funny birthday quotes for friends

There is an instinct in a woman to love most her own child - and an instinct to make any child who needs her love, her own. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Tea's proper use is to amuse the idle, and relax the studious, and dilute the full meals of those who cannot use exercise, and will not use abstinence. ~Samuel Johnson



An angel can illuminate the thought and mind of man by strengthening the power of vision. ~St Thomas Aquinas



There's just something about letting a girl have her way with you. ~A.C. Van Cherub



My flag is raised high today. For others to see, sure. But more so to find which way my wind is blowing. Almost time to chart a course. ~Jeb Dickerson, www.howtomatter.com



You are a human being. You have rights inherent in that reality. You have dignity and worth that exists prior to law. ~Lyn Beth Neylon



The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness. ~Eric Sevareid, "The Press and the People," television program, 1959



I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him. ~Galileo Galilei



Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other never forgets them. ~Ogden Nash



I am not quite sure what the advantage is in having a few more dollars to spend if the air is too dirty to breathe, the water too polluted to drink, the commuters are losing out in the struggle to get in and out of the city, the streets are filthy, and the schools so bad that the young perhaps wisely stay away, and the hoodlums roll citizens for some of the dollars they saved in the tax cut. ~John Kenneth Galbraith



The essence of pleasure is spontaneity. ~Germaine Greer



Antimetabole: figure of emphasis in which the words in one phrase or clause are replicated, exactly or closely, in reverse grammatical order in the next phrase or clause. It is similar to chiasmus although chiasmus does not use repetition of the same words or phrases. Example: "Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country." ~John F. Kennedy



Only one rule in medical ethics need concern you - that action on your part which best conserves the interests of your patient. ~Martin H. Fischer



The era of true peace on earth will not come as long as a tremendous percentage of your taxes goes to educate men in the trades of slaughter. ~Reginald Wright Kauffman



When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people. ~Abraham Joshua Heschel



The first attribute that characterizes the greater man from the moron is his thicker layer of inhibition. ~Martin H. Fischer



The concept of two people living together for 25 years without a serious dispute suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep. ~A.P. Herbert



Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty. ~Henry Ford



Life is half spent before we know what it is. ~George Herbert, Jacula Prudentum, 1651



Whoever said "laughter is the best medicine" never had gonorrhea. ~Kat Likkel and John Hoberg, My Name Is Earl, "Robbed a Stoner Blind," original airdate 16 November 2006