happy birthday quotes for grandma

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience. ~Clarence Day, The Crow's Nest



If all men are born free, how is it that all women are born slaves? ~Mary Astell



Remember when atmospheric contaminants were romantically called stardust? ~Lane Olinghouse



Making mistakes simply means you are learning faster. ~Weston H. Agor



Work isn't to make money; you work to justify life. ~Marc Chagall



You can never predict when that unknown torpedo will come out of the dark and smash the price of a stock. ~Ralph Seger



The test of real literature is that it will bear repetition. We read over the same pages again and again, and always with fresh delight. ~Samual McChord Crothers



It doesn't matter how many times you fail. It doesn't matter how many times you almost get it right. No one is going to know or care about your failures, and neither should you. All you have to do is learn from them and those around you because... All that matters in business is that you get it right once. Then everyone can tell you how lucky you are. ~Mark Cuban



When we're unemployed, we're called lazy; when the whites are unemployed it's called a depression. ~Jesse Jackson



Golf is a good walk spoiled. ~Mark Twain



The white light streams down to be broken up by those human prisms into all the colors of the rainbow. ~Charles R. Brown



You have to walk carefully in the beginning of love; the running across fields into your lover's arms can only come later when you're sure they won't laugh if you trip. ~Jonathan Carroll, "Outside the Dog Museum"



A dog, I have always said, is prose; a cat is a poem. ~Jean Burden



I think there's just one kind of folks. Folks. ~Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird, Chapter 23, spoken by the character Scout



Driving a brand new car feels like driving around in an open billfold with the dollars flapping by your ears as they fly out the window. ~Grey Livingston



I take it as a prime cause of the present confusion of society that it is too sickly and too doubtful to use pleasure frankly as a test of value. ~Rebecca West



What is being lost is the magic of the word. I am not an image person. Imagery belongs to another civilization: the caveman. Caveman couldn't express himself so he put images on walls. ~Elie Wiesel, 1995



Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill. ~Johnny Carson



You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens. ~Stephen King, The Stand



It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. ~Robert G. Ingersoll