birthday poems for lover

A "Normal" person is the sort of person that might be designed by a committee. You know, "Each person puts in a pretty color and it comes out gray." ~Alan Sherman



To be a fashionable woman is to know yourself, know what you represent, and know what works for you. To be "in fashion" could be a disaster on 90 percent of women. You are not a page out of Vogue. ~Author Unknown



It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle. ~Ernest Hemingway



I am having an out of money experience. ~Author Unknown



Every grown-up man consists wholly of habits, although he is often unaware of it and even denies having any habits at all. ~Georges Gurdjieff Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is humanity hanging on a cross of iron. ~Dwight D. Eisenhower, speech, American Society of Newspaper Editors, 16 April 1953



So there he is at last. Man on the moon. The poor magnificent bungler! He can't even get to the office without undergoing the agonies of the damned, but give him a little metal, a few chemicals, some wire and twenty or thirty billion dollars and vroom! there he is, up on a rock a quarter of a million miles up in the sky. ~Russell Baker, New York Times, 21 July 1969



You haven't seen a tree until you've seen its shadow from the sky. ~Amelia Earhart



History is principally the inaccurate narration of events which ought not to have happened. ~Earnest Albert Hooten, The Twilight of Man



Sex is the great amateur art. The professional, male or female, is frowned on: he or she misses the point, and spoils the show. ~David Cort



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



There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. ~Peter F. Drucker



Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



The middle sort of historians (of which the most part are) spoil all; they will chew our meat for us. ~Michel de Montaigne, translated



Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. ~George Jean Nathan



The cyclone derives its powers from a calm center. So does a person. ~Norman Vincent Peale



My truths do not last long in me. Not as long as those that are not mine. ~Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin



Cats never strike a pose that isn't photogenic. ~Lillian Jackson Braun



Skipping is great exercise! It burns twice as many calories as walking. It has less impact on your joints than running. And it is joy-based, unlike running which generates from our fight or flight reflex. ~Kim Corbin, founder of iskip.com



If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone. ~Robert Fulghum



Baseball is the only place in life where a sacrifice is really appreciated. ~Author Unknown