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"While farmers generally allow one rooster for ten hens, ten men are scarcely sufficient to service one woman."
Giovanni Boccaccio
(06/16/1313
12/21/1375)
Italian writer
"While living I want to live well."
Geronimo
(06/16/1829
02/17/1909)
Native American leader
"You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead."
Stan Laurel
(06/16/1890
02/23/1965)
English comic, actor
(also see Oliver Hardy)
"I know my corn plants intimately, and I find it a great pleasure to know them."
Barbara McClintock
(06/16/1902
09/02/1992)
US scientist
"A mistake is simply another way of doing things."
Katharine Graham
(06/16/1917
07/17/2001)
US businessperson (Washington Post owner)
(same dates as Adam Smith)
"It's a damn shame we have this immediate ticking off in the mind about how people sound. On the other hand, how many people really want to be operated upon by a surgeon who talks broad cockney?"
Eileen Atkins
(06/16/1934
)
English actor
"True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked."
Erich Segal
(06/16/1937
01/17/2010)
US writer
("Love Story")
"She ransacked her mind but there was nothing in it."
Joyce Carol Oates
(06/16/1938
)
US writer
"For every dark night, there's a brighter day."
Tupac Shakur
(06/16/1971
09/13/1996)
US rapper
"We can lick gravity, but sometimes the paperwork is overwhelming."
Wernher von Braun
(03/23/1912
06/16/1977)
German rocket scientist
"First you are young; then you are middle-aged; then you are old; then you are wonderful."
Lady Diana Cooper
(08/29/1892
06/16/1986)
English actor, writer
(was married to Duff Cooper)
"While the bat's are a -flyin'
And the cat's are a-sighing
And the zombies are a-dancin'
And the skeleton's prancin'
I get back into my big black coffin till the following night."
Screaming Lord Sutch
(11/10/1940
06/16/1999)
English entertainer
(shown [l] with Keith Moon)
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