birthday quotes for sisters

Persons with weight of character carry, like planets, their atmospheres along with them in their orbits. ~Thomas Hardy



No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library. ~Samuel Johnson



The joyful news that He is risen does not change the contemporary world. Still before us lie work, discipline, sacrifice. But the fact of Easter gives us the spiritual power to do the work, accept the discipline, and make the sacrifice. ~Henry Knox Sherrill



Frugality is one of the most beautiful and joyful words in the English language, and yet one that we are culturally cut off from understanding and enjoying. The consumption society has made us feel that happiness lies in having things, and has failed to teach us the happiness of not having things. ~Elise Boulding



What this country needs is radicals who will stay that way regardless of the creeping years. ~John Fischer



Curiosity is a willing, a proud, an eager confession of ignorance. ~S. Leonard Rubinstein, Writing: A Habit of Mind



Every time Europe looks across the Atlantic to see the American Eagle, it observes only the rear end of an ostrich. ~H.G. Wells



Nothing so conclusively proves a man's ability to lead others as what he does from day to day to lead himself. ~Thomas J. Watson



Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them. ~Bill Maher



When you photograph people in colour you photograph their clothes. But when you photograph people in B&W, you photograph their souls! ~Ted Grant



Condoms aren't completely safe. A friend of mine was wearing one and got hit by a bus. ~Bob Rubin



There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labor. ~Ecclesiastes 2:24



For me, painting is a way to forget life. It is a cry in the night, a strangled laugh. ~Georges Rouault



Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. ~Woody Allen



Don't water your weeds. ~Harvey MacKay



There's nothing like a mama-hug. ~Terri Guillemets



A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. ~Douglas Adams



Boy, n.: a noise with dirt on it. ~Not Your Average Dictionary



As a rule reading fiction is as hard to me as trying to hit a target by hurling feathers at it. I need resistance to celebrate! ~William James



A lover is a man who tries to be more amiable than it is possible for him to be. ~Nicholas de Chamfort