best birthday quotes for friends

Most of the trouble in the world is caused by people wanting to be important. ~T.S. Eliot



Youth is a perpetual intoxication; it is a fever of the mind. ~Francois Duc de la Rochefoucauld



Princes should have more to fear from historians than have ugly women from great painters. ~Antonio Perez, Aforismos



There are three stages of a man's life: He believes in Santa Claus, he doesn't believe in Santa Claus, he is Santa Claus. ~Author Unknown



Poetry is plucking at the heartstrings, and making music with them. ~Dennis Gabor Poetry is prose, bent out of shape. ~J. Patrick Lewis, www.jpatricklewis.com



If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into committees. That'll do them in. ~Author Unknown



Poker is... a fascinating, wonderful, intricate adventure on the high seas of human nature. ~David A. Daniel



You don't have to brush your teeth - just the ones you want to keep. ~Author Unknown



When my heart is heavy, the sun helps make it light. ~Astrid Alauda



Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us, our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life. ~Albert Einstein



Art is a collaboration between God and the artist, and the less the artist does the better. ~Andre Gide



The courage to be is the courage to accept oneself, in spite of being unacceptable. ~Paul Tillich



Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best. ~Henry van Dyke



The effects of human wickedness are written on the page of history in characters of blood: but the impression soon fades away; so more blood must be shed to renew it. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers, 1827



The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. ~William Arthur Ward



Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



A Christmas shopper's complaint is one of long-standing. ~Author Unknown



Middle age is the awkward period when Father Time starts catching up with Mother Nature. ~Harold Coffin



The quickest way to know a woman is to go shopping with her. ~Marcelene Cox



Poetry is what gets lost in translation. ~Robert Frost