happy birthday niece quotes

I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom. ~Friedrich Nietzsche, Thus Spake Zarathustra, 1892



Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not. ~George Bernard Shaw



New Year's Eve, where auld acquaintance be forgot. Unless, of course, those tests come back positive. ~Jay Leno



When a subject becomes totally obsolete we make it a required course. ~Peter Drucker



It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn't. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams



There is an objective reality out there, but we view it through the spectacles of our beliefs, attitudes, and values. ~David G. Myers, Social Psychology



What is more mortifying than to feel you've missed the Plum for want of courage to shake the Tree? ~Logan Pearsall Smith



A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. ~Thomas Paine



Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose. ~Elisabeth Kubler-Ross



My patriotic heart beats red, white, and blue. ~Author Unknown



When a man sends you an impudent letter, sit right down and give it back to him with interest ten times compounded, and then throw both letters in the wastebasket. ~Elbert Hubbard



Bore: A man who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company. ~Gian Vincenzo Gravina



To the world you might be one person, but to one person you might be the world. ~Author Unknown



Ours is the age which is proud of machines that think and suspicious of men who try to. ~Howard Mumford Jones Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea. ~John Gunther



The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them. ~Thomas Merton



To be successful, you have to have your heart in your business, and your business in your heart. ~Thomas Watson, Sr.



Methinks it is a token of healthy and gentle characteristics, when women of high thoughts and accomplishments love to sew; especially as they are never more at home with their own hearts than while so occupied. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Marble Faun, 1859



There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail. ~Logan Pearsall Smith, "Life and Human Nature," Afterthoughts, 1931



Never assume the obvious is true. ~William Safire, Sleeper Spy



There is no pillow so soft as a clear conscience. ~French Proverb