June 16

June 16 Quotes of the day from previous years:


 * 2004
 * Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so. ~ Robert G. Ingersoll
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2005
 * I cannot think we are useless or Usen would not have created us. He created all tribes of men and certainly had a righteous purpose in creating each. ~ Geronimo (born 16 June 1829)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2006
 * If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it. ~ Abraham Lincoln's "House Divided" speech, 16 June 1858)
 * selected by Kalki


 * 2007
 * It's no use, says he. Force, hatred, history, all that. That's not life for men and women, insult and hatred. And everybody knows that it's the very opposite of that that is really life. ~ James Joyce in Ulysses


 * proposed by Kalki, for Bloomsday


 * 2008
 * When you're 50 you start thinking about things you haven’t thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity — but actually it's about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial. ~ Joyce Carol Oates
 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2009
 * A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals to discovery. ~ James Joyce in Ulysses
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2010
 * It is as painful perhaps to be awakened from a vision as to be born. ~ James Joyce in Ulysses
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2011
 * The mocker is never taken seriously when he is most serious. ~ James Joyce in Ulysses
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2012
 * proposed by Kalki
 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2013


 * proposed by Zarbon


 * 2014


 * selected by Kalki


 * 2015


 * proposed by Kalki, for Bloomsday


 * 2016


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2017


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2018


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2019


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2020


 * proposed by Kalki, as the date of Lincoln's delivery of this "House Divided" speech, in 1858.


 * 2021


 * 2022


 * proposed by Kalki


 * 2023


 * proposed by DanielTom


 * 2024 : Rank or add further suggestions…

Quotes by people born this day, already used as QOTD, or from Ulysses by James Joyce (Bloomsday):


 * Love loves to love love. ~ James Joyce in Ulysses
 * used 17 June 2004, selected by Kalki


 * History, Stephen said, is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. ~ James Joyce in Ulysses
 * used 2 February 2008, proposed by InvisibleSun

Suggestions
Adam Smith (16 June 1723 – 17 July 1790)

Murray Leinster (16 June 1896 – 8 June 1975)

Joyce Carol Oates (born 16 June 1938)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
 * 1 What is this quote referring to? J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣️|📧 17:52, 15 June 2018 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
 * 2 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣️|📧 17:52, 15 June 2018 (UTC)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 18:34, 31 May 2024 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣️|📧 17:52, 15 June 2018 (UTC)


 * 3 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 22:44, 15 June 2015 (UTC)
 * 1 J.A.R.N.Y.|🗣️|📧 17:52, 15 June 2018 (UTC)


 * He that to ancient wreaths can bring no more From his own worth, dies bankrupt on the score. ~ John Cleveland (dob)
 * 3 Ficaia (talk) 18:34, 31 May 2024 (UTC) We could also run the slightly modernised text quoted in The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton (1897), p. 10:He, who to ancient wreaths can bring no more From his own worth, dies bankrupt on the score.