Birthday Quotes

Suspicion follows close on mistrust.^    Gotthold Lessing

We have seen that the American Constitution has changed, is changing, and by the law of its existence must continue to change, in its substance and practical working even when its words remain the same.^    James Bryce

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.^    William C. Bryant

He who hesitates is sometimes saved.^    James Thurber

For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else.^    Ralph Waldo Emerson

There can no longer be anyone too poor to vote.^    Lyndon Baines Johnson

Sorrow is the great idealizer.^    Unknown

I had rather believe all the fables in the Legends and the Talmud and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.^    Francis Bacon

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.^    Jean de La Fontaine

For the Lord Jesus Christ's sake,  Do all the good you can,    To all the people you can,      In all the ways you can,        As long as ever you can.^    Epitaph

The feller that calls you "brother" generally wants something that don't belong to him^    Kin Hubbard

A sadder and a wiser man,  He rose the morrow morn.^    Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase.^    Martin Luther King Jr.

There is...an artificial aristocracy founded on wealth and birth, without either virtue or talents.... The artificial aristocracy is a mischievous ingredient in government, and provisions should be made to prevent its ascendancy.^    Thomas Jefferson

Now good digestion wait on appetite,  And health on both!^    William Shakespeare

Deep in the chaotic regime, slight changes in structure almost always cause vast changes in behavior.  Complex controllable behavior seems precluded.^    Unknown

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.^    Joe Paterno

Once we realize that imperfect understanding is the human condition, there is no shame in  being wrong, only in failing to correct our mistakes.^    George Soros

The smaller the head, the bigger the dream.^    Austin OMalley

A hungry man is not a free man.^    Adlai E. Stevenson

A man who carries a cat by the tail is getting experience that will  always be helpful. He isn't  likely to grow dim or doubtful.  Chances are, he isn't likely to carry  the cat that way again, either.  But if he wants to, I say let him!^    Mark Twain

The true gentleman does not preach his beliefs until he does so by his actions.^    Source Unknown

Animals are human just like us in a different shape and form so do not abuse them.^    Anonymous Anonymous

Originality is nothing by judicious  imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.^    Voltaire

For 'tis impossible  Hate to return with love.    [It., Che amar chi t'odia, ell'e impossibil cosa.]^    Vittorio Alfieri

Time is the substance from which I am made. Time is a river which carries me along, but I am the river; it is a tiger that devours me, but I am the tiger; it is a fire that consumes me, but I am the fire.^    Jorge Luis Borges

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.^    Lord Byron George Gordon Noel Byron

Pigmies placed on the shoulders of giants see more than the giants themselves.^    Didacus Stella

Someday is not a day of the week.^    Ralph Marston

Indoors or out, no one relaxes in  March, that month of wind and taxes, the  wind will presently disappear,  the taxes last us all the year.^    Ogden Nash

Love is saying 'I feel differently' instead of 'You're wrong.'^    Cardinal de Retz

Some decent regulated pre-eminence, some preference (not exclusive appropriation) given to birth, is neither unnatural, nor unjust, nor impolite.^    Edmund Burke

Asylum of the oppressed of every nation.^    Unattributed Author

Thank God, I have done my duty.^    Lord Horatio Nelson

It shall be so.  Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.^    William Shakespeare

It shall be so.  Madness in great ones must not unwatched go.^    William Shakespeare

A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.^    Friedrich von Schiller

Then rush'd to meet the insulting foe;  They took the spear, but left the shield.^    Philip Freneau

Here's a sigh to those who love me,  And a smile to those who hate;    And whatever sky's above me,      Here's a heart for every fate.^    Lord Byron George Gordon Noel Byron

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.^    Oscar Wilde

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit^    Edward Abbey

More than we use is more than we want.^    Gaelic Proverb

How sweet the answer Echo makes  To music at night,    When, roused by lute or horn, she wakes,      And far away, o'er lawns and lakes,        Goes answering light.^    Thomas Moore

I heard a bird so sing,  Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king.^    William Shakespeare

We are a rebellious nation. Our whole history is treason; our blood was attained before we were born; our creeds were infidelity to the mother church; our constitution treason to our fatherland.^    Theodore Parker

If you wish me to weep, you must first show grief yourself.^    Horace

A fool sees not the same tree  that a wise man sees.^    William Blake

For when the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, He writes--not that you won or lost--but how you played the Game.^    Grantland Rice

No matter what side of the argument you  are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.^    Jascha Heifetz

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few^    Shunryu Suzuki

If our inward griefs were seen written on our brow, how many would be pitied who are now envied!  [It., Se a ciascun l'interno affanno    Si leggesse in fronte scritto,      Quanti mai, che invidia fanno,        Ci farebbero pieta!]^    Metastasio pseudonym of Antonio Domenico Bonaventura Trapassi Pietro

What was invented two thousand years ago was the spirit of Christianity.^    Gerald Stanley Lee

If you want something done, ask a busy person to do it.  The more things you do, the more you can do.^    Lucille Ball

Persuasion tips his tongue whene'er he talks.^    Colley Cibber

Keeping a little ahead of conditions is one of the  secrets of business, the trailer seldom goes far.^    Charles Schwab

It is better to know some of the  questions than all of the answers.^    James Thurber

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.^    Oscar Wilde

We never know the love of the parent till we become parents ourselves.^    Henry Ward Beecher

A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes.  All his government is groping.^    Ben Jonson

He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur.^    Johann Kaspar Lavater

In the long run, the pessimist may be proven right, but the optimist has a better time on the trip.^    Daniel Readon

I think we dream so we don't have to be away from one another. If we're in each  other's dreams, we'll always be together.^    Hobbes

There's a proud modesty in merit; averse from asking, and resolved to pay ten times the gifts it asks.^    John Dryden

The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.^    Chuck Palahniuk

I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work, the more I have of it.^    Thomas Jefferson

They can call me crazy if I fail, all the chance that I need, is one-in-a-million and they can call me brilliant if I succeed.^    Ani Difranco

The important thing in life is not  the triumph but the struggle.^    Pierre de Coubertin

High achievement always takes place in the framework of high expectation.^    Jack Kinder

There is nothing so absurd or ridiculous that has not at some time been said by some philosopher.^    Oliver Goldsmith

A glass is good, and a lass is good,  And a pipe to smoke in cold weather;    The world is good and the people are good,      And we're all good fellows together.^    John OKeefe

You can't study the darkness  by flooding it with light.^    Edward Abbey

I am grieved that it should be said he is my brother, and take these courses. Well, as he brews, so shall he drink, for George again. Yet he shall hear on't, and tightly, too, an' I live, i'faith.  - Every Man In His Humor.^    Ben Johnson

I am convinced that every boy, in his heart, would rather steal second base than an automobile.^    Thomas Campbell Clark

Education is the state-controlled manufacture of echoes.^    Alexandre Dumas Fils

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.^    Charlie Chaplin

In every pang that rends the heart  The Man of Sorrows had a part.^    Michael Bruce

My heart's in the Highlands, my heart is not here;  My heart's in the Highlands a-chasing the deer.^    Robert Burns

If you can look back on your life with  contentment, you have one of man's most precious gifts -- a selective memory.^    Jim Fiebig

What she doesn't say is just as important as what she does say -- but there's so much more of it. I think from now on I'm going to stick to what she actually does say because I don't have that kind of time.^    Jonathan Katz

Jesus saw a man use his hand to cupwater from a stream and Jesus threw away his cup. Jesus saw a woman comb her hair with her fingersand Jesus threw away his last possession: his comb.fromThe Islamic Jesus.^    Daniel Deleanu

A champion is someone who does not settle for that day's practice, that day's competition, that day's performance. They are always striving to be better. They don't live in the past.^    Briana Scurry

Our humanity is a poor thing, except for the divinity that stirs within us.^    Francis Bacon

When mighty roast beef was the Englishman's food  It ennobled our hearts and enriched our blood--    Our soldiers were brave and our courtiers were good.      Oh!  the roast beef of England.        And Old England's roast beef.^    Henry Fielding

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