birthday wishes quotes

Women are one of the Almighty's enigmas to prove to men that He knows more than they do. ~Ellen Glasgow



How can something bother you if you won't let it? ~Terri Guillemets



For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery. ~Jonathan Swift, The Drapier's Letter



Curve: The loveliest distance between two points. ~Mae West



Chlorine is my perfume. ~Author Unknown



You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give. ~Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet



Turn right, turn left, repeat as necessary. ~Author Unknown



When nature made the blue-bird she wished to propitiate both the sky and the earth, so she gave him the color of the one on his back and the hue of the other on his breast. ~John Burroughs



Never believe in mirrors or newspapers. ~Tom Stoppard



Life didn't promise to be wonderful. ~Teddy Pendergrass



Hay is more acceptable to an ass than gold. ~Latin Proverb



Let us endeavor to live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. ~Mark Twain



If sisters were free to express how they really feel, parents would hear this: "Give me all the attention and all the toys and send Rebecca to live with Grandma." ~Linda Sunshine



Historian: an unsuccessful novelist. ~H.L. Mencken



Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book shown to him by heart, and his friends can only read the title. ~Virginia Woolf



But now I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. ~Umberto Eco, Foucault's Pendulum



Don't give cherries to pigs or advice to fools. ~Irish Proverb



But you don't have to go up in the stands and play your foul balls. I do. ~Sam Snead, to Ted Williams, arguing which was more difficult, to hit a moving baseball or a stationary golf ball



Information is the currency of democracy. ~Thomas Jefferson



Man may be the captain of his fate, but is also the victim of his blood sugar. ~Wilfrid G. Oakley