Born this week
Saturday July 27th, 2024
Ernest Hemingway,
July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961
Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.
Ernest Miller Hemingway was an American author and journalist. His economical and understated style had a strong influence on 20th-century ...
Marshall McLuhan,
July 21, 1911 – December 31, 1980
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age.
Herbert Marshall McLuhan, CC was a Canadian philosopher of communication theory and a public intellectual. His work is viewed as one of the ...
Edward Hopper,
July 22, 1882 – May 15, 1967
Great art is the outward expression of an inner life in the artist, and this inner life will result in his personal vision of the world.
Edward Hopper was a prominent American realist painter and printmaker. While he was most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was ...
Raymond Chandler,
July 23, 1888 – March 26, 1959
An age which is incapable of poetry is incapable of any kind of literature except the cleverness of a decadence.
Raymond Thornton Chandler was an American novelist and screenwriter. In 1932, at age forty-four, Chandler decided to become a detective ...
Eric Hoffer,
July 25, 1902 – May 21, 1983
Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.
Eric Hoffer was an American moral and social philosopher. He was the author of ten books and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom ...
Aldous Huxley,
July 26, 1894 – November 22, 1963
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.
Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer, philosopher and a prominent member of the Huxley family. Best known for his novels including ...
Carl Jung,
July 26, 1875 – June 6, 1961
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Carl Gustav Jung, often referred to as C. G. Jung, was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. Jung ...
Andre Maurois,
July 26, 1885 – October 9, 1967
An artist must be a reactionary. He has to stand out against the tenor of the age and not go flopping along.
André Maurois, born Emile Salomon Wilhelm Herzog (26 July 1885  – 9 October 1967) was a French author. Maurois was born in ...
Douglas Horton,
July 27, 1891 – August 21, 1968
Although it is generally known, I think it's about time to announce that I was born at a very early age.
Douglas Horton was an American Protestant clergyman and academic leader who was noted for his work in ecumenical relations among major ...
George Bernard Shaw,
July 26, 1856 – November 2, 1950
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics. Although his first profitable writing was ...