cute happy birthday quotes for friends

Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses: We read fine things but never feel them to the full until we have gone the same steps as the Author. ~John Keats



That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges. ~John Burroughs, Journal



Once upon a time we were just plain people. But that was before we began having relationships with mechanical systems. Get involved with a machine and sooner or later you are reduced to a factor. ~Ellen Goodman, "The Human Factor," The Washington Post, January 1987



I like my coffee like my women: hot, strong, steamy. ~Author Unknown



Flowers have spoken to me more than I can tell in written words. They are the hieroglyphics of angels, loved by all men for the beauty of the character, though few can decipher even fragments of their meaning. ~Lydia M. Child



Correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. ~George Eliot, Middlemarch, 1872



Art is the colors and textures of your imagination. ~Meghan, Los Cerros Middle School, 1999



All the world is a laboratory to the inquiring mind. ~Martin H. Fischer



Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you. ~Reggie Jackson



A lot of what passes for depression these days is nothing more than a body saying that it needs work. ~Geoffrey Norman



It can be said of optimism that while sometimes mistaken, it is never sadly mistaken. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



Ah, steeds, steeds, what steeds! Has the whirlwind a home in your manes? Is there a sensitive ear, alert as a flame, in your every fiber? Hearing the familiar song from above, all in one accord you strain your bronze chests and, hooves barely touching the ground, turn into straight lines cleaving the air, and all inspired by God it rushes on! ~Nikolai V. Gogol, Dead Souls, 1842, translated from Russian (above is combination of translations by Bernard Guildert Guerney, Richard Peaver, and Larisa Voloklonsky)



With ordinary talent and extraordinary perseverance, all things are attainable. ~Thomas Foxwell Buxton



It's one-on-one out there, man. There ain't no hiding. I can't pass the ball. ~Pete Sampras It's only a matter of inches, but skipping gets me just that much closer to heaven. ~Jessi Lane Adams



Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason. They made no such demand upon those who wrote them. ~Charles Caleb Colton



A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupery



I am getting to an age when I can only enjoy the last sport left. It is called hunting for your spectacles. ~Edward Grey



Don't be fooled by the calendar. There are only as many days in the year as you make use of. ~Charles Richards



A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine. ~Talmud



Education: the inculcation of the incomprehensible into the indifferent by the incompetent. ~John Maynard Keynes