happy birthday quotes in spanish

Those playful fancies of the mighty sky. ~Albert Smith (clouds)



Chiasmus: figure of speech in which two clauses are related to each other through a reversal of structures in order to make a larger point; the two clauses display inverted parallelism. The elements of a simple chiasmus are often labelled in the form A B B A, where the letters correspond to grammar, words, or meaning. In modern day, chiasmus is often used synonymously with antimetabole but in the classical sense of the word, chiasmus does not repeat the same words. Example: "By day the frolic, and the dance by night." ~Samuel Johnson



A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years. ~Rupert Brooke



Silence is medication for sorrow. ~Arab Proverb



Watch a man in times of... adversity to discover what kind of man he is; for then at last words of truth are drawn from the depths of his heart, and the mask is torn off. ~Lucretius, On the Nature of Things



A relationship is a loving bond between two people, and a threesome can take the edge off that. ~Coupling, "Jane and the Truth Snake," original airdate 1 October 2001, written by Steven Moffat, spoken by the character Patrick



And I, I took the road less traveled by. I was using a GPS system. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



I couldn't help but say to Mr. Gorbachev, just think how easy his task and mine might be in these meetings that we held if suddenly there was a threat to this world from another planet. We'd find out once and for all that we really are all human beings here on this earth together. ~Ronald Reagan, 1985



"I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what kind.... It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in looking as if he might have played football in college. Then again, you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.' Or you may end up in some business office, throwing paper clips at the nearest stenographer. I just don't know." ~J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Chapter 24, spoken by the character Mr. Antolini



Resolve to be thyself; and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery. ~Matthew Arnold, "Self-Dependence," Empedocles on Etna, and Other Poems, 1852



It is an unfortunate human failing that a full pocketbook often groans more loudly than an empty stomach. ~Franklin Delano Roosevelt



Before you can begin to think about politics at all, you have to abandon the notion that there is a war between good men and bad men. ~Walter Lippmann



Education, n. That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. ~Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary



Entire new continents can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on your screen. Contrary to what you may have heard, the Internet does not operate at the speed of light; it operates at the speed of the Department of Motor Vehicles. ~Dave Barry, Dave Barry in Cyberspace



I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education. ~Wilson Mizner



Teenagers complain there's nothing to do, then stay out all night doing it. ~Bob Phillips



The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it. ~Francis Bacon



Life is like an onion; you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it. ~James Gibbons Huneker



Every time I close the door on reality it comes in through the windows. ~Jennifer Yane



I think I could fall madly in bed with you. ~Author Unknown