nice birthday quotes for friends

We are all manufacturers - some make good, others make trouble, and still others make excuses. ~Author Unknown



In a disordered mind, as in a disordered body, soundness of health is impossible. ~Cicero



A friend is the only person you will let into the house when you are Turning Out Drawers. ~Pam Brown



Food has replaced sex in my life; now, I can't even get into my own pants. ~Author Unknown



No rage is equal to the rage of a contented right-thinking man when he is confronted in the marketplace by an idea which belongs in the pulpit. ~Thurman W. Arnold



A deadline is negative inspiration. Still, it's better than no inspiration at all. ~Rita Mae Brown



The best way out of a problem is through it. ~Author Unknown



A leader is a dealer in hope. ~Napoleon Bonaparte



Every spring is the only spring - a perpetual astonishment. ~Ellis Peters



If we don't do something to simplify the tax system, we're going to end up with a national police force of internal revenue agents. ~Leon Panetta



Vacation: Two weeks on the sunny sands - and the rest of the year on the financial rocks. ~Sam Ewing



I was such a dangerous hitter I even got intentional walks in batting practice. ~Casey Stengel, 1967



Time is making fools of us again. ~J.K. Rowling



Dogs are miracles with paws. ~Attributed to Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy



The joy of music should never be interrupted by a commercial. ~Leonard Bernstein



Our distrust is very expensive. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



Fashion is like the id. It makes you desire things you shouldn't. ~Bob Morris



Truly it may be said that the outside of a mountain is good for the inside of a man. ~George Wherry, Alpine Notes and the Climbing Foot, 1896



I'm always top banana in the shock department. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly



Every author in some way portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will. ~Goethe Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. ~Logan Pearsall Smith