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Sunday March 22nd, 2026
Robert Frost
March 26, 1874 – January 29, 1963
A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman's birthday but never remembers her age.
Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in America. He is highly ...
Joseph Campbell
March 26, 1904 – October 30, 1987
Computers are like Old Testament gods lots of rules and no mercy.
Joseph John Campbell was an American mythologist, writer and lecturer, best known for his work in comparative mythology and comparative ...
Tennessee Williams
March 26, 1911 – February 25, 1983
We are all sentenced to solitary confinement inside our own skins, for life.
Thomas Lanier "Tennessee" Williams III was an American playwright and author of many stage classics. After years of obscurity, he became ...
Erich Fromm
March 23, 1900 – March 18, 1980
Why should society feel responsible only for the education of children, and not for the education of all adults of every age?
Erich Seligmann Fromm was a German social psychologist, psychoanalyst, sociologist, humanistic philosopher, and democratic socialist. He ...
Malcolm Muggeridge
March 24, 1903 – November 14, 1990
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge was an English journalist, author, media personality, and satirist. During World War II, he worked for the ...
Gloria Swanson
March 27, 1899 – April 4, 1983
The first feminine feature that goes, with advancing age, is the neck.
Gloria May Josephine Swanson was an American actress, singer and producer, who is best known for her role as Norma Desmond, a reclusive ...
William Morris
March 24, 1834 – October 3, 1896
History has remembered the kings and warriors, because they destroyed art has remembered the people, because they created.
William Morris was an English textile designer, poet, novelist, translator, and socialist activist. Associated with the British Arts and ...
Tom Wilson
March 25, 1931 – September 6, 1978
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Thomas Blanchard Wilson Jr. was an American record producer best known for his work in the 1960s with Bob Dylan, The Mothers of Invention, ...
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
March 27, 1886 – August 17, 1969
Architecture is the will of an epoch translated into space.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a German-American architect. He is commonly referred to and was addressed as Mies, his surname. Along with Le ...
Maxim Gorky
March 28, 1868 – June 18, 1936
Only mothers can think of the future - because they give birth to it in their children.
Alexei Maximovich Peshkov, primarily known as Maxim Gorky, was a Russian and Soviet writer, a founder of the Socialist realism literary ...
Richard L. Evans
March 23, 1906 – November 1971
Keep courage. Whatever you do, do not feel sorry for yourself. You will win in a great age of opportunity.
Richard Louis Evans was a member of the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; the president of ...
Wernher von Braun
March 23, 1912 – June 16, 1977
It will free man from the remaining chains, the chains of gravity which still tie him to this planet.
Wernher Magnus Maximilian, Freiherr von Braun was a German and American aerospace engineer and space architect. He was one of the leading ...
Howard Cosell
March 25, 1918 – April 23, 1995
After all, is football a game or a religion?
Howard William Cosell was an American sports journalist who was widely known for his blustery, cocksure personality. Cosell said of ...
Edward Steichen
March 27, 1879 – March 25, 1973
Every other artist begins with a blank canvas, a piece of paper the photographer begins with the finished product.
Edward Jean Steichen was an American photographer, painter, and art gallery and museum curator. Steichen was the most frequently featured ...
Agnes Macphail
March 24, 1890 – February 13, 1954
Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.
Agnes Campbell Macphail was the first woman to be elected to the Canadian House of Commons, and one of the first two women elected to the ...
Wilhelm Reich
March 24, 1897 – November 3, 1957
Love, work, and knowledge are the wellsprings of our lives, they should also govern it.
Wilhelm Reich was an Austrian psychoanalyst, a member of the second generation of psychoanalysts after Sigmund Freud, and one of the most ...
Olive Schreiner
March 24, 1855 – December 11, 1920
Our fathers had their dreams we have ours the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
Olive Schreiner was a South African author, anti-war campaigner and intellectual. She is best remembered today for her novel The Story of ...
Toni Cade Bambara
March 25, 1939 – December 9, 1995
The dream is real, my friends. The failure to realize it is the only unreality.
Toni Cade Bambara, born Miltona Mirkin Cade was an African-American author, documentary film-maker, social activist and college professor.
Robert Quillen
March 25, 1887 – December 9, 1948
Discussion is an exchange of knowledge an argument an exchange of ignorance.
Verni Robert Quillen was an American journalist and humorist who for more than a quarter century was "one of the leading purveyors of ...
A. J. P. Taylor
March 25, 1906 – September 7, 1990
There is nothing more agreeable in life than to make peace with the Establishment - and nothing more corrupting.
Alan John Percivale "A. J. P." Taylor FBA was an English historian who specialised in 19th- and 20th-century European diplomacy. Both a ...
Mary Webb
March 25, 1881 – October 8, 1927
Saddle your dreams before you ride em.
Mary Webb was an English romantic novelist and poet of the early 20th century, whose work is set chiefly in the Shropshire countryside and ...
Alfred de Vigny
March 27, 1797 – September 17, 1863
Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.
Alfred Victor de Vigny (27 March 1797 - 17 September 1863) was a French poet, playwright, and novelist. Alfred de Vigny was born in Loches ...
Nelson Algren
March 28, 1909 – May 9, 1981
Literature is made upon any occasion that a challenge is put to the legal apparatus by conscience in touch with humanity.
Nelson Algren was an American writer. He may be best known for The Man with the Golden Arm, a 1949 novel that won the National Book Award ...
Corliss Lamont
March 28, 1902 – April 26, 1995
I believe firmly that in making ethical decisions, man has the prerogative of true freedom of choice.
Corliss Lamont, was a socialist philosopher, and advocate of various left-wing and civil liberties causes. As a part of his political ...