happy birthday quotes and sayings

Happiness is like a butterfly which, when pursued, is always beyond our grasp, but, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you. ~Nathaniel Hawthorne



So what good are all these fruitless discussions; for in the eternal battle of the sexes, we are always conquered - and we can do nothing about it - and none of us as yet, be he misogynist or feminist, has found a more perfect instrument of pleasure, or any other means of reproduction, than woman. ~"The Manuscript"



What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera. ~Aldous Huxley



On the whole, the happiest people seem to be those who have no particular cause for being happy except that they are so. ~William R. Inge



He didn't say that. He was reading what was given to him in a speech. ~Richard Darman, director of the Office of Management and Budget, explaining why President Bush wasn't following up on his campaign pledge that there would be no loss of wetlands



One of the most fascinating things about golf is how it reflects the cycle of life. No matter what you shoot - the next day you have to go back to the first tee and begin all over again and make yourself into something. ~Peter Jacobsen



If I'm losing balance in a pose, I stretch higher and God reaches down to steady me. It works every time, and not just in yoga. ~Terri Guillemets



Someone to tell it to is one of the fundamental needs of human beings. ~Miles Franklin



We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid in gardening. It makes it so lifelike. ~Evelyn Underhill, Letters



A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip, and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow. ~Charlie Brower



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



We have forty-four defenses for him, but he has forty-five ways to score. ~Al Attles, on Nate Archibald



Jack Palance: "Do you know what the secret of life is? One thing. Just one thing. You stick to that and everything else don't mean shit."



The world we have created is a product of our thinking; it cannot be changed without changing our thinking. ~Albert Einstein



What was once called the objective world is a sort of Rorschach ink blot, into which each culture, each system of science and religion, each type of personality, reads a meaning only remotely derived from the shape and color of the blot itself. ~Lewis Mumford, "Orientation to Life," The Conduct of Life, 1951



Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends. ~Bible, John 15:13



From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity. ~Edvard Munch



An animal's eyes have the power to speak a great language. ~Martin Buber



A commuter tie-up consists of you - and people who for some reason won't use public transit. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



This is California. Blondes are like the state flower or something. ~From the television show Beverly Hills 90210