Garland
June 10, 1922 – June 22, 1969
I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.
Judy Garland was an American actress, singer and vaudevillian. Described by Fred Astaire as "the greatest entertainer who ever lived" and ...
Jacques Yves Cousteau
June 11, 1910 – June 25, 1997
The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.
Jacques-Yves Cousteau AC was a French naval officer, explorer, conservationist, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, author and ...
Charles Kingsley
June 12, 1819 – January 23, 1875
Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything beautiful, for beauty is God's handwriting.
Charles Kingsley was a priest of the Church of England, a university professor, historian and novelist. He is particularly associated with ...
Hattie McDaniel
June 10, 1895 – October 26, 1952
I did my best, and God did the rest.
Hattie McDaniel was an American actress. She is best known for her role as Mammy in Gone with the Wind for which she won the Academy Award ...
Paul Gauguin
June 7, 1848 – May 8, 1903
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Eugène Henri Paul Gauguin was a French Post-Impressionist artist who was not well appreciated until after his death. Gauguin was later ...
Kenneth L. Pike
June 9, 1912 – December 31, 2000
Without a possibility of change in meanings human communication could not perform its present functions.
Kenneth Lee Pike was an American linguist and anthropologist. He was the originator of the theory of tagmemics, the coiner of the terms ...
Ben Jonson
June 11, 1572 – August 6, 1637
There is no greater hell than to be a prisoner of fear.
Ben Jonson was an English playwright, poet, and literary critic of the seventeenth century, whose artistry exerted a lasting impact upon ...
Dean Martin
June 7, 1917 – December 25, 1995
I feel sorry for people who don't drink. They wake up in the morning and that's the best they're going to feel all day.
Dean Martin was an American singer, actor, comedian, and film producer. One of the most popular and enduring American entertainers of the ...
Mary Augusta Ward
June 11, 1851 – March 24, 1920
For after my marriage I had made various attempts to write fiction. They were clearly failures.
Mary Augusta Ward née Arnold; (11 June 1851 - 24 March 1920), was a British novelist who wrote under her married name as Mrs Humphry Ward. ...
Dorothy L. Sayers
June 13, 1893 – December 17, 1957
None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.
Dorothy Leigh Sayers was a renowned English crime writer, poet, playwright, essayist, translator and Christian humanist. She was also a ...
Gwendolyn Brooks
June 7, 1917 – December 3, 2000
Art hurts. Art urges voyages - and it is easier to stay at home.
Gwendolyn Elizabeth Brooks was an African-American poet. She won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1950 and was appointed Poet Laureate of ...
Robert Schumann
June 8, 1810 – July 29, 1856
To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist.
Robert Schumann was a German composer and influential music critic. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Romantic ...
Gustave Courbet
June 10, 1819 – December 31, 1877
The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.
Jean Désiré Gustave Courbet was a French painter who led the Realist movement in 19th-century French painting. Committed to painting only ...
William Pollard
June 10, 1828 – September 26, 1893
It is the responsibility of leadership to provide opportunity, and the responsibility of individuals to contribute.
William Pollard was a Quaker writer and recorded minister.
Irving Howe
June 11, 1920 – May 5, 1993
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality.
Irving Howe (June 11, 1920 - May 5, 1993) was an American literary and social critic and a prominent figure of the Democratic Socialists of ...
Mary Antin
June 13, 1881 – May 15, 1949
On a royal birthday every house must fly a flag, or the owner would be dragged to a police station and be fined twenty-five rubles.
Mary Antin was an American author and immigration rights activist. She is best known for her 1912 autobiography The Promised Land, an ...
Mark Van Doren
June 13, 1894 – December 10, 1972
Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor it is the sign that he wants all the truth.
Mark Van Doren was an American poet, writer and a critic, apart from being a scholar and a professor of English at Columbia University for ...