birthday poems for a best friend
People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966
I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck. ~Emma Goldman
Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether we are asleep. ~H.M. Tomlinson
It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise. ~Henry David Thoreau
Things do not pass for what they are, but for what they seem. Most things are judged by their jackets. ~Baltasar Gracian Things look different from the seat of a bike carrying a sleeping bag with a cold beer tucked inside. ~Jim Malusa
Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing. ~Redd Foxx
I've been married to one Marxist and one Fascist, and neither one would take the garbage out. ~Lee Grant
Above all else: go out with a sense of humor. It is needed armor. Joy in one's heart and some laughter on one's lips is a sign that the person down deep has a pretty good grasp of life. ~Hugh Sidey
To acknowledge the receipt of letters is always proper, to remove doubts of their miscarriage. ~George Washington
Dance first. Think later. It's the natural order. ~Samuel Beckett
Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you. ~Spanish Proverb
Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven. ~Rabindranath Tagore, Fireflies, 1928
The trouble with referees is that they just don't care which side wins. ~Tom Canterbury
If all efficiency experts were laid end to end - I'd be in favor of it. ~Al Diamond
There are unknown worlds of knowledge in brutes; and whenever you mark a horse, or a dog, with a peculiarly mild, calm, deep-seated eye, be sure he is an Aristotle or a Kant, tranquilly speculating upon the mysteries in man. No philosophers so thoroughly comprehend us as dogs and horses. They see through us at a glance. And after all, what is a horse but a species of four-footed dumb man, in a leathern overall, who happens to live upon oats, and toils for his masters, half-requited or abused, like the biped hewers of wood and drawers of water? But there is a touch of divinity even in brutes, and a special halo about a horse, that should forever exempt him from indignities. As for those majestic, magisterial truck-horses of the docks, I would as soon think of striking a judge on the bench, as to lay violent hand upon their holy hides. ~Herman Melville, Redburn. His First Voyage, 1849
Age does not diminish the extreme disappointment of having a scoop of ice cream fall from the cone. ~Jim Fiebig
No man's life, liberty or property are safe while the legislature is in session. ~Author Unknown
"Safety First" is "Safety Always." ~Charles M. Hayes
Why do we pay for psychotherapy when massages cost half as much? ~Jason Love
