happy birthday mommy poems

Beware of a man of one book. ~English Proverb



Casinos and prostitutes have the same thing in common; they are both trying to screw you out of your money and send you home with a smile on you face. ~VP Pappy



I've just arrived in New York City. What a place! Just smell those skyscrapers. Had breakfast at a little deli on Ninth Avenue. Cheese Danish and a cup of coffee, black as a moonless night. Hit the spot. ~From the television show Twin Peaks by David Lynch (Thanks, Rachel)



That piece of red, white and blue bunting means five thousand years of struggle upwards. It is the full-grown flower of ages of fighting for liberty. It is the century plant of human hope in bloom. ~Alvin Owsley



Whoever said you can't buy happiness forgot little puppies. ~Gene Hill



It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. ~Baltasar Gracian



The place where optimism most flourishes is the lunatic asylum. ~Havelock Ellis, The Dance of Life, 1923



All say, "How hard it is that we have to die" - a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. ~Mark Twain



There is no well-defined boundary between honesty and dishonesty. The frontiers of one blend with the outside limits of the other, and he who attempts to tread this dangerous ground may be sometimes in one domain and sometimes in the other. ~O. Henry, Rolling Stones, 1912



It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not. ~Andre Gide



Women are never stronger than when they arm themselves with their weakness. ~Marie de Vichy-Chamrond, Marquise du Deffand, Letters to Voltaire



There's more to the truth than just the facts. ~Author Unknown



Pilots are a rare kind of human. They leave the ordinary surface of the word, to purify their soul in the sky, and they come down to earth, only after receiving the communion of the infinite. ~Jose Maria Velasco Ibarra



A man who was fond of wine was offered some grapes at dessert after dinner. "Much obliged," said he, pushing the plate aside, "I am not accustomed to take my wine in pills." ~Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin



Parties who want milk should not seat themselves on a stool in the middle of the field in hopes that the cow will back up to them. ~Elbert Hubbard



The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of the tires. ~Dorothy Parker



He carried his childhood like a hurt warm bird held to his middle-aged breast. ~Herbert Gold



SKIPPING! The hippity hoppity gait that came naturally to us as children, but that the majority of adults haven't done since they were ten... SKIPPING! Like Dorothy and gang did arm in arm down the yellow brick road... SKIPPING! As in expressing joy by leaping happily down the street without a care in the world. ~Kim Corbin, founder of iskip.com



Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. ~Arthur Christopher Benson



If profanity had an influence on the flight of the ball, the game of golf would be played far better than it is. ~Horace G. Hutchinson