“Every life is in many days, day after day. We walk through ourselves, meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love, but always meeting ourselves.”

“Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past.”

“The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.”

“To learn one must be humble. But life is the great teacher.”

“The movements which work revolutions in the world are born out of the dreams and visions in a peasant's heart on the hillside.”

“Can't bring back time. Like holding water in your hand.”

“People could put up with being bitten by a wolf but what properly riled them was a bite from a sheep.”

— James Joyce, Ulysses

June 16 — Observed annually as “Bloomsday”, June 16 is a commemoration and celebration of the life of writer James Joyce. It’s the date he began a relationship with Nora Barnacle; a date used for his novel Ulysses.

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“You can lead a horse to water, but a pencil must be lead.”

— Comedian Stan Laurel

Born June 16, 1890