birthday poems for aunts

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. ~Jean Rostand, Le Mariage, 1927



We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer. ~Gilbert Adair, "Under the Sign of Cancer," Myths and Memories, 1986



The art of reading is in great part that of acquiring a better understanding of life from one's encounter with it in a book. ~Andre Maurois



I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours. ~Bernard Berenson



The good news is the White House is now giving George W. Bush intelligence briefings. Some of these jokes actually write themselves. ~David Letterman



Well, boys, it's a round ball and a round bat and you got to hit the ball square. ~Joe Schultz, 1969



Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated. ~Author Unknown



The best way to accelerate a Macintosh is at 9.8m/sec/sec. ~Marcus Dolengo



What the daughter does, the mother did. ~Jewish Proverb



Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out. ~Joe Garagiola



There are some defeats more triumphant than victories. ~Michel de Montaigne



First we thought the PC was a calculator. Then we found out how to turn numbers into letters with ASCII - and we thought it was a typewriter. Then we discovered graphics, and we thought it was a television. With the World Wide Web, we've realized it's a brochure. ~Douglas Adams



God's will is not an itinerary, but an attitude. ~Andrew Dhuse



Music is the medicine of the breaking heart. ~Leigh Hunt



We all grow up with the weight of history on us. Our ancestors dwell in the attics of our brains as they do in the spiraling chains of knowledge hidden in every cell of our bodies. ~Shirley Abbott



A dream has power to poison sleep. ~Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Mutability"



If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else's dog around. ~Will Rogers



Dust is just a country accent. ~Author Unknown



The coquets of both sexes are self-lovers, and that is a love no other whatever can dispossess. ~John Gay, The Beggar's Opera



If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape? No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love. ~Mark Twain