happy birthday quotes for best friends

Gray hair is a blessing - ask any bald man. ~Author Unknown



Poetry is perfect verbs hunting for elusive nouns. ~J. Patrick Lewis, www.jpatricklewis.com



The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it. ~Theodore Roosevelt



The human body is a machine which winds its own springs. ~Julien Offroy de la Mettrie, L'Homme Machine



There's one way to find out if a man is honest - ask him. If he says, "Yes," you know he is a crook. ~Groucho Marx



Thanksgiving is an emotional holiday. People travel thousands of miles to be with people they only see once a year. And then discover once a year is way too often. ~Johnny Carson



Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves. ~Dale Carnegie



I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it. ~Rogers Hornsby



As much money and life as you could want! The two things most human beings would choose above all - the trouble is, humans do have a knack of choosing precisely those things that are worst for them. ~J.K. Rowling, "The Man with Two Faces," Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, 1997, spoken by the character Albus Dumbledore



There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point,we have to take sides. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



Ye cannot serve God and mammon. ~Matthew 6:24



How fair is a garden amid the trials and passions of existence. ~Benjamin Disraeli



A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body. ~Andre Maurois



It is the safest of times, it is the riskiest of times.... What the Dickens is going on here? ~Denton Morrison, on chemicals, technology, and risk, quoted in National Academy of Sciences, Improving Risk Communication, 1989



I realized that Eastern thought had somewhat more compassion for all living things. Man was a form of life that in another reincarnation might possibly be a horsefly or a bird of paradise or a deer. So a man of such a faith, looking at animals, might be looking at old friends or ancestors. In the East the wilderness has no evil connotation; it is thought of as an expression of the unity and harmony of the universe. ~William O. Douglas, Go East, Young Man, 1974



That's the way things come clear. All of a sudden. And then you realize how obvious they've been all along. ~Madeleine L'Engle



There are two ways of spreading light - to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it. ~Edith Wharton, Vesalius in Zante



Prayer had always struck me as more or less a glorified attempt at a business transaction. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams



The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug. ~Mark Twain