birthday cards for friends with poems

Bore, n. A person who talks when you wish him to listen. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary



Someone said, "The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did." Precisely, and they are that which we know. ~T.S. Eliot



The best kind of rain, of course, is a cozy rain. This is the kind the anonymous medieval poet makes me remember, the rain that falls on a day when you'd just as soon stay in bed a little longer, write letters or read a good book by the fire, take early tea with hot scones and jam and look out the streaked window with complacency. ~Susan Allen Toth, England For All Seasons



Nothing can be more readily disproved than the old saw, "You can't keep a good man down." Most human societies have been beautifully organized to keep good men down. ~John W. Gardner



To a pitcher, a base hit is the perfect example of negative feedback. ~Steve Hovley, 1969



God could not be everywhere, so he created mothers. ~Jewish Proverb



The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness. ~Dalai Lama



Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. ~John Stuart Mill, Autobiography, 1873



The average man is more interested in a woman who is interested in him than he is in a woman with beautiful legs. ~Marlene Dietrich



Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. ~Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar for 1894



The Wedding March always reminds me of the music played when soldiers go into battle. ~Heinrich Heine



When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. ~Alexander Graham Bell



I refuse to think of them as chin hairs. I think of them as stray eyebrows. ~Janette Barber



If you don't like how things are, change it! You're not a tree. ~Jim Rohn



Teenagers complain there's nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it. ~Bob Phillips



I cultivate my garden, and my garden cultivates me. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



To make a criticism is a bit like complaining about the shape of the Pyramids. ~Author Unknown



All morons hate it when you call them a moron. ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 6



When you retire, you switch bosses - from the one who hired you to the one who married you. ~Gene Perret



Things are not as bad as they seem. They are worse. ~Bill Press