June 30

"Sure men were born to lie, and women, to believe them."

John Gay
(06/30/1685 – 12/04/1732)
English writer

"One ugly trick has often spoiled
The sweetest and the best;
Matilda, though a pleasant child,
One ugly trick possessed."

Ann Taylor
(06/30/1782 – 12/20/1866)
English writer

"It is always brave to say what everyone thinks."

Georges Duhamel
(06/30/1884 – 04/13/1966)
French artist

"Painting is saying 'Ta' to God."

Sir Stanley Spencer
(06/30/1891 – 12/14/1959)
English painter

"As scandal is the second breath of life my name is down for an early copy."

Harold Laski
(06/30/1893 – 03/24/1950)
English politician , on Margot Asquith's autobiography

"I've always regretted that I'm made of contradictions. But, if contradiction is impossible to overcome, we have to accept both its ends."

Czeslaw Milosz
(06/30/1911 – 08/14/2004)
Lithuanian writer

"It's ill-becoming for an old broad to sing about how bad she wants it. But occasionally we do."

Lena Horne
(06/30/1917 – 05/09/2010)
US singer, actor

"I'll cry tomorrow."

Susan Hayward
(06/30/1917 – 03/14/1975)
US actor

"You have debased my child—you have made him a laughingstock of intelligence—a stench in the nostrils of the gods of the ionosphere."

Dr. Lee deForest
(08/26/1873 – 06/30/1961)
US inventor , on his 1906 invention, the Audion Tube, which made commercial radio possible

"Everybody's got plans...until they get hit."

Mike Tyson
(06/30/1966 – )
US boxer

"In common with many Christians of the classic type he felt sincerely safer and more at ease when he had given away all he had, like a man passing a ball in a game."

Margery Allingham
(05/20/1904 – 06/30/1966)
English writer

"I have only read one book in my life and that is 'White Fang.' It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another."

Nancy Mitford
(11/28/1904 – 06/30/1973)
English writer (sister of Jessica)

"A face unclouded by thought."

Lillian Hellman
(06/20/1905 – 06/30/1984)
US writer (was married to Dashiell Hammett) , on Norma Shearer

"Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore."

Chet Atkins
(06/20/1924 – 06/30/2001)
US guitar great

"Golf is more fun than walking naked in a strange place, but not much."

Buddy Hackett
(08/31/1924 – 06/30/2003)
US comic

"Where in this small-talking world can I find a longitude with no platitude?"

Christopher Fry
(12/18/1907 – 06/30/2005)
English writer